Focus, founder

Focus Publishing/ R. Pullins Company publishes books for secondary and higher education with an emphasis on Classical and Modern languages, English, Philosophy and theater. We publish the annual edition of the Dramatists' Guild Resource Manual and have several books in theater, and especially playwrighting, forthcoming. Focus is ranked among the top 100 Independent Publishers by Bookmarket.com (John Kremer) Go here.

North Shore Readers' Collaborative Theater, cofounder

The Reader's Collaborative Theater is the joint venture of Ron Pullins, Leslie Powell and Marc Clopton. It is devoted to advanced development of plays and theater on Boston's North Shore. We currently sponsor a Saturday morning Readers' Theater series which are scheduled monthly September through June at Marc Clopton's Actor's Studio at the Tannery in Newburyport. Audience development is encouraged through a talk back following each play. For more information on the Collaborative, go  here or here. 

Leaky Roof Productions

    Leaky Roof is a production company formed by Ron Pullins, Leslie Powell, and Tim Diering, committed to producing dramatic works. An earlier incarnation with Leslie Powell and myself was the vehicle for the production of Five Sleazy Pieces during the Late Night Series at the Player's Ring in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 2004.

   Leaky Roof produced a NE Fringe version of The Movie Mogul, starring Tim Diering, Jack Rushton, and Gina Columbo in 2008. The play then moved to the Actor's Studio in Newburyport for a three play weekend, along with a short play by Jeff Onore.

   For more on the Fringe Festival production, go here.

Plays
Plays for Radio

Sweet Smelling Meat

Radio script version of short story, National Public Radio earplay

Full Length Stage Plays

The Dollartorium

Staged reading. North Shore Readers Theatre Collaborative,      Newburyport, April 8, 2010,
Staged Reading, The Factory Theater, May 5, 2010. Whistler in the Dark
For a sample of this play, click here.

The Boss is Dead

Staged Reading, New Works Festival, Newburyport (MA)
Honorable Mention, American Theater Co-op Fall Original Full Length 
    Play Contest, Fall 2003
Actor's Studio (Newburyport, MA), Workshop production, June 2004.

Ice's Crossing, 2008, 2009.

North Shore Collaborative Readers Theater, Newburyport MA,     April 2008, Reading.
Stage 3 Workshop production, Newburyport 2009
For a sample of this play, click here.

Enemies of the State, 2007

Staged Reading, Shadowboxing, Boston Playwrights Theater, Boston,      July 2007
Readers' Theater, North Shore Collaborative, Newburyport MA,      September 2007
Great Plains Theater Conference, Concurrent Playlab Reading, May      2008b.
For a sample scene from this play in pdf format, click here.

The Movie Mogul (full length), Co-written with Leslie Powell, 2008

New England Fringe Festival, Boston, September 2008. Runner up     audience favorite.
Actor's Theater, Newburyport MA, October 2008

Short Stage Plays

Finalist, Cell Theatre (New Mexico), Fifth Annual Short Works Festival,
      2010
ATHE New play development workshop, Los Angeles, August 2010.

The List, 10 Minute play

SUNY Brockport, 6th Biennial Festival of 10 Minute Plays,
       February-March, 2009. First place (tie) Readers' Choice Award.
Boston Playwrights Platform Summer Festival, June 18, 19, 20,
      Boston MA
Video, Project Y, New York, NY. June 2010

The Object, 10 minute play

Fort Point Theatre Channel Exclamation Point! 5 The Science of Love,
     A Reading, February 13, 2009, Flour Bakery and Cafe, Fort Point,
      Boston
Fall Shorts, Actors Studio of Newburyport, November 2009
F.U.D.G.E. Festival, Watertown, Aresenal Center for the Arts, May 2010
Salem Theatre Company, Ten Minute Play Festival, July 22-23, 2010

Mrs. McAlaster's Plot, co-written with Leslie Powell

Belfast (ME) 15 Minute Festival, 2002, Finalist
Mill City Minutes, Lowell, Fall 2006
American Globe, NYC, Turnip Festival, Spring 2008

Movie Mogul in His Mama's Muumuu, co-written with Leslie Powell

Belfast ME 15 Minute Festival, 2003, Runner Up. Staged Reading
Five Sleazy Pieces, Short play review, Player's Ring, Portsmouth NH

Rose Enters the Room

New Works Festival, Newburyport  MA 2002

Nailed, co-written with Leslie Powell                       

Old Pueblo Playwrights New Works Festival, Tucson, March 2007

Ma Ma Mafia, co-written with Michael McKearney

Random Acts (Play in a Day) Festival, Newburyport MA, November 2007

The Recyclist

North Shore Reader's Theater, Reading, Newburyport MA, 2007.
ATHE conference, Denver, 2008, play development workshop, 2008.
Fort Point Exclamation Point!, Reading, Boston, March 2008

Nothing You Can Say, co-authored with Adair Rowland

Random Acts, Firehouse Center, Newburyport MA 2006

Acting Lesson #10: The Death Scene, cowritten with Mary H. Frakes

Random Acts, Newburyport MA, 2004

Novel and Stories
Novel

The Boss is Dead,a novella

Focus Publishing. 2004.  For an excerpt, click here.  
Two excerpts from The Boss is Dead in, 221 One-Minute Monologues from Literature, selected and edited by John Capecci and Irene Ziegler, Autumn 2007, Smith and Kraus.

Stories

Sweet Smelling Meat

Shenandoah, William and Mary College, 1972.

Mr. Walking Stick

New Laurel Review, 1972

C.-scape

Kansas Quarterly, 1974.

Two short stories

Excerpted in Food and Other Enemies, edited by Leslie Powell, 2002.

Other Awards

Education

Associations and memberships

Association of American Publishers (head of house)
Dramatists Guild, Associate member
Playwrights Platform, Boston
Theater Communications Group
Stage Source, Boston
Small Theater Allliance of Boston (STAB)

Other related professional experience
     Instructor, University of West Virginia(English). Taught composition, freshman / sophomore level literature courses.

     Assistant Instructor, University of Kansas (English). Taught composition.

     Adjunct Faculty, Northern Essex Community College (English) Taught composition.