My most recent book, Purgatory Gardens, has being optioned by Rhombus Media, a Canadian production   company, to be developed as a TV series for Kim Cattrall. There are three terrific roles for actors in their sixties: Marcy Grey, an actress past her sell-by date, who, a victim of Hollywood ageism, moves to Palm Springs to figure out her future. She meets two conmen — a former mafioso in Witness Protection and the ex-Finance Minister of Burkina Faso — who, under the mistaken belief that she has money, compete for her favors and wind up hiring the same hitmen to get rid of the other one. It is, as you might imagine, a very black comedy.

My new play, “Menage A Quatre,” opened at the Davidson/Valentini Theatre in Hollywood, on July 17th.  It plays Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 P.M. and Sunday afternoons at 2 P.M., from July 22 through August 17th. Tickets at: www.Onstage411.com/Quatre. The logline is:  Two married couples –Gary and Jeannie, and Reuben and Meg — whose longtime friendship implodes when Gary, acting on a gnawing suspicion that Jeannie is having an affair, hires an eccentric private detective named Ezra Pound (no relation), who discovers that Jeannie is indeed having an affair, and it happens to be with his best friend, Reuben. In an attempt to deal with the fallout, they come up with a novel solution which they hope will salvage their marriages and their friendship. Shit happens.

And I am looking to bring my novel An American Family (Amazon, 2012) to television as a limited series. It is the story of an immigrant American family with five children  over a time span of nearly forty years. The story is bookended by two iconic events — the assassination of JFK and 9-11 — and recounts how a family grows and changes over time. Though it is about a family of first generation Polish Jews, I believe it is typical of most immigrant family histories.