Upcoming Performances
Sorry! Wrong Chimney!
is being performed
Royal Theatre
Macon, MO
11/29/2023 - 12/10/2023
Penny's Event Center
Holton, KS
12/15/2023 - 12/17/2023
Van Wert, OH
12/8/2023 - 12/30/2023
Georgetown, TX
12/8/2023 - 12/30/2023
Kearney Community Theater
Kearney, NE
12/7/2023 - 12/17/2023
Stage III Community Theatre
Casper, WY
11/30/2023 - 12/17/2023
Sorry! Wrong Chimney!*
Star on the Door*
100 Lunches: A Gourmet Comedy*
Borderline Crazies
*indicates plays written with the late Jack Sharkey
In Consideration for Publication
Borderline Crazies: Christmas Edition
Blueprint for Desire
Peril in Paradise
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Owner of LWS Entertainment
Certified Festival & Event Executive
Founder and Executive Director of Big Island Film Festival 2006-2016
PODCAST INTERVIEW OF LEO
by Cinematic Heartland
https://open.spotify.com/episode/372yJ9ysKHvByiniFyVCEe?si=kwSV05u1QMOqlFxGcHhfqA
I have a strong concept for a short film festival. I still have contact with filmmaking community. Please contact me regarding purchase of the concept, my expertise in helping to put it together or discussion of the concept.
A ten hour screenwriting workshop tentatively to be scheduled for September 18 & 19. Ron will use his real life experiences, movie clips and expertise to inform, entertain and provide you with the basics of writing screenplays that sell.
Day One - 9 AM to 5 PM with hour break for lunch on your own
1) Thinking Like A Writer/The Current Business Climate
2) The Essential Needs of a Narrative
3) 3-Act Structure
4) Theme
5) Scenes and Sequences
6) Character
7) Dialogue
Day 2 - 10 AM to 1 PM
Wherein using what we covered the day before, we see how it works together by taking a one-line idea and building a story in real time with a protagonist, antagonist, story arc, character arc, three acts, all unified under an overarching theme.
A writer/writer-producer/show runner over the course of 40 years, Ron began in half-hour comedies such as “MORK & MINDY” and “NIGHT COURT,” went on to write and produce hour-long comedies for three seasons of “MOONLIGHTING” (4 Emmy nominations, a Writers Guild Award Nomination, a Humanitas nomination), CUPID, and SHE SPIES; hour-long drama with “THE WEST WING” (Emmy nomination, Writers Guild Award nomination), BEAUTY AND THE BEAST; and in animation co-developed, exec-produced, and was co-head writer on the half-hour adult series “DUCKMAN” (3 Emmy nominations, 3 Cable Ace Nominations, winner Best Animated Show, Banff International TV Festival). He has sold 30 pilots, both half-hour and hour, comedy and drama, live action and animation, to all major broadcast networks, basic cable networks FX, USA, MTV, Lifetime, ABC Family and Disney, and premium cable networks Showtime and HBO. His horror ensemble HEARTLAND has been optioned twice as a series and web series.
During this time he also wrote feature originals including “MEET JOE BLACK” for Universal, and performed rewrites on such films as “THE FLINTSTONES,” also for Universal “THE HARD WAY” for director John Badham, and “RADIOLAND MURDERS” for George Lucas. His spec feature thriller ECHO, action adventure DIVINE RETRIBUTION, and horror GOD FORSAKEN have been optioned multiple times, and he is currently developing the animated adult cop comedy “DICK PROFANE” for Bruce Willis, rebooting DUCKMAN with Jason Alexander, and has three feature spec scripts currently in the marketplace. Over 30 pilots sold or commissioned. Ron has taught screenwriting and advanced screenwriting at Art Center/College of Design since 1986, writing for animation at California State University of Long Beach since 2018, screenwriting and visual literacy at Dreamworks Animation (2008-11), and has given screenwriting seminars as far afield as Australia and India.
