April has arrived!!!!!!!!!!

Next Stage Press rolls into April with 21 New Releases!!

This month features a diverse collection of authors featuring voices new to Next Stage Press, plus some new plays from some of our known family of playwrights. The styles of plays have something for everyone!!

All plays can now be preordered!!!

In the coming months, we will begin to roll out more details about our first show opening Off-Broadway this fall!! FABLE by Doug DeVita!!

Take some time to see what April has to offer and keep scrolling to see what's coming in May (and beyond)!!!!

Also, if you are in NYC, more and more of our plays are making their way onto the shelves at the Drama Book Shop! Drop in and tell them Next Stage Press sent you!!!!


Also, see below about our PODCAST!!!
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APRIL 1 RELEASES!!!!!
On the night of the first-ever White House movie screening, First Daughter Margaret Wilson must find a way to break with her past and become her own woman. Yet at a showing of the infamous epic The Birth of a Nation she is forced to fend off advances from a young minister, confront her own racial intolerance, and somehow live up to her duty to her father and to her country without completely losing her mind. After Birth of a Nation is a farcical sendup of politics, piety, racism, and our fractured American experiment.   
  • Cast Size: 6M 2W
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Becca, a 40-something married woman, has to creatively adapt to her condition of infertility due to “old eggs.” As an adopted woman who has no biological ties to her past, and as an infertile woman, she wrestles with her condition: she is, she say, in “eggs-isle.” Becca dubs herself a “genetic island” as she is adopted and her eggs are “mature” – a fertility euphemism for old. Joined by her alter egos, Estrogen and Lucky, two live puppets, who serve as the chorus, wise fools, and comic relief, the play is full of stories, tragic and funny, about motherhood, fate, the transmission of identity, nature vs. nurture and God. 
  • Cast Size: 1W 2 Gender Neutral
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Hamlet was just your average millionaire playboy prince until the king was murdered most foully. And the throne (and queen) seized by a murderous clown and his lackeys. Oh well, revenge solves nothing. Right? Wrong! 
One supernatural origin story later and Bat-Hamlet’s costumed quest begins punching, kicking, and thwarting its way towards justice. But his end has already been written. Or has it?
Bat-Hamlet blurs the line between classic literature and pop culture, suggesting that they might have more in common than your English teacher would care to admit.
  • Cast Size: Large Flexible Cast
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Looney TV news anchor Rick Flick reports on the mysterious coma that has overcome all the residents of the King’s Court. The coma is the work of the evil Pixie Patrick of Paxton, who perpetrated the curse because lovely Princess Briar Rose failed to invite him to the gala palace ball. Once the curse is set loose, the race is on to find the one true Prince who can awaken the Sleeping Princess–and her entire court–with a magical kiss. Of course, Patrick will have none of it–unless he himself can be the Kissing Prince and marry the lovely Briar Rose himself! Lots of laughs and lots of action but, in the end, the sweet, romantic story of Sleeping Beauty is told with charm, humor and care. 
  • Cast Size: 10M 4W 3 Gender Neutral
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Female breasts – entrancing, bothersome, nourishing, aggravating, healthy, unhealthy, hidden, flaunted! A playwright interviews diverse women and two breasts for their personal stories. A girl is furious when her parents don’t give her implants for her 16th birthday. A New Yorker doubles down at the gym when her breasts refuse to defy advancing age. Two new mothers come to grips with nursing. A mammogram is experienced from the P.O.V. of the breasts. Reconstruction after cancer surgery is experienced by a delightfully upbeat young woman. And much more. A patchwork quilt of monologues and duologues touching on the universal through the personal.
  • Cast Size: 2-16 actors (Flexible Casting)
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Buchenwald explores man’s hunger for power and the fight for something greater than the individual. Set in 1946, the show discloses the continued use of Nazi concentration camps as Soviet extermination camps for the Germans. Imprisoned by the Soviets, Nazi SS Colonel Max Richter reaches out to save the future of his young Soviet guard, Sasha Novsky. Buchenwald was inspired by playwright Cristina A. Bejan’s visit to the concentration camp in 2001 when she was a college student studying abroad in Germany. When she toured the camp, she saw the single prison cell “chalk chamber,” learned of the post-WWII Soviet use of the Nazi camps, and was shocked to learn that many Weimar residents lived in denial of the mass murder in their backyard. This new knowledge haunted her and one night back at Northwestern University Richter and Novsky’s story seized her, and the script for Buchenwald was born. Her senior year of college she produced and directed the play as a joint project within the university’s German and Theatre Departments. Fascism and Russian aggression are again at the forefront on the world stage. This play is a reminder of what is ultimately at risk for us all.
  • Cast Size: 3M
  • Running Time: Under an Hour
  • Royalty Rate: $40 per performance
A modern Cinderella story: in reverse.

