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Presenter, The Game of Community
- Invited presentation describing how game theory and cooperation theory can help us build community.
- Rotary Club of Red Hook breakfast, The Red Hook Inn, Red Hook, NY.
Winner, Annual Thesis Prize
The Unsustainability and Origins of Socioeconomic Increase is awarded the first Annual Thesis Prize for best thesis by the M.A. Program in Liberal Studies, City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY.
Read at potluck.com.
City University of New York
Graduate Center
M.A. Program in Liberal Studies
Founder, Editor, Webmaster; Sostenuto: The Systems-Thinking Magazine of Arts & Sciences
- Founded this online magazine to explore familiar topics friom a systems perspective. Subsequently relaunched as Mosaic: A Magazine of Arts, Sciences & Everything in Between.
- Webmaster for www.sostenuto.permaculture.net, using custom HTML programming.
Founder, Editor, Webmaster; permaCulture: The Systems-Thinking Magazine of Arts & Sciences
- Founded this online magazine to explore familiar topics from a systems perspective. Subsequently relaunched as Sostenuto: The Systems-Thinking Magazine of Arts & Sciences.
- Webmaster for home.hvc.rr.com/worldtrade, using custom HTML programming.
Author, The Unsustainability and Origins of Socioeconomic Increase
- Masters thesis for M.A. Program in Liberal Studies, City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY.
- Faculty advisor: William Kornblum.
Read at potluck.com.
City University of New York
Graduate Center
M.A. Program in Liberal Studies
Presenter, World Bank 2000 and the Unsustainability of Economic Growth
- Invited paper in panel discussion on “The World Bank Millennium Report: A Recipe for More Inequality.” Organizer: Michael L. Blim. Chair: Jarrett Zigon.
- 99th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco Hilton & Towers, San Francisco, CA, November 15-19, 2000.
Pianist, Lara Spencer’s wedding dance, Good Morning America
I was invited to provide live, original accompaniment for Lara Spencer and her dance instructor as part of her series documenting the planning of her wedding.
Listen and see photos at potluck.com.
Good Morning America
Pianist, Chukwu septuplets’ first birthday, Good Morning America
I was invited to perform “Happy Birthday” on the piano for the Chukwu septuplet’s first birthday celebration.
See photos at potluck.com.
Good Morning America
Pianist, Rosie’s Christmas Carol Challenge, Good Morning America
Rosie O’Donnell played “name that tune” with me performing snippets of Christmas songs and Rosie having to guess as many as she could in one minute.
See photos at potluck.com.
Good Morning America
The Lion’s Share selected for American Zoetrope staff review
The Lion’s Share is selected for American Zoetrope staff review after its February 10, 1999, submission at screenplay.lather.com.
Read at potluck.com.
American Zoetrope
Co-Creator, Composer; The Unexplainable Bonefish
A proposed television series in which host Dr. Wiley Bonefish and a crew of puppet lab assistants would humorously help kids explore paranormal science using the scientific method.
Listen and read at potluck.com.
Co-Screenwriter, Deadline
- A serial killer and a newspaper reporter enter a deadly relationship.
- Represented by Susan Smith & Associates, Beverly Hills, CA, 1996-1998.
Co-Screenwriter; Citizen Arcane, a.k.a. The Lion’s Share
- Based on the true story of the man who plotted to assassinate Richard Nixon, written nearly a decade before the Sean Penn film on the same subject.
- Represented by Susan Smith & Associates, Beverly Hills, CA, 1996-1998.
Co-Author, Hugh Manatee
- Children’s book with an ecological theme.
- Represented by the Farber Literary Agency, New York, NY, 1995-1996.
Composer, Co-Lyricist, Co-Librettist; The Right Circles
- Scheming Broadway writers make fun of avant garde theatre, but what goes around comes around.
- Represented by the Farber Literary Agency, New York, NY, 1994-1996.
Music/Piano Teacher, Bastien methods
Co-Director, Co-Editor, Composer; Seriously Gratuitous: The Making of Gratuitous Violence
29 minutes, color, VHS.
Watch and listen at potluck.com.
Screenwriter, Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor, Sound, Composer; Gratuitous Violence
- A spoof of Hollywood spy movies.
- Created for Introduction to Filmmaking class, Department of Theatre Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
- Premiere screening in the Willard Strait Theatre, Willard Strait Hall, May 10, 1992.
- 17 minutes, b/w, 16mm.
Watch and listen at potluck.com.
Cornell University
Department of Theatre, Film and Dance
Screenwriter, Bait and Switch
- A dysfunctional couple is made moreso when a television ratings company lures them into what is later revealed to be an Orwellian conspiracy.
- Winner, Cornell Department of Theatre Arts Screenwriting Competition, June 1991.
- Produced by the Film Program of the Department of Theatre Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, during a Summer 1991 course in video production.
- 29 minutes, color, S-VHS.
Watch and read at potluck.com.
Cornell University
Department of Theatre, Film and Dance
Composer, Co-Lyricist, Co-Librettist, Orchestrator, Director, Musical Director; Cupid’s Arrow
- A hip immortal helps college students find love.
- Produced by the Masque and Mime Society, Roy C. Ketcham High School, Wappingers Falls, NY.
Watch, listen and read at potluck.com.
Masque and Mime Society
Roy C. Ketcham High School