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Michael McKeever

MICHAEL MCKEEVER

  
Nationality:    USA
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Michael McKeever. With wit, insight and a healthy dose of his quirky sense of humor, Mr. McKeever continues to entertain audiences throughout America and Europe. He has been honored with an NEA Residency Grant, and has been a 3-time finalist for Humana Fest's nationally renowned Heideman Award. He is the recipient of three Carbonell Awards; four Curtain Up Awards; and three Florida Individual Artist Fellowships. He is also an award-winning actor and designer. He resides in South Florida and is a founding member of Zoetic Stage, and proud member of Actors' Equity.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         37 Postcards         Act of Contrition         American Gothic         Apron Strings         Carly's Last Call         Charlie Cox Runs with Scissors         Clark Gable Slept Here         Craven Tutweiler         Dangerous         Daniel's Husband         Dead Mime in the Trunk         Don't Tell the Tsar         Francine, Saved from Drowning         Garden of Hannah List         Hand of God         Impressionists, The         Knowing Best         Laura Keene Goes On         Lion In A Bear Bar and Sarah Stein Sends A Selfie         Lost         McKeever's Briefs         Melt (the Miamians)         Monster in Maggie's Mirror, The         Move On, or Sondheim at Studio 54         New Orleans Story, The         Objects in the Rearview Mirror         Open Season         Peter, Paula, Mom and Mary         Sexy & Miggs         South Beach Babylon         Splat!         Suite Surrender         That Sound You Hear         Things My Grandfather Taught Me         Timely, 2010         Tina Thompson Tries the Tuba         Town Like Irving, A         Unreasonable Doubt         Unsinkable         Velveteen Undertow         Wait and See
37 Postcards

Synopsis:
After years of traveling abroad, Avery Sutton is happy to return to the comfort of his home in Connecticut. Unfortunately, almost nothing is as he remembered it. the entire house is tilted at a distinct angle, the dog hasn't been fed in five years, and Avery's Grandmother, who everyone thought was dead, is still alive and kicking. Forced to either accept the oddities of his family, or leave them behind, 37 Postcards suggests that you can, in fact, go home again. . . You just never know what you're going to find.

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2000 FST Sarasota Festival of News Plays Finalist

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Act of Contrition

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A priest assumes the man in the confessional wants forgiveness for the mercy killing of his mother. He's wrong.

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American Gothic

Synopsis:
You know the painting. the man, the woman, the pitchfork. Well, the woman . . . she wants out.

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Apron Strings

Synopsis:
Discarding the tired, old warn-out cliches of motherhood and creating a few new ones, Michael McKeever takes on mothers and children in this collection of six short plays. From the tilting deck of a sinking Titanic, to the kitschy kitchen of a mother coming to terms with her daughter's duel sexuality, to the quiet solemnity of a church confessional, six different vignettes take the audience on a wickedly funny, often moving journey back home to Mom. With humor, pathos and an extra large helping of love, McKeever takes a long look at the ever changing complexity of motherhood and wraps it up nicely in Apron Strings. Perfect for anyone who's ever had a mother.

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2001 Key West theatre Festival Finalist

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Key West Theatre Festival, Key West, Fl     28 Jul 2001

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  Five actors play seventeen different roles

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Carly's Last Call

Synopsis:
Two old friends talking and bickering in a bar drinking cocktails and trying to be the last in the bar when it closes

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Part of "Shorts Gone Wild 5"

1st Produced:
City Theatre, Miami, FL     Aug 2017

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Gay ten minute play

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Charlie Cox Runs with Scissors

Synopsis:
A multi-award-winning comedy about a gray little man who, when diagnosed with a terminal illness, hits the road desperate to find some meaning in his life. At a broken down motel in the middle of nowhere, he accidentally stumbles upon the one great love of his life. Fireworks ensue as Love and Death, personified with glorious irreverence, battle for the soul of Charlie Cox. With warmth, humor and humanity, Charlie Cox Runs with Scissors shows how sometimes all it takes is a little death to show us how to live.

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formerly titled: Running with Scissors

1st Produced:
Florida Stage, Manalapan, F     01 Sep 2003

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Clark Gable Slept Here

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Clark Gable is at the Golden Globe awards with his wife. Meanwhile back at his mansion his staff are wondering what to do with the dead rent boy in Clark Gable's bedroom

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Craven Tutweiler

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Three very different women discuss the remarkable man who changed their lives. With oddly graphic details.

