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List of 2018 productions
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in Productions, Uncategorized on September 26, 2017
Here’s what I’ve already got booked for 2018. So far, I’ve got shows in the United States, plus Australia, Canada and Great Britain.
* Jan. 21: THE FRUITCAKE (one-act), Upper Sandusky High School Drama Club, Upper Sandusky High, Ohio.
* Feb. 3: THE BIGFOOT SIGHTING (one-minute play), Fast and Furious Festival, Spokane Stage Left Theatre Spokane, Washington.
* March 14: THE BANANA MAN, CAT AND DOG, GRADUATION SPEECH TRANSLATED, JIMMY’S PLAN FOR WORLD DOMINATION (short plays), Play With Your Food, Mankato, Minnesota.
* March 20: Staged reading of THE CELLPHONES OF THE DEAD (short play) as part of “Playwrights Say Never Again To School Shootings,” Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, Oregon.
* March 21: Staged reading of THE CELLPHONES OF THE DEAD (short play) as part of “Playwrights Say Never Again To School Shootings,” Palace Theatre, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
* March 23: Staged reading of THE CELLPHONES OF THE DEAD (short play) as part of “Playwrights Say Never Again To School Shootings,” Luna Stage Company, West Orange, New Jersey.
* March 24: Staged reading of THE CELLPHONES OF THE DEAD (short play), part of 17 short plays related to school shootings. Organized by Nu Sass Productions, held at The Pinch, Washington, D.C.
* Spring TBA: Unknown number of short pieces, North Hunterdon High School in Annandale, New Jersey.
* April 5-7: THIS ROSES HAS THORNS (full-length), Bustco Theatre, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
* April 5-7: LUCY (one-act), by Ghost Light Productions, Elko, Nevada.
* April 8: Staged reading of JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE (one-act), Shakespeare in the Burg, Middleburg, Virginia.
* April 11: THE ONE-WORD MACBETH (one-act), Thomas University, Thomasville, Georgia.
* April 20: Staged reading of THE CELLPHONES OF THE DEAD (short play) as part of “Playwrights Say Never Again To School Shootings,” Roanoke, Virginia.
* April 27-29: THE COLLEGE SQUIRRELS, THE OCEANS OF MARS and BIG TIME COLLEGE CHEMISTRY (short plays), by North Hunterdon Theater Organization, Annandale, NJ.
* May 4-5: THE MONKEY AT THE WEDDING (one-act), Red River Revue, Clarksville, Texas
* May 10: Staged reading of THE CELLPHONES OF THE DEAD (short play) as part of “Playwrights Say Never Again To School Shootings,” Rich Heritage of Cedar Rapids Theatre Company, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
* May 17: DAMSEL NOT IN DISTRESS, THE BANANA MAN, THE COLLEGE SQUIRRELS, CAT AND DOG, THE RECRUITER, DOROTHY GETS A DOG, A VAMPIRE SOAP OPERA, THE ORPHANAGE AND THE BEAUTIFUL OGRE AND OTHER FAIRY TALES, Radcliffe Creek School, Chestertown, Maryland.
* May 23: THE FACE ON MARS (ten-minute), Horatio Theatre, London, UK.
* May 25-27: NURSERY CRIMES (one-act), Paris Community Theatre, Paris, Texas.
* May 28: CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT (one-act), by RuBarb Productions, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
* May 31: MERMING and THREE POSSUMS AT A BAR (one-minute plays), Gi60 Gone in 60 Seconds Festival, Leeds, UK.
* June 4: SOMETIMES ELEPHANTS DIE STANDING UP (ten-minute), Peeskill High School, Peeskill, New York.
* June 7: THE SANDSTORM (ten-minute), Centreville High School, Clifton, Virginia
* June 7-9: PICKING UP STARS (one-minute play), Gi60 Gone in 60 Seconds Festival, Brooklyn, New York.
* June 14-16, 21-23: A MERMAID WALKED INTO A BAR (short play) and THE CONTACT LENS (ten-minute play), Asphalt Jungle Shorts, Kitchener, Ontario.
* June 20-21: THE BEAUTIFUL OGRE AND OTHER FAIRY TALES (ten-minute) Youth Education on Stage, Williston, North Dakota.
* June 22-24, June 29-July 1, and July 6-8: THE MURDERESS AND HER ATTORNEY (short play), Short Attention Span Theatre, Chestertown, Maryland.
* July 7: THE DENMARK COUNTY BARBERSHOP QUARTET PRESENTS . . . (ten-minute play), Overnight Sensations 24-hour play project, Mill Mountain Theatre / Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia.
