Category: Stage/Screen Writing

  • The Water of Life

      CHARACTERS:   LEAH           a preacher’s kid and recent high school graduate; female   CARRIE         her slightly older secret girlfriend; female     TIME:          the end of summer     PLACE:         a church attic A candlelit church attic. Amid scattered relics (a stray pew or two, dusty stacks of old hymnals, and so…

  • Cardiomyopathy

    A waiting room at a hospital. Three people (A, B, and C) are sprawled out, waiting. It should be noted that none of these characters are gender specific, and may be cast in any way, though they have all been denoted as “she,” for simplicity and also as a sort of a screw-you to the…

  • Toxic

    INT. BUNKER – LIVING SPACE – ARMCHAIR – DAY A woman’s face. Dry. Brittle. Slack and distorted in death. This was once FAY, 30s. Now it’s just a corpse. ALICE (V.O.) It was two days after my 16th birthday when my mother died. ALICE, 16, scrawny yet hopeful, with all the whimsy of her fairy…

  • JB in Detox

    CAST JOHN BERRYMAN (JB):  Professor, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, alcoholic MR. BONES: Dream Songs protagonist Henry’s alter ego; a minstrel NURSE BERRYMAN SENIOR (JB’s father) RODERICK MARSH: A counselor to alcoholics; former student of JB   SCENE The detox ward of a hospital in Minneapolis, circa. 1970 Bare stage, except for a stool   AT…

  • W.M.D.

    Persons Represented:  Wheeler Bledsoe- A 30 + year old, male African-American surveillance technician.  Richard Kawaler – A 50 + year old, white male surveillance technician  Lydia Kirylenko – A 30 – 35 year old female, a trained actress who has also worked in “gentleman’s clubs” and has been recruited as a surveillance special agent.  Frank…

  • KENNEDY’S ACOLYTES

    A full-length play with six women – nine without doubling by JACK GILHOOLEY On the the evening of November 22, 1963 in rural Western Ireland, three mid-teen-age girls grapple with the news that U.S. President John F. Kennedy has just been assassinated. Fifty years later the three reconnoiter at the same – but different –…

  • KENNEDY’S ACOLYTES

    A full-length play with six women – nine without doubling by JACK GILHOOLEY On the the evening of November 22, 1963 in rural Western Ireland, three mid-teen-age girls grapple with the news that U.S. President John F. Kennedy has just been assassinated. Fifty years later the three reconnoiter at the same – but different –…

  • A KIND OF MARRIAGE

    E.M. Forster, the great British novelist and champion of individual liberty and responsibility lived a homosexual life concealed from the public eye. In 1931, at the age of 52, Forster takes as his lover, a young London policeman Bob Buckingham who in turn begins a passionate relationship with a young nurse, May Hockey. Forster, along…

  • KHALASS (ENOUGH)

    Characters: Sara–American woman, 20-40 years old. Khalid-Egyptian man, 20-40 years old Setting: The top of the great pyramid of Egypt. Full moon. Time: Night. (Night. Full moon. On top of the Great Pyramid of Egypt. Spooky and beautiful at the same time. The top of the pyramid is an uneven surface of worn stone blocks,…