Princess Cynthia of Malibu has it all, yet she longs to be “normal.” Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be unremarkable and forgettable? When the paparazzi break the news about her husband’s foot fetish–he’d been caught forcing women throughout town to try on Cindy’s shoes–she seizes her chance and embarks on an adventure to find out who she truly is. Going incognito as Ella, Cindy seeks to prove herself capable without servants and discover what the world outside of celebrity culture really has to offer. Meeting a host of quirky characters while traversing across the Kingdom of California’s urban sprawl, Cindy discovers that what she’s been craving most has been with her all along.
  • Cast Size: Flexible; 9-12 (5-7F, 4-5M)
  • Running Time: 60+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
This one-act musical comedy follows Catherine, Amy, and Hailey as they navigate the stress of the college admissions process in different ways– Catherine trying to get into her dream school, Amy trying to choose the best option for track and field, and Hailey applying to a whopping sixteen schools to hopefully commit to the Ivy League. The senior class faces pressure on social media, the feeling of falling behind your friends, financial burdens, and the scariest application question there is– who are you?
  • Cast Size: 3F 5 Gender Neutral
  • Running Time: Under an Hour
  • Royalty Rate: $40 per performance
November is the season of endings and beginnings. It is also the time of Esbat, where one is free to frolic and amuse oneself, but it is also a time when anything you are holding onto, for which you’re hoping for some kind of resolution from can finally be released from ones soul into the night air and it is on one such night underneath a full moon inside a red sky where at Sacco’s Café-Bistro, Lisa Crosco and Anthony Santoro with the help of a magical and mystical Maitre d’, meet; these two strangers, both with wounded hearts will discover that the possibilities of true love just might be only one single fallen snowflake away.
  • Cast Size: 2M 2W
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Newlyweds Jake and Luna are headed for epic calamity. Impulsively eloping after meeting on a bungee jump, they now must discover the stranger they married. But their wish for a marriage of constant surprises becomes more than they bargained for. First, they have no place to live, and every attempt to solve this only creates more mess. They deal with quirky roommates, Mari and Stan, by unwisely trying to match-make them. Then they must cope with mysterious disappearances, violence, intruding interlopers, and a disastrous dinner party ending in a mystical disco dance. As Jake and Luna bring their dreamy romance back to earth, they see their crazy love contagious to the people surrounding them. 
  • Cast Size: 3M 3W
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
MAD FOR MYSTERY offers a full evening of tasty shorts sure to satisfy a mystery lover’s palette. This collection of six one-act plays, offering roles for Gen Z to age 50+ actors, serves up a smorgasbord of “who-dunnits” with a madness chaser, sure to sate your audience’s senses. 
Each unique play tackles plot twists and turns that make MAD FOR MYSTERY a memorable night of theatre, taking on all your favorite motives for murder – love, greed, buried secrets, and of course, a distinctive dose of revenge. 
Join us in witnessing the full experience of the unpredictable under belly of human nature gone awry – that magic that makes for the wonderful genre of mystery. 
  • Cast Size: Flexible Casting
  • Running Time: Variable
  • Royalty Rate: $75 for the Full Evening, $15 for individual plays
As the school year comes to an end; Amy is desperate to make some memories. Unfortunately, nothing exciting has happened until the principal goes missing! Can Amy organize a secret group of students to find out what happened to him before the bullies find out he’s gone!?
  • Cast Size: 1M 3B 3G (Gender Flexible)
  • Running Time: Under and Hour
  • Royalty Rate: $40 per Performance
Mamma Mia - La Befana?! weaves the ancient Italian Epiphany tale, La Befana, into a contemporary American setting. Could the fun loving sixty-something Nonna from Florida really be the thousands of years old scruffy old woman who on January 5th delivers gifts to the good children and coal to the bad? The answer becomes evident as Nonna/Befana uses her holiday magic to find her lost and injured granddaughter, Mary. Every January, La Befana finds all the Italian children in the world, this year she finds one very special Italo-Americana, her granddaughter.
  • Cast Size: 3M 4F
  • Running Time: Under an Hour
  • Royalty Rate: $40 per performance
