I’ve been involved in the Short & Sweet Malaysia (Penang & KL) theatre festival for the past two years and this year I’m happy to be back in the fray!

My new short play, “A Pinch of Fate, A Shot of Destiny” has been selected to be part of the Short & Sweet Theatre Festival Penang in September. This is a fun little piece about a serendipitous meeting of two individuals which ends up complicating the plans of the grim reaper. It’s funny and sweet. A director (not me) will be assigned to produce it. It will be fun to see what they do with it.

In addition, my new short musical, “A Woman at War” has been shortlisted for production in Short & Sweet Musical Kuala Lumpur in October. I originally wrote this piece a few months ago, created the melodies and wrote all the lyrics. Then I gave it to my co-composer, Laura Danneker, who recorded the performance tracks and arranged it. This is a piece I really love. It has so much theatrical potential. The story is basically this: set during WWII, a young woman marries a GI right before he is shipped off to war. Then we see how she struggles to fight her own little war on the homefront as her young husband is off at war. It’s sweet and poignant, and beautifully honors what women of all generations have had to endure during wartime. I can’t wait to see how it will be produced.

I’m sure I’ll be posting more as the performance dates approach, but I wanted to spread the good news. Two of my pieces are off for production.