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An aspiring writer discovers there is more comedy in relationships than on stage when he takes eight strong, passionate women to Canada’s Stratford Festival during a ten year search for love.  Will the lady of the festival approve anyone? The play includes references to actual productions and a mystery narrator who serves as a conscience and witty commentator.

The comedy is set in a modern advertising agency. An account executive and his assistant may lose their jobs because the agency lost a major piece of business. A man comes into the agency and requests the agency take his multi-million advertising account. The man resembles a stereotypical accountant but claims he is the devil. The agency must produce a fabulous advertising campaign or else. The play champion's the role of women in religion and pokes fun at  advertising . Illustration by Len Bethel.

Based partially on the lives of two (deceased) and famous outsider artists in the seventies. Love, art, greed and loss evolve around a mid-twenty-year-old, African American, outsider artist in rural Alabama. Panelist Favorite of the late Michael Warren Powell at the Last Frontier Theatre Festival and Runner Up at the Dallas Theatre Festival. Two sequels have been completed, Bone Man and Soul Coat. Will post soon.

Men in a support group share two problems: their inability to sustain healthy relationships with women and career frustration. They purchase a bankrupt radio station in a small Alabama town and convert it to a self-help, talk format. Spousal abuse, antisemitism, and gender equality are confronted in the community creating  a backlash and a climatic trial.

 Under Construction. New Play, same title. WIP. 

 A madcap spoof of advertising, incorporating ASL (American Sign Language) highlights gender bias, racial inequality and the marketing of esoteric products. Two extraterrestrials who are bored, decide to turn on their terrarium and watch a program, Earth, circa 2020, a day in the life of an advertising executive and his DEAF wife. The play spoofs the monotonous life of commuters, the goings-on inside an ad agency’s creative process. Music transcribed by the  Buffalo Guitar Quartet.

Father and daughter argument over his weekly blog that includes his daughter's declaration that she may be "80 Percent Lesbian." 

Comedy. Experimental. A traveling salesman checks into a famous NYC hotel to encounter the ghost of  a famous poet. The two argue over relationships as she responds only in verse (parody). 

SCABS was originally written as a ten-minute play. It was selected as a finalist at the Humana Festival of Short Plays or Ten-Minute Plays. It was also selected for inclusion for the Last Frontier Theatre Festival but I had to withdraw it because of an assignment in Spain that summer.

Comedy. Recently completed. After a vasectomy, a man takes a prescription to a pharmacy to be filled. The patient thought he was going in for a procedure to help his sore throat . The man doesn't read prescriptions.

Comedy. Recently completed. Three supervisors, two diggers and an overly curious homeowner. Three Anglicans above, two Hispanixs below and if you question city hall, you go to jail. Spanish and English.

Drama. Recently Completed. A devoted husband of 32 years, with no money, desperately tries to obtain pain medicine for his terminally ill wife. It's a fight of love against a bureaucratic and unfair system.

Comedy. Performed 2019 at Tampa Bay Theatre Festival during Hurricane Weekend. Optioned for a short film. A man pretending he is a sports buff tries to pick-up a woman at a bar. She is a sports nut. 

Comedy. Performed at Tampa Bay Theatre Festival 2017.  “ If you are familiar with the concept of a “found poem,” you will appreciate Lee Kitchen’s theatrical application of this idea in his clever short, FORTUNE KOOKY. After ten years of visits to Chinese restaurants, 95% of his dialogue is culled from the signature dessert. The story’s premise is simple, but there are immediate escalations and reversals that would make this play fun and challenging for its actors. Looking for a good short play for your festival? “Stop searching forever. Happiness is just next to you.” Greg Burdick, Playwright. 

Comedy. Read at the SEC Conference, 2018. An actor still in a Shylock costume, after a performance and on stage, has a debate with an English professor who is writing a paper for his or her doctorate. The two represent reality and theory. Audience engagement.

An inebriated couple in a long-distance relationship party until 2 am. They hail a musician cabbie who drives them home. He’s had weirder passengers but maybe not.

Best short screenplay at Oaxaca Film Festival 2018, Best Short Screenplay at Atlanta Comedy Film Festival and Best TV Series at the Portland Comedy Film Festival.

Finalist at the 2019 Lonely Seal Film and Music Festival,  2nd Place, Colortape International Film Festival, Austral-Asia and Semi-finalist, Evolution Malorca Film Festival.

Thrilled and honored that the screenplay is included in the Los Angeles Animation Film Festival 2020!

