Profile of Z. Sharon Glantz

PROFILE OF
Z. SHARON GLANTZ
aka Lailu Loon (Second Life)

TRANSCRIPTS OF
THE MEANING OF LIFE CHAT with Lailu Loon

BOOKS

The Sanity Patrol Handbook is a whimsical lyrical romp for those who consider themselves sane...an ideal gift for caregivers of all types offers validation, inspiration and giggles of delight.

The Shpieling Haggadah is an accessible Passover haggadah for Jews, lapsed Jews and non Jews. It is scripted and includes colorful illustrations and song lyrics. This haggadah is education and entertaining, designed to maximize participation.

Stages of Ages: A Manual of Corrective Parenting lays out the basics of a powerful intervention known as corrective parenting (previously reparenting). Written in collaboration with Elaine Childs-Gowell who also published this book.

The Masterpack looks at the coming together of a group of unlikely friends who walk their dogs illegally off leash in the park. It is written in third person, as well as from the point of view of one of the dogs. This "Masterpack" battles a group of sociopaths, bent on mutilating dogs for their own alleged spiritual growth.
STATUS: completed but as yet unpublished

3X: Online Triangles and Other Relationships utilizes formats of online chat, email and instant messages to reinforce the prose that explores love relationships, doing business and scientific discovery on the Internet.
STATUS: in progress

INDUSTRIAL PLAYS

Konnexxus subcontracts regional theaters to produce the following plays designed for training programs or some facsimile thereof that include facilitated discussions, preferably with a specialist following the performance. Audiences include government agencies, corporations, educational institutions and special interest groups.
STATUS: ready for production

HIV at Work

60 min. 2 female 3 male

This piece looks into fears and behaviors of workers in an ad agency as one of them discovers he is HIV positive, contracts AIDS and with the help of the miracle cocktail, confronts the experience of returning to work albeit part-time and in a lower position. Information on transmission is related, but the focus is largely on the fear of death, dying, intimacy and how AIDS effects each and everyone. [video documented]

Working Relations	70 min. 3 female 3 male
This piece explores what constitutes sexual harassment, the gray areas, a wide range of opinions about sexual harassment and working relationships and what top management needs to due to deal with issues of sexual harassment in the workplace.

Workforce Coming of Age	70 min. 2 female 1 male
This piece looks at the ramifications of an aging workforce relative to age discrimination, myths reinforced by previous generations, and the complexities of the changing workplace.

EDUCATIONAL THEATER

Stages of Ages was written as two one-acts to be included in Stages of Ages, A Manual on Corrective Parenting in collaboration with Elaine Childs-Gowell RN PhD. It has since been turned into a full-lengty play. The play relates information on each of the developmental stages.
STATUS: ready for production

Stages of Ages I	45 min. 2 female 2 male
This piece covers Stages: 0. Connecting (prenatal); 1. Being (0-6 months); 2. Doing (6-18 months); 3. Thinking (18 months-3 years). During each stage, actors rotate playing the negative parent, his/her child, the positive parent and his/her child. However, there is a consistency of character throughout the play.

Stages of Ages II	60 min. 2 female 2 male
This piece covers Stages: 4. Identity (4-6 years); 5. Skills Development (6-12 years); and 6. Regeneration (12-19 years). As in Stages of Ages I, actors rotate playing the negative various characters.

Stages of Ages	90 min. 2 female 2 male
Combines the two one-act plays below into a percussive musical that watches four people integrate their early childhood experiences with the behaviors and experiences of adult life, thus changing the way they make choices. The cast is diverse, the issues wide-ranging. However, this is a very physical and entertaining piece of work.

Through the Eyes of a Friend	30 min. 1 female
Kitty, Anne Frank's imaginary friend from her diaries, comes to life and tells the story of Frank's life before the war, as the war progressed and in the concentration camps. Originally, this monologue was backed up video footage from World War II.

FULL LENGTH PLAYS

I Gave At The Office

75 min. 6 female 5 male

This piece was commissioned by A Contemporary Theater, Seattle. A woman finds more comfort in her machines than in the people with whom she needs in order to fulfill her job as marketing coordinator for a law firm. Her equipment is anthropomorphically replaced by those with whom she works: her secretary becomes a clock, head of accounting becomes an adding machine, the managing partner becomes her computer, her phone lover and her best friend become the phone, and fallen pencils become a Greek chorus of partners. Needless to say, this changes her life.
STATUS: ready for production

Oxymoronic Fusion

120 min. 6 female 3 male

A suspense thriller and comedy that explores the ways we construct reality as individuals as well as by consensus. Serendipity channels an entity. Her lawyer (female), who helps her sue the entity and her psychiatrist (male) have been reincarnated with her for many lifetimes. Her agent is an alien from another planet. Serendipity's lover is actually the goddess Persephone. The channeled entity has an affair with her psychiatrist. Serendipity's psychic is her lawyers long-lost mother. The psychic has a cat who is actually a poet/physicist from another dimension, working on the formula for oxymoronic fusion, that will allow contradictory belief systems to peacefully co-exist. Everyone comes together for Serendipity's birthday party where the formula for oxymoronic fusion is used to help everyone get what they want.
STATUS: ready for production

