From Gary:
After a successful career in the performing arts both as a practitioner and an administrator, my work now aims to connect culture and history through writing about experiences with food. I’ve worked as an actor, a playwright, a director, and an essayist. I was the founding director of a multi-arts center, and taught writing at the undergraduate and graduate level. My writing was awarded fellowships from The MacDowell Colony for the Arts, The Millay Colony, and the Art Matters Foundation. My solo theater works were seen in numerous Off-Off-Broadway venues in New York City.I hold a BA in Theater from SUNY Stony Brook and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. I was awarded a full scholarship to attend the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management program at The Harvard Business School My recent writing has been published in Maine Homes Down East and on Food52. My essay, Slow Dancing in West Virginia was published in The Berkshire Review. My essay about food and grief was the basis of an episode of My Family Recipe, a podcast on the Heritage Radio Network. I am a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and in 2023 they presented my talk on food writing, Every Meal Has a Story. I am currently completing a memoir/cookbook about my travels in France. Some recent work is linked below.