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Dangerous

Synopsis:
Explore the deliciously decadent underworld of 1930's Weimar Germany in Dangerous, Michael McKeever's deconstruction of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses." Two players of a very dangerous game try to outwit each other with tragic results. With intelligence, humor and more than a hint of sexuality, this fascinating play explores the human heart and all of its complexities against a backdrop of political and social upheaval.

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1st Produced:
Caldwell Theatre Company, Boca Raton, Fl     22 Feb 2009

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Daniel's Husband

Synopsis:
Mitchell and Daniel - the perfect couple. Their friends are perfect and think they should be married. Even Mitchell's mother thinks they should be married. But Mitchell does not believe in gay marriage

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1st Produced:
Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles     2017

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Gay full length

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Dead Mime in the Trunk

Synopsis:
A twisted little love story about a sister, a brother, a lottery ticket and the world's angriest mime.

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Don't Tell the Tsar

Synopsis:
As the Russian Empire crumbles, five clueless assassins carry out a deadly mission to save Tsarist Russia: Murder the mysterious monk Rasputin. there's only one problem. He won't die. Bullets, poison and bludgeoning all seem to have no effect on the ever cheerful monk. the assassins, like their plan, begin to unravel as this based-on-historical-fact story races toward its surprising conclusion. A comedy written in the blackest of ink.

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Hartt School, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT - May 1999 (college production)

1st Produced:
Caldwell Theatre, Bocca Raton, Fl     01 Dec 1999

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Francine, Saved from Drowning

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Nine and a half months pregnant, Francine has had enough. Between cigarettes and glasses of wine, she lets her husband know just how much.

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Garden of Hannah List

Synopsis:
As the power of the Third Reich engulfs Germany, the List Family, comfortable in the garden of their Nuremberg home, watches and waits . . . Or do they? the Garden of Hannah List explores how individuals react when faced with overwhelming evil, and how the human spirit can prevail or falter when confronted with the choice between right and wrong.

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1st Produced:
Florida Stage, Manalapan, Fl     08 May 1998

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Hand of God

Synopsis:
When Monsignor Frank Leighton, the beloved spiritual leader of St. Bernadette's Church claims to have had a visitation from Saint Jude (the Patron Saint of Lost Causes), it sends the parish and all those around him spinning out of control. Is the Monsignor delusional? Is he suffering some sort of breakdown? Or has he truly witnessed a miracle? Standing in his way is Father Todd McKay, a young priest and one-time apprentice to the Monsignor. Faith and perception are stripped away as the two men struggle to confront the truth of Monsignor Leighton's revelations, and in the process open old and new wounds.

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1st Produced:
Palm Beach Dramaworks, Palm Beach, Fl     01 Mar 2006

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Impressionists, The

Synopsis:
Fighting the system and at times each other, a few stout individuals broke all the rules and changed forever how modern man would look at art. From the rigid conformity of the Paris Salon to the exhilaration and freedom of their first independent show, the story of these artists is one filled with human Drama. Great loss and remarkable triumph all play a part in the birth of what would become known as Impressionism.

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1st Produced:
Caldwell Theatre, Bocca Raton, Fl     09 Apr 2006

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Knowing Best

Synopsis:
After six years of coping and adjusting and defending and explaining, Angie's mother is less than thrilled to hear that her daughter is no longer a lesbian.

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Genre:
Lesbian drama

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Laura Keene Goes On

Synopsis:
It's April 1865, and legendary actress Laura Keene is not going to let a little thing like an assassination stop her from going on. Look out!

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Lion In A Bear Bar and Sarah Stein Sends A Selfie

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Dramatists Guild members whose plays are being produced in City Theatre and Island City Stages production of "SHORTS GONE WILD" include CAREY CRIM (Glamping), TONY FINSTROM (The Last Time I Saw Bathhouse Betty), GARY GARRISON (Game On), MICHAEL LEEDS (The Emporer Is Naked) and MICHAEL MCKEEVER (Lion In A Bear Bar and Sarah Stein Sends A Selfie).

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City Theatre & Island City Stage At Empire Stage. Ft. Lauderdale, Fl 33304     07 Aug 2014

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Lost

Synopsis:
A mother desperately searches for her daughter in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, only to find the horrors of the storm are matched only by the ineffectual efforts of those trying to help her.

