In the past year, JAMES MCLINDON has had three full-length and six one-act plays produced in theaters across America, eight of them world premieres. Distant Music, a finalist for the Kaufman and Hart Prize for New American Comedy, enjoyed four productions in 2007. His plays have been developed and/or produced at the Abingdon Theatre, hotINK Festival, Irish Repertory, Penguin Repertory, and HRC Showcase Theatre in New York; Victory Gardens, Prop Thtr, and Stage Left in Chicago; Theatricum Botanicum, Grove Theatre Center, and Circus Theatricals in Los Angeles; the Ashland New Plays Festival in Oregon; and the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference in Idaho.

SAVING GRACE (a dark comedy)
Jack, taught by his second grade nun that a perfect Confession just before death guarantees heaven, has intentionally lived as evil a life as he could imagine. As he now lies on his deathbed about to put his theory to the test, enter the soul-weary Father Gallagher to hear the most bizarre Confession of his career.