I am an author and playwright, with four books published by McGraw Hill and a recent musical, "Golden Slippers," the best attended feature event at the Berlin 2006 Spring Arts Festival, drawing a combined audience of over 500 at the Berlin Intermediate School on May 7th. It's objective was to involve more of the Berlin African American community in the town's arts and entertainment programs, and served as a conduit to meet that goal by bringing the cast of 60 actors, singers and dancers from the UMES Drama Society to perform an original musical based on the life and music of the African American composer, James Bland.

My current project is another musical, tentatively titled, "Satchmo and Hoagy," about the interesting interlocking lives and award-winning music of the two icons of the Jazz and Blues era, Louis Armstrong and Hoagy Carmichael. Any jazz and blues buffs would be welcomed to help in both the writing and/or the performing of the musical, which will be targeted for presentation in 2007.