Skits

Knockout

I always thought it would be so funny if somebody just kept knocking people out with one punch. So this is what came out of that. Final Draft

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Skits

The Poop Sketch

This was actually the first play/sketch that I ever wrote and it just came from a goofy idea I had of people eating very disgusting things, then looking in shock as somebody else ordered something relatively normal. Final Draft

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Plays

Sam and Ness

A children’s play about pirates that I was asked to write. It turned out more like if Monty Python wrote a children’s play. Final Draft

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Screenplays

TAR 520

My first screenplay. It took me three years to write, and is in turn 130 pages long. One of the more epic things I’ve ever written, however, not epic in the sense of the siege of Troy, but rather the drama of humanity. Deals with the issue of how to keep faith in the midst …

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Plays

Speak Up

This play was written by me and a friend of mine, Brian Risselada, for a 24 hour theatre project that we were a part of. So we wrote this whole thing in one night, and I really haven’t looked at it since. Final Draft

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Plays

DutchMAN

This play is based on the play by Amiri Baraka of the same name. I was flipping through the channels one time, and MTV was doing an interview with Britney Spears. It pissed me off so much, that I wrote this play. First Draft

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Plays

The Screwtape Incident

This was the second play I wrote and the first full length. To sum it up, it is basically a story of how something that seems so harmless at first, can build into something that has the power to not only distort, but destroy. Disclaimer: This play is extremely disturbing, and uses very harsh language. …

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Plays

Carter’s Pill

This was the first play I ever wrote, and I wrote the whole thing sitting backstage when I was playing the part of Peachy in The Last Night of Ballyhoo, during the summer of 2000. I basically sat in this airplane bathroom of a backstage in this tiny barn theatre in South Haven, MI, put …

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Song Lyrics

Something Beautiful

New song lyrics Found me dead the other day the thousand things that seem to get in my way like cigarettes, coffee, and TV but even if it hurts I still got my routine And you keep running through my head and I don’t have the strength to tell you to get out I wish …

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Song Lyrics

Beautiful Dangerous Blue

Lyrics to a new song: Beautiful Dangerous Blue I was swept to sea while trying to be poetic It always takes a tragedy to put it in perspective I’ve been living through a drought that never leaves My inspiration’s gone as well as my beliefs And they say that David didn’t pen a psalm for …

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