plays
THE OFFICE OF SUPERVILLAIN RECRUITING was performed at the Woodlawn Theatre as part of TheatreASAP on September 21, 2012.
"The Office of Supervillain Recruiting" is included in my collection ONE ACT PLAYS.
"The Office of Supervillain Recruiting" is included in my collection ONE ACT PLAYS.
CLOWNTIME IS OVER (2014)
Max P. Twinkle is a television clown trapped in an existential quandary with a bitter llama and a loveless bunny rabbit. There will be jokes, and love, and death, and entrances and exits. CLOWNTIME IS OVER was first performed at the Overtime Theater in San Antonio, Texas, from January 10 to February 8, 2014. The production was directed by Edward Wise II and starred Chris Kelly, Brennan Loy, Kylah McCoy, and Justin Bankston.
REVIEWS AND LINKS
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS NEWS: "In a brisk hour of interplay and hopscotch, with Max waxing through various emotional states as the animals try to find common ground, this...smoothly touches on themes and forms that are familiar mainly because they're eternal."
Broadway World interview with Overtime artistic director William Razavi
Max P. Twinkle is a television clown trapped in an existential quandary with a bitter llama and a loveless bunny rabbit. There will be jokes, and love, and death, and entrances and exits. CLOWNTIME IS OVER was first performed at the Overtime Theater in San Antonio, Texas, from January 10 to February 8, 2014. The production was directed by Edward Wise II and starred Chris Kelly, Brennan Loy, Kylah McCoy, and Justin Bankston.
REVIEWS AND LINKS
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS NEWS: "In a brisk hour of interplay and hopscotch, with Max waxing through various emotional states as the animals try to find common ground, this...smoothly touches on themes and forms that are familiar mainly because they're eternal."
Broadway World interview with Overtime artistic director William Razavi
CLOWNTIME IS OVER (2015)
CLOWNTIME IS OVER was next produced by MadLab in Columbus, Ohio, from August 20 to September 5, 2015. The production was directed by Andy Batt. The MadLab production received five Theatre Roundtable Award nominations, including Outstanding Production, as well as Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. It won one, for Makeup Design.
The play was written up in the Columbus Dispatch.
Reviews were excellent:
COLUMBUS DISPATCH: Theater review | ‘Clowntime’: Surreal production resonates in heart and mind
LIFE FULL OF CHEESE: "Clowntime is Over defies classification in a way; it’s as challenging as you want it to be. It’s a very dark comedy one minute, a heartbreaking drama the next, and then it all appears to be some sort of existentialist exercise...I laughed out loud, cringed a bit, and thought a lot; what more can I ask for from theatre?"
COLUMBUS UNDERGROUND: "Andy Batt has to carry this, on stage for every moment of its run-time, and he’s a revelation – he takes everything the audience knows about sad clowns and alternately leans into and away from that. His is a staggering portrait of a man who finds “the smallest are the most favored” starts to seem like a lie eventually and that your soul can’t always be fed on the laughter of others. Not only that, but this portrait is painted with clockwork-perfect physical comedy. It’s a tour de force I’ll be thinking about for a while."
SCREEN OF DISTANCE: "Slapstick and one-liners and pathos on a twisted mobius strip of daily routine, this was my favorite piece MadLab staged all year and the “guest appearance” of Stephen Woosley’s Paco the Mouse might have been the hardest I laughed."
CLOWNTIME IS OVER was next produced by MadLab in Columbus, Ohio, from August 20 to September 5, 2015. The production was directed by Andy Batt. The MadLab production received five Theatre Roundtable Award nominations, including Outstanding Production, as well as Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. It won one, for Makeup Design.
The play was written up in the Columbus Dispatch.
Reviews were excellent:
COLUMBUS DISPATCH: Theater review | ‘Clowntime’: Surreal production resonates in heart and mind
LIFE FULL OF CHEESE: "Clowntime is Over defies classification in a way; it’s as challenging as you want it to be. It’s a very dark comedy one minute, a heartbreaking drama the next, and then it all appears to be some sort of existentialist exercise...I laughed out loud, cringed a bit, and thought a lot; what more can I ask for from theatre?"
COLUMBUS UNDERGROUND: "Andy Batt has to carry this, on stage for every moment of its run-time, and he’s a revelation – he takes everything the audience knows about sad clowns and alternately leans into and away from that. His is a staggering portrait of a man who finds “the smallest are the most favored” starts to seem like a lie eventually and that your soul can’t always be fed on the laughter of others. Not only that, but this portrait is painted with clockwork-perfect physical comedy. It’s a tour de force I’ll be thinking about for a while."
SCREEN OF DISTANCE: "Slapstick and one-liners and pathos on a twisted mobius strip of daily routine, this was my favorite piece MadLab staged all year and the “guest appearance” of Stephen Woosley’s Paco the Mouse might have been the hardest I laughed."
THE VAPOURS (2016)
Cristabel Cuellar visits a lonely town in the Pacific Northwest ostensibly to investigate an auto accident, but is in fact looking for signs of the Hollow Earth. Her claimant, Judith, has been having nightmares of a devilish figure who takes her on a tour of the Underworld. Together they go on a journey that will change their lives forever. THE VAPOURS covers esoteric territory in the context of a thriller in which digging too deeply may uncover literal monsters.
THE VAPOURS was first performed at the Overtime Theater in San Antonio, Texas, from May 13 to June 11, 2016. The production was directed by Edward Wise II and featured Liz Vermuelen, Gina Hughes, Venny Mortimer, Chris Kelly, & Nicholas Lemos.
