Theater Zero is the name under which I now produce my new stage works.  Since 1984, when the Palace Theater evaporated, I've produced a variety of pieces for the theater, created both around my own performance and writing and also around other communities, such as the pieces I've created with high schools, the homeless, and, notably, with the Seward neighborhood in Minneapolis.  My own writing has varied widely, from experiments in audience hypnosis to work with other writers, such as Kafka and Shakespeare, Frank O'Hara and Poe.   I've also worked with established institutions such as the Illusion, mostly in their Fresh ink series, Compas, and the Loft.  At some point in the eighties I started using Theater Zero as the name of my own production company.