Tarot for Fools	120 min. minimum 3 male 2 female
The Fool, awakened by his Dog, decides to visit each of the major arcana in the Tarot. The dynamics of meeting them in order follows the requirements for a good story. As The Fool learns more and more, he is forced to make difficult decisions, losing Dog in the process. Actors can play many roles. STATUS: ready for production

Exercising Belief	80 min. 6 male or female
Ernest Seeker learns about God, sin and other processes related to the act of believing from: Fred Faust, a theoretical scientist; Dr. Phud, a psychotherapist; Polly/Paul Scythe, a sociologist; Val Challah, a ceremonial magician; and Aenid Verse, a poet. This play includes non-intrusive audience participation. STATUS: ready for production

The Last Mikvah

100 min. 6 female

The Shekhinah brings together: a widow and fried of Muhammad's wife Aisha, from 7^th century Medina (Saudi Arabia); a young teacher from 11^th century Khazaria (Russia); a Sephardic refugee from 15^th century Barcelona (Spain); a co-founder of Tel Aviv from the 19^th century; a fickle Sufi turned occultist from 1920's New York (New York); and a 21^st century free-lance writer in Seattle (Washington). The Shekhinah uses these women, who are related through blood, as a way of checking out her status as an equal to God.
STATUS: work in progress

ONE ACT PLAYS

I, Monster	25 min. 1 male 1 female 1-5 chorus
A young woman works with her therapist on issues of abuse. She is haunted by a chorus of voices that express her inner thoughts. Finally, she is able to find comfort from her therapist. STATUS: ready for production

After Eros	20 min. 1 male 1 female
Over three meetings, Danny and Laura come together, fall apart, and come together again while sipping espresso. STATUS: ready for production

The Column	15 min. 1 male 4 female
A legal secretary, striving to be a writer, tries to integrate her two jobs. At first she receives a warm reception, looks forward to what she can finally consider upward mobility, but later is rejected and has to be satisfied with living in two worlds. STATUS: ready for production

Personal Answers	10 min. 1 male 3 female
Writer decides to answer a personal ad in the newspaper. Her alter egos, Child, Man and Woman, tell them what they think. In between performing various tasks (Man plants shrubs, Child builds with blocks, Woman works on computer or assists Man and Child), they advise her in how to answer the ad. STATUS: ready for production

MULTI-MEDIA EXPERIMENTS

Faith, Trust and Other Anomalies is presented as either a short story or a "cyberdrama" (a short animated movie using Shockwave). Rather than prose, this piece uses websites, chat, instant messengering, email, message boards and the telephone. The movie includes a soundtrack.

The Community of Char is a memorial that highlights the life of Char Raynor with pictures, poetry and an opportunity to contribute memories.

SCRIPTS

Playwright of Through the Eyes of a Friend, a multi-media piece on the holocaust written from the point of view of Kitty, Anne Frank's imaginary friend, touring middle schools and high schools.

Scriptwriter of a laser show for school children in Singapore on their history for Laser Fantasy.

Scriptwriter of a video for the Washington State Apprentice in the Trades Program.

THEATRICAL PRODUCER

Following the efforts of Plays That Work that produced industrial plays and closed down in 1997, Konnexxus took on the task of marketing and producing these plays. Organizations that have utilized these productions as part of trainings include:

State of Washington Department of Information Services

Interagency Committee of State Employed Women

Puget Sound Power & Light

City of Seattle Department of Housing & Human Services and Department of Parks and Recreation

Washington Mutual Bank

The Executive MBA Program at the University of Washington

Harbor Properties

The Young President's Organization

NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT

Newsletter Editor for the National Storytellers Network, Special Interest Group: Storytelling in Organizations.

Founder and president of the Northwest Playwrights Guild, and editor of the newsletter, Script.

Program Developer for the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, recruiting and managing a program of 200 speakers.

Events Coordinator and Steering Committee Member for the Seattle Writergrrls.

Membership Coordinator for the National Council of Jewish Women, Seattle/Bellevue.

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Sole proprietor of Konnexxus, developing website content, mini-siting strategies and partnering opportunities.

Chief Operating Officer of 3X LLC, developing online marketing strategies.

Manager of Chats, overseeing 40 chats for the Writers Club on America Online.

Chat Host for the Writers Club, OMNI Magazine Online and Parascope.

Developer of the New Media Lab for the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference. Vendors included America Online, CompUSA, Design Intelligence, NEC, Toshiba and other high tech companies. Activities included online discussions with attending authors, writing exercises and resource management of volunteer computer professionals.

Speaker at the Participatory Design Conference of the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibilities on using theater development techniques for creating websites.

LEGAL

Legal Assistant at Graham & Dunn (current).

Legal Assistant in family law for Roberta E. Doyle (7 years).

Executive Assistant for the head of the Corporate Finance Department at Bogle & Gates (7 years).