The York Theater produced SHYLOCK, Mr. Dixon’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s MERCHANT OF VENICE which garnered him a Drama Desk Nomination. Ed then went to Carnegie Mellon University as a visiting professor for the first mounting of PORTRAIT, his adaptation of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY.

At this point, Playwright’s Horizons became his artistic home, and he wrote CATHER COUNTY, an adaptation of short stories by Willa Cather, which was the success of the Playwright’s season and moved to Lyric Stage in Dallas where it received rave reviews and won the Leon Rabin Award for best new musical or play and was voted one of the ten best events in Dallas in 1998. While at Playwright’s he also wrote NORMA, a play for one person, which was performed by Carole Shelly. Playwrights also produced a reading of THE SPECTER BRIDEGROOM, from Washington Irving’s short story, and RICHARD CORY, which Ed wrote with A. R. Gurney, on a Steinburg Grant. RICHARD CORY was chosen by the O’Neill Center for their 1998 Festival where it attracted the Lyric Stage for its world premiere. The premiere of RICHARD CORY was met with rave reviews and was voted one of the ten best events in Dallas in the year 2000.  Producers Dennis Grimaldi and Nick Cavarra brought RICHARD CORY to the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival where it was awarded the Talkin’ Broadway Citation for Best Musical and won the Golden Nymfette Audience Award for one of the top three musicals. FANNY HILL is his most recent musical which was produced by the Goodspeed Opera at Chester.