Tenant farmers’ in the Jim Crow era are thrown into a southern  town’s class struggle and prejudice as people in mass hysteria accuse them of murdering a farmer and three family members. A multiple lynching,  the human and inhuman side of people and an unsolved mystery. Based upon true events. 

Accepeted as part of the MegaFest Film Festival in Las Vegas 20202. Also the Barcelona Film Festival and Tim Kelly, actor, received a merit award for So You Think You Can Act 2019. A five minute version, the original concept, selected as one of 40 from 3,000 submissions, at the 2018 AT&T Create-A-Thon.

What happens in this farcical comedy when Richard I, Richard II and Richard III come back to modern times to sue William Shakespeare. Just received notice the new screenplay was accepted into the Action on Film Megafest scheduled for next summer and recently informed the screenplay was accepted in the UK Film Festival-London.

I used to take my daughter, Lisa, to Central Park on Sundays. On the return train back to the Bronxville Station (we actually lived in Yonkers, fourth floor walkup) a vendor would walk up and down the aisles. I don't think he had a license. Who knows? He would yell out, "Ice Cream! Ice cream! There will be no more food served on this train."

Most recently, The Audition (Bronco's Dolls Go to Hollywood) selected for the Action on Film MegaFest 16th Annual Film Festival and Writer's Competition this summer in Las Vegas. The festival is still accepting submissions. Also, the half-hour version of The Doll Man (El hombre muñecas ) was included in the Portland Comedy Film Festival.

 Illustration from collection of commuting and business characters. 

Took me a ride on a commutin' train

everyone looked alike and dressed the same...(More in manuscript, Commutin' Train). Song also used in first play, Terrarium Earth. Fourth-story walkup in Yonkers (Bronxville Station) when I worked for JWT. After six months, I asked for a review and a raise. My supervisor, a tough ex-Marine and brilliant supervisor , when I asked if he had any problems with me, slowly looked up from polishing his shoes and said in his heavy New York accent, "only problem I got is you look like you're thirteen damn years old!"

Began career at J.Walter Thompson Advertising in New York and Chicago. Joined The Mentholatum Company as Marketing Director and member of the Executive Committee. Obtained MBA from University of Buffalo at nights while working as Marketing Director at the  Mentholatum Company.After receiving my MBA, I left corporate world to write full-time. Worked with the late NYC agent Glen Cowley on humor manuscript, MBA Guidebook.  Negotiating with LIttle Brown for advance when comparable book hit market. Learned a lesson: sent entire manuscript to several publishers a year before signing with agent.

Started business, Freelance Network working with freelancers in North America. Joined a client, Greater Buffalo Press, later Sullivan Graphics and then American Graphics. 

Left corporate world  again to write (a creative-non-fiction historical novel) that is now a screenplay, Picnik. Worked with the late Toni Mendez in NYC on humor book, Political Folksay  with artist Steve Sweny. Wrote first play that received recognition, JoJo Mama & The Voodoo Queen. Taught at colleges and universities while writing, leaving academia July 2016 to write  full-time.

• BS and MA Journalism, University of Alabama. 
• After leaving corporate world again, participated in the Alabama Writer's Project (Poetry and Short Story Courses)  studied under Marlin Barton (O'Henry Prize Winner) and poet, Peter Huggins. 
• Moved to Tallahassee and participated in classes with Bob Shacochis and Janet Burroway at Florida State University. 
• Attended workshops at Last Frontier Conference and Dramatist Guild in New York and LA. 
• MBA degree in Buffalo when I simultaneously developed humor manuscript, MBA Guidebook, while attending classes.
•  Certificate for Photoshop.
• Honorary Professor Tianjin Foreign Studies University
• Participated in Dramatist Guild Master Playwriting Course 2018.
• Completed Roland Tech's Songwriting Circle 2018. 
• Completed Sundance Collab Basic TV Writing Course 2020.

Board member of The Peyton Tuthill Foundation. Provides scholarships to students who lost a family member to a homicide.   www.peytontuthillfoundation.org  

Instructor for study abroad programs for FSU in Spain, London and China. Later, program director for Tallahassee Community College study abroad programs in Tianjin, China. Traveled to China for over ten years.

Some ASL, minimal Mandarin and elementary Spanish

Dramatist Guild, Playwrights Guild of Canada;

Honorary Professor Tianjin Foreign Studies University. Board member Peyton Tuthill Foundation (provides scholarships for homicide victim's families)