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Offering: Full-service copywriting, creative writing, and professional writing, including
ad copy, web copy, stage plays, screenplays, teleplays, cover letters, articles, web design, and much
more.
Writing Experience:
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Playwright: Almost a dozen plays, one-man shows, and teleplays. Gretna Theatre, a major regional
theatre, is taking my educational play Remember the Ladies: Wives of the Presidents, on tour to schools
throughout midstate Pennsylvania; my third original children’s play, The Wolf Who Cried "Boy," is scheduled
for its second live production this summer; and I’ve given three hundred professional performances of
my own self-scripted one-man shows.
Copywriter: Ongoing advertising campaign for Sleepy
Hollow of Gettysburg, including flyers, ad copy, web copy, sales letters, and serving as a PR representative.
Ongoing advertising campaigns for my own one-man shows, including ad copy, web copy, flyers, press releases,
and serving as my own PR representative and spokesman.
Writing Teacher: More than five years
as an adjunct professor teaching writing and writing-intensive courses at Gettysburg College, Elizabethtown
College, Susquehanna University, Emory University, and Harrisburg Area Community College. This included
writing syllabi, assignment sheets, study guides, handouts on a variety of topics, and Powerpoint presentations,
not to mention hundreds of lesson plans.
Business Writer: Dozens of resumes, cover letters,
business cards, and more. Created logos for Sleepy Hollow of Gettysburg and SGAcreative.com.
Creative
Writer: Published about a dozen short stories in a variety of small magazines; currently writing my
second novel. Also, a feature editorial in the Harrisburg, PA Sunday Patriot-News, a "guest expert"
appearance in Ann Landers' syndicated column, and numerous letters in the Harrisburg Patriot-News,
Newsweek, and other national and regional publications.
Internet, HTML, and Desktop Publishing:
Creator, designer, writer, and webmaster for SGAcreative.com. Fluent with Windows, MS Word, Excel, WordPerfect,
Powerpoint; learn new software quickly. Have worked in tech support, taught college students to use
department and university servers for electronic submission of their essays.
Public Speaker:
A registered Commonwealth Speaker with the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. Also, hundreds of lectures
and guided discussions as a writing teacher (see above). Oh, yes, and he's also an experienced professional
actor.
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Other Recent Work History
Full-time Freelance Actor, 2002 - Present
Performed in plays,
musicals, commercials, videos, etc. Clients include Hershey’s Chocolate World, Hersheypark, Ham On Rye
Virtual Theatres, Mount Gretna Playhouse, Open Stage of Harrisburg, Weiss Markets. (Follow this link
for details about my acting work.)
Storyteller, 2002 - Present
Sleepy Hollow of Gettysburg
Researched, developed, wrote, and performed ghost stories on a total of almost 300 tours.
Interactive
Performer, 1998 - Present
Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire
Quadrupled pickle sales in three years—a
total of 10,000 pickles in 27 days in 2004.
Mad Scientist, 2003 - Present
Mad Science of Central
PA
Learned, developed, and/or fine tuned lesson plans; performed school assemblies and birthday parties;
taught preschool, after-school, and summer camp programs.
Acting Instructor, 2000 - Present
Various
Employers
Taught acting and improvisation for children, teens, and adults, for theatres and community
groups throughout central Pennsylvania.
Adjunct Professor, 1998 - 2002
Various Employers
Taught Freshman English, History of Theatre, and other English and Theatre courses, for Gettysburg College,
Elizabethtown College, Susquehanna University, and Harrisburg Area Community College.
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Education
Four years graduate study, English, Emory University
B.A., English and
Philosophy, Haverford College
Copywriting, American Writers & Artists Institute
Awards and
Memberships
First place, departmental essay contest, English, Emory University, 1998
First
place, statewide essay contest, University of Maryland, 1989
Departmental Honors, Philosophy, Haverford
College, 1993
Phi Beta Kappa, since 1993
National Honor Society, since 1988
Society of American
Fight Directors, since 2001
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