Dwayne Yancey
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Where I’ve been produced: 48 states, 7 provinces, 18 countries
Posted in Productions, Uncategorized on July 10, 2019
Here’s the list of states where I’ve been produced (this also includes productions that are scheduled).
The current count: 48 states, 7 Canadian provinces and 18 countries.
The states I’m missing: Hawaii and New Hampshire.
The provinces I’m missing:New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Quebec.
Current through Dec. 31, 2024
AMERICAN STATES: 48
Alabama 4 one-acts
Alaska 1 ten-minute
Arizona 5 one-acts
Arkansas 1 one-act
California 8 one-acts plus 5 ten-minute plus 3 short play
Colorado 2 one-act plus 2 ten-minute plus 4 full-lengths
Connecticut 2 one-acts plus 3 ten-minute
Delaware 3 10-minute
District of Columbia: 1 one-act plus 2 full-length
Florida 19 one-acts plus 5 ten-minute plus 4 shorts plus 1 full-length
Georgia 8 one-acts plus 1 full-length
Hawaii 0
Idaho 1 one-act
Illinois 13 one-acts plus 3 ten-minute plus 2 full-length
Indiana 3 one-acts plus 1 ten-minute
Iowa 3 one-acts
Kansas 5 one-acts
Kentucky 6 one-acts plus 1 full-length (counting virtual production that originated here) and 1 ful-length staged reading
Louisiana 5 one-acts plus 3 ten-minute
Maine 5 one-acts, 1 10-minute
Maryland 9 one-acts plus 7 ten-minute plus 1 full-length reading
Massachusetts 8 one-acts plus 5 ten-minute
Michigan 7 one-acts plus 4 ten-minute plus 2 full-length
Minnesota 11 one-acts plus 4 ten-minute plus 1 full-length plus 1 one-minute plus 1 full-length reading
Mississippi 2 one-act
Missouri 6 one-acts plus 1 short play
Montana 4 one-acts plus 1 full-length
Nebraska 15 one-acts plus 2 one-acts
Nevada 3 one-acts
New Hampshire 0
New Jersey 6 one-acts plus 1 full-length plus 2 ten-minute plus 3 short plays plus 1 full-length
New Mexico 3 one-acts
New York 4 one-acts plus 9 ten-minute plus 2 short play plus multiple one-minutes (lost count)
North Carolina 12 one-acts plus 4 ten-minute plus 1 full-length
North Dakota 8 one-acts plus 2 ten-minute
Ohio 14 one-acts plus 8 ten-minute plus 2 full-length
Oklahoma 8 one-acts plus 1 10-minute
Oregon 4 one-acts plus 1 full-length
Pennsylvania 8 one-acts plus 4 ten-minutes plus 1 one-minute plus 1 full-length
Rhode Island 1 one-act
South Carolina 7 one-acts
South Dakota 6 one-acts
Tennessee 7 one-acts
Texas 22 one-acts plus 6 ten-minute plus 2 one-minute
Utah 2 one-acts plus 2 full-length (this includes a classroom reading)
Vermont 1 one-act
Virginia 42 one-acts plus 16 ten-minute plus 10 full-lengths
Washington 12 one-acts plus 9 ten-minute
West Virginia 5 one-acts plus 3 ten-minute
Wisconsin 10 one-acts plus 1 full-length
Wyoming 1 one-act plus 1 full-length
CANADIAN PROVINCES: 7 provinces
Alberta 1 one-act
British Columbia 2 one-act
Manitoba 2 one-acts
New Brunswick 0
Newfoundland and Labrador 1
Nova Scotia 1 one-act
Ontario 5 one-act plus 2 ten-minute (and many shorter) plus 1 full-length reading
Prince Edward Island 0
Quebec 0
Saskatchewan 5 one-acts
COUNTRIES WHERE I’VE BEEN PRODUCED: 17
Australia 2 one-acts plus 2 10-minute plus 1 full-length
Cameroon
Canada
Germany
Great Britain — multiple short pieces plus 2 full-lengths
Hong Kong/China
India
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Mexico
New Zealand
The Philippines
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
United States
Photos from ‘The Contact Lens’ in Pennsylvania
Posted in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 18, 2019
Photos from shorts on Long Island
Posted in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on May 30, 2019
The Ghost Lamp
Four of my short scripts were produced in April by the Babylon Arts Council, Lindenhurst, New York: DEEP INTO OCTOBER, FIREBALLER, THE GHOST LAMP and THE UNIFORM. Three of those deal with baseball so I’m not sure from the photos which ones are which but this is definitely THE GHOST LAMP.
Photos: ‘Curiosity Killed The Cat’ in Ohio
Posted in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on May 24, 2019
Summit Academy in Xenia, Ohio produced my one-act CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT on May 23, 2019. Here are photos.
Curiosity and the private investigator.
Curtain call!
Review for ‘The Debate At Bosworth Field’
Posted in News, Reviews, Uncategorized on May 15, 2019
My 10-play play THE DEBATE AT BOSWORTH FIELD just got a very nice review on the New Play Exchange:
“A delightful historical romp! Like Monty Python meets the History Channel – What fun characters, and cracking dialogue. Yancey’s imaginative set-up finds us out on Bosworth Field – the declarative WIN for Lancaster over York, duh – in this all-too-relevant satire. Thank you to this bold author for stuffing a short play with tons of characters! It’s hilarious, with all the farcical strings pulling in criss-crossing dimensions. You can say a ten-minute play can only have 2-3 characters, but then you wouldn’t have this epically hilarious gem! No wonder it was recently selected for a competitive festival. It’s a hoot.”
