The 25th Vermont Playwrights Award Winner

Tim McEnroe ~ "Seeking Mischief"

Author Tim McEnroe has had a long career in corporate and non-profit public relations, politics and journalism and is a co-author of three books on ethics for social workers. He was born in Fargo , North Dakota , and moved to Washington , D.C. , as a Page in the United States Senate at age 11. He is a graduate of Capitol Page School and Georgetown University . He founded a public relations and advocacy agency in Washington after a time as a reporter there for United Press International. He tired of Washington after three decades there and moved to Cincinnati where he lived for many years, part of the time with the then-Federated Department Stores (now Macy’s) as vice president/public relations and urban affairs. After leaving Federated he ran non-partisan money-raising campaigns in Cincinnati for a number of public institutions including the city itself for which he managed the only successful campaign there to raise earnings taxes. He wrote speeches for business and political leaders in Cincinnati and Washington and was a Sunday columnist for the Cincinnati Enquirer.

He and his wife moved from Cincinnati to California and spent six years there freelancing before moving to Maine in 2002. He has three children and two step-children.

The Play

“Seeking Mischief” is about love. Gerald and his wife Etty arrive for a much-postponed visit to his mother and stepfather at their ocean-front mansion. Each of the major characters has a transformational secret which is revealed to the others during the play. The two women--Lily and Etty--are continuing a battle for Gerald's body and soul that has been going on for many years. The men--Gerald and Steven--are trying to wrest their lives from the control of their wives. All are in search of love and needy for it, but to be loved, one must be loving and none of them has the capacity to do so, at least at the start. The sudden appearance of two guests--one expected and one not--trigger the revelations that are to come and force the major characters to face their want and need for love.