Crafting the Solo Show now available

Over the last several years, especially during the pandemic, I compiled a bunch of notes I had been jotting down about solo performance. I have turned those notes into a book. Crafting the Solo Show is now available on Amazon both as an Kindle ebook and in paperback.

Super excited to release this out into the world. I set out to write the book I wish I had back when I started my own journey into creating and performing one-person shows for the stage.

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Crafting the Solo Show covers all kinds of stuff... generating ideas, writing the script, rehearsing, performing that first show, touring, marketing and on and on.

Despite a little bit of lingering Imposter Syndrome, I believe this guide can be genuinely helpful to the beginning solo performer. If you are thinking of giving the format a try (or know someone who is) be sure to grab a copy.

Get a copy... HERE

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Just published: Yeti In The Airport Lounge and Other Holiday Tales

Right at the end of the year, I decided to roll out one more self-published work. This is a collection of holiday playlets (each running roughly ten minutes) that were originally presented by Nouveau 47 Theatre at the Margo Jones Theatre in Dallas' Fair Park between 2013 and 2017. N47 is now sadly defunct and the holiday play festival they presented is a thing of the past, but I am weirdly proud of how most of these plays turned out. They are tight, funny, bizarre little pieces. 

For the last three years, I have been trying to get them on Amazon in September, in time for theatres to plan for their Christmas productions, but have failed each time, including this year. I figure it is best if I just get them up, then I'll market them at the end of next summer.

The collection includes the works: Rudnick, the Candle-headed Boy, Corner Office Sky, The Yeti in the Airport Lounge, Crandall on Planet X and Langdon, the Seasonal Barista.

The paperback version is coming soon. For now, here's the kindle version.

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My solo show CHOP is available on Amazon

Just the other day, I published an ebook version of my first solo show Chop. My friend and frequent colleague Grant Knutson was nice enough to write the forward.

Although it was my first full solo show, I'm still proud of the piece. It reads well on the page, not just on its feet on stage. I am asked sometimes if I am worried about my plays being out in the world where people can "steal" them (produce them without paying royalties). I usually reply, "No, not really. It is better than having them languish in a drawer somewhere."

Chop concerns a man at a loss of what to do with himself, profoundly isolated from the busy, happy, productive people in the city around him. Through a chance encounter with a mysterious tattooed woman he is introduced to what might be his true calling - a unique subculture of amputation fetishists.

More info on the play and its history... HERE

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All My Plays on Amazon.com Discounted to $.99 for the Holidays

All my plays currently published as Kindle ebooks on Amazon.com will be discounted to $.99 from December 17th - 24th in celebration of the 2017 Holiday Season. If you have been itching to read one of my wonderfully warped theatrical works, NOW IS THE TIME. 

I only rarely ever run discounts oon the full collection. For the usual price of a single volume, you can own all three... I BROUGHT HOME A CHUPACABRA, RASPBERRY FIZZ and DINOSAUR AND ROBOT STOP A TRAIN.

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Raspberry Fizz now on Kindle

Over the past year and a half I have been slowly rolling out a series of my one-acts on Amazon's Kindle platform. The third and last in the series is Raspberry Fizz.

Raspberry Fizz premiered at the 2012 Out of the Loop Festival in Addison, Texas. Directed by Andy Baldwin, it featured Jeff Swearingen, Natalie Young and Shane Beeson (video clip link below). Two following productions of the play followed, one at the 2013 Houston Fringe Festival and then a month-long run at the Margo Jones Theatre in Dallas. These last two productions were directed by me and featured Tashina Richardson and Travis Stuebing. I played the Barker.

The play concerns Ellson, an eleven year old who wants to ask Samantha to the Harvest Dance. It is Ellson's first school dance and the asking out of Sam is not going as smooth as he had hoped. Plus, there is a strange carnival barker on the corner who keeps spinning out a weird bally.

Raspberry Fizz is an exploration of expectations and the potentialities of the future tied up in a tender and humorous slice-of-life coming-of-age encounter between two adolescents in 1949, in small town America.

I'm super-pleased with these wonderful little one-acts, but, not being full-length works, after they have played a few times in a few productions, I was at a loss of what to do with them. So, I decided to make them available to the world as inexpensive Kindle ebooks.

Get a copy of Raspberry Fizz... HERE

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update of Solo Performer ebook now available

An update of my little ebook 7 Considerations for the Solo Performer is now available on Scribd. It was originally posted in 2011 and now I have updated it a bit. Feel free to download or read. It is under a non-commercial Creative Commons license. Feel fee to share (as long as you give proper attribution to moi).

The book is a short introduction targeted at those putting together their own solo show. Covers things like developing the "why" of a project, different kinds of historical solo performance, framing devices, using the language of theatre and more.

Take a look... HERE