Big Island Film Festival took place on the Waikoloa Coast on the Big Island of Hawaii from 2006 to 2016. It showed 48 to 65 features and shorts from around the world during the four days of the festival. Not only did BIFF show films but also had celebrities each year from John Saxon to Tom Berenger to Kate McKinnon to Will Estes. Additionally there were major social events, awards and screenwriting workshops.BIFF was covered by Variety and recognized by Moviemaker magazine as onf "20 Film Festivals Worth the Money" and later as One of the "20 Coolest Film Festivals". It also was awarded by Foriegn Film Critics Association. BIFF partnered with The Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii and was a major event on the Island of Hawaii. bigislandfilmfestival.com.
Born and raised in Kansas. Vietnam-Era Marine with two Purple Hearts. Bachelor of Ed with degree in Communication Arts from Arizona State University 1985. While at ASU participated in theater, ASASU Student Senate, President of Vets Club. Who's Who Among American Colleges and Universities 1975-76. Taught for Glendale High School District, Arizona from 1976 to 2001. Taught theater, speech, English. Corporate Secretary of Phoenix Jaycess, 1981. Vice President (entertainment) of 1982 Jaycee National Convention. Owned and operated Metro Playhouse theater company from 1983 to 1992. Produced 90 plays and directed 65 plays in high school, community and dinner theater. Wrote four comedy plays (three with the late Jack Sharkey) which have been produced across the US and the world. These plays are available through Concord Theatricals. When retired from teaching moved to Hawaii in 2001, where he created, owned and was Executive Director of Big Island Film Festival from 2006 until 2016. Featured speaker at 2009 International Film Festival Summit. When his wife of 44 years Jan passed away in 2016 he folded the festival and moved to Iowa where his son Jeff, Jeff's husband Aaron and grandson Eli live. Now has remarried to Pauline and lives in Ankeny, Iowa.
David Tuttle is moonlighting as a department store Santa so that he can buy his wife a fur for Christmas. He tells her he’s working late at the office, but she finds out he isn’t at the office. A suspected other woman, hypnotism, the notorious Santa burglar Kris Kreigle and his gun-toting fiancée, and a confused policeman add up to a rollicking tale that is hilarious Christmas entertainment any time of year.
This play has been produced across the US, Canada as well as London, Australia, Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, Sri Lanka.
Ellen hopes to ski and put some spark into her dull marriage to Stu, an efficiency author, while at Lake Tahoe in a rustic cabin owned by Stu's publisher. They are startled when a horror author and his sexy wife also arrive at the apparently double-booked cabin. The women immediately bond but the men squabble like spoiled two-year-olds and devise several wagers to determine who stays and who goes. Before anyone can leave, a police officer reports that a snowstorm has closed the roads and an axe murderer is on the loose. Stranded with no phone, no television and no radio, the writers may kill each other before the murderer gets to them. It's an avalanche of laughter with more twists and turns than a giant slalom. A CHRISTMAS VERSION Borderline Crazies: The Christmas Version is now available. Details directly from me.
This play has been produced across the US and Canada.
Successful mystery playwright Chuck Reynolds has had his plays lauded by all critics except Charity Starr. When she shows up at his home and has the unmitigated gall to ask his expert help in writing a play of her own, Chuck fiendishly insists that their teacher/pupil sessions be held over lunch with Charity footing the bill at the most expensive restaurants in New York City. Lunatic waiters provide a uniquely hilarious touch to these meetings. Love blossoms despite the scheming of Chuck's amorous neighbor. Charity's play opens on Broadway and she finds out what it's like to be a target for all her critical confreres. Non stop fun, romance, and explosive hilarity make this an ideal show for the entire family.
This play has been produced across the US and Canada.
Cinema legend Doreen Lewis, nervously about to make her Broadway debut opposite her ardent admirer Paul Burnside, intercepts a phone call for her dresser who is secretly wed to Doreen's son confirming that "Mrs. Lewis" is pregnant. A loony resolution caps this evening of non stop guffaws.
This play has been produced across the US and Canada.
PERIL IN PARADISE
Thriller | 25 Aug 2020
Two women vacation in a tropical resort in search of romance but find themselves involved with a psychopath in the middle of a drug war.
This thriller set in Hawaii could be shot at any tropical location. Two lead females in 20's; one male lead in 50's; one lead male early 30's.
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