New edition of GOOD MOURNING, AMERICA

Original Works Publishing has just released a new edition of GOOD MOURNING, AMERICA
for your reading pleasure.

You will laugh, cry, think, wonder....

Plays can change your life, open new worlds.  

Please think about buying the gift of wonder and laughter for yourself, someone you love, someone in need, e.g., school libraries.  

 http://www.amazon.com/Good-Mourning-America-Lucy-Wang/dp/1934962112/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1386009892&sr=8-6&keywords=Lucy+Wang

Widow's Peak

Remember when you were a kid, and you couldn't wait for what was ahead of you, whether it was Christmas morning, the new school year, or getting your driver's license?

Well, imagine growing older and experiencing that life isn't always fair, doesn't always turn out the way you thought it would.  That's what happens to Portia, Frank and Mary in Widow's Peak.  So they always dread the holidays when the premium is to be SUPER HAPPY....

and finally, Portia says enough.  I am going to do something about it.  Ten minutes.  Comedy.  It goes with your latte.   

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00H1C3IT0 

I Will Always Remember

I will always remember. I was there. I lost many -- friends colleagues, my former bond trading partner. We searched for the missing. Nobody slept, everybody wept. This was the first time I thought, the arts saved my life.   It could've been me up there. Eric Bogosian urged me to write about what I witnessed, lost, experienced when we spoke for the first time two years later on 9/11. The result, my play: GOOD MOURNING, AMERICA.

All That's Fit On Top of a Desk

More Kindle to the Fire!

Happy to report more of my plays are available on Kindle!

Just in time for your Summer Reading!

And it's true, you don't even have to own a Kindle to read my plays.  You can download the Kindle App, and read it on your iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, and so on.

Isn't technology great fun?  Horizon-expanding?

Titles Available on Kindle:

BIG RED & LITTLE TIGER, JAC Publishing
BIRD'S NEST SOUP, JAC Publishing
CONCERTO FOR ORGAN IN B-SHARP, JAC Publishing
GOOD MOURNING, AMERICA, Original Works Publishing
JUNK BONDS, Original Works Publishing

Adding a Life

It's the journey, not the destination, they quip.  But you can't ignore the numbers.  The IRS won't let you.  Either will your doctor.

So, this morning when a journalist said her editor wanted to know how many plays?  How many published?  How many unpublished?  What other works?  I fueled up on some coffee and did the math, fingers crossed the numbers wouldn't depress me.

23 TOTAL PLAYS + 8 PUBLISHED MONOLOGUES + 1 SOLD TV PILOT (COMEDY) + 2 SHORT FILMS + 1 NOVEL + 1 SCREENPLAY + 2 PUBLISHED SHORT STORIES

The Published List:
8 PUBLISHED MONOLOGUES, JAC “innerJACtions:  Monologues At the Heart of Human 
Nature 

GOOD MOURNING, AMERICA by Original Works Publishing

JUNK BONDS by Original Works Publishing

ART OF BULLFIGHTING, University of CA at Santa Barbara teaches this 
collection of FIVE (5) short plays (CINDERELLA'S BAWL, HOW NOW BROWN COUCH, 
TRAYF, BULLFIGHTING, (IN)SECURITY) published by JAC Publishing

CONCERTO FOR ORGAN IN B-SHARP, JAC Publishing

BIG RED, LITTLE TIGHER, JAC Publishing

BIRD'S NEST SOUP, JAC Publishing

SCENES FROM A CHINESE RESTAURANT, collection of THREE (3) short plays 
-- THE FAMISHED, SENSUOUS GOURMET & THE SICHUAN PEPPERCORN & SCENES FROM A 
CHINESE RESTAURANT

1 SOLD TV PILOT COMEDY 

1 SCREENPLAY entitled YOUNG AMERICANS
(L.A. residency requirement !) 

2 SHORT STORIES

PEKING DUCK
PROPHET & LOSS

5 UNPUBLISHED PLAYS + 5 COMMISSIONED/WRITER FOR HIRE 

TEEN MOGUL, a new play, adapted from my unpublished young adult novel
DOWN UNDER
NUMBER ONE SON
MOO GOO GAI PAN ASIAN, play in progress
MELTING, inspired by OTHELLO

THREE (3) PLAYS I WROTE FOR HIRE, FOR AN ORTHODOX JEWISH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, they needed material

TWO PLAYS (2) COMMISSIONED FOR LA STORYTELLERS, TAPER FORUM/ L.A. MUSIC CENTER

1 UNPUBLISHED NOVEL, TEEN MOGUL


2 SHORT FILMS
MIKE GRAVEL, THE WORD, a collaboration w/Italian animation director, entry for a 
political ad contest, on youtube
THE PERFECT NIGHT, an homage to Bill Murray, live action short, on youtube

Occupy This! Junk Bonds & Good Mourning, America

Before I became a writer, I traded mortgage-backed securities on Wall Street and served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Deputy Mayor Barry Sullivan during the Dinkins Administration.  When Mayor Dinkins lost to Mayor Rudy Giuliani, most of us at City Hall found ourselves unemployed, and depressed.  It's not fun facing the holidays without work.  I wrote as I searched for gainful employment to chase the blues away.

Had no intention of writing professionally when I graduated armed with an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago.   Grew up too poor, as immigrants, and like Gatsby, I believed in the green light.

JUNK BONDS won the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center and Best New Play from the Katherine and Lee Chilcote Foundation.  With Occupy L.A., Occupy NYC, Occupy Movements everywhere, the themes and issues in JUNK BONDS feels more relevant, more urgent than ever.  Was invited to speak at Smith College, Northampton, MA, last October, and the students all read and got JUNK BONDS.  Was graciously invited to read some of my work at an event downtown Los Angeles 99% Guerrilla Literature.  Save the date Feb 21.  Details to follow.

GOOD MOURNING, AMERICA is the bookend to JUNK BONDS.  I was in NYC for 9/11, having flown in the night before.  Saw it happen from the balcony of my friend's penthouse.  Lost former colleagues and friends.  It was so awful.  I can still remember the acrid smells and smoke, the losses, the nonstop tears.  Eric Bogosian convinced me I had to write this play inspired by my experiences and vantage points.  So I did.  And it poured and roared.  A mixture of comedy is sprinkled in with the pathos.

Both plays are published by Original Works Publishing, available on their website, on Amazon, on Kindle, Google.