doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Joseph Samuel Wright

JOSEPH SAMUEL WRIGHT

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

Literary Agent:    n/a

Joseph Samuel Wright is an NYC-based playwright and Producing Artistic Director of Roots and Wings theatrical (www.rawtheatrical.org). Wright's works have been showcased by LSU's Outworks Festival, Culture Project, Sightline, NyLon Fusion, Artistic New Directions, theNest, Roots and Wings theatrical, Core Ensemble, University of Tennessee, Maryville College, Lark Play Development Center, and BE Theatre Company. Wright is the Resident Playwright at theNest and a member of the NyLon Fusion Writers Collective. His bylines include Theatre Is Easy, TheaterOnline, TimeOutNY.com, and BroadwaySpace. His play Unbecoming was a finalist in the SteppingStone Millennium Playwright Competition.

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 Joseph Samuel Wright's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Bck to the Grnd         Have It Made         I, Salome         Mask of MedUSA, The         Miss Hope's         My Big, Thick Schtick         My One and Only         Nightglow         Of Spartan Blood         Ours         Pulling Out: a play about love         Rise         Tupperware Blues         Uh Fairy Tale         Unbecoming         Unmentionables         Wedding Fools         You Are Here

Bck to the Grnd

Synopsis:
Online dating

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Shelter Bridge Theatre, New York     01 May 2012

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:
Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Have It Made

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     2012

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:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

I, Salome

Synopsis:
"Am I fixated on Salome because we have something in common or am I just projecting myself onto this character?"

Notes:
Inspired by "Salome" by Oscar Wilde

1st Produced:
-    

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:
Gay full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Mask of MedUSA, The

Synopsis:
the Mask of MedUSA is a short play that will fuse traditional Greek theatre techniques with modern movement and mask work that explores a contemporary telling of the MedUSA myth. the piece follows MedUSA as a young maiden in a modern context and plays with the idea of the tragic hero exploring MedUSA's grotesque transformation from picture-perfect girl into tragic, gorgon monster. Text, movement, song, and visual art coordinate to convey the story and the emotions.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
The Pool In Central Park Near W. 110th Street     03 Oct 2010

Organisations:
Roots and Wings theatrical and Lauren Rayner Productions

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:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Miss Hope's

Synopsis:
Somewhere amidst the cracked asphalt and overgrown weeds on the highway to nowhere is Miss Hope's, a small-town Diner where wistful wannabes with half-forgotten dreams meet, mingle and tell their stories. Consisting of three timeless tales with more than a little laughter, tears, irony and a pinch of the Twilight Zone, and told against the backdrop of the presidential inaugurations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Miss Hope's is written by Jack Karp, Alisha Silver and Joseph Samuel Wright of the Nylon Fusion Writers Collective. Everyone comes to Miss Hope's Diner, the place people end up when they have nowhere left to go. Prom queens and football heroes, school teachers and businessmen, housewives suffocated by their well-ordered lives, young people trying to come to terms with their sexuality, the ones who couldn't make it in the big city, those who still want to try and an old man who has seen all this happen over and over again. Miss Hope's is where plans for the future become a march from innocence, where passing through temptation can lead to either vice or virtue, and where broken promises come from broken dreams.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Jack Karp, Alisha Silver And Joseph Samuel Wright

1st Produced:
American Theatre Of Actors, 314 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019     23 May 2012

Organisations:
Nylon Fusion Collective

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:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  8            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

My Big, Thick Schtick

Synopsis:
Campy, catty, and uncontainable, My Big, Thick Schtick includes snipping sorority "girls," buffed boys, and the greatest battle of all time: Joan Crawford vs. Bette Davis. the night features "Welcome to My Haze," a spoof of the spoof of Brenda Dickson's infamous lifestyle video, "Jack in Vain," the fable of four ambitious bartenders competing for their chance to bed a pop star, "Hot Mess High Tea," the sensation of a sorority tea with a trannie at the table, "Mommy Drinkest," a male Mommy Dearest faces his adopted daughter, and "What Ever Happened to Baby in the Corner?" a No Exit with Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Vivien Leigh trapped together. Schtick is an extravaganza with song, dance, drag, camp, shirtless boys, a taxidermied cat, and an otter puppet as host.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Bridge Theatre at Shetler Studios
244 West 54th Street, 12th floor, New York, NY 10019     09 Jul 2010

