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Video: ‘A Couch for Luxury and Damned Incest’
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized on July 12, 2019
Here’s video of my 10-minute play in Overnight Sensations 2019, a 24-hour play festival sponsored by Hollins University’s Playwright’s Lab and Mill Mountain Theatre. An earlier post detailed how the event works. Thanks to director Amile Wilson for the video (and the great direction!).
Cast:
Drifer: Gianni Palmarini
Bed: Bailee Adams
Chair: Nancy Lawrence
Couch: Kelly Anglim
Desk: Gene Marrano
Table: Walter Dodd
MY PREVIOUS OVERNIGHT SENSATIONS: Read the rest of this entry »
Overnight Sensations 2019: The making of a 24-hour play
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized on July 12, 2019
For the eighth time in 12 years, I was one of the writers in Overnight Sensations, a 24-hour play festival organized by the Hollins University Playwright’s Lab and Mill Mountain Theatre. I drew dream play in a furniture factory with a specific line of dialogue from Shakespeare. What I came up with: A drifter seeks overnight accommodations in an abandoned furniture factory. He blows some notes on a saxophone, which makes pieces of furniture come to life — and they want to perform Hamlet. Conveniently, Hamlet mentions a bed, a table, a couch, a desk and a table, so everyone has a part in A COUCH FOR LUXURY AND DAMNED INCEST. Here’s how it all went down:
1. Friday night. We gather at Mill Mountain Theatre, with Todd Ristau presiding.
2. The six writers draw their director from a hat. After that, the writers and director alternate in drawing a cast, a genre, a setting and a theme — which this year came in the form of a line from Shakespeare that we had to use as dialogue.
Where I’ve been produced: 48 states, 7 provinces, 18 countries
Posted by Dwayne Yancey 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 by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 18, 2019
Photos from shorts on Long Island
Posted by Dwayne Yancey 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 by Dwayne Yancey 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!
Photo from ‘The Ring’ in Geneva, New York
Posted by Dwayne Yancey 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 by Dwayne Yancey 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 by Dwayne Yancey 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!
Poster for ‘The Ring’ in New York
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on April 18, 2019
Top billing!
My one-act THE RING will have a staged reading April 26-28, 2019 at the Geneva Theatre Guild in Geneva, New York. Here’s the poster. Top billing!
