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Jeannene Bragg Bio

  • The Hundred Steps, a ten-minute play. A performance piece which explores the relationship between an 18th century reverend and his reluctant wife who comes too close to the edge.
  • The Haunting, a ten-minute play. Lyrical portraits with an otherworldly edge.
  • Caged, a ten-minute play. An unconventional staging of the story of a woman who comes face-to-face with a stalker.
  • Overheard on the Tower Lawn, a ten-minute play. Just after the stroke of the executioner’s axe, what does Anne Boleyn’s head have to say to her body?
  • Dressed to Kill, a one-page play. Snapshot of a modern woman as she dresses for work.
  • Family Portrait, a ten-minute play. An intimate look into the life of King Henry’s last wife, Katherine Parr, brought to life by a “living” family portrait.
  • Baggage, a ten-minute play. Experimental exploration of relationships when a sister leaves home.
  • Self Portrait, a ten-minute play. An artist comes to terms with voices of self-doubt.
  • Speed of Light, a one-act play. An astronomy teacher and his student reach out to one another.


Tami Canaday Bio

  • Liver for Dinner, a one-act play,One Act Play Depot. A comedy that satirizes a couple in a kitchen who uses liver and onions as a flirtatious marital glue.
  • Santa Tells a Story, a one-act play, One Act Play Depot. A comedy involving a garrulous, repetitive Santa Claus and a hapless man who becomes Santa’s captive audience.
  • No Longer a Maiden, a one-act play, One Act Play Depot. A young woman visits the all-seeing and all-knowing Madam Saboon for advice on finding the perfect serving dish for her spicy ground beef.
  • Imp of the Perverse, a one-act play, One Act Play Depot. A confrontation between a peeping Tom and the dancer he’s been spying on examines their very human need for love and companionship.
  • The Suitcase, a one-act play. Captive in an isolated locale, Chris and Kelly engage in head games involving a valise.
  • Paula’s Visit, a one-act play, Smith and Krause. A psychiatrist does her best to convince her rather lively patient to go on medication.
  • Harmony & Marie, a full-length play. The tangled lives of two sisters hemorrhage in a motel room in Torrington, Wyoming.
  • Cindy’s Wobbling Waffle Wiffer, a full-length play. How is Cindy able to live in rural Nebraska and Santa Monica at the same time?
  • Uncle Rooster Stays Home, a full-length play. A political satire on Abu Ghraib. Uncle Rooster suspects Uncle Rabbit destroyed the garden patch.

William Missouri Downs Bio

  • Innocent Thoughts - winner of the National Playwrights Award
  • Jewish Sports Heroes and Texas Intellectuals which took first place at the Mill Mountain Theatre's Festival Of New Plays.
  • Kabuki Medea - winner of the Bay Area Critics Award for best production in San Francisco and the Jefferson Award for best production in Chicago
  • Seagulls In A Cherry Tree - winner of the Larry Corse Prize for playwriting and was produced at the 2006 Orlando Shakespeare Festival's PlayFest.

Books

  • Screenplay: Writing The Picture (co-author)
  • Naked Playwriting: The Art, The Craft and The Life Laid Bare (co-author)
  • Playwriting: From Formula To Form published by Harcourt.
  • Experiencing The Art Of Theatre & The Art Of Theatre - Then and Now published by Wadsworth.

Olivia Laney Edwards Bio

  • Strings, a full-length play. Five actresses play many different roles as they explore the emotions of motherhood in a play written with letters from contemporary mothers to their children.
  • Shutdown, a one-act play. When Angie “shuts down” in the hardware store parking lot, she depends on freewheeling buzzards and baggies filled with important things to give her strength to withstand the Queen and Rules.
  • All Tiny Kiss, a one-woman, one-act play. A daughter struggles
    with her mother’s Alzheimer’s disease in this lyrical and visually engaging play.
  • The Dinner Party, a ten-minute play. A rollicking dinner party of misunderstandings and understandings.
  • The Sentences, a ten-minute play. A very visual play in which we see, more than hear, the effect one sentence can have.
  • Shift, a long one-act play. A light look at the passage from life to death, the shift of 9/11 and then another look at death and life with strong visual elements.

