MERRY NO�L, a Christmas story set in July, won Second Place at the Burien Playwright�s Contest, 2001 and the PEOPLE�S CHOICE AWARD from the South Sound Festival in 2003. It also received a staged reading for the South Sound Playwright�s Festival, 2001, and at the Playwright�s Circle in Palm Springs, California in 2002. Artistic Director, Marilee Warner-Riva, says of that performance, "MERRY NO�L went wonderfully! Everyone loved it! The actors were terrific! Comments were �clever, ingenious, unpredictable, etc.� - Really went over very, very well!"
One of Roger�s plays for children, UGLY DUCKLINGS, was produced by the North End Children�s Theater, Tacoma, Washington, in July of 2000. It toured around the city of Tacoma.
Roger has had another of his children�s plays performed for the Tacoma Public Schools. TO THE KING! is a short play loosely based on the history of Fort Nisqually, an historic Hudson�s Bay Company encampment of the mid 19th century. It has received several productions.
JASON�S TROUBLE, a narrative, was published in Pacific Lutheran University�s on line magazine, The Scene. His poetry is published in Saxifrage.
When not writing, Mr. Iverson directs and performs in local theatre. He teachers fourth grade in Tacoma where he lives with his violinist wife and their four beautiful children.