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McKeever's Briefs

Synopsis:
What do Stephen Sondheim, Abe Lincoln, munchkins and ambivalent lesbians all have in common? they all get the McKeever touch in this hilariously funny collection of the award-winning playwright's most celebrated short plays. With a wicked sense of humor and razor sharp insight, McKeever's Briefs takes apart and reassembles an entire series of loveably flawed characters and pop culture icons with hilarious results.

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1st Produced:
Boca Raton, Fl     01 Jul 2010

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Zoetic Stage, at the Caldwell Theatre Company (Fundraiser)

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Comedy

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Melt (the Miamians)

Synopsis:
As a new skyline forms over the city of Miami, histories, traditions and heritage are slowly being lost. And perhaps, new ones are being created. Three families - one Cuban, one African American and one Jewish - collide, intermingle and eventually blend as Melt unfolds its intricately woven tapestry of family, history and hope.

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New Theatre, Coral Gables, Fl     01 Apr 2007

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Monster in Maggie's Mirror, The

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Maggie isn't quite the angel you think she is. Don't believe us? Just ask the monster in her mirror.

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Move On, or Sondheim at Studio 54

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Nick is your average married guy, typical in every way. then he sees a Sondhiem show. A funny, insightful show about the power of a single song.

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New Orleans Story, The

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Three friends on a long weekend in New Orleans. With this simple premise begins a tale of self-discovery and understanding. A tale inhabited by a gallery of colorful characters: A philosophizing drag queen/security guard; a benign and insightful cemetary caretaker; an overzealous society matron; and Loveshack, the world's ugliest stripper. these and others act as a Greek chorus to our trio, as they find their way through life in the Vieux Carre. the New Orleans Story takes us on a journey from the palatial country clubs of Louisiana's richest families to the decadent stages of Bourbon Street's strip bars. A journey that ultimately leads, at 30,000 feet above the Gulf of Mexico, to a greater understanding of a better way of life.

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Key West Theatre Festival, Key West, Fl     01 Oct 1997

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Objects in the Rearview Mirror

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On the day of their son's funeral, a divorced couple find not only common ground, but a little understanding, in their sorrow.

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Open Season

Synopsis:
It isn't enough that aging legend Mallory Dupre has to contend with closing shows, numerous ex-husbands and reviews that call her "the last of a dying breed." Now her father, the even more legendary Edmund Dupre, has suddenly moved in with her. Her son, ex-child star turned personal secretary, Christian plays referee. Fame, fortune, and family collide as three generations attempt to live and work together, ultimately discovering that blood is thicker than mimosas. "theatre is just like life," Edmund proclaims, "only with better lighting!"

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Hollywood Playhouse, Hollywood, Fl     01 Sep 2002

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Peter, Paula, Mom and Mary

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Mom's baking cupcakes with the Virgin Mary. Paula is pretty much apathetic. Peter, not so much.

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Sexy & Miggs

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From 1987 to 1999 South Beach grew from what Time Magazine called "Paradise Lost" to what the beautiful and famous would eventually call home. During this period, Mary Ann Flynn and Philip Miggano, together with South Beach, grow up. With warmth, understanding and humor, Sexy and Miggs help each other along life's highway, stopping along the way for the occasional dalliance, laugh or cocktail.

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Key West Theatre Festival, Key West, Fl     01 Oct 2000

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Comedy

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South Beach Babylon

Synopsis:
Is it possible to create art without selling one's soul? This is the question, artfully, hilariously posed in South Beach Babylon, Michael McKeever's theatrical ode to the daunting task of being an artist in contemporary America. Tracking the lives of five ambitious artists during the weeks leading up to South Beach's epic Art Basel Weekend, this insightful play follows each artist's journey navigating the collision of art and capitalism, pomposity and prestige, and the parts of ourselves we let fall away in our quest for success.

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Zoetic Stage, At The Arsht Center Of The Performing Arts, Miami, Fl     01 Dec 2010

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Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  2 dancers

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Splat!

Synopsis:
Dorothy has just skipped off down the Yellow Brick Road. Leaving the inhabitants of Munchkin Land to deal with her shattered house and the apparently dead witch under it. they're not happy. A morality tale with Munchkins.

