IATI Theater in New York produced my play, Three on a Match, as "the keynote production" of their 50th Anniversary season. I was proud and humbled to be part of this great, historic company dedicated to producing original work by Latino artists.  

A staged reading of the play had been previously produced at IATI as part of their annual “Cimientos” (“foundations”) series. This process was enormously

While living in Brooklyn, I directed a production of two of my one-act plays, Fresh Cut and Half a Ticket, at Impact Theatre in Prospect Heights. 

Fresh Cut later evolved into a full-length play, Baby's Breath, that enjoyed a staged-reading production at IATI as part of their "Cimientos" ("foundations") play-development series. Since then, I have changed the title to Baby Teeth, which I'm sticking 

Sammi and I made a couple of independent films early on that taught us a great deal about the art of screenwriting and filmmaking, but ultimately just weren't good enough to share with the public. Gravity was the first film that we were proud to show. 

In 2002, we had a world premiere at The Aurora Picture Show, in The Heights neighborhood of Houston, a short walk from where we live now. The film w

In 2004, Sammi and our friend, Jennifer Bugler, wanted to produce this play in order to showcase the work of some of the amazing women we knew in Houston. They asked me to direct it and we rented out the Midtown Art Center--that classic, Houston venue that so many of us remember fondly (and sometimes not so fondly). We rehearsed in my classroom at Lamar High School (I can still remember the joys o