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Logo for ‘Miss Mitchell’s Comet’
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on February 20, 2021
Powerstories Theatre in Tampa, Florida will present my full-length script MISS MITCHELL’S COMET as part of their virtual festival Voices of Truth in March. The theatre only produces plays that are based on true stories about women and girls. My play is based on the true story of Maria Mitchell, America’s first female astronomer — and the first North American of any gender to discover a comet (1847). The show airs virtually Friday, March 12 at 8 p.m., starring Katerina Yancey of Fincastle, Virginia and Scott Cooper of Waterloo, Ontario. Here’s the logo for the show, designed by Samantha Sylvester of Mississauga, Ontario. I highly and happily recommend her work. Earlier I posted this video interview I did with the theatre.
Photos: ‘The Weird Sisters Go Rogue’ in Tampa
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on January 29, 2021
Lab Laughs in Tampa, Florida produced my one-act THE WEIRD SISTERS GO ROGUE Jan. 21-24.
More photos here.
The witches from Macbeth
And once they go rogue.
‘A Dickens of a Christmas’ in Minnesota
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos on December 22, 2020
One thing that’s happened during this year of the pandemic: I’ve had a lot of script requests from non-theatres. Some have come from book clubs, some have come from families looking for home entertainment. Some haven’t worked out, but the Monday Night Book Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota did do a Zoom reading of my full-length A DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS on Dec. 20, 2020 (which wasn’t a Monday night but the whole year has been out of whack).
Organizer Stephanie Pearson sends this fan mail:
“We had a wonderful time reading your play at our bookclub tonight. I am the woman in the black (stage direction) with the phone. We’ve been together over 20 years so it was fun to connect with this play!
Everyone enjoyed themselves! I loved how you integrated A Christmas Carol in with the plot along with the funny (and cranky) Lady Crumblebum. I couldn’t stop laughing during these scenes. Also, you had some great references on gender roles (ie: women doing dishes) which I think we are still doing today 100 years later. Funny!
Thanks for making our zoom holiday bookclub a memorable one. We appreciate your willingness to share and provide us with a great script to read.”
‘Death By Poinsettia’ in Louisiana
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on December 22, 2020
PopUp Productions in Louisiana produced my Christmas one-act virtually in December 2020. Here are some screenshots.
Caroline talks to her webcam.
Caroline eats a “poinsettia.”
And there’s “Dwayne” showing up at her party.
‘Death By Poinsettia’ in Chicago
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on December 22, 2020
Possibilities Theatre in Chicago produced my Christmas one-act DEATH BY POINSETTIA. It was directed by Rashaad Bond but, alas, I don’t have the names of the two wonderful performers. 
The old mistletoe trick.
The title card.
Photos: ‘Shakespeare’s Lost Christmas Play’ in Utah
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on December 18, 2020
Here are some photos from the dress rehearsal for SHAKESPEARE’S LOST CHRISTMAS PLAY at Eskdale High School in Millard County, Utah. First, the back story: Director Lois Faber had produced two scripts of mine a few years ago. In September, she contacted me out of the blue to say she was looking for a Christmas play for her class to perform. She’d come up short. It need to fit a specific number of students, with a specific gender mix, a specific length, and needed to be performed socially distanced. Oh, and it would be nice if it would address the pandemic. So I wrote a script to fit those specifications — except I changed the setting from the COVID-19 pandemic to the plague in Shakespeare’s day.
The cast included some musically-talented students so I wrote in some musical interludes.
More wonderful photos below:
Photos from ‘Red Moon Rising in the East’ in Norfolk
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on November 11, 2020
Sergei talks about the first time he saw an airplane.
Little Theatre of Norfolk has produced my one-man play about the father of the Soviet space program as a virtual show. The theatre staged the show without an audience, filmed it, and has posted it online through the platform ShowTix4U. Here’s Brian Cebrian as Sergei Korolev. This marks the fifth production of the show — at the moment, it’s my most-produced full-length show.
Showing off the design for the N1 moon rocket.
Watching the launch of the first Sputnik.
Photos: ‘The Armadillo Queen’ in Colorado
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions on June 19, 2020
She’s the Armadillo Queen and she doesn’t like it.
Fountain Community Theater in Fountain, Colorado produced my full-length script THE ARMADILLO QUEEN June 12-13 as an outdoor show. The show had been scheduled for indoors in April but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. More photos here.
This was the premiere production. The show first had a staged reading in 2016 at Renaissance Theatre in Lynchburg, Virginia. It will be published later this year by Norman Maine / Big Dog Plays.
Photos from ‘The Girl Who Made Emus Believe They Could Fly’ in Mass.
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions on June 12, 2020
Emus take flight.
The Quannapowitt Players Suburban Holidays festival in Reading, Mass. produced my one-act
THE GIRL WHO MADE EMUS BELIEVE THEY COULD FLY in November and December 2019. Out of the blue, they sent me these photos with the note: “It was perhaps the best received play this year.”
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‘Priorities in Aisle 14’ produced via Zoom from Minnesota
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions on April 20, 2020
The Coronavirus One-Minute Play Festival produced 625 one-minute virus-related plays over six days in April — with a different batch of plays being performed each night, via Zoom, by a different theatre. My short piece PRIORITIES IN AISLE 14 came on the final night, April 17, and was performed by students at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Jessica Yates played the main character.
Phoebe Thoroughman as a screaming customer in the toilet paper aisle.
Anna Schloerb as another screaming customer. All the students screamed at the same time — as the script called for — but these were the only two that broke through the Zoom logjam.
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