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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.
2026:
January 25: HIT THE BOOKS (one-act), Warroad Public School, Warroad, Minnesota
‘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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‘On The Thirteenth Day of Christmas’ produced in Virginia
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions on December 25, 2024
Attic Productions in Fincastle, Virginia produced ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS in December 2025.
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Five of my short scripts performed in Great Britain
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions on October 5, 2024
Five of my short plays were performed in Great Britain as part of the 20th anniversary of Gi60, the annual Gone in 60 Seconds festival of one-minute plays on Sept. 28, 2024.
My scripts were:
“Counting Wolves”
“On the Way Down”
“Somebody Out There As Lonely As Me”
“The Ghost Lamp”
“Three Trees Talking”
‘Why Do Frogs Look So Sad?’ produced in New York festival
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions on August 9, 2024
My 10-minute play WHY DO FROGS LOOK SO SAD? was produced in the festival at The Secret Theatre in New York in late July / early August 2024.
Me with the cast of WHY DO FROGS LOOK SO SAD?
And here’s the director and cast:
Overnight Sensations festival produces ‘Cock-A-Doodle-Did’
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions on July 14, 2024
For the 11th time, I was invited to be a writer in Overnight Sensations, an annual 24-hour play festival put on by Hollins University as part of its summer MFA program.
On Friday night, the six writers, six directors and many cast members gathered at Hollins. We had a ceremonial drawing of prompts, directors and casts from a hat, then we writers went off to write. I drew Natalie Tasillo as a director, sitcom as the genre, a county fair as the setting, “even a worm turns” as the theme and Team 4 for the cast. In the photo above, from left to right, that’s Lillian Savage, Natalie Tasillo, Miriam Frazier, Michael Johnson, me, and Janemarie Laucella kneeling. Out of the frame to the right is my old friend Stephen “Stevedogg” Glassbrenner. Photo courtesy of Dan Smith. I felt I lucked out because I normally write comedy, a rural setting is a natural for me and I knew all of the actors except Lillian. In fact, Miriam directed one of my shows in a previous Overnight Sensations, so I could hear all their voices in my head as I was writing “Cock-A-Doodle-Did.”
Here are some photos from the weekend:
List of 2024 productions
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions on February 3, 2024
- January: SOMETIMES ELEPHANTS DIE STANDING UP (ten-minute), Peekskill High School, New York.
- March 14: THE ONE-WORD MACBETH (one-act), McBride Secondary School, McBride, British Columbia, Canada
- March/May: HIT THE BOOKS (one-act), Lake Melville School, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- May 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19: SUNSET IN NORTH DAKOTA (one-minute), Gi60 Gone in 60 Seconds Festival, New York, New York
- June 1 -2: SOMETIMES ELEPHANTS DIE STANDING UP (ten-minute), Arlington High School, Lagrangeville, New York.
- July 6: COCK-A-DOODLE-DID (ten-minute), Overnight Sensations festival, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia.
- July 12-13: THE CONTACT LENS (ten-minute), Griffin Theatre, Bear, Delaware
- July-August, various dates: WHY DO FROGS LOOK SO SAD?, The Secret Theatre, New York, New York
- September: COUNTING WOLVES (one-minute), produced as part of Gone in 60 Seconds Festival, Leeds, UK.
- September: ON THE WAY DOWN (one-minute), produced as part of Gone in 60 Seconds Festival, Leeds, UK.
- September: SOMEBODY OUT THERE AS LONELY AS ME (one-minute), produced as part of Gone in 60 Seconds Festival, Leeds, UK.
- September: THE GHOST LAMP (one-minute), produced as part of Gone in 60 Seconds Festival, Leeds, UK.
- September: THREE TREES TALKING (one-minute), produced as part of Gone in 60 Seconds Festival, Leeds, UK.
- November: THE FRUITCAKE (one-act), Irvington High School, Irvington, New York
- December: ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS (full-length), Attic Productions, Fincastle, Virignia.
- December: ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS (full-length), Bayfield High School, Bayfield, Colorado
- December: THE FRUITCAKE (one-act), Perry County Middle School, Perryville, Missouri
- December 21: SOME THINGS YOU MUST TAKE ON FAITH (staged reading, Meetinghouse Theatre Lab, Winter Harbor, Maine
- December 21: FATHER CHRISTMAS (staged reading, Meetinghouse Theatre Lab, Winter Harbor, Maine
Delaware becomes my 48th state; plays win awards
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions on September 17, 2023
Griffin Theatre in Bear, Delaware produced my 10-minute scripts THE BEAUTIFUL OGRE AND OTHER FAIRY TALES and THAT PLAY ABOUT THE GURGLING MUD PIT in August, thus checking off my 48th state. Still outstanding: Hawaii and New Hampshire.
Both productions also won some awards. The judges ranked THE BEAUTIFUL OGRE AND OTHER FAIRY TALES second, the audience voted it first.
‘The Sandstorm’ in Roanoke
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions on July 23, 2023
When my friend Randy Walker asked me if I’d like to contribute a performance to an evening of entertainment that he was putting on to raise money for his church’s pollinator garden, I knew immediately which one: THE SANDSTORM. It’s one of my most-produced 10-minute plays and one of the easiest to produce, even if the two characters are Martians. Amber Carderelli and Sidney Grutz agreed to come over to Roanoke to perform the show. Amber most recently directed REVENGE OF THE FAIRY QUEEN at Renaissance Theatre with Sidney as the fairy queen.
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