A Director’s Memoir: Laurie Rae Waugh remembers Irving Greenfield on the eve of premiering another of his plays.

Article reprinted from ArtsIndependent.com

I first met Irving A. Greenfield in 2015 during rehearsal for the first of many of his plays that I directed at the American Theatre of Actors. Each play Irving wrote incorporated a piece of his own life in it. The play was called “One More Time.” Irving came to a few rehearsals to answer questions the cast had about the play and its characters. The lead character, who was divorced three times, was a successful romance novelist writing under a woman’s name. Irving himself wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Alicia Grace, in honor of his wife, Anita G. Greenfield. At the last performance, Irving told me that he loved how I brought his play to fruition, and then handed me his next play to direct, “Family Matters.”

“Family Matters” was produced in 2016 and the play again had parts of Irving’s life scattered throughout. Irving visited us during the rehearsal process, and it was wonderful having him stop by and share stories about his life. This play dealt with family relationships and the clearing of the air on past…