Don Fried Bio

  • Shakespeare Incorporated, a full-length historical comedy. Who really wrote the works attributed to the Bard of Avon? Not the hopelessly untalented playwright wannabe William Shaksper. 
  • Postville, a humorous full-length drama about cultural conflict. When a group of Hasidic Jews comes to a struggling Iowa town to reopen the defunct meatpacking plant as a kosher facility, the locals think their troubles are over.
  • Present Future, a full-length farce. What do you do with presents from friends and family that you absolutely hate?
  • Red Herring, a full-length comedy murder mystery. An over-the-hill playwright plays dirty tricks on the uncooperative cast and crew of his comeback production. 
  • Senior Moments, five humorous ten-minute plays about senior citizens. Includes “The Code,” winner of the 2009 Front Range Playwrights’ Showcase.
  • (Not) At Home, three seriously funny one-act plays about cultural conflict.
  • The Debate, a fifteen-minute play. Darwin’s protégé, Thomas Huxley, comes to tell the great man about the famous Oxford Debate, but they engage in a heated debate of their own.
  • Tough Town, a four-minute comedy. A down-on-his-luck Wayne Newton tries to get a job as a Wayne Newton impersonator.
  • Young Mr. Hoover, a six-minute comedy. 12 year old J. Edgar is already displaying the disturbing personality traits that he kept through adulthood.

Patrick Gabridge Bio

  • Pieces of Whitey, a full-length play. A comedy about well-meaning white people.
  • Blinders, a full-length play. Two identical humans are about to become presidents of the United States. but one reporter tries to bring the truth to an unreceptive public.
  • God’s Voice, a full-length play. Betrayal, torture, murder, and the creation of the English Bible.
  • Reading the Mind of God, a full-length play. An intense battle of wills between an aging astronomer and the young man destined to eclipse him. 
  • The Three Great Loves of Christopher J. Tomaski, a one-act play. Chris is caught in a tug-of-war between his mother, his girlfriend, and the ghost of his dead sister.
  • The Prisoner of St. Pierre, a one-act play. The story of the sole survivor of one of the 20th century’s worst natural disasters. 
  • Insomnia, a ten-minute play. Mary’s struggles with the pressures of motherhood produce an intense, lyrical, sleepless night.
  • Quiet, a ten-minute play. Friction between a landlord and tenant over noise transforms into an intense competition for silence.
  • Measuring Matthew, a ten-minute play. A quirky romantic comedy of neuroses and obsession.


Judy GeBauer Bio

  • Reclaimed, a full-length play published by Playscripts, Inc. A woman returns to white society after two years in captivity among the Sioux and finds herself unwelcome in her own culture.
  • The Nip and The Bite, a one-act play, Broadway Play Publishing. Border violence is examined in this tale of a divorced father who moonlights as an assassin for the government.
  • The Secret Earth, a short one-act comedy, Playscripts, Inc. A couple’s evening is thrown into chaos when a friend reveals that his pet monkey has died.
  • A Young Housewife, a short one-woman performance piece, Playscripts, Inc. A farm wife falls slowly into despair as she faces the murder she has committed and the violence which has always surrounded her.
  • Tricker Treat, a short one-act play, Playscripts, Inc. Surreal events in a vacant house for sale. A ghostly couple relieve their youth while a tricker or treating presence haunts them.
  • Good Night, Valsetz, a ten-minute play, Playscripts, Inc. A youth returns to his logging town home to watch it bulldozed and has a brief, bittersweet reunion with his estranged family and the sister he tried to kill.
  • A Holmes Family Christmas, a ten-minute play, Playscripts, Inc. A comic riff on the Conan Doyle detective has Holmes dressed as Santa facing off with a mysterious woman, aided by his faithful Watson and a suspicious Christmas gift.
  • A Pair of Eyes, The Elvis Monologues, Heinemann. A middle-aged waitress looks just how her infatuation with Elvis shaped her life.
  • A Catcher to His Pitcher, Baseball Monologues, Heinemann. A bullpen catcher tries to calm down a young relief pitcher about to go into a playoff game.
  • Someday There’ll Be Roads, On the Road, Heinemann. A letter which may never be delivered from a desperate wife crossing the plains with her husband.
  • Advice to the Ingenue, On the Road, Heinemann. Leading lady gives the new ingenue the straight dope as they set out on a bus and truck tour of the U.S.A.


