The film version of his screenplay was directed by Stanley Kramer with Dick Van Dyke, Kathleen Quinlan, Beau Bridges, Maureen Stapleton, Ray Bolger and Tammy Grimes.
A long-time member of the Circle Repertory Company, his plays produced there included The Runner Stumbles with William Hurt, Back in the Race and Labor Day, which he wrote and directed for Christopher Reeve.
His CBS television movie, The Gentleman Bandit, was the most-watched film of the season, and Long Shadow, about Haru M. Reischauer for American Playhouse was nominated in 1996 for an International Emmy as Best Teleplay.
At the Circle Repertory Company he founded the play development program and served as a dramaturg with such writers as Bill C. Davis, Charles Evered, Albert Innaurato, Arthur Kopit, David Mamet, Lanford Wilson and Paul Zindel.
For two years, he served as Executive Director of Circle Repertory Company producing premiere productions featuring artists Stephen Dietz, Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Heelan, Kikue Tashiro, Fritz Weaver and Louis Zorich.