* July 19-22: THE BEAUTIFUL OGRE AND OTHER FAIRY TALES (ten-minute), Forge Theatre, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
* Aug. 2-3: LETTERS FROM THE MONA LISA (ten-minute play), Donna Scott Productions, Charlotte, North Carolina.
* Aug.24-25: STRANGE VEGETABLES (one-act), Red River Revue, Clarksville, Texas
* Sept. 14-16, 21-23: THE CELLPHONES OF THE DEAD (short play), produced as part of “Safety Off,” a program of short plays about school shootings, Phoenix Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
* Sept. 22: THE CELLPHONES OF THE DEAD (short play), produced as part of “Code Red Plays,” Steel City Playhouse, Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
* Oct. 7: PUTTING THE FAIR IN TOOTH FAIRY and THE COLLEGE SQUIRRELS (short play), Play With Your Food, Mankato, Minnesota.
* Oct. 12-Nov. 3: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN (one-act), Broom Street Theater, Madison, Wisconsin.
* Oct. 18-21: JUST ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE (one-act), Roial players, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.
* Oct. 26-28: THE SANDSTORM (ten-minute play), Playwright’s Playground Festival, Spokane Stage Left Theatre, Spokane, Washington.
* Oct. 28: CURTAIN SPEECH, Bashir Productions, Et Cetera Theatre, London.
* Nov. 3: * May 31: MERMING and THREE POSSUMS AT A BAR (one-minute plays), re-run of selected pieces from Gi60 Gone in 60 Seconds Festival at Ilkley Literature Festival, Ilkley, Great Britain.
* Nov. 3: Staged reading of scene from THE ARMADILLO QUEEN (full-length), produced as part of series of public reading by Khaos Theatre Company / Emerging Artists Theatre, Indianapolis, Indiana. (Audience vote will determine which script goes on to a full production in 2019).
* Nov. 3: THE FRUITCAKE (one-act), by Bynum Independent School District, Bynum, Texas.
* Nov. 8: THE FRUITCAKE (one-act), by KMHS Drama Club, Kettle Moraine High School, Wales, Wisconsin.
* Nov. 9-11: The first 15 pages of NOT ANOTHER EXQUISITE CORPSE?, a collaborative play by five different playwrights, uses the first 15 pages of my one-act THE CURIOUS CASE OF JOCKSTRAP MALONE, Page to Stage Theatre, Roanoke.
* Nov. 15-18: FISHING FOR MEN and THE GHOST LAMP (one-minute plays), Houston Community College, Houston, Texas.
* Nov. 16: THE KISSING CONSULTANT (one-act), Chatfield High School, Chatfield, Minnesota.
* Nov. 17: CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT (one-act), The American School of Yaounde, Yoaunde, Cameroon.
* Nov. 17: CHRISTMAS SPIDERS (one-act), Attic Productions, Fincastle, Virginia.
* Nov. 27: CURTAIN SPEECH, BOLIVIA!, and THE CELLPHONES OF THE DEAD (short plays), Bashir Productions, at Cockpit Theatre, London.
* Dec. 5: NURSERY CRIMES (one-act), Emerald Coast Middle School, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida
* Dec. 7-9, 13-15: DEATH BY POINSETTIA (one-act), Tri-County Players, Cincinnati, Ohio.
* Dec. 8: Staged reading of NOBODY EVER ASKS ME (one-minute), No Shame Theatre, Charlottesville, Virginia.
* Dec. 9: MAC AND BETH (one-act), McMichael High School, Greensboro, North Carolina.
* Dec. 10: LETTERS FROM THE MONA LISA (ten-minute) and PEAKED IN HIGH SCHOOL (ten-minute), Adams State University, Alamosa, Colorado.
* December date unclear: THE GIRL WHO MADE EMUS BELIEVE THEY COULD FLY ON CHRISTMAS (one-act), edited version produced by a private tutor teaching English as a Second Language, Hong Kong, China.
* Dec. 14: CHRISTMAS SPIDERS (one-act), Varnum High School, Seminole, Oklahoma.
* Dec. 14-15, 20-22: ON THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS (full-length), Fountain Theater, Fountain, Colorado.
* Dec. 16: THE ANGEL TREE (one-act), SANTA KILLS THANKSGIVING (short) and THE YEAR DAD FINALLY LOST IT AT CHRISTMAS, A Danniella DiClaudio and Friends Production, Elizabeth, Pennsylvania.