Joan Golden Bio

  • The Half World, a one-act play. A young woman looks at prostitution and survival in Denver in 1903.
  • Percussion Discussion, a ten-minute play. A jazzy stage exercise on how words sound as well as what they mean. 
  • Equinox, a ten-minute play. A prehistoric shaman smackdown determines who will bring Spring.


Ellen K. Graham Bio

  • What the Good Man Does Is Always Right, a one-act play. A man goes shopping for a birthday gift, losing everything along the way.
  • Beauty Is That Medusa’s Head, a ten-minute play. A strange encounter in the woods seals the fate of a young man out to seek his fortune.
  • The Axe Man, a full-length play. Two sisters play house in the wake of their parents’ deaths.
  • The Hundred Nails, a one-act play. A daughter attempts to settle her family’s debts once and for all.
  • The Night Season, a full-length play. An accounting clerk’s stable life is knocked off course when her survivalist sister comes to stay.
  • Genius of Love, a full-length play. A traveling nurse with strange appetites brings a small town under his spell.


Steve Hunter Bio

  • Path to Ground, a full-length play. A young Hispanic seeks his rightful heritage in the Colorado land wars.
  • Watching Cranes, a full-length play. Set in the San Juan Islands of Washington State, a would-be poet finds the fulfillment he didn’t know he was looking for.
  • Mooncalf and Silverheels, a full-length and a one-act version. A fanciful tale of ghosts in frontier Colorado.
  • A Pleasant Madman, a one-act play. The poet Ezra Pound is tried for treason by the United States.
  • Murphy’s Elk, a one-act play. A writer learns hard lessons about life in a remote cabin.
  • R.S.V.P., a ten-minute play. A beautiful but neglected woman’s monologue to a dressmaker’s dummy.
  • Precious Lamb, a ten-minute play. A handicapped young man’s confession.
  • Goodbye, Richard, a ten-minute play. At a graveside, two friends uncover a secret which drives them apart.


Leroy Leonard Bio

  • Monkey Men, a full-length play. A play in two acts which explores the famous Piltdown Hoax.
  • Hush, Mrs. Gallegos, a one-act play. A forty-minute one-act comedy about a man who unwillingly learns from a jabbering cactus what it means to connect to the world around him.
  • Assorted Endings, a ten-minute play. A romp that has no beginning and no middle, but lots of wild finishes.
  • Found Oasis, a ten-minute play. A passionate woman preserves the ashes of her beloved in her breast implants and then meets the man of her dreams.


Tracy Shaffer Witherspoon Bio

  • (W)hole, a full-length play. An artist’s life is torn apart when a manipulative model comes to sit for her. Some people will do anything to fill the hole, others to be so.
  • What We Don’t Know, a one-act play. A new bride comes to meet her new in-laws and finds they have a haunting past. Funny and disturbingly serious, the play explores the things we hide from one another, some that have the power to kill.
  • Saints & Hysterics, a full-length play. Best friends Cate and Grace come to an impasse after years of mutual dependency. A poignant look at loyalties, love and estrogen.
  • American In Hiding, a full-length play. When a college professor’s need for free speech gets him in hot water, he and his family take refuge in Holland. His appetite for the spotlight lands him in a place of no return as his ego wreaks havoc.
 
     

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