In 1921, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and President Warren G. Harding took a camping trip together into the Maryland woods to escape civilization; what they couldn't escape was each other. Inspired by an actual event, Camping with Henry and Tom is an exploration of friendship, politics and leadership; a comedic and dramatic clash of two great minds and one great heart of the twentieth century.

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LEFT TO RIGHT: ROBERT PROSKY, KEN HOWARD, JOHN CUNNINGHAM
Lucille Lortel Theater, New York City

"Wonderfully entertaining. Full of thought and feeling. A treasure chest that leaves the audience aglow with pleasure." N.Y. Post.
"Witty, elegant, and enormously entertaining. Unusually literate, funny and captivating." N.Y. Daily News.
"Delightful, rollicking, quintessentially American fiction [that] turns us for a couple of hours into the happiest of campers." N.Y. Magazine.

Winner of three 1995 Off Broadway Lucille Lortel Awards, including Outstanding Play of the season.

Camping with Henry and Tom (Audio CD)

Starring: Alan Alda, David Dukes, Charles Durning, Lee Arenberg The complete play on 2 CDs. 87 Minutes President Harding wants to be with his mistress. Industrialist Henry Ford wants to be President. And inventor Thomas Edison wonders how the three of them got stuck in the woods together. Inspired by an actual camping trip taken by the three men in 1921, this off-Broadway hit is an hilarious adventure with surprising relevance to today's politics.

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"One of the most entertaining finds of the year!" The Groove

Starring: Alan Alda, David Dukes, Charles Durning, Lee Arenberg The complete play on 2 CDs.

Left to right, Dan Lauria and Bill Dawes

Veteran FBI agent Howard Ballantine and new recruit Daniel McClure are assigned a job of critical importance to J. Edgar Hoover and the White house: get politically outspoken John Lennon out of the country before Richard Nixon runs for reelection in 1972, an election in which eighteen-year-olds can vote for the first time. Based on actual FBI documents declassified through the Freedom of Information Act and filled with humor and heartbreak, Ears on a Beatle explores the personal relationship between the two agents in light of the changing social climate from the early seventies until Lennon's death in 1981. Set in a time when the country was sharply divided by an unpopular war, lies flowed from the White House and individual liberties were threatened in the name of national security, this play is as contemporary as today's headlines.

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"A funny but deeply involving piece of theatre." N.Y. Daily News.
"Theatrically rich." Time Out.
"A compelling ethical/political exploration." Boston Globe.
"Fascinating, funny and nostalgic." Denver Post.

Left to right, Amy Van Nostrand, Maha Chehlaoui, Brenda Thomas, Peter J. Fernandez

Medicine, Money and Morality clash when the Heart Transplant Selection Committee of St. Patricks hospital have only minutes to decide which of three patients will receive a heart that has suddenly come available. A cross between TWELVE ANGRY MEN and E.R., the GOD COMMITTEE takes us into the inner workings of a Transplant Program and a decision, for both their candidates and their program, that is a matter of life and death.

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"St. Germain brings the same intelligence to the ethics of medicine and law as he did to the ethics of politics in CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM." Boston Globe.
"An 85 minute gem." Dr. Joy Brown, WOR Radio.

(New York Premiere; Starring Melissa Leo and Fisher Stevens. L.A. Premiere, Starring Jamie Gertz and Jason Patrick)

THE STORY: It is the night of their high-school graduation and Myst and Grouper, two bright, well-to-do teenagers, have driven to the local lovers leap for a private celebration. Myst is seventeen, and the daughter of a fading rock star of dubious morals; Grouper is also seventeen, and the son of an ambitious, self-important U.S. Senator. Myst is determined to deprive Grouper of his virginity, but he wants to wait until they are married and settled into domesticity. As they drink beer, smoke pot and engage in sharply amusing, yet disheartening, interplay, it becomes increasingly evident that they are very lost young souls whose ideals have been sadly eroded by the shoddy, self-centered example of their elders. In the end they do make love, but it proves to be only a brief respite before their pasts encroach on the present and, inevitably, overwhelm it with terrible and heartrending results.

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"OUT OF GAS ON LOVERS LEAP is a perceptive, well-written work" Backstage.
"…creates a tender bond between its wealthy misfits and the audience." NY Times.
"…theatrical imagination and flights of humor…" The New Yorker.
"…presents a compelling argument that today's times are forcing today's kids to put new twists in the old rituals." NY Post.

(O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Starring Linda Hunt. George Street Playhouse Premiere, starring Estelle Parson)

The story of Mary Mallon, known better as Typhoid Mary, in her battle to escape imprisonment by the New York Health Department.

"Marvelous and unnerving, funny and hair raising." The News Tribune.
"Mesmerizing. Her story mirrors the aids crisis, denounces hypocrisy (and) raises disturbing questions." KPS Radio.
"One of the years ten best. This true story lifted documentary into poetry. Part fevered memory, part aborted repentance." Time Magazine.