* Dec. 18-19: JOY TO OTHER WORLDS (one-act), Liberty High School, Frisco, Texas.
* DEC. 19: LET THERE BE LIGHTS! (one-act), Otto-Eldred High School, Duke Center, Pennsylvania.
* Dec. 19: LET THERE BE LIGHTS! (one-act), St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Hickory, North Carolina.
* Dec. 21: LET THERE BE LIGHTS! (one-act), Pine Island High School, Pine Island, Minnesota.
* Date unknown: THE COLLEGE SQUIRRELS (five-minute) and BIG TIME CHEMISTRY (five minute), North Hunterdon High School, Annandale, New Jersey
* Dec. TBA: LET THERE BE LIGHTS! (one-act), Geo Prep Mid-City of Greater Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
List of 2017 productions
List of 2016 productions
List of 2015 productions
Photos from “A Chicken Walked Into A Bar” in Ohio
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on September 22, 2017
The chicken.
The West Grandview Fringe Festival in Columbus, Ohio produced two of my short pieces in August 2017: MORAL COMPASS and A CHICKEN WALKED INTO A BAR . . .
You can guess which one these photos are from.
Yep, that’s a chicken.
“Death By Poinsettia” wins awards at Maryland festival
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized on August 29, 2017
My play DEATH BY POINSETTIA won two awards at the annual Silver Spring Stage one-act festival in Silver Spring, Maryland.
It was one of two scripts honored for “outstanding ensemble.” I’m not sure if that means they tied for first or if there were an unlimited number of awards available. In any case, two productions got that award — one was mine, the other was A WOMB WITH A VIEW by Rich Orloff.
The show also was third runner-up for “outstanding production.”
There were 14 shows in the festival.
Photos from “Death by Poinsettia” in Maryland
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on August 22, 2017
Silver Spring Stage in Silver Spring, Maryland (Washington suburbs) produced my one-act DEATH BY POINSETTIA August 18-20. Here are some photos.
A lonely woman tries to commit suicide at Christmas by eating a poinsettia, and broadcasting it via webcam.
She invited all her co-workers to a party, knowing they wouldn’t show up. But the nerdiest one did. He also knows something she doesn’t: Poinsettias aren’t really poisonous.
He also brought mistletoe. Love happens, reluctantly.
Theatre is that-a-way.
This was the third production of the script.
DEATH BY POINSETTIA
A lonely woman tries to kill herself at Christmas by eating a poinsettia, convinced the plant is poisonous. It’s not, though. A male co-worker shows up and a touching scene ensues. Cast: Two – one male, one female.
* Produced at Studio C, Hollywood, California, December 2015.
* Produced by Artists Exchange, Cranston, Rhode Island, August 2016.
* Produced by Silver Spring Stage, Silver Spring, Maryland, August 2017.
Photos from “It’s Real To Me” in New Jersey
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on August 22, 2017
Bergen County Academies in Hackensack, New Jersey produced by one-act IT’S REAL TO ME June 1-4, 2017.
A doctor figures out a way to transplant memories with troublesome results.
The doctor comforts his daughter, who had a bad experience, which he transplanted into someone else’s brain.
Not everything goes well.
Curtain call.
You can find more photos here.
IT’S REAL TO ME
A doctor devises a way to transplant memories from one person to another. It’s a form of therapy, a way to give one person’s surplus happy memories to those who have suffer from depression or some traumatic incident. But when one woman gets a memory transplant to overcome her depression, something goes wrong. She wakes up with a memory of killing someone. It’s a repressed memory that the donor had given away. A dark, serious piece. Cast: Nine: Four female, one male, four non-gender. With option of adding a tenth, non-gender, character with two lines. Running time: 30 minutes.
* Produced at Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, New Jersey, June 1-4, 2017.
Photos from a show that never was
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on August 22, 2017
Glasstown Players in Wallaceburg, Ontario was supposed to produce my one-act THE RULES ARE THE RULES ARE THE RULES in June 2017. The group rehearsed the show, but then the show was postponed indefinitely, for reasons I’ve yet to learn. However, the players did send me these rehearsal photos.
An airplane passenger appears to be dead, and flight attendants try to figure out what to do with the body.
You can find more awesome photos here.
This would have been the second production of the script. Instead, Pop Culture Theatre in Melbourne, Australia got that honor. Maybe this will be the third.
