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 Two Performance Artists Kidnap Elon Musk (screenplay adapted from the novel), 2024 The Occultist (series pilot script), 2021 Rattle Rattle (produced film script), 2020 Dark Silo (screenplay co-written with KayDee Kersten), 2019 Two Performance Artists Kidnap Their Boss And Do Things With Him (novel), Freakshow Books, 2014 Ward (Bravo TV sitcom pilot episode), "Nice To Meet You," 2004 When Gods Speak (screenplay), 2004 Leather (screenplay), 1996 Alice and the Elsewhere (stage play), 1993
"A Maker of Roads," 1993 "Farms and Fields," 1992 "The Sandwich Man," 1991 "Leaving Dover," Spectrum IX, 1989 — Winner of FUSD Writer's Conference, 1989
"Butchers" in Building Bridges: 2008 San Francisco Writers Conference Anthology, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen, eds., iUniverse, Lincoln, 2008 Love and War: Eleven Poems, broadsheets, San Francisco, 2003 Surrealisme Automatique Poetry Generator, 2002 "Leftovers," RealPoetik, Sal Salasin, Seattle, 1997 "Killer," RealPoetik, Sal Salasin, Seattle, 1996
"Retrieving Your Lost Power," Falcon Shamanic Healing & Magick, December, 2021 "A True Ghost Story," Falcon Shamanic Healing & Magick, February, 2022 "Dangers of Magical Curses," Falcon Shamanic Healing & Magick, June, 2022 "Kidnapping As Art," A Journal of Performance And Art (PAJ), MIT Press, issue 109, January 2015 "Who Was Your First Hero?" Off Paper Literary Journal, 29 April 2014 "Bent Spoons & Weapons" in "Webmonkey Wishlist," Webmonkey, 2 December 2005, 3 Performance Manifesto, 2002 "Smith's Sophomoric Manifesto," SF Weekly, 8 March 2000 (writing as Richard Natale) "Working At Home," HomePC, August 1997 (contributing writer) "The Desublimation of Silent Containers in Beckett," 1996 "Home Networking Made Easy," ComputerLife Magazine, August 1996 (contributing writer) "Parallel-to-SCSI: Expandability for Portable PCs," Computer Technology Review, December 1994
2024 — Honorable Mention for Two Artists Kidnap Elon Musk screenplay, L.A. Int'l Underground Film Festival 2024 — Finalist for Two Artists Kidnap Elon Musk, Austin Comedy Film Festival 2021 — Finalist for The Occultist series pilot script, L.A. Int'l Underground Film Festival 2021 — Semi-Finalist for The Occultist, L.A. Crime and Horror Festival 2021 — Semi-Finalist for The Occultist, Los Angeles Screenplay Awards 2020 — Winner, Best Original Screenplay for Dark Silo, Burbank Int'l Film Festival 2020 — Semi-Finalist, L.A. IndieX Film Festival for produced script Rattle Rattle2019 — Semi-Finalist, New York City Int'l Screenplay Awards for script Rattle Rattle 2015 — Best New Voice in Fiction, Silver, Ind. Book Publisher Assoc. Awards, for Two Performance Artists 2014 — Bronze Medal, Best Regional Fiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards, for Two Performance Artists 2013 — Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest First Round Finalist for Two Performance Artists
B.A. in English (Cum Laude), University of California, Irvine M.S., University of Maryland Ph.D., Parapsychology, Univ. of Sedona Global Peace and Conflict Studies Forum Member, UCI Cross Examination Debate Assocation National Tournament D.O. Finalist Debater/Speaker, Southwest Missouri State Univ., Kansas City, 1990
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Untranslatable (Short, 2024) — A conspiracy nightmare told through speaking in tongues. Look for it in film festivals in 2025! Rattle Rattle (Short, 2020) — A hand with a taste for bones gets more than in bargained for. Official Selection at 10 film festivals. It's Almost Over (Short, 2020) — A magical spell captured as a short experimental film that draws upon my influences from Surrealism, Dada, and Fluxus. Two Performance Artists (Book Trailer, 2014) — Official book trailer for my award-winning wacko novel The Secret to a Better Life (Short, 2011) — Directed & shot this short for Elisha Shapiro, America's most famous nihilist Addicted (Short, 2007) — Commercial for my real coffee company, Meth Coffee
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