Two years ago Lamarre decided to try his hand again with his own characters and wrote “Stool,” about a Midwestern couple who stumble into an elite New York art gallery that has only one item, a chair, on display.  This short comedy was selected for the inaugural New Works New Britain and was a top ten finalist for the 2009 New York 15 Minute Play Festival.

For his latest work, a full length play for and about adults, Lamarre took his inspiration from a true story involving a friend of a friend, a woman who suffered from memory loss after an accident.

While not biographical, utilizing different characters and different circumstances, Lamarre crafted “Gray Matters” about a young actress Sarah Gray who finds herself with an Etch-a-Sketch for a brain, and, to complicate matters further, has no health insurance and no job. What does an actress do when she can’t remember lines?

Lamarre likes to percolate and marinate his theatrical ideas and then write quickly.  As a fast typist, he created “Gray Matters” in a week and is still “thinking and refining.”  Originally two and a half hours in length, he has pared it down to ninety minutes.

As part of the 2010 Midtown International Theater Festival in New York City, it has just been nominated for five awards:  outstanding playwriting for new scripts, lead actress and supporting actress, lighting and show marketing and advertising.