Judith Hawking in the original Southern Rep production of The Totalitarians.

The latest in professional updates:

• Read my December 2018 email update! (sign up for it below)
  
  
• WORLD PREMIERE ALERT: Composer/Co-lyricist Niko Tsakalakos and I have been working on a musical about natural disasters and willful ignorance to human driven climate change. It's called FALL SPRINGS. It it going to have its World Premiere at Barrington Stage Company in August 2019, directed by our longtime collaborator Stephen Brackett!
  
  
• With HowlRound at Arts Emerson in Boston, I hosted a meeting about Comedy in American Theatre entitled I'M TIRED OF ALL THIS DRAMA. Read my recap here.
  
  
• I wrote this play about the end of truth in politics like 5 years ago and seems to be timely again.
  
  
• I'm working on a new play called THE OVERBOOKED HOTEL ROOM. It's, um, it's about an overbooked hotel room. I might change the play's name.
  
  
• I'm the Mellon Playwright in Residence at the Z Space through December 2018. Read more about the whole thing here.
  
  
• The fine folks at Dramatists Play Service have published my plays The Totalitarians, boom, BOB, Colorado, Hunter Gatherers, and T.I.C.
  
  
• This is a nice old article about me in TCG's American Theatre Magazine.
  
  
• I hand coded this website over 10 years ago. That's why it looks like this.
  
  
• Read more about my plays

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Danny Scheie is Weston Ludlow Londonderry. Photo by Julie Schuchard

Extended in Orlando
boom
Directed by Marco DiGeorge
Theater on the Edge, Orlando FL
Extended through January 20, 2019

Philadelphia
BOB: A Life in 5 Acts
Directed by Michael Osinski
Azuka Theatre, Philadelphia PA
February 27 - March 17, 2019

World Premiere
FALL SPRINGS: A NEW MUSICAL
Directed by Stephen Brackett
Barrington Stage Company
August 9-31, 2019

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