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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LANGDON on YouTube

I just discovered that someone recorded a video of my one act LANGDON, THE SEASONAL BARISTA and posted it on YouTube. I'm not mad. Just weird that it showed up there.

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Nice Write-Up in TheaterJones about LANGDON, THE SEASONAL BARISTA

Yule Laugh, Yule Cry

Sharp actors bring laughs and drama to eight short holiday-themed plays in A Very Nouveau Holiday at the Margo Jones Theatre.

by Martha Heimberg | TheaterJones.com | December 13, 2017

Dallas — Take the Fair Park exit and drive past the huge parking lots at the 5,000-seat Music Hall to the Margo Jones Theatre, a small black box theater housed in the art deco-style Magnolia Lounge Building.  This elegant structure is the home of Nouveau 47 Theatre, currently showing its fifth annual production of short, holiday-themed plays by local playwrights, called A Very Nouveau Holiday. The fifth annual showcase is the work of Executive Producer Erin Singleton and Associate Producer Cain Rodriguez.

Small, swift, well-acted productions are special gifts any time of year, and these minimally produced plays are a happy anecdote to the many big holiday shows, featuring buckets of artificial snow and actors sweating in heavy winter costumes.


Each play here is 10 to 15-minutes long, and the actors bring not only their honed skills but also their props—a couch, a coffee bar, a laptop—to the stage. Some plays work better than others, but the subthemes of holiday joy and sadness are different and all the actors are solid. What’s fun to watch is the necessarily rapid rise to conflict and equally speedy resolution. Ribs show.

Emily Faith, Robert Long and Monalisa Amidar in
LANGDON, THE SEASONAL BARISTA

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My favorite play is Brad McEntire’s Langdon the Seasonal Barista, a surprising and hilarious three-scener about a non-hibernating bear hooked on coffee trying to keep his gig at Starbucks without mauling customers with love hugs and withstanding the ruthlessly upbeat HR woman who comes to the shop for an employee review. Tight, revealing and truly comic!

Directors working in the production include Andra Hunter, Rebecca McDonald, Brad McEntire and David Meglino.

Dallas is lucky to have a deep acting pool, evident in virtually all the shows I see in town. Actors filling multiple roles here are: Monalisa Amidar, J. R. Bradford, Cameron Casey, Emily Faith, Robert Long, Chris Messersmith, Charles Ratcliff II, and Jerome Stein.

Everybody’s good in their shifts of character, but I was totally knocked out by Robert Long, recently seen in Waiting for Lefty at Upstart Productions. He plays a caffeine-deprived bear, a depressive Santa and a goody-good teenager with riveting confidence, but somehow always keeping something of himself in his striking angular face and tense, wiry body. More, please.

Singleton and company invite you to BYOB and a friend, get obnoxiously loud with your laughter, and take all the photos you want.

Original post... HERE

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A Very Nouveau Holiday 2017

For the fifth year in a row I have a play in Nouveau 47 Theatre's A Very Nouveau Holiday collection of ten-minute plays. This event is usually quirky, thoughtful, hilarious, pensive and satirical! 

This year I am directing the world premiere of my own play Langdon, The Seasonal Barista. I am also directing Jonathan Kravetz's (formerly of Dallas and now based in NYC) heart-breaking piece Mr. Crispy. 

Langdon is a hilarious exploration of FOMO gone wrong. It features a bear who works at a coffeeshop during the winter instead of hibernating and the trouble he has navigating the workplace. Mr. Crispy is a sci-fi tear-jerker that deals with the last night of a relationship between a failed screenwriter and the song-writing friend he has an infatuation with.

Robert Long and Monalisa Amidar in rehearsal for LANGDON, THE SEASONAL BARISTA

These two pieces are joined by short plays by area writers Franky Gonzalez, Allison Hibbs, Jim Kuenzer, Ben Schroth, Greg Silva and Christopher Stephen Soden! 

A rockstar ensemble of directors, besides myself, include Andra Hunter, Becki McDonald, and fellow College of Santa Fe alumn David Meglino!

Actors in the project include Monalisa Amidar, JR Bradford, Cameron Casey, Emily Faith, Robert Long, Chris Messersmith, Charles Themayor Ratcliff and Jerome Stein!

Playing Fridays thru Mondays beginning December 8 - 23, 2017. Showtimes are 8:15, except Sundays (which offer 2 PM matinee times). At the Margo Jones Theatre, Fair Park, Dallas TX.

Admission $18. Student/Senior discounts available. Click HERE for tickets.

A Very Nouveau Holiday 2016

For the last three years I have participated in Nouveau 47 Theatre's annual collection of short seasonal plays called A Very Nouveau Holiday. I'm pleased that once again a play of mine has been accepted.

Here's a blurb about the evening as a whole.

The production is made up of eight short plays about the holidays. As in previous years, the plays are from local, Texas playwrights and every one is a new work! The plays cover a wide range of topics, from send ups of popular holiday images (what if snow globe figures could talk?) to somber pieces that express how the holidays can make us question what we believe.

My piece this year is called CRANDALL ON PLANET X-16. It is set on an alien world as we join a group of galactic troopers mid-invasion. One of them is having a debilitating case of homesickness at the worse possible time. Directed by Chris McCleary.

CRANDALL ON PLANET X-16 in rehearsal

Here's the details:

Nouveau 47 presents A Very Nouveau Holiday 2016, playing December 9th-23rd, 2016. Playwrights include: Justin Locklear, Jim Kuenzer, Erin Burdette, James Burnside, Bill Otstott, Brad McEntire, Greg Silva, Christopher Soden and Chris-James Cognetta. Playing at the historic Margo Jones Theater in the Magnolia Lounge at Fair Park (1121 1st Ave. Dallas, TX). Performances are at 8:15pm on Fridays, 5:00 on Saturdays, 6:30pm on Sunday with pay-what-you-can performances on Mondays at 8:15pm. Tickets are $20 Fri.-Sat. and $15 on Sundays. More details can be found at Facebook.com/N47Theatre.

Nice write up about THE YETI IN THE AIRPORT LOUNGE

My little playlet THE YETI IN THE AIRPORT LOUNGE got a nice little write-up in the Dallas Observer.

IN 10 SHORT NEW PLAYS, N47 THEATRE EXPLORES THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF HOLIDAYS
By Elaine Liner | December 18, 2015 | Dallas Observer

DeWayne Blundell, in snowbeast drag, listens to Andra Laine Hunter’s monologue in
Brad McEntire’s The Yeti in the Airport Lounge.

Of the 90 scripts submitted to N47 (formerly Nouveau 47 Theatre) for this festival, 10 were picked to put on the stage, each about 10 minutes long. A couple of the scripts are real standouts, though you’ll sit through some Debbie Downers (about the dead moms) to get to the good stuff. And they are Scrooge-budget productions. A few chairs and a folding table or two make up the scenery. Six actors zip in and out of each of the shows. Alex Bigus, Jim Kuenzