Title: Playwright, Writer
Location: Chula Vista, California, United States
Affiliations/Associations/Societies:
- Academy of American Poets (2020-present)
- American Film Institute (2019-present)
- American Indian Education Fund, Partnership with Native Americans, Scholarship Committee (2005-present)
- American Jewish Committee (active member, 2003-2005)
- Americans for the Arts Action Fund
- AmeriCares (2004-present)
- Authors League of America (Now Authors Guild)
- Beil Hashoah Museum of Tolerance (active member, 2003-2006)
- Drama League
- Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.
- Flight 93 National Memorial (founding sponsor, 2006-present)
- Friends of Sesame Workshop (2020-present, 2005-2008)
- George W. Bush Presidential Center (charter member)
- Habitat for Humanity International
- International Rescue Committee (2004-present)
- Kennedy Center National Patron (2019-present)
- Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial (founding sponsor, 2005-present)
- National D-Day Museum (Now National World War II Museum)
- National Museum for Women in the Arts
- National Museum of American Jewish History (founding sponsor, 2009-present)
- National Republican Congressional Committee (active member, 2004-present)
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- President’s Dinner for George W. Bush (honorary co-chair, 2004-2005)
- Republican Senatorial Election Platform Committee (delegate, 2012)
- Save Ellis Island, Inc.
- Simon Wiesenthal Center (active member, 2002-2006)
- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of the American Indian
- Southern Poverty Law Center (leadership council member, 2002-2015)
- Statue of Liberty Museum, Ellis Island (founding sponsor, 2018-present)
- The National Campaign for Tolerance (founding member, 2002-present)
- The Write Stuff Society of the Dramatists Guild Foundation (inaugural member, 2019)
- Theater Communications Group
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (active member, 2001-present)
- United States Navy (1973-1977)
- Vada Sheid Community Development Center, Arkansas State University-Mountain Home (founders circle member, 2002-present)
- World Jewish Congress (president’s council member, 2005-present)
- World Trade Center Memorial Foundation (Now National September 11th Museum) (charter member)
Achievements:
- Honoree, Distinguished Worldwide Humanitarian Award (2021)
- Inductee, Top Professionals of the Year, Marquis Who’s Who (2020)
- Featured Member, Marquis Millennium Magazine, Marquis Who’s Who (2019)
- Featured Listee, “Who’s Who in America,” Marquis Who’s Who (2018-2019, 2001-2016)
- Featured Member, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Wall of Honor (2018)
- Recipient, Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award (2017)
- Recipient, World Jewish Congress Medallion of Commitment (2013)
- Recipient, Gateway Award, Save Ellis Island, Inc. (2012)
- Recipient, Leadership Award, World Jewish Congress Foundation (2011)
- Featured Listee, “Who’s Who in the West,” Marquis Who’s Who (2010-2016, 2000-2008)
- Production Partner, “Viva la Causa,” Southern Poverty Law Center Documentary (2008)
- Recipient, Nahum Goldmann Leadership Award, World Jewish Congress Foundation (2007)
- Recipient, Republican Senatorial American Spirit Medal (2007)
- Recipient, Congressional Order of Merit (2006-2007)
- Inclusion, Republican Presidential Honor Roll by Order of the Executive Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee (2005)
- Production Partner, “Ever Again,” Moriah Films Documentary (2005)
- Featured Listee, “Who’s Who in the World,” Marquis Who’s Who (2000-2016)
- Author, “Burning Bridges” (1999)
- Author, “Insidious” (1992)
- Author, “Because” (1991)
- Author, “Hungry: Three Plays” (1991)
- Participant, rescue and first-stage relocation of Vietnamese refugees while serving aboard the USS Denver (1975)