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“The Cellphones of the Dead” in Minneapolis
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on September 27, 2018
The police officer at the scene of a mass shooting. Photo courtesy of Casey Holmes.
My short play based on the mass shooting at Virginia Tech in 2007 has gotten produced a lot this year as part of various theatrical productions that have risen up in the wake of the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida this spring. In September, THE CELLPHONES OF THE DEAD was included in the Safety Off show at The Phoenix Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Producer Casey Holmes shares this photo gallery.
THE CELLPHONES OF THE DEAD
A police officer’s somber monologue: He was at the scene of a mass shooting, and could literally hear the awful news start to spread — as the cellphones of the victims started to ring with desperate messages from their frantic friends.
Also:
* Photos from Roanoke, Virginia, April 2018
* THE CELLPHONES OF THE DEAD included in collection of short plays
List of 2019 productions
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in Productions, Uncategorized on August 29, 2018
Here’s a list of my scheduled productions for 2019:
* 1. January 18: THE FRUITCAKE (one-act), Midway Independent School District, Woodway, Texas.
* 2. January 19: Staged reading of THREE POSSUMS AT THE BAR (one-minute), No Shame Theatre, Charlottesville, Virginia.
* 3. Feb. 8-9: THE ONE-WORD ODYSSEY (long one-act), Great River School, St. Paul, Minnesota.
* 4. Feb. 21: JENNA AND HER PRIZE-WINNING PIG CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY (one-act), Leo Adams Middle School, Haslet, Texas.
* 5. March 1: THE ONE-WORD MACBETH (one-act), North Caroline High School Drama Club, Ridgely, Maryland.
* 6. March 10: Staged reading of VERONICA’S DOLLS (one-act), by Piccione Arts, Dramatists Guild Foundation, New York.
* 7. April 4: HIT THE BOOKS (one-act), Marysville Unified School, Marysville, California.
* 8-11. April 7: DEEP INTO OCTOBER, FIREBALLER, THE GHOST LAMP and THE UNIFORM (one-minute), Babylon Arts Council, Lindenhurst, New York.
* 12. April 25: MACBETH GOES HOLLYWOOD (long one-act), Clay County High School, Clay County, West Virginia.
* 13-18. April 25-28: DEANNA DUPES THE DEVIL, THE FERRYMAN AND THE THIEF, LETTERS FROM THE MONA LISA, MY SUMMER AS A MERMAID, THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS and VERONICA’S DOLLS (most about ten-minutes), Paris Junior College, Paris, Texas. (Of note: This is a festival of 12 short plays; half of which are mine.)
* 19. April 26: THE CELLPHONES OF THE DEAD (short play), part of a #CodeRed production of short plays about guns, Mystic Vision Players, Linden, New Jersey.
* 20. April 26-28: Staged reading of THE RING (one-act), Geneva Theatre Guild, Geneva, New York.
* 21. April 27-28, May 3-4, May 24-26: Staged reading of THE RING (one-act), The Itinerant Theatre, Lake Charles, Louisiana.
* 22. May 1: THE GRAMMAR POLICE (short play), Play With Your Food, Mankato, Minnesota.
* 23. May 3-5, 10-12: CHEF PIERRE DOES NOT DO SIMPLE (ten-minute play), KMC Onstage Studio Shows, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
* 24: May 11: THE ONE-WORD MACBETH (one-act), Caroline County Arts Council, Denton, Maryland
* 25. May 23: CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT (one-act), Summit Academy, Xenia, Ohio.
* 25: May 30: HOW TO SUMMON A DEMON (one-minute), Gi60 Gone in 60 Seconds Festival, Leeds, Great Britain.
* 27. June 2: THE CONTACT LENS (ten-minute), Danniella DiClaudio and Friends, Charleroi, Pennsylvania.
* 28. June 21-22, 28-30, July 5-7, 12-13: THAT PLAY ABOUT THE GURGLING MUD PIT (ten-minute), The 10-10 New Plays Festival, Chagrin Valley Little Theatre, Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
* 29: July 6: A COUCH FOR LUXURY AND DAMNED INCEST (ten-minute), invited writer at Overnight Sensations, 24-hour play festival by Hollins University and Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke, Virginia.
* 30: July 19-21: THE SECRET LIFE OF PHONES (ten-minute), Dover Players, North Olmstead, Ohio.
* 31. July 20-21: TROUBLESHOOTING (ten-minute), Gemco Players Community Theatre, Emerald, Australia, at the Dandenong Ranges One Act Play Festival, Emerald, Australia.
* 32: Aug. 2-3: THE BEAUTIFUL OGRE AND OTHER FAIRY TALES (ten-minute), KenMore Kreative, Akron, Ohio.
* 33: August 15-17: THE DEBATE AT BOSWORTH FIELD (ten-minute), Fight Like A Girl Festival, Manchester, Great Britain.
* 34: Aug. 17: WAITING ON THE 10:15 (ten-minute), taking part in 24-hour play festival (ten-minute), Ixion Ensemble, Lansing, Michigan.
* 35: Aug. 24: TROUBLESHOOTING (ten-minute), Gemco Players Community Theatre, at the Famda One Act Play Festival, Foster, Australia.
* 36: Sept. 13-15: THE SECRET LIFE OF PHONES (ten-minute), Gemco Players Community Theatre, Emerald, Australia.
* 37: Sept. 13-15: THE UNOPENED VALENTINE (ten-minute), Old Courthouse Theatre, Concord, North Carolina.
* 38: Sept. 19-21, 26-29: THE GOVERNMENT’S SECRET TIME TRAVEL PROJECT EXPOSED, Asphalt Jungle Shorts festival, Kitchener, Ontario.
* 39-40: Sept. 25: THE CELLPHONES OF THE DEAD (short play) and CURTAIN SPEECH (short play), Bashir Productions, Tristan Bates Theatre, London, UK&
* 41: Sept. 27-29, Oct. 4-6: CHEF PIERRE DOES NOT DO SIMPLE (ten-minute), Soldiers Theatre, Vincenza, Italy.
* 42: Sept. 29: THE SECRET LIFE OF PHONES (ten-minute), Topanga Actors Company, Topanga, California.
* 43. Oct. 17: THE ONE-WORD MACBETH (one-act), West High School, Green Bay, Wisconsin.
* 44: Nov. 1-2: SOMETIMES ELEPHANTS DIE STANDING UP (ten-minute), Cecil College, Elkton, Maryland.
* 45: Nov. 16: Staged reading of EXTRACTED (full-length), Equity Library Theater of New York.
* 46: Nov. 21-23: THE SECRET LIFE OF PHONES (ten-minute), Service High School, Anchorage, Alaska
* 47: Nov. 22-23: RHONDA’S HIGH-CLASS ROADKILL CHILI (full-length), Salt Fork High School, Catlin, Illinois.
* 48: Nov. 29-30, Dec. 1, 5-7: THE GIRL WHO MADE EMUS BELIEVE THEY COULD FLY (one-act), Quannapowitt Players Suburban Holidays festival, Reading, Mass.
* 49: Dec. 1: THE FRUITCAKE (one-act), Desert Sands USD, La Quinta, California.
* 50: Dec. 6: THE FRUITCAKE (one-act), Woodlands Middle School, Lake Worth, Florida
* 51 Dec. 6-8, 13-15: LET THERE BE LIGHTS! (one-act), Mills Masquers Theatre, Glenwood, Iowa.
* 52: December 6-8, 13-15, 20-22: EXCHANGE OF GIFTS (full-length), touring production by 57 Hours Productions, at nine locations in Virginia: Roanoke, Galax, Blacksburg, Critz, Monterey, Clifton Forge, Bedford, Axton and Lynchburg.
* 53: Dec 11: FATHER CHRISTMAS (ten-minute) Snyder Schools Drama Club, Snyder, Oklahoma.
* 54: Dec. 13: A ZOMBIE CHRISTMAS (one-act), Chesterfield Children’s Theatre, Richmond, Virginia.
* 56: Dec. 13-14: GOD AND THE DEVIL MEET FOR A BUSINESS LUNCH (ten-minute), American River College, Sacramento, California.
* 57-58: December 13-15, 20-21: LET THERE BE LIGHTS!, JOY TO OTHER WORLDS, A ZOMBIE CHRISTMAS (one-acts), Beyond The Proscenium Ensemble, Cincinnati, Ohio.
* 59: Dec. 15: THE CHRISTMAS GOAT (10-minute), The Ambassadors, at New Wimbledon Theatre, London.
* 60: Dec. 19: THE FRUITCAKE (one-act), Encore Academy, Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
* 61-62: Dec. 20-21: DEATH BY POINSETTIA and THE WEIRD SISTERS GO WEST (one-act), Unified Theatre Company, Lynchburg, Virginia.
63: Date unknown: RHONDA’S HIGH-CLASS ROADKILL CHILI (full-length), Big Piney High School, Big Piney, Wyoming.
64:Date unknown: RHONDA’S HIGH-CLASS ROADKILL CHILI (full-length),Fowler Public Schools, Fowler, Michigan
65: Date unknown: SANTA CLAUSTROPHOBIA (one-act), St. Mary’s High School, St. Mary’s, West Virginia
66: Date unknown: THE KEYS TO THE UNIVERSE (ten-minute), Produced by North Hunterdon High School, Annandale, New Jersey
66: Date unknown: SANTA CLAUSTROPHOBIA (one-act), Wright City Schools, Wright City, Oklahoma.
