2018 Was A Year In Transition

This was a busy year for me personally — I moved from Pasadena to Indianapolis and changed jobs. All of which impacted my playwriting career.

I count it as one submission even if I send three plays to the same opportunity. But I count it as two productions if they end up doing two of my plays.

Most of my productions didn’t come from blind submissions, they came from my relationships with theaters and directors. But most of those relationships came from blind submissions I made years ago!

Submissions: 141
Productions: 101
Premieres: 5 (3 one-page plays, 2 kids plays)
Full Evenings: 4
Publications: 3 (coming out next year year)

Notable events:

• “Oy Vey Maria” became my first play to be performed at sea! It was part of “Shorts On Ships”, produced by City Theatre of Miami.
• I had my first production, “Little Boy” in the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) and my first production, “Surprise”, in New Zealand (Auckland).
• “Oy Vey Maria” won the Audience Choice Award at the 5th Annual San Diego Center for Jewish Culture Five Minute Play Festival in San Diego, CA
• “One More Time” won the Audience Favorite Award at City Theatre in Miami.
• “Salt In The Wound” marked my 15th straight appearance in the Colonial Quickies Festival in Philadelpia, PA
• “Misfortune” won the Audience Favorite Award at the Corti Nella Corte Festival in Bari, Italy.
• “The Prodigal Cow” was chosen to be part of the 10th Anniversary “Best Of” edition of Minnesota Shorts in Mankato, MN
• “Surprise” won the People’s Choice Award on its night of Short+Sweet Hollywood.
• “The Rental” won the Audience Favorite Award at The Cliffhanger Company in Brighton, England.
• Two of my plays, “Misfortune” and “A Case of Anxiety”, were turned into operas by the Boston Opera Collective!  The reviews said ” brilliant, and brilliantly executed, Misfortune, with a score by Eva Conley Kendrick and a libretto by Mark Harvey Levine, based on the latter’s play. Wry, succinct, and hilarious, vast in its impact and sparse in its means, Misfortune is an elegant tour-de-force. “
• I got a good review in a show I wasn’t even in. In Jay Harvey’s review of a Xmas show, he wrote: ” The writing varies, arguably dipping a bit from previous productions. I missed the brilliance of Mark Harvey Levine’s sketches, many of which I hope have found homes elsewhere.”