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Genre:
short comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  4 munchkins

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Suite Surrender

Synopsis:
awards/honors: 2007 Heideman Award Finalist

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1st Produced:
Caldwell Theatre Company, Boca Raton, Fl     13 Jan 2003

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  5            Other:  -

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That Sound You Hear

Synopsis:
As Hurricane Andrew speeds toward the Florida coastline, Ed and Clara Everett secure their home. Soon they'll find that the hurricane outside is all but equalled by the storm about to take place inside. Ed is at a crossroads in his life. He's found that even a man who has everything can still want more. Even if wanting more means giving up everything he has. Clara, seeing everything in her life beginning to break apart, desperately fights to keep as much together as she possibly can. Gathered together to weather both storms are the Everett's closest friends. With laughter, tears and insight, That Sound You Hear explores the soul of a man and the heart of a woman, and finds that not all storms come from above.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Things My Grandfather Taught Me

Synopsis:
A dinner party becomes a verbal sparring match between opposing supporters of a far right party and a far left party

Notes:
Part of "Shorts Gine Wild 4"

1st Produced:
Empire Stage, Fort Lauderdale, FL     Aug 2016

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Genre:
Ten minute play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Timely, 2010

Synopsis:
A sardonic look at the year that was 2010. As the once fabulously wealthy White family tries to regroup and reassess their lives after the financial collapse of their empire, they address everyone and everything from Bernie Madoff to Tiger Woods to illegal immigration. A tasty little sampler of the madness that was 2010.

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Genre:
short comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Tina Thompson Tries the Tuba

Synopsis:
Tina Thompson is trying the tuba . . . and, apparently, Tommy Turner. Don't tell her boyfriend Terry Tarlitz. A terribly ticklish tale of taking chances and trying new trades.

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Genre:
short comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Town Like Irving, A

Synopsis:
the town of Irving is a great place to settle down and raise a family. Or is it? Beneath the pleasant facade of this quiet little town lies a dark underside. When a savage hate crime is committed on the grounds of the town's high school, the residents of Irving must come to terms with their own prejudices and face the facts that all is not as it seems in a town like Irving. An unflinching look at the hypocrisies of middle America.

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Unreasonable Doubt

Synopsis:
Unable to touch the man who savagely raped and murdered his daughter, Ty Bosworth does the next best thing: He kidnaps and tortures the defense lawyer who put the killer back on the street. A tiny cabin in the woods becomes a courtroom, as the American justice system itself is put on trial. Revenge, redemption and blind justice all intersect in this thought-provoking Drama.

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1st Produced:
Actors' Playhouse, Miami, Fl     01 May 2010

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Unsinkable

Unsinkable
It's April 15th, 1912, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Harland and Claire Wydner-Doyle have just been informed that the ship they're standing on, the unsinkable Titanic, is in fact sinking. Hogwash! Even more ludicrous, Mrs. Wydner-Doyle's lifebelt is quite odorous, and everyone's too busy panicking to bring them a tipple of champagne. The shame of it!

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1st Published:
in "Great Short Plays: Volume 10", Playscripts Inc, 2014   

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Genre:
Short Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Velveteen Undertow

Synopsis:
Sam Templer, always in control, is about to have another in a series of never-ending affairs with women whose names he can never remember. What he doesn't realize is that he's about to play baby sitter to a madman. Maxwell Love is the Number 1 Christian recording Star of 1996. He also might have just beaten his prostitute girlfriend into a coma. Two worlds collide in Room 712 of the Quality Days Motel, as these two men find themselves trapped with each other and possibly worse . . . the truth about themselves. Religion, marriage, family values and love all get a once-over, as Room 712 spins out of control to the play's comic-tragic conclusion.

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1st Produced:
Palm Beach Dramaworks, Palm Beach, Fl     36/2002

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Wait and See

Synopsis:
When Andy Starr walks away from the charred wreckage of Flight 432, he becomes an instant celebrity and sets off a chain of events that lead to a staggering finale. Two hundred people are lost in the crash and he is the only survivor. Is he just incredibly lucky or is he the Son of God? Reality, perception and hope all begin to blend together as Wait and See explores how miracles are created and religions are born. A fascinating study of man's never-ending need for answers.

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1st Produced:
New Theatre, Miami, Fl     01 Jan 2000

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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