Ron Bernas

In 1991 Ron was part of a writers group at the Grosse Pointe theatre in Michigan when he started work on the show that was destin to become "A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody."

"The ultimate goal" said Ron "was – if one was good enough – to have it presented on our main stage. We also wanted to enter all of our work into the Community Theatre Association of Michigan’s contest. The criteria for that was that the play had to have a small cast and would be easy to produce."

"I don’t know where the idea came from, just something silly I came up with. I used to watch a lot of the old screwball comedies of the ’30s and ’40s. I really like that humor – really intelligent people doing really stupid things. My play ended up being really stupid people doing really stupid things. When I started out, it was going to be much darker – a dark comedy – but it ended up much sillier. That was ok, though. I realized that sillier is better."

The show was first produced at Grosse Pointe Theatre in 1991. At that time it is the only original play to be produced on the Theatre’s main stage. It won the Community Theatre Association of Michigan's contest and was picked up by a publisher and has been produced all over the country, and also in Germany, Israel, Australia and Canada.

(Excerpts from an interview conducted by Cynthia Lambert Nehr in 2011)