A produced playwright in the 1980s (Lazy Eye, Captive Audiences), T.J. spent the next three decades away from theater before returning to Off-Broadway as co-writer with Joe Queenan of the SRO hit play Alms. In those lost years, he produced, directed, and performed among casts of thousands in a mélange of corporate telenovelas and tragic, comic, melodramatic, and absurd organizational performance art.
Since his playwrighting re-emergence, T.J. and Queenan have penned three other problem comedies produced by Knowledge Workings Theater: Grudges, Genealogy (at Broom Street Theater in Madison Wisconsin), and The Oracle. His recent solo works include the mostly fake Swedish screwball comedy Keeping Right, and the September 2023 premiere in New York City of The Jester’s Wife.
Born in the Bronx, T.J. now lives in Princeton, NJ with his wife, Marjorie Phillips Elliott.
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“The Jester’s sense of humour, subverting words and spinning riddles, makes for a lively encounter, and the clash between the Jester’s self-preserving pragmatism and his Wife’s heroic idealism creates some interesting and entertaining moral discussions.”
- The Abbey Theater
“... leads to compelling questions as to who gets to shape the stories we tell.”
- The Abbey Theater
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