— Rachael Carnes
The festival she references is the Fight Like a Girl festival in Manchester, Great Britain in August (it’s a fund-raiser for cancer research). Here’s a synopsis:
THE DEBATE AT BOSWORTH FIELD
Imagine if Richard III and Henry Tudor had met in a campaign-style debate instead. This time, Richard wins. Cast: 8 – 5 male, 2 female, 1 non-gender.
Review for ‘That Play About the Gurgling Mud Pit’
Posted in News, Reviews, Uncategorized on May 9, 2019
My 10-minute play THAT PLAY ABOUT THE GURGLING MUD PIT has gotten this nice review on the New Play Exchange:
“We’re not sucking the audience into a gurgling mud pit.” Yancey wholeheartedly embraces his meta concept and, in doing so, shines the spotlight on crucial theatrical positions in a very appealing way. It’s a scream as we learn more and more about the gurgling mud pit play, and the crew reacts to each bit of new information. A very good way to inform the audience about the hidden heroes who bring shows together, and an excellent way to celebrate all that goes into a production. ”
— Matthew Weaver
THAT PLAY ABOUT THE GURGLING MUD PIT
A director tries to explain a new play to the crew. Opinions vary. A meta-play about theatre. Cast: Five – all non-gender.
* Scheduled to be produced by The 10-10 New Plays Festival, Chagrin Valley Little Theatre, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, June-July 2019.
Photo from ‘The Ring’ in Geneva, New York
Posted in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on May 4, 2019
Staged reading of THE RING
Here’s a photo of the staged reading of my one-act THE RING at Geneva Theatre Guild in Geneva, New York in April 2019. That same script is also having a staged reading in Louisiana in both April and May.
THE RING
Sixty years after a close call in a state championship girls basketball game, the star of the losing team still can’t reconcile herself to losing — so she breaks into the home of the star player on the winning team, hoping to steal her championship ring. A poignant story about regrets and sportsmanship. Cast: Two senior females.
* Produced by Haylofters, Burlington, Wisconsin, May 2014; took second place in audience vote at one-act festival.
* Staged reading by Readers Repertory Theatre at San Pedro, Los Angeles, February 2015.
* Staged reading by Geneva Theatre Guild, Geneva, New York, April 26-28, 2019.
* Staged reading by The Itinerant Theatre, Lake Charles, Louisiana, April 27-28, May 3-4, May 24-26, 2019.
Now produced in 13 countries
Posted in News, Productions, Uncategorized on May 4, 2019
This month (May 2019), my ten-minute play CHEF PIERRE DOES NOT DO SIMPLE is being produced in Kaiserslautern, Germany by KMC Onstage Studio Shows (which is affiliated with the U.S. Army; I believe this is at an Army base there).
This makes the 13th country in which my work has been produced.
The full list, in alphabetical order:
1. Australia (including one full-length script)
2. Cameroon
3. Canada
4. Germany
5. Great Britain
6. India
7. Ireland
8. New Zealand
9. The Philippines
10. Singapore
11. South Africa
12. South Korea
13. The United States (including seven full-length scripts)
Rehearsal photos from ‘Veronica’s Dolls’ in Texas
Posted in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on April 26, 2019
Paris Junior College in Paris, Texas is producing my short one-act VERONICA’S DOLLS, along with five other scripts of mine (!). VERONICA’S DOLLS involves some dolls coming to life to rescue their now-teenage owner, who has overdosed in a suicide attempt. One of the dolls uses the girl’s cellphone to call 911. If you’re using humans to play dolls, then you need a phone scaled accordingly. And director Lisa Martin has created one!
The phone!
The toy box!
‘Extracted’ is semi-finalist in Austin competition
Posted in Uncategorized, Reviews, News on April 25, 2019
I’m there!
My play EXTRACTED was a semi-finalist in the Southwest Theatre Productions competition in Austin, Texas. Six plays were finalists, so in theory my play could have finished as high as seventh. This marks the second time this play has gotten some recognition (just no productions yet). Earlier a theatre in New York passed on the script but sent word that “We quite enjoyed the play’s precise comic sensibility and symbolic meditation on contemporary America.”
Here’s the synopsis of the show:
EXTRACTED
A dark allegorical tale about modern politics and immigration. An American truck driver sleeping in his cab at a truckstop in southern California is awoken by two teenage girls, Sam and Libby. He thinks they’re truckstop prostitutes and tries to run them away. Instead, the one explains that she has rescued her sister from drug gangs in Los Angeles and is trying to take her home to safety in New York. The rescued sister is our allegorical Statue of Liberty. In fact, she has not been rescued; she has been drugged against her will, for reciting — and practicing — the poem at the statue’s base: “give me your tired, your poor . . . ” As the roadtrip across North American unfolds, we see that the older sister is not, in fact, a protector and rescuer, but rather her kidnapper, who is trying to brainwash her. Along the way, the keep running into another truck driver, who is taking the same route across the country, and a mysterious woman. In the climactic scene, Sam has hired a tattoo artist to blot out “The New Colossus” poem that Libby has tattooed on her. Just then the two mystery figures burst in — revealing themselves to be special agents for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who are mounting a hostage rescue and extraction to take Libby to safety in Canada. They are joined by a Mexican intelligence agent, as well, who they had previously met along the way at a truckstop. Cast: Eight — Five female (including who can pass for teens, and one Latina adult), three male.
