While studying abroad at LaTrobe University - just outside of Melbourne, Australia - in the spring of 2001, I saw a sign on campus that the theatre department was looking for directors for a collection of short plays they were producing. Naturally, I submitted myself but it was too late: they had found enough directors already. Still, the head of the department, when he found out I was a playwright as well, asked me if I would be interested in writing and directing a full-length play later that season. Eagerly, I jumped at the opportunity and used it as an excuse to finally finish writing a play that I had started on the fourteen-hour plane ride to Australia, a play that turned out to be JUDGMENT DAY.

Fourteen years before Pixar released INSIDE OUT, my play was about two angels - one good, one rogue - who, assigned by God to help fix the life of a man named Christian, enter his brain, take the reins, and end up doing more harm than good.

The first full play I'd written or directed outside of my childhood home, JUDGMENT DAY still has a special place in my heart.