doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Ry Herman

RY HERMAN  (1972 - )

 Nationality:    USA
email:    Click here to contact     Website:    Click here

Literary Agent:    n/a


Ry Herman is the author of many works for the stage, including the award-winning musical "Voices In My Head" and the popular children's play, "The Monster", which has been produced across the US and internationally. For the last few years, Ry has also served as the artistic director of the Bloody Unicorn Theater Company in Tucson, arizona, which stages new and original works. In 2005, Ry's controversial play "Man On Dog" appeared Off-Off-Broadway, where it was called "reprehensible" and "like a fork in the eye", after which the theater it was performed in was torn down, along with seven other nearby theaters for good measure. But Ry's play "Vamp" was performed to critical and audience acclaim by Portland, Oregon's Stark Raving Theater in 2006, and immediately afterwards the 20 year old theater company went bankrupt and closed its doors forever. Ry plans to wait until something like this happens three times in a row before getting nervous about it.

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 Ry Herman's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Child's Play         Damn Your Eyes         Dead Cat         Foul Play         Man On Dog         Marine Biology         Monster, The         Vamp         Voices In My Head         You Know This Is Fucked Up, Right?

Child's Play

Synopsis:
a child's dolls come to life in a play which is alternately funny and heartbreaking.

Notes:
written by Ry Herman And Kolby Granville

1st Produced:
15 Minutes or Less Festival, Rockport Maine    2003

Organisations:
-

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:
Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Damn Your Eyes

Synopsis:
When Kevin, drunk and despairing, summoned a demon, he never expected to fall in love - and neither did the demon.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Playwrights' Platform, Boston Massachusetts    1998

Organisations:
-

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

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Dead Cat

Synopsis:
a man, his ex-wife, and their friends deal with sanity, break-ups, and a Viking funeral for a dead cat.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Snowdance Festival in Racine, Wisconsin    2006

Organisations:
-

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:
10-15 min Play Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Foul Play

Synopsis:
a bizarre film noir parody in which everyone is a suspect, including the murder victim. This play has been performed across the country, including by Michigan's Purple Rose Theatre and the Boston Playwrights' Theatre in Massachusetts.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Purple Rose Theatre, Chelsea Michigan    1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Boston Theatre Marathon of Ten Minute Plays Volume 4, Bakers Plays, 2007   -

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:
play Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  1

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Man On Dog

Synopsis:
Bisexuality, polyamory, and pregnancy are only the beginning in this somewhat warped drama. Rachel begins an unusual romance with both Jonathan and artemis Reilly, a couple she met at a party. But when she learns that not everyone is exactly who they seem to be, the revelations set all involved on a collision course with the uneasy intersection of sex, morality, and the law.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
United Stages (in the anthology EaTfest: Best of Fest), 2006   -

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

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Marine Biology

Synopsis:
a woman at a party explains her reasons for choosing her career, and in doing so explores a side of sexuality many shy away from.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Live Theater Workshop, Tucson arizona    2006

Organisations:
-

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:
Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Monster, The

Synopsis:
Monique, an outcast at school, does battle with various enemies, real and imagined, until one day she is swept through a storm drain into the magical world of the Underdark. There, she is required to go on a quest to defeat a mysterious monster. But, as she and those who join her on the quest discover, things are often not what they seem to be on the surface.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Purple Rose Theatre, Chelsea Michigan    1996

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Baker's Plays, 2000   -

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:
Children's Play Youth audience

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Vamp

Synopsis:
a vinyl-clad supernatural girl-meets-girl romantic comedy. Chloe is becoming increasingly irritated by the imaginary people living in her apartment, including a bathrobe-clad Jesus and the annoyingly perky Spunky Old Gal. When she meets angela, a Goth astrophysicist, at a nightclub, the two hit it off and begin dating. all goes well until they discover that they have been keeping disturbing secrets from each other.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Stark Raving Theatre, Portland Oregon    2006

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Meriwether (excerpts in Scenes and Monologues from the Best New Plays II), 2007   -

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 or full length Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Voices In My Head

Synopsis:
Time, space, and common sense are carefully jumbled together and thrown out the window in this musical comedy. Sam hears voices in her head telling her that the world is in terrible danger and only she can save it. Naturally, they turn out to be the only thing that's real.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Playwrights' Platform, Boston Massachusetts    2001

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Baker's Plays, 2001   -

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:
Musical One act

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

You Know This Is Fucked Up, Right?

Synopsis:
a play about sexual obsession, relationships, and BDSM.

Notes:
written by Ry Herman And Kolby Granville

1st Produced:
Live Theater Workshop, Tucson arizona    2006

Organisations:
-

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:
Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page









www.doollee.com comprises a comprehensive online searchable database for plays written in English since the production of Look back In Anger in 1956. Each play listing contains a playwright biography, synopsis, cast size, creative and production team for the premiere production, date and location of the first performance and much more.doollee.com not only defines the World's theatrical repertoire for the first time but also aims to revitalise that repertoire by reintroducing many lost scripts and providing a gateway for locating and clearing rights for a very large number existing scripts. We are delighted to receive information from users where our own research has been unable to locate details on the holder of a play's rights.doollee.com contains a comprehensive listing for each new play written in English produced by professional theatre companies, venues, festivals, commercial producers and once-off-producers from 1956 to the present. It includes adaptations, translations and new versions. The database also includes those plays produced by fringe (unsubsidised) companies and by semi-professional organisations, where the work is deemed to be of particular significance to the repertoire. Thus you will get help with playwright, dramatist, plays, biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production, published, dates, database, research.