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:
Play/Drama. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

My One and Only

Synopsis:
A woman fears that she is loosing her husband to their daughter

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

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:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Nightglow

Synopsis:
How the gay community fails its younger members

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Clarence Brown Theatre Lab, Knoxville, Tn     01 Jan 2008

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:
Multi media Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Of Spartan Blood

Synopsis:
Clytemnestra goes from being in the shadow of sister Helen, to grieving mother to vengeful pursuit of husband and his mistress

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

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:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Ours

Synopsis:
Five people talking about being gay and the gay community

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
University Of Tennessee     01 Nov 2005

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:
Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Pulling Out: a play about love

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

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:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Rise

Synopsis:
Elagabalus becomes Roman Emperor through the machinations of his mother and grandmother. His sexual excesses with both male and female shocks an already debauched Empire. In 2013 in Los Angeles Brick Richards'' agent wants him to switch from making gay porn movies to main stream films. Glenn the agents p.a. wants something different from Brick - love

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Theatre 54, New York     05 Apr 2013

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:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Tupperware Blues

Synopsis:
A mother, son and daughter in the twenty four hours after the husband/father's funeral

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

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:
-

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Uh Fairy Tale

Synopsis:
Mild mannered Jack gets transported to the World of the Brothers Grimm by mistake. He must save the kingdom by kissing the sleeping princess. However, he is more than attracted to the Big Bad Wolf!

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Rehearsed Reading At Csv Cultural Center     01 Jun 2010

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:
Comedy. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Unbecoming

Synopsis:
A woman goes to extraordinary lengths when she believes that she is loosing her husband to her daughter

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Duct Tape And A Dream Festival, University Of Tennessee     26 May 2011

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:
Black comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Unmentionables

Synopsis:
1937 Hollywood. Top talent agent James Johnson knows the importance of keeping secrets both his clients and his own. The studio hears that one of Johnson's top actresses is pregnant and he is told to handle it. She does not want to play ball. Then his secret gets splashed all over the gossip columns. He is now on a damage limitation exercise and it does not matter who gets hurt in the process

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

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:
Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Wedding Fools

Synopsis:
8 playwrights take comic, whimsical, and sometimes poignant looks at the humor and heartbreak of the different stages in a relationship.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of Smitten & Bitten : 8 Stages of a Relationship

1st Produced:
Gene Frankel theatre
24 Bond Street, New York, NY 10012     11 Sep 2012

Organisations:
Lightyear Productions

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:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

You Are Here

Synopsis:
You Are Here follows three central story lines about home and finding and creating your own family: a troupe of drag queens and celebrity impersonators touring across middle America; an American woman fighting to stay in London permanently; and a young married couple on a less than ideal honeymoon in Japan. Woven into the fabric ofthese stories are reflections of the nature of travel, self-exploration and transformation. Created collaboratively during workshops over the summer, You Are Here explores themes of rootlessness and alienation and features a rich ensemble of memorable characters.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
Author: Jack Karp, Kate Mulley, Alisha Silver and Joseph Samuel Wright

1st Produced:
Gene Frankel theatre
24 Bond Street, New York, NY 10012     06 Nov 2011

Organisations:
Nylon Fusion Collective

1st Published:
You Are Here follows three central story lines about home and finding and creating your own family: a troupe of drag queens and celebrity impersonators touring across middle America; an American woman fighting to stay in London permanently; and a young married couple on a less than ideal honeymoon in Japan. Woven into the fabric ofthese stories are reflections of the nature of travel, self-exploration and transformation. Created collaboratively during workshops over the summer, You Are Here explores themes of rootlessness and alienation and features a rich ensemble of memorable characters.   

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/Drama

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page