List of 2018 productions
List of 2017 productions
List of 2016 productions
List of 2015 productions
Review: My entry in Overnight Sensations called “the best”
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Reviews, Uncategorized on July 14, 2018
The big finish. Photo by Dan Smith
OVERNIGHT SENSATIONS, the annual 24-hour play project sponsored by Mill Mountain Theatre and the Hollins University Playwrights’ Lab, isn’t a competition but my entry this year got a nice review from local journalist Dan Smith:
Here’s what Dan had to say about my piece in his review on the night’s performance:
“There were many notable moments and accomplishments, not the least of which was Dwayne Yancey’s fall-down funny “The Denmark County Barbershop Quartet Presents …,” wherein an oddball quartet gets by singing about disasters. This is, I think, the first musical I’ve seen in the 11 Overnight Sensations and the crew (Reilly Lincavicks, Michael Mansfield, Erica Musyt, J.P. Powell, Chris Shepard and Ally Thomas) carried if off beautifully. I thought it was the best of all the plays last night.”
MORE FROM OVERNIGHT SENSATIONS 2018:
* Photos and videos from THE DENMARK COUNTY BARBERSHOP QUARTET PRESENTS . . .
* More photos by other photographers
* Lots more photos here.
More photos from Overnight Sensations 2018
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on July 14, 2018
Here are some more photos — from other photographers — from Overnight Sensations 2018 and, in particular, my piece THE DENMARK COUNTY BARBERSHOP QUARTET PRESENTS . . . .
The Denmark County Barbershop Quartet. Photo by Dan Smith.
Reilly Lincavicks with the skull of Yorick. Photo by Todd Ristau.
Michael Mansfield directs the quartet. Photo by Dan Smith.
The big finish. Photo by Dan Smith.
More photos below:
Photos and videos from “The Denmark County Barbershop Quartet Presents . . .”
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Video on July 14, 2018
My 7th 24-hour play festival with Mill Mountain Theatre and the Hollins University Playwrights’ Lab resulted in THE DENMARK COUNTY BARBERSHOP QUARTET PRESENTS . . . in which a ragtag barbershop quartet presents Hamlet to the tune of “In the Good Old Summertime.”
From left: Ally Thomas, J.P. Powell, Reilly Lincavicks, Bob Moss, me (kneeling), Erica Muyst, Chris Shepard and Michael Mansfield.
Below is rehearsal video from a short song about the Hindenburg, followed by the big finish about Hamlet.
MORE FROM OVERNIGHT SENSATIONS 2018:
* Lots more photos here.
Rehearsal for Overnight Sensations 2018
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on July 14, 2018
So, here’s how rehearsal for this year’s 24-hour play project at Mill Mountain Theatre played out.
Saturday, 8 a.m. The writers and directors meet in the green room at Mill Mountain Theatre. My director, Bob Moss, is at right.
With six shows, rehearsal space is at a premium. Our group gathered in the Harrison Museum of African-American History. From left: Michael Mansfield, director Bob Moss, Chris Shepard, J.P. Powell, Ally Thomas, Erica Muyst and Reilly Lincavicks.
More photos below . . . and a lot more here. Read the rest of this entry »
My 7th 24-hour play festival
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on July 14, 2018
For the 7th time, I was a writer in OVERNIGHT SENSATIONS, the annual 24-hour play project sponsored by Mill Mountain Theatre and the Hollins University Playwrights’ Lab. I’ve been invited a few other times but had schedule conflicts.
Here are some photos to show how the process unfolds.
First, the gear. I always wear the jester’s hat. This year, I added two hats I picked up on my April trip to Australia.
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Praise for “The Face on Mars” in London
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Reviews on July 11, 2018
In May, Horatio Theatre in London, UK produced my short play THE FACE ON MARS as part of a three-day festival of short science fiction plays. Here’s a note from the producer:
“Courtney Larkin tackled the bottomless depths of Dwayne Yancey’s imaginative and sharp script, and made it into a clean, dry, and twisted piece of wonderful stagecraft. It was uncomfortably funny, and it perfectly mirrored many of the things we hate about the world around us. The twist, unexpected as it was, was sold to perfection by Lindsey Huebner and Martin Lomas. After watching them, I really want to know more about that martian civilisation, that society that disappeared millions of years before we even existed.”
The script was previously produced in Connecticut. No photos from London but do have some from Connecticut.
Nine short plays produced in Maryland
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 22, 2018
“A Vampire Soap Opera”
“A Vampire Soap Opera”
“Damsel Not in Distress”
“Damsel Not in Distress”
Radcliffe Creek School in Chestertown, Maryland produced nine of my short plays in May — two ten-minute scripts and seven that run about five minutes. Of note: One of those 10-minute plays is “A Vampire Soap Opera,” which I wrote in 2010 as part of the annual 24-hour play festival Overnight Sensations in Roanoke, Virginia produced by Hollins University and Mill Mountain Theatre. I’ve participated in maybe a half dozen of those festivals; each time I try to write a script that I think will have a life beyond that particular festival. This, though, is the first time I’ve actually had one of those scripts go on to a second life.
More photos below.
“Sometimes Elephants Die Standing Up” in Peeskill, New York
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on June 8, 2018
Peeskill High School in Peeskill, New York produced my 10-minute play SOMETIMES ELEPHANTS DIE STANDING UP on June 4, 2018. Terry Sandler shares these photos.
Two circus workers try to monetize a dead elephant.
Hilarity ensues.
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