Gina Hughes went on to become a regular on the Netflix series Special.
REVIEWS
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS: "It's a compelling show that allows the audience to work out the central mysteries for themselves, leaving them plenty to chew over."
Cristabel Cuellar visits a lonely town in the Pacific Northwest ostensibly to investigate an auto accident, but is in fact looking for signs of the Hollow Earth. Her claimant, Judith, has been having nightmares of a devilish figure who takes her on a tour of the Underworld. Together they go on a journey that will change their lives forever. THE VAPOURS covers esoteric territory in the context of a thriller in which digging too deeply may uncover literal monsters.
THE VAPOURS was first performed at the Overtime Theater in San Antonio, Texas, from May 13 to June 11, 2016. The production was directed by Edward Wise II and featured Liz Vermuelen, Gina Hughes, Venny Mortimer, Chris Kelly, & Nicholas Lemos.
Gina Hughes went on to become a regular on the Netflix series Special.
REVIEWS
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS: "It's a compelling show that allows the audience to work out the central mysteries for themselves, leaving them plenty to chew over."
EINSTEIN'S WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING (2022)
This play is based on true events, possibly true events, and blatantly untrue events. The year is 1956, and Princeton autopsist Thomas Harvey just decided to steal Einstein's brain. That decision now has him on the lam from both the authorities and a group of neo-Nazis led by a woman who may or may not be related to the Elephant Man. And now he just found out his new roommate is the heroin-addicted Beat writer William S. Burroughs. What will he do next? Will it make sense? Will it involve getting help from some of the most famous figures of the 20th century?
This play strikes at the very heart of these questions and more. EINSTEIN'S WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING may make you laugh, make you cry, make you
reconsider every thought you've ever had since reaching the age of reason. Or not. Let's not get crazy with our expectations.
SAN ANTONIO SENTINEL article
CAST (in order of appearance)
Der Elefant: Meaghan Setterbo
Ernst: Josh Molnar
Tom: Austin Escobedo
Bill (William S. Burroughs): Sean Wilson
Otto: Jeffery Hensel
Ally: Jessica Roberts
Bruno: Donnie Martin
Groucho Marx: Kurt Wilkinson
Eleanor Roosevelt: Florence Bunten
Aleister Crowley: Chris Champlin
CREATIVE TEAM
Director: Kareem Abu Dahab
Asst. Director: Ida Steele
Stage Manager: Gina Schneider
Writer: Joseph E. Green
PERFORMANCES
July 15th – August 6th, 2022
Einstein's Wrong About Everything was nominated for Best New Play (2022) by the website Broadway World.
BROADWAY WORLD: "...a hilarious adventure with intelligent writing."
This play is based on true events, possibly true events, and blatantly untrue events. The year is 1956, and Princeton autopsist Thomas Harvey just decided to steal Einstein's brain. That decision now has him on the lam from both the authorities and a group of neo-Nazis led by a woman who may or may not be related to the Elephant Man. And now he just found out his new roommate is the heroin-addicted Beat writer William S. Burroughs. What will he do next? Will it make sense? Will it involve getting help from some of the most famous figures of the 20th century?
This play strikes at the very heart of these questions and more. EINSTEIN'S WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING may make you laugh, make you cry, make you
reconsider every thought you've ever had since reaching the age of reason. Or not. Let's not get crazy with our expectations.
SAN ANTONIO SENTINEL article
CAST (in order of appearance)
Der Elefant: Meaghan Setterbo
Ernst: Josh Molnar
Tom: Austin Escobedo
Bill (William S. Burroughs): Sean Wilson
Otto: Jeffery Hensel
Ally: Jessica Roberts
Bruno: Donnie Martin
Groucho Marx: Kurt Wilkinson
Eleanor Roosevelt: Florence Bunten
Aleister Crowley: Chris Champlin
CREATIVE TEAM
Director: Kareem Abu Dahab
Asst. Director: Ida Steele
Stage Manager: Gina Schneider
Writer: Joseph E. Green
PERFORMANCES
July 15th – August 6th, 2022
Einstein's Wrong About Everything was nominated for Best New Play (2022) by the website Broadway World.
BROADWAY WORLD: "...a hilarious adventure with intelligent writing."
THE COCKSUCKING MOTHERFUCKERS (2022)
This is a one-act play that was performed as part of a Christmas anthology called STOCKING STUFFERS. It was directed by Jeffrey Hensel.
This play is also collected in my own ONE ACT PLAYS.
CAST
Jana Drew
Scott Leibowitz
Nicholas Villarreal
River Wellborn
PERFORMANCES
December 9th – December 31st, 2022
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm
Sunday December 11th and 18th at 3 pm
No shows Christmas Eve or Christmas Day
This is a one-act play that was performed as part of a Christmas anthology called STOCKING STUFFERS. It was directed by Jeffrey Hensel.
This play is also collected in my own ONE ACT PLAYS.
CAST
Jana Drew
Scott Leibowitz
Nicholas Villarreal
River Wellborn
PERFORMANCES
December 9th – December 31st, 2022
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm
Sunday December 11th and 18th at 3 pm
No shows Christmas Eve or Christmas Day
films
Co-writer and co-producer
KING KILL 63
Research and script consultant
DALLAS IN WONDERLAND
Research consultant
THE SEARCHERS (2017)
KING KILL 63
Research and script consultant
DALLAS IN WONDERLAND
Research consultant
THE SEARCHERS (2017)