THE RULES ARE THE RULES ARE THE RULES
A farce set on an airplane. A male passenger has apparently died, and the flight attendants carry him up to first class, telling other passengers he’s simply drunk. The chief flight attendant, though, insists they go by the book and perform CPR and mouth-to-mouth on the hapless victim until the plane lands. The other flight attendants devise ways to skirt those rules, with increasing hilarity. That hilarity hits its peak when it turns out the man isn’t dead, after all. Cast: Five — four female, one male. Running time: Thirty minutes.
* Produced by the Castle Players, Lytchett Matravers Village Hall, near Poole, England. Feb. 18-29, 2011.
* Produced by Pop Culture Theatre, Melbourne, Australia, July-September, 2017.
Poster from “The Rules Are The Rules Are The Rules” in Australia
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on July 21, 2017
Pop Culture Theatre poster
Here’s the awesome poster that Pop Culture Theatre in Melbourne, Australia has put together for my one-act THE RULES ARE THE RULES ARE THE RULES. It’s being entered in a series of festivals around the State of Victoria.
THE RULES ARE THE RULES ARE THE RULES
A farce set on an airplane. A male passenger has apparently died, and the flight attendants carry him up to first class, telling other passengers he’s simply drunk. The chief flight attendant, though, insists they go by the book and perform CPR and mouth-to-mouth on the hapless victim until the plane lands. The other flight attendants devise ways to skirt those rules, with increasing hilarity. That hilarity hits its peak when it turns out the man isn’t dead, after all. Cast: Five — four female, one male. Running time: Thirty minutes.
* Produced by the Castle Players, Lytchett Matravers Village Hall, near Poole, England. Feb. 18-29, 2011.
* Produced by Pop Culture Theatre, Melbourne, Australia, July-September, 2017.
Video: “Grown Attached” in London
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized, Video on July 19, 2017
KDC Theatre in London produced my short play GROWN ATTACHED in June as part of an evening of short, scary shows. Here’s the whole production. My piece starts at 22:50 and runs until 26:37.
GROWN ATTACHED
A young boy got his head stuck between the railings of an old house.Now he’s a teenager, and he’s still stuck there — and his parents are moving out. Sad and funny at the same time. Cast: Two — one adult female, one juvenile male.
Video: Somewhere Tonight, The Last Washington Senators’ Game Plays On
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Productions, Uncategorized, Video on July 18, 2017
Keith Thompson directed this script of mine at the Short Attention Span Festival in Chestertown, Maryland, June-July 2017.
SOMEWHERE TONIGHT, THE WASHINGTON SENATORS LAST GAME PLAYS ON
The last game the Washington Senators played – in 1971 – ended in a forfeit, when fans ran out onto the field and one of them stole first base. Now, on the night before a new Washington baseball team takes the field in 2005, the man who stole that base is trying to return it, and gets arrested. He tries to explain to the cop why the base is haunted. Cast: Two males.
Photos from “They Always Blame The Snake”
Posted by Dwayne Yancey in News, Photos, Productions, Uncategorized on July 12, 2017
Here are photos from THEY ALWAYS BLAME THE SNAKE, my entry in the 2017 edition of OVERNIGHT SENSATIONS, the 24-hour play festival sponsored by Hollins University and Mill Mountain Theatre. My prompts: The reptile house, a farce, and the theme “do you trust them or do you not want to suspect them?”
Claire Hilton is the paranoid chameleon who wonders why the new arrival, the snake played by Bonny Branch, is in pain.
The result: Two bumbling criminals break into the reptile house, having tried to smuggle cocaine into the country in the belly of a snake shipped to the zoo. Instead, they find a DEA agent inside.
These photos come courtesy of Dan Smith and Susan K.
More photos and details below.
Claire Hilton, the chameleon, talks to Janemarie Laucella, the iguana.
Amanda Mansfield makes a fantastic, and grumpy, turtle.
Neil David Siebel and Stephen Baltz as our two bumbling criminals.
We move toward the climactic scene.
MY OVERNIGHT SENSATIONS HISTORY:
2007: “Stuck on You,” a farce about a glue gun gone bad at a prom.
2010: “A Vampire Soap Opera,” which is pretty much what it sounds like.
2011: “Strong As a Bull,” a horror piece about steroids and baseball — in the 1800s.
2012: “The Keys To the Universe Next Door,” a science fiction horror story about a woman trapped in an alternative universe.
2016: “The Zookeeper’s Arm,” about a murder in the zoo.
More from 2017:
Preparation and such explained here.
Plus:
More photos of the whole process.
Rehearsal and production photos from the Hollins Playwright’s Lab
More photos from Dan Smith
Some of the responses I got:
“Your play was my favorite.”
— Celie H.
“Loved your piece.”
— Sherilyn L.
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