[3] For the Huffington Post, Carol Muske-Dukes writes: "Cinema Vernacular is built around a protagonist's ongoing everyday and romantic affairs in two cities: New York and Paris.
Using forms like screenplays and even films in his poetics, Cinema Vernacular is porous, deft, concerned with our relationship to the intangible and how desire filters through image and text.
[1] His plays include The Alice Complex (with Kate Mara and Harriet Harris;[12] Lisa Banes and Xanthe Elbrick[13]) ("Smart, incisive..." - NY Times),[13] Backgammon at the Louvre,[14] and Songs & Statues.
[15] They have been produced at the Cherry Lane, Dixon Place, The Blank Theatre, and Stella Adler Studio, where he was the 2008-09 Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence.
[14] His screenplays (co-written with Bill Oliver) include The Debutante,[16] which received a grant from the Jerome Foundation, Lulu, a drama based on the life of silent film star Louise Brooks, which was optioned by Neve Campbell and Peer Oppenheim,[14] and Jonathan, about a young man who has a condition in which he shares his body with another consciousness.