MUSICALS
We are developing a new musical! Read about it here.
Stage Plays
Talking to Starlight
When Eleanor gets offered her dream job out of the country, she needs to decide what about her relationship with Daniel? Afterall, they have only known each other for three months? How do you know of this is “the one?”
See more at the New Play Exchange including a video of the entire workshop production.
There is also a review available for insights on audience feedback. Be sure to read the comments!
Sputnik
WINNER CAMBRIDGE SCRIPT FESTIVAL 2024
SECOND-ROUNDER AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL
In October, 1957, Ernest Omotoso, a Nigerian student, makes his way to New Hampshire with the hope to track the orbit of the Russian spacecraft SPUTNIK and to propose marriage to his girlfriend, Madeline. The site of his experiment is a picturesque motel in the White Mountains owned by Marie, the matriarch of a French-Canadian family and her son, Paul. When Ernest sends a telegram to Madeline’s father, Albert, a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Navy, informing him of the experiment and asking for his daughter’s hand, a series of events are set into motion which will reveal Madeline’s long kept secret and perhaps change the world.
Originally developed with the Strange Sun Greenhouse project and winner of the 2024 Cambridge Script Festival (UK).
See more at the New Play Exchange.
Six Nights in the Black Belt
SEMI-FINALIST, O’NEILL NATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE
BEST NEW PLAY, NEW HAMPSHIRE THEATER AWARDS
WINNER OF THE OVATION AWARD, YOUNGSTOWN, OH
Jonathan Daniels participated in the legendary Selma to Montgomery march in the spring of 1965 and was killed following a protest in Fort Deposit, AL, in August 1965.
This is a play with music, making use of a range of music from Negro Spirituals to hymns. The music can be accomplished with the use of recordings, but reaches its real potential with a choir of four or more members singing acapella.
Daniels stayed on in Alabama, working with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating committee and becoming friends with Stokely Carmichael and Ruby Sales. Much of the play surrounds Jonathan’s relationship with Stokely, who did not want whites working along side blacks in the civil rights movement.
The play follows Jonathan’s activities as he tries to integrate the Selma Episcopal church and participates in a protest against back door only policies, which lead to his first time in jail and subsequent murder in August, 1965.
OK for High School or College.
See more at the New Play Exchange.
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE (we hope! see below)
The History of the Roses
WINNER BEST NEW PLAY NH THEATER AWARDS
In 1919, a New York banker has just purchased this home as a summer vacation place next door to his old school chum who has earned his fortune in shipping. In 1990, a 70-something man has also just purchased the home and is working for its historical preservation. In both eras, unexpected romance and martial conflict work to destroy what makes a house, a home.
See more at the New Play Exchange
The Warmth of the Cold
It’s winter in Berlin, New Hampshire (pronounced BER-lynn by the locals). A small, depressed town in northern New Hampshire. Berlin is the kind of town that seems to have lost a bet with God. It always seems a little colder there. The businesses have slowly been leaving for years. People are depressed but resigned to their fate. They see no way out and yet they don’t tend to think that way. They see themselves as part of this place. The idea of leaving wouldn’t occur to them.
Read a review of a workshop production here.
In Development
Small Town Lawyer
An attorney in a small town, Roger is used to working on divorces and family disputes, Wills and Taxes, and the occasional D.U.I. But, when he is selected to be the public defender in a murder trial that makes headlines, his world is turned upside down.
Tone
When Anthony goes to prison, the picture of his unborn daughter is the foundation of things that keep him going.