With comedy, poignant anecdotes, and a little bit of Yiddish, Arielle takes us through growing up in a conservative Jewish household and then falling in love with a non-Jew. In a time of otherness, My Shiksa Boyfriend asks, how can we honor both our past and our future?
  • Cast Size: 1W
  • Running Time: About an hour
  • Royalty Rate: $50 per performance
As Alicia, a tech-savvy teenager from San Francisco, is recovering from the death of her mother Patricia, her sister Frances drowns in a freak accident. Alicia is determined to create a virtual reality app to bring Frances back to life, but her father Garrett and aunt Jody, partners in their own VR company, stand in her way. Frances returns as a winged spirit, as Alicia confronts her hidden trauma and creates a different path towards healing. 
  • Cast Size: 1M 3W 1-7M/F/NB
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Based on the work of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, the Sound of Silence follows Robert Graham and Anna Hart as they embark on their pursuit of following their dreams in showbiz. The two cross paths at the most renowned theater in Hollywoodland. Robert is working as a stagehand and Anna is starring in her first play. Upon meeting, the two heroes experience love at first sight only to be separated and brought together for the rest of their lives. Will their love be able to persist through the trials and tribulations or will it fall by the wayside? Only one thing is certain…silence is golden, but true love is pure.
inderbox takes place during the East St. Louis Riots of 1917. The Potts Family, black migrant workers from the South, arrive along with 470 other blacks in February 1917 at the height of management-labor conflict and increased racial tensions in industrial East St. Louis. The play leads up to the May 27 conflicts leading up to the deadly July 2 attacks by white rioters on blacks, the wanton destruction of property in the black section of East St. Louis, and the senseless massacre of hundreds of Blacks. The mob violence escalates, threatens the South End section of East St. Louis where they live, and the Potts are forced to defend themselves from imminent danger.
  • Cast Size: 4M 3W
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Shortly after her husband’s premature passing, Cedar finds herself with two new tenants in her home. Her husband would have eased the transition of Dawn, her mother-in-law, but now that task is up to her. Then there’s Reed, whose baggage is mostly metaphorical, except for the turtle, Ambrose. The three must learn how to cohabitate while Cedar prepares to bring yet another member into the household, an adopted baby.
  • Cast Size: 1M 3W
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
When a company that produces a sexual enhancement drug relocates to a religious factory town in northern Minnesota, and its fumes begin to enter the air, the puritanical beliefs of the townspeople begin to waver. Long held inhibitions release and untold secrets spurt forth as the town spills into debaucherous revelry. For the pious Pastor Johnson, it means the arrival of the devil. For the tempting Dr. Corazon De La Fuente, who runs the factory, it is a wonder to be studied. Stuck in the middle is Mayor Frankie, anxiously watching as his town populace begin giving into wildest urges. Fargo meets Frankenfurter in this wacky comedy that is based on true events until it’s not.
  • Cast Size: 6M 5W
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
New York City, 1897. Christmas is almost here, and eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon is beside herself with excitement. Suddenly, though, she finds herself facing a crisis of belief when her friends tell her Santa Claus is a myth. Filled with doubt, Virginia asks everyone she knows to tell her the truth: Is Santa Claus real or not? Still unsure and dissatisfied, she finally takes her father’s advice and famously writes a letter to the New York Sun newspaper for a definitive answer to that most crucial of questions. Funny and heartwarming, this holiday play will delight audiences of all ages.
  • Cast Size: 2M 7F (3adults, 4 children)
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
YOUR LITHOPEDION is a dark comedy about a serial killer who becomes the founder of Serial Killers Anonymous and how that ruins his marriage. You’ll never think of 80’s rock in the same way again. The show uses a false-narrative that parallels how the characters are false-people pretending towards humanity. The play constantly subverts time, space, and story, while always teasing with a feeling of narrative—an almost-narrative perhaps. This play walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, but on close inspection is really a fish. A very murderous fish. Remember, it’s a comedy.   
  • Cast Size: 1M or 1W (with expandable casting)
  • Running Time: 60+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
MAY 1 RELEASES!!!

