He directed and designed Tom Eyen's play, "Areatha In The Ice Palace Or: The Fully-Guaranteed Me Doll," in a Theatre of the Eye Repertory Company production at the Extension Theatre Inc. in New York City with William Griffin Duffy (played Santa), Helen Hanft (played Areatha), Mary Mitchell (played Little Girl Doll), Elsa Tresko (played Grandmother Doll), Bill Haislip (played Boy Doll 758), and Marybeth Ward (Played Girl Doll 758) in the cast. William Haas was lighting designer. Robert Schrock was stage manager.
He was awarded the 1989 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Lead Performance for "Stand-Up Tragedy" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.