general news
DMB has been named the Visiting Artist for the 2009-2010 season at the Lambda Players theatre company in Sacramento, California.
DMB's young adult novel Mesmerized will be published in 2010 by Bold Strokes Books. Read more about the novel here.
DMB's critically-acclaimed play, Pensacola, is now available in print from JAC Publishing and from Amazon.
DMB's powerful one-act play, Clean, is now available in print from JAC Publishing and from Amazon.
DMB's one-act plays Baby in the Basement, Hour Glass, Just Before the Drop and Taking Off are now available for purchase and performances in the UK and Europe. International licensing (including the US) is now represented by the company Production Scripts.
DMB appeared briefly on the eighth episode of the new television series Trauma on NBC.
DMB wrote and co-directed The Nun Crashers, presented by the Lambda Players in Sacramento. Performances were November 20 - December 19. You can read about the making of the show here.
DMB starred in Another Square Production's presentation of Michael Cristofer's Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning play The Shadow Box. Performances were November 6 - December 12.
DMB is teaching two online English courses for students at Griffin Technical College during the fall quarter.
DMB performed the role of Piero in a college production of Charles Mee's Big Love at Penn State in Altoona. The American College Theatre Festival selected this production to be performed at the Merriam Theatre in Philadelphia. The show was directed by Robin Reese.
publishing news
DMB's young adult novel Mesmerized will be published in 2010 by Bold Strokes Books. Read more about the novel here.
DMB's critically-acclaimed play, Pensacola, is now available in print from JAC Publishing and from Amazon.
DMB's powerful one-act play, Clean, is now available in print from JAC Publishing and from Amazon.
DMB's one-act plays Baby in the Basement, Hour Glass, Just Before the Drop and Taking Off are now available for purchase and performances in the UK and Europe. International licensing (including the US) is now represented by the company Production Scripts.
DMB's award-winning new play, We Never Made It to Paris, is now available in paperback and e-book format.
DMB's award-winning stage play Don't Mention It appeared in the September 2008 issue of A&U: (Arts & Understanding) America's AIDS Magazine.
DMB's poem Caution was featured in a recent issue of The Centrifugal Eye.
DMB's poems Bus Boy and Hickey appeared in a recent issue of the ezine Clean Sheets.
DMB's poem Rapture was featured in a recent issue of The Comstock Review.
DMB's poem El Novio was featured in the 2009 issue of the literary journal inscape, published by Washburn University.
DMB's poem Ape Girl (a poetic tribute to Jessica Lange) was featured in a recent issue of Wicked Alice.
Check out the collection Young Women's Monologues From Contemporary Plays 2 that features a monologue from DMB's stage play Better Places To Go, available in paperback.
awards
DMB's stage play Sloe Gin Fizz was selected as a national finalist in the 2009 Saints and Sinners Playwriting Competition.
DMB won the 2008 World AIDS Day Writing Contest, earning double awards for his stage play Don't Mention It and his poem You Wonder.
DMB's popular 10-minute play Johnny Ramirez Really Wants To Kiss Me received the 2008 award for Best Play at Slam Boston.
DMB received a national award in the 2008 Split This Rock Poetry Contest for his provocative poem Latin Freestyle.
novels
DMB's young adult novel Mesmerized will be published in 2010 by Bold Strokes Books. Read more about the novel here.
DMB's gay literary suspense novel The Common Bond is currently under consideration by an interested publishing company.
DMB is currently working on his third novel Love in the Shadows.
production news
DMB's romantic play Temporary Heroes will be performed in Odessa, Texas, opening on April 14.
DMB's popular play Pensacola will be performed at the Lambda Players Theatre in Sacramento, CA from February 19 - March 20.
DMB's one-act play And The Winner Is (now in its twenty-second production!) was performed at Sand Creek High School in Colorado Springs, CO on December 16.
DMB's one-act play Are You All Right in There? (now in its twentieth production!) was performed at Saint Bede Academy in Peru, IL on November 13 and 14.
Filmmaker Sam Wagner recently adapted DMB's one-act play Just Before the Drop into a provocative short film. Look for Just Before the Drop at film festivals around the world.
DMB's one-page play Taking Off was nationally selected to be performed in the Off-Broadway festival: ZERO TO SIXTY IN ONE PAGE. This show was directed by Rolando Ramos and starred Selena Ambush and Maria Canela. This was the New York premiere of the play.
DMB's 10-minute play Number 76 was selected for the Mid-America Dramatists Lab and was performed at the 2009 Mid-America Theatre Conference in Chicago. This production was directed by Marissa Guillen and starred Marcelo Carrascossa and Stacy Joyce. Brett Janecek served as the dramaturg.
DMB's one-act play Are You All Right in There? (now in its nineteenth production!) was performed at Thornton Fractional North High School in Calumet City, IL on March 12, 13 and 14.
DMB's one-act play And The Winner Is (now in its twenty-first production!) was performed at the THS Auditorium in Thibodaux, Louisiana on March 28.
DMB's one-act play Hour Glass was performed by the Dewdney Players at the Highwood Memorial Center in High River, Alberta, Canada on April 17 and 18 at 7:30p. This marked the Canadian premiere of this play!
Hour Glass also received another landmark production in Johannesburg, South Africa at the Franklin Players One-Act Festival on April 3. This production was directed by John Atkinson and starred Gillian Klette as Persephone and Hennie Greyvenstein as Hayden.
DMB's critically acclaimed one-act play Threnody was performed at two theatre festivals in Alberta, Canada: at the Zone 5W Drama Festival in Strathmore on April 25 and at the Provincial Drama Festival in Red Deer on May 8. These productions marked the Canadian premiere of this play!
DMB's popular 10-minute play Johnny Ramirez Really Wants To Kiss Me was selected for The Playwright's Slam and will be presented at the 2009 AATE/ATHE Conference in New York.
DMB's celebrated all-female play Sky Lines was presented as a staged reading on December 8 at Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts in Altoona, PA. The performance was directed by Selena Ambush and starred Kate Caverno, Katherine Feliz and Olivia Gunn.