ALL TITLES ARE AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER!!!
Howard is an irascible and stubborn WWII naval veteran. He’s also dying. When his college-professor son, Winston, returns home for a visit, the truth about his wartime service begins to emerge. Is it really smoking that has caused Howard’s lung cancer? Or does it have something to do with his ship’s dropping anchor in the Nagasaki harbor a month after it was devastated by an atomic bomb? And why did Howard remain in the military for so long after the war ended – years that, even now, he won’t or can’t talk about? With searing theatricality and emotion, Atomic Field explores the lingering effects of war on one family.
  • Cast Size: 2M 2W
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Brutal and poetic, this searing drama follows a promising young attorney who passes up a lucrative offer at a big U.S. law firm to defend the young survivor of an attempted honor killing in her native Turkey. Challenging barbaric traditions and a corrupt legal system, she embarks on a life-changing journey of social activism and self-discovery, while developing an extraordinary bond of sisterhood with her visionary client.
  • Cast Size: 2M 3W
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Following Aristotelian unities, this Four-Movement Music Drama centers around Beethoven’s obsessive love for his nephew and deep devotion to his “Immortal Beloved.” Like the star-crossed lovers in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, whose tragic romance continues to captivate our consciousness centuries later, the story of Ludwig and Josephine will fascinate today’s audiences as they witness what happens when a great soulmate love – due to deep-seated fears, social conventions, and cultural constraints – falls asunder.  Beethoven endured bouts of insufferable distress and debilitating depression, but ultimately, this indisputable genius used his undying passion and exquisite pain to create some of the world’s most memorable music.
  • Cast Size: 2M 2W Mixed Choir
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
In the blink of an eye things are changing; cars replace wagons, television replaces newspapers, jet planes move us farther and farther away. Big Hills, Small Mountains, is a collection of fragmented conversations that happen in a small township of less than 49 square miles. It all takes place on May 12, 1974, between 2:03pm and 2:13pm, in the same moment for all of the characters, unbeknownst to them. The Big world will swallow the Small world of a township, not far from where you are now.
  • Cast Size: 3M 3W
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Back in the early days of YouTube, Kurt was a minor celebrity vlogger who screamed about video games he hated. Now, he’s left that behind him after he got married, and it’s been years since he’d even thought of his old online persona. Until one night where he is visited by a shadow person…who won’t stop tickling his feet. When Kurt and his wife Patty attempt to catch this shadow person, questions arise about the origins of this being. According to Patty’s favorite podcast, Darkness Calls, these tickling incidents could be the work of a ghost, an alien, a traveler of space-time…. But they have to figure out a solution soon, or else they’ll never experience a good night’s sleep again.
  • Cast Size: 2M 4W
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
If a stranger with a cello shows up in a rainstorm claiming to be your husband’s wife, do you let her in? Agoraphobic artist Althea Emory does, and receives a mysterious big red envelope for her trouble. She’s also treated to Bea Lamartino’s wacky wordplay, swordplay, Egyptiana, food fights, melt-downs, and very strange charades.  DENIAL (is not a river in Egypt) is a loopy dark comedy about love, loss, and embalming (yes, onstage, and even funnier than it is gross – which it totally is). DENIAL… it’s also about how women – especially when they have reasons not to – help each other. 
  • Cast Size: 2W
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
If you could go back and change your life, would you? – – – A fledgling scientific genius and his little sister grow tired of being teased and neglected by their overprotective mother and deadbeat uncle. When the boy witnesses what he thinks is his uncle’s nefarious deed, he decides to devote himself to creating a miraculous invention that will save him and his sister from their miserable life.
  • Cast Size: 2M 2W
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
The Board members of Central Ohio’s Romance Authors of America are on edge tonight. Their beloved long-time treasurer Evie St. James hasembezzled club funds, and the members are about to debate whether or not to press charges. Evie herself joins the proceedings in the form of a spirit, accompanied by her chief nemesis and male muse The Player. The Player is muse to everyone present. Through brief depictions of scenes from the members’ various romantic novels as well as flashbacks ofEvie’s personal interactions with Board members, this seriocomedyexplores the nature of romance, friendship and forgiveness, and that line—perhaps thin—which separates creativity and madness. Loosely based on a true story.
  • Cast Size: 1M 7W
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
A House by the Side of the Road: Clyde and his sons Steve and Dan sit on the back porch on a summer evening listening to the Detroit Tigers play baseball on the radio and learn that you don’t have to play the game to be in it.
Blind No. 7: Clyde, Dan and Steve spend a morning duck-hunting, telling dad-jokes, and being together.
And the Wisdom to Know the Difference: Clyde stops by to see Dan on visiting day at the treatment center.
A Moment of Clarity: Clyde and Dan share memories and truths.
Favorite Son: Dan and Steve are waiting to visit their father who is in hospice care. As they sort through the arrangements, they sort through their relationship, bracing themselves for what’s coming next.
I’ll Be Here: Clyde and Dan spend some time together in the woods where they used to go birdwatching.
Good Grief: Dan stops by the forest to visit Clyde and meets his new lifelong companion. He’s an attractive young man named Grief, and he and Dan are going to get to know each other very well.
  • Cast Size: 3M
  • Running Time 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
It’s the year 2000, and our protagonist, newly-divorced A., has just moved into a new apartment. The apartment is empty except for a series of moving boxes, a landline telephone and an answering machine. A. is attempting to create new material for a performance piece as she embarks on her new life, but her judgmental, immigrant Italian mother keeps interrupting her with continuous phone calls lecturing A. on how A. should live her life and decorate her apartment. The two women struggle to understand one another, and each phone conversation inspires A. to create yet another character that explores the hysterical and universal struggles between an immigrant Italian mother and her Americanized daughter, and, ultimately, the struggle between all mothers and their adult children.
  • Cast Size: 1W or multiple performers 
  • Running Time: About an Hour
  • Royalty Rate: $50 per performance
The monster of climate crisis is staring eleven year-old Savannah right in the face, and she’s petrified. She is convinced she’s too young, too ignorant, and too powerless to help stop the destruction, and she despairs in her attempts to write poetry and make videos calling for change. When the non-human beings of the Earth – animal, plant, and mineral — call a council to inspire humans to take action, though, it’s Savannah they invite to sit in the seat reserved for humans. The trees, forest deities, and the council of all beings shower their pledges of help on Savannah, but it may not be enough to convince her of her own abilities. That’s where a little forest magic may come in handy… A play for young audiences. 
  • Cast Size: 1G (Flexible Additional Cast)
  • Running Time: Under an Hour
  • Royalty Rate: $40 per performance
Everyone in mid-century Dublin knows Mamie Cadden — she’s the boorish woman who motors around the city in her bright red sports car. She also happens to be a notorious backstreet abortionist who profits off the secrets of Dublin’s most powerful men. When the body of pregnant Helen O’Reilly is found dumped outside of Mamie’s flat, the infamous nurse is sentenced to hang. Can a Divine intervention save Nurse Cadden’s soul before it’s too late?
  • Cast Size: 1M 4W
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Jameson is a troubled community college student in love with Fiona, his Psychology 101 professor. Jameson has adored Fiona since he was a small boy and Fiona was his live in nanny. Fiona is in love with David, Jameson’s extremely wealty and powerful father who everyone regards as a genius and a wonderful man but who is in truth terribly cruel to Jameson. Jameson becomes convinced that David and Fiona had an earlier affair when Fiona was the nanny and this led to his mother’s suicide. Jameson resolves to expose the earlier affair, ruin his father, and free Fiona from his clutches. But how does a neurotic child defeat a genius father without becoming a genius oneself?
  • Cast Size: 
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
In the ‘super-natural’ drama Piece of the Sky, the battle between fate and free will takes its toll as six souls search for meaning and truth outside of the confines of time.
Gilbert, while drinking to forget his troubles, introduces himself to Jack, who has stopped off at the bar to relax before heading home to his young son. Total strangers, Benjamin and Gabby, happen upon each other while celebrating the end of a long work week with friends. The two pairs’ soul-tending, angelic bartenders are struggling with the meaning of life and their responsibilities towards humanity. All six characters take a philosophical journey toward a deep understanding of their places in and out of time.
  • Cast Size: 3M 1W 2 ANY
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
Valerie’s world is turned upside down when she learns she is being unjustly fired by St. Sebastian University. As she attempts to save her career from freefall, she discovers the corruption running rampant among her conservative, religious male colleagues. Meanwhile, Valerie’s star student, Marina, is lured into sex work to pay her tuition. As the costs become too high to bear, Valerie and Marina find the seedy underbellies of their career paths exposed, but which profession is more corrupt isn’t entirely clear. As religion, sex, and politics collide, both women must answer the question: how much should be sacrificed for a job?
  • Cast Size: 3M 4W
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
A poignant and often funny slice-of-life piece, set in a park over a period of four days, where the central characters, a retired old man and an autistic park keeper, navigate the diverse personalities of the park regulars. When the well-intended actions of the park keeper cause the tragic death of a little boy, the park keeper becomes overwhelmed with guilt, frustration, and despair. The old man helps the park keeper find hope through the grief so they can bring comfort to the mother who lost her son. Sage is a heart-warming and heart-breaking story that reminds us of the value of differences and the importance of every little human connection.
  • Cast Size: 6M 3W 2 ANY
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: 90+ minutes
Famed playwright, inventor and actor William Gillette has just opened “Sherlock Holmes” at the Garrick Theatre to rave reviews; he meets his old friend, colleague and fellow founding Players club member James O’Neill following its Broadway debut to await the reviews and talk about success, happiness, family and the golden handcuffs of becoming a Matinee Idol of the Gilded Age as O’Neill already has with “The Count of Monte Cristo”, and their ghosts – William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Helen, Robert & Mary Gillette, and Edmund O’Neill – visit them.
  • Cast Size: 2M
  • Running Time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
COMING THIS SEPTEMBER!!!!
FROM PLAYWRIGHT TOMMY JAMERSON
IN REHEARSAL!

