Today’s guest has lived and worked in Chicago as an award-winning playwright, composer and lyricist for 45 years. Much of his work has been seen world-wide.

In summer of 2025, Dramatic Publishing Company released his stage adaptation of Aldous Huxley's classic novel Brave New World, which is his 13th script in print. 

He has received the L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Award, the Midwestern Playwrights Festival Award, the Cunningham Commission Award, the Blue Ink Playwriting Award, three Playwriting Fellowship Awards from the Illinois Arts Council, and has been nominated for three Joseph Jefferson Awards, a Suzi Bass Award and an Emmy Award.

Finally, in December of 2025 he received the Innovation in Teaching Award from the University of Chicago Graham School, where he teaches playwriting and theatre appreciation.

We discuss all of this and much, much more in my conversation with  Douglas Post.

Now let’s go to the top of the show!