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. 

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, 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

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

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

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