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FORTHCOMING: FULL EARTH: A So Go Sci Fi Event!

The first book I remember picking out myself was Mark of the Man Wolf, a comic book with a forty-five in a pocket on the back cover. Man Wolf was J. Jonah Jameson's son, a prominent astronaut who finds an other-dimensional ruby on the moon. The jewel grafts itself to his throat after he starts wearing it around his neck and transforms him into Man Wolf when it's activated by the moon. I remember the little plastic insert that let me use the spindle of my mother's suitcase turntable to play forty-fives. The bell that told me to turn the page. I remember the post-modern plink plonk soundtrack and lines like "a snarl escapes its lupine lips... a growl of sheer hatred reserved for the quarry it hunts." The great Gill Kane art. Man Wolf left its mark on me. We still have months and months of Devil fun. But I'm also looking forward to my next big project with Devil Dan, er, Wolfman Dan: FULL EARTH. Not least because it gives me an opportunity to work with Papa Reese of Reese Van Riper, who is composing/performing the music for it. Think Old Yeller meets Interstellar. Wolfman meets Rocketman. American Werewolf in Space. Or Red Planet meets Red Fern, if Old Dan bit Billy and turned him into a monster. Coonhounds, werewolves, the void. A so-go sci-fi fable that begins with a barefoot boy and a wild dog in Alabama. And ends on the dark side of the moon! It's also a little bit of a love story. Live music, storytelling, puppets, projections, masks, and some really stunning stage magic. There's no ruby, no Spiderman, no flip-the-page bell, but it's certainly rooted in my memory of Man-Wolf. Sitting in our cabin, the muffled drumroll of rain on our tin roof, listening to an astronaut snarl. FULL EARTH. Coming to a theater near you next spring. In space, no one can hear you howl.

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Dan and I have collaborated on a number of previous programs.Click title(s) for info.

THE THING AT RARITAN LANDING:The Thing meets The Crucible. Terminator meets Turn. First contact. Last stand. The future is history. Theatrical Haunt, East Jersey Old Town Village

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THE WOLF OF WASHINGTON FORGE: If men with moustaches make history, what do men completely covered in hair do? Theatrical Haunt, East Jersey Old Town Village

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Before Twilight & True Blood, before Dracula even, there was NOSFERATU: THE FIRST VAMPYRE. Theatrical Production, Middlesex County College and Edison Valley Playhouse.