The Playwrights Database
TOM EUBANKS
(1952 - )Nationality: USA
email: Click here to contact Website: Click here
Literary Agent: n/a
Tom is the recipient of several Ventura County Four Star Theater Alliance and REP Awards for acting, directing, lighting, sound and set design. Presently, he serves as Artistic Director for Elite Theatre Company in Oxnard, CA. As a playwright, his plays American Right (2010), Perfect Quiet Place (2012), and The Art of Something (2014) were produced by the Elite Theatre Company. His one-act plays, Self Storage (2011) and How to Make God Laugh (2012), were produced by Santa Paula Theatre Center and Senga Classic Theater, respectively. He wrote and directed the 2003 feature film Open Spaces.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
Buy Plays with Doollee
Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.AbeBooks.co.uk AbeBooks.com Stageplays.com amazon.com
amazon.co.uk
amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template
below is a list of Tom Eubanks's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
American Right Art of Something, The How to Make God Laugh Perfect Quiet Place Self StorageAmerican Right
Synopsis:
In a present-day, California police station's interrogation rooms, Detective Angela Zulinski investigates the disappearance of Dr. LeBeau, a college theater arts professor. An anonymous tip and a severed pinky finger found in the home freezer of polemical political science professor Vince Anders targets him as Zulinski's prime suspect. Zulinski interrogates conservative professor Anders. He's uncooperative and denies any involvement in LeBeau's disappearance. But his propensity for aggressive politicking creates in her mind a strong motive for involvement and possibly for killing LeBeau. The two professors' political differences emerge, particularly LeBeau's history for reporting Anders to the college trustees for his unabashed teaching of conservatism. The stakes rise when Detective John Scott, Zulinski's partner and father-not particularly in that order-injects himself into the interrogation. He's proud of being the only liberal cop on a force of conservatives, but his own differences with Anders begin to taint the investigation, when he discloses that he is running for city council against an opponent for whom Anders serves as political consultant. The crash of political philosophies turns them deaf to the realities of human nature.
Notes:
Unit Set - Three similar rooms (interrogation rooms and waiting room), sparsely furnished with tables and chairs, in a rural police station.
1st Produced:
Elite Theatre Company, Oxnard, CA Apr 2010
Organisations:
Elite Theatre Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Political Mystery
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 3 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of PageArt of Something, The
Synopsis:
Arthur Jones is an L.A. private eye suffering the early stages of a mid-life crisis, a failing 29-year marriage, and agoraphobia. Having reached the milestone age of 50, he sees the time left to reach his dream of becoming the successful, artistic man he believes himself to be being squandered by the crazy, marred and perverse profession that sinks him intimately into the lives of his clients. Through it all, as his world closes in around him and he finds he can't leave his office, Art investigates aberrant physical threats against a client and his bodyguard; he disarms a two-timing husband out to end his investigation of the husband's affair with his wife's sister; he conspires to get his screenplay about Siamese twins accused of murder produced by a big-time producer by deceiving a schizophrenic client's daughter who is the producer's production assistant; and he tracks down the woman stalking him and his wife Zoe. What's most surprising is that what seems "abnormal" is "normal" in the life of Arthur Jones, private eye, writer, painter, husband and father.
Notes:
Single, interior set: Arthur Jones' private investigation office and studio.
1st Produced:
Elite Theatre Company, Oxnard, CA Apr 2014
Organisations:
Elite Theatre Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 6 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of PageHow to Make God Laugh
Synopsis:
Ally, a deceptively bright 18-year-old tennis champion, and Rena, a mom and part-time stand-up comedienne, who feels she's at the end of her performing career, meet in a tennis club locker room. Ally struggles to decide whether to win or lose a tennis match with a guy in her psych class, who is waiting outside. Ally confides in Rena that she made a bet with him, that if he can beat her at tennis she'll have sex with him. The unexpected results lead the women to find definitive qualities in themselves, qualities that expose everything they believed to be true to be delusions of surrender to a future they can't control.
Notes:
Single, interior: a bench in the women's locker room of a tennis club.
1st Produced:
Senga Classic Stage Company, Ojai, CA Oct 2012
Organisations:
Senga Classic Stage Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Comedy
Parts:
Male: - Female: 2 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of PagePerfect Quiet Place
Synopsis:
Perfect Quiet Place tells the story of a young girl who is trapped in a world where her perceived reality is becoming increasingly suspect. The action opens on Hannah with two of her schoolmates at a private high school in California. Her musical studies are forced to take a back seat to the disruptive and sometimes downright odd behavior of her friends and the school's night watchman, whose presence is a source of both concern and mockery for the teenage girls. Hannah brokers a fragile peace between her volatile friends and succeeds in conversing with the night watchman, but in doing so, becomes increasingly aware that what she knows as truth is far from reality. When things begin to disappear from her room, Hannah drifts between uncertainty and unease and is ultimately compelled to confront the ever-changing world in which she lives. She soon finds herself under the care of a doctor who further muddles her life picture, who Hannah believes is only curing her of everything good in her life. No longer able to trust her own mind, she is flung into a life and death battle for survival that culminates in a ferocious physical encounter that she can only escape by overcoming her own fear and rising above the chaos that surrounds her. In the end, she is left reaching out to something unknown, longing for escape or redemption.
Notes:
Single, interior set: dormitory room with bed, desk, chair and closet.
1st Produced:
Elite Theatre Company, Oxnard, CA Apr 2012
Organisations:
Elite Theatre Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
Psychological Thriller
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 3 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of PageSelf Storage
Synopsis:
Thirteen years after his mother was raped, a man has tracked down who he believes to be the man who raped her. He imprisons the alleged rapist in his self-storage unit and interrogates him as he is tied to a chair and blinded by a hood. The hatred and pain the man has stored rages against the man he believes viciously attacked his mother. His mother reluctantly joins her son in the self-storage unit. Her sensory memory is tested when she demands that the attacker repeat things said on the night she was raped. Doubts are raised that her son has the right man, and he is compelled to come to terms with his own actions if he is wrong.
Notes:
Single, interior set: self-storage unit with a chair and some boxes of items being stored.
1st Produced:
Santa Paula Theater Center, Santa Paula, CA Oct 2011
Organisations:
Santa Paula Theater Center
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies
Booksellers:
Genre:
One-Act Drama
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
Further Reference:
-
Top of Page