Play Directory

Synopsis:

We all know about the difficulty of coming out for young people, even in today’s more liberal environment.
But what about an older parent for whom coming out was an almost impossible option. What happens to a typical suburban middle class family when the seemingly straight father is sexually closeted the whole time, and tries to live a heterosexual lifestyle? How do decades of denial and sexual repression shape the dynamic between mother and sons? And how does it affect his favorite son and his relationship with women, and his mother? What starts as a casual dinner between father and son soon evolves into an explosive evening of discovery and painful revelations.

A rom-com about two sisters in their later years who find that sisterly love is as important as romantic love. Door slamming comedy turns serious when a lonely recent widow begins a relationship with her sisters ex-husband. Old wounds are reopened revealing a bond between husband and wife that has survived the years.

It’s Christmas Eve in Dikanka, and a blacksmith must find fancy shoes like those worn by the Czarina in the next few hours or lose the heart of his lady love. But when the Devil comes to town, will he give up his soul for a sole?

When an African-American demands a distant European-American pay him reparations for the benefits derived from slavery, painful histories are revealed.

1968 is the story on one town, and four families, propped up by one factory, that is being squeezed by both the factory and the fact the town is a cancer cluster that is slowly killing its citizens.

Play regards the complete dissolution of a family because its members are not willing or able to forgive each other.

My father was a sportscaster and this is his career through my eyes and my appreciation of it and my own discovery along the way.

Corky's magic show career was going no where and once his mentor, Merlin, died, he disappeared for many years only to return with a new ventriloquist act. At the height of his success, he may have found the love of his life but he loses sight of who controls the dummy and who controls the ventriloquist.

Unsweet Perdition is an abstract science fiction play in two acts. The action takes place within a Dam, which is very much a character in this piece. This play is written in the genre of the “New Weird”. It aims to create an augmented reality piece where the character’s dreams, presence, and true motivations are visible on a heightened scale.