List of 2026 productions
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in Productions on October 5, 2026
January 9: HIT THE BOOKS (one-act), Mukwonago Drama Club, Mukwonago, Wisconsin
January 22: THE FRUITCAKE (one-act), Kellam High School, Virginia Beach, Virginia
January 25: HIT THE BOOKS (one-act), Warroad Public School, Warroad, Minnesota
May 8-10: HATPINS (full-length), Williamson and Maury Theatre, Spring Hill, Tennessee
May 20: THE ANGEL TREE (one-act), De La Salle University, Manila, The Phillipines
May 28-30: A MOST HORRID CONSPIRACY (full-length), Attic Productions, Fincastle, Virginia
July 4: THE BUS TO THE VYATLAG CORRECTIVE LABOR CAMP (10-minute), Overnight Sensations 24-hour play festival, Hollins University/Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke, Virginia.
Sept. 10-12, 24-26: BUZZARDS (short play), Asphalt Jungle Shorts Festival, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
My 13th Overnight Sensations: ‘The Bus to the Vylatlag Corrective Labor Camp’
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions on October 5, 2026
For the 13th time, I took part as a writer in Overnight Sensations, the 24-hour play festival sponsored by Hollins University in conjunction with Mill Mountaini Theatre. This year’s effort (over July 3-4) resulted in “THE BUS TO THE VYATLAG CORRECTIVE LABOR CAMP,” a love story on a public bus. To make it interesting, that bus was a bus to a woman’s prison in the 1953 Soviet Union. Gotta have a twist, man.
‘The Angel Tree’ produced in The Philippines
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions on October 5, 2026
My one-act ‘The Angel Tree’ was produced bythe student group Teatro Lasalyano at the at the Natividad Fajardo Auditorium, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines on May 2026.
‘A Most Horrid Conspiracy’ produced in Virginia
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions on October 5, 2026
“A Most Horrid Conspiracy” is short (hour-long) play based on a true story about how a barrelmaker from Virginia named John Wyatt became a spy during the American Revolution and infilitrated a nest of Tory sympathizers who were planning an uprising. The title comes from a letter that a local militia leader sent to then-Gov. Thomas Jefferson to describe what had been uncovered. It’s a two-person script with Wyatt and his granddaughter years later.
The show was produced by Attic Productions in Fincastle, Virginia in May 2026.
‘Hatpins’ premieres in Tennessee
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions on October 5, 2026
My full-script script ‘Hatpins’ was produced in eary May 2026 by the Williamson and Maury Theatre in Spring Hill, Tennessee, just south of Nashville. It’s about how in the early 1900s some cities tried to ban hatpins because women were using them as weapons in self-defense.
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Posted by Dwayne Yancey in Photos, Productions on October 27, 2025
About a month ago I got a call from Mary Jean Levin, an actress in Roanoke who also has some ties to the Taubman Museum of Fine Art. The museum was planning a gala to open a new exhibit on American art and was looking for a short play as part of the festitivies. The catch: It needed to match the theme and needed to fit into a small space. I set to work and the result was “Investigation of Mourning,” about late 19th century mourning customs and a growing belief in the supernatural.
Katerina Yancey directed, with a cast of Barry Bedwell, Sherilyn Lawson, Brian Lee and Mary Jean Levin.
From left: Mary Jean Levin as the Widow Haversham, Sherilyn Lawson as the medium and Brian Lee as the con man Professor Picadilly.
Brian Bedwell emerges, proving that James Haversham isn’t dead at all.
Overnight Sensations festival produces ‘The Enduring Mystery of Alexander Fairweather’
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in Photos, Productions on October 27, 2025
For the 12th time, I took part in July in the Overnight Sensations 24-hour play festival at Hollins University in Roanoke. Here’s director Linsee Lewis drawing our cast. The result was “The Enduring Mystery of Alexander Fairweather,” a ghost story set in an attic.
List of 2025 productions
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions on December 25, 2024
- January 17: HIT THE BOOKS (one-act), Cleveland High School, Cleveland, Tennessee
- April 24: HIT THE BOOKS (one-act), Manchester Community College, Epping, New Hampshire
- May: RHONDA’S HIGH-CLASS ROADKILL CHILI (full-length), Crimora Players, Crimora, Virginia
- June 27: ONE-WORD MACBETH (one-act), The Jester’s Court Players, Ridgway, Colorado
- July: THE ENDURING MYSTERY OF ALEXANDER FAIRWEATHER (10-minute), Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia.
- October 25: INVESTIGATION OF MOURNING (ten-minute), Taubman Museum of Fine Art, Roanoke, Virginia.
‘The Fruitcake’ produced in Missouri
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions on December 25, 2024
Perry County Middle School in Perryville, Missouri produced THE FRUITCAKE in December. Director Robbie Riehn said he had so many students he had two different casts. Here’s a story about the production in the local newspaper.
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‘On The Thirteenth Day of Christmas’ produced in Colorado
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions on December 25, 2024
Bayfield High School in Bayfield, Colorado produced ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS in December 2024.
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