This video features a screenplay written by myself and Matt Sloan: “Springfield”
I reference this monologue: The Devil’s Candy and this play: Lustful Youth
The Liar This is a play I was commissioned to write for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Theatre department. It’s got a big cast because that’s what college theaters want. It’s based loosely on an old Comedia del Arte play of the same name. It’s also got a lot of mix-up identities, goofy romance, fun word … Read more
This is a short story monologue sort of thing I wrote after watching a R. Crumb documentary and reading a little too much Hunter S. Thompson. It’s a voice unlike any I’ve used before or since, and it makes me laugh. It’s basically a long monologue, with a cantankerous narrator, but it has … Read more
One Halloween I got hired to be an old-timey “storyteller” for a place called Heritage Hill, it’s a historical re-enactment place. They’ve got historical Wisconsin buildings from the 1700’s on. Check them here: http://www.heritagehillgb.org/ Anyway, I ended up sketching this story out then told it almost 40 times over the course of a weekend, … Read more
Lustful Youth This is the first full length play that I ever finished and had produced. I originally wrote it way back in 1992, which is a Long time ago! It’s undergone many revisions and edits and at one point was completely torn apart (figuratively) and I rewrote the whole re-imagined thing by hand. I’m proud … Read more
Zach is visited by his future self in a bar he currently runs. His future has warnings and advice for him. Turns out, time travel is easier than you’d think. My favorite line in this play, “Well, I wasn’t going to get me drunk by yourself.” Future Tense
Herbert Walker Jackson may have sold his soul to the Devil so he could Boogie Woogie, but what does his ol’ lady think of that? A monologue by Suzanna, Herbert’s spurned lady.