Project Playwright scripts

Here are scripts I wrote for Project Playwright, a playwriting competition I was in with fellow writers Pete Bakely, Vicky Vodrey, Alli Jordan, and Michael Ruth. The event was organized by David Hanson and Erich McGrew and everything was filmed for future release as an online reality series.

The participating playwrights were given specific criteria for a play at 8:00 pm and had twelve hours to turn in a finished 10-page script. Then at 8:00 am the next morning a director and three actors blocked and memorized the script for performance at 8:00 pm that night. There were four rounds with three playwrights competing in each round, with all the previous winners competing in the final round. The grand prize was $500.


Round 1 (pdf)
For the first round, we were given four airline seats and told to write a farce at 40,000 feet. Each actor had to change seats at least three times during the course of the play. My script turned out to be very Laverne and Shirley.

The actors were Michelle Cotton, Jordyn DeMarco, and Stratton Lamle, directed by Liz Nelson.

I was the winner of the first round so I went straight to the final round.

Round 4 (pdf)
For the final round, our only parameters were that we had to write about family. We were given a bare stage with just four folding chairs. My script was inspired by Black Books.

The actors were Michelle Cotton, Amy Hurrelbrink, and Curtis Smith, again directed by Liz Nelson.

This script was the grand prize winner of the Project Playwright.