THE FOLLOWING PLAYS ARE CURRENTLY IN REHEARSAL ON STAGES ACROSS THE U.S.
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BONUS PLAY 1!!

Currently rehearsing in Oslo, Norway.
Walter L Newton’s adaptation of the Joanne Greenberg novel – Debra Klein created the Kingdom of Yr as a form of defense from her frightening reality. In childhood, Debra suffered frequent abuse from her anti-Semitic peers and neighbors. At first Yr was a safe-haven, but over time the gods of Yr became tyrannical dictators who ruled Debra’s every word and action. At the age of 16, Debra was committed to a mental hospital with schizophrenia. This is the story of her remarkable cure.
  • Cast Size: 5M 6W
  • Running Time: 2hrs
  • Royalty: $60 per performance
BONUS PLAY 2!!

Currently rehearsing in multiple cities for regular productions and contests.
The year is 1895 and Sarah Bernhardt is the greatest actress to ever grace the Victorian stage – just ask her! The “Divine Sarah” fears, however, her once bright star may be fading with all the attention suddenly being lavished on a talented, younger rival. When she stumbles across an incredible new script written by a naïve, but up-and-coming playwright, though, Sarah is convinced her path to theatrical immortality is assured… until her rival also gets her hands on a copy. Throw in a fuss-budget theatre manager, a stern Teutonic maid, a nimble-footed usher, plus a hilarious jumble of confusions and complications – and the stage is set for the ultimate showdown as the two dueling divas cross wits and blades in this frantically funny farce!
  • Cast Size: 3M 3W 6M/W
  • Running time: 90+ minutes
  • Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

MEET OUR PLAYWRIGHT H. RUSS BROWN
H. Russ Brown is a Theatre Artist/Educator currently serving as Head of Theatre/Artistic Director for the College of the Mainland Theatre program in Texas City, TX. 
H. Russ began his career over 25 years ago in his native Texas. He has worked professionally in the theatre as an actor, director, dialect specialist, movement coach, fight director, and nationally award-winning playwright – writing dozens of shows that have been produced in theatres across the country.
He has been honored numerous times for his plays including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts New Visions/New Voices award for his musical adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic short story, THE SELFISH GIANT, and the 2005 Kenndy Center American College Theatre Festival’s NST Fellowship for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Playwriting for his comedy, STUD DUCKS AND HORNY TOADS.
H. Russ has taught/guest lectured at the University of Missouri-Columbia, the University of Houston, Texas Tech University, Illinois State University, North Carolina School of the Arts, Ball State University, Lon Morris College, Nicolet College, Spoon River College and Western Illinois University – just to name a few. He holds a B.S. degree from Texas A&M University and an M.F.A. in Acting from Western Illinois University.
His greatest source of pride, however, is his beautiful wife, Elizabeth, and his amazing kids, Grant and Auben.
“Love is my Sword, Faith is my Armor,& Humor is my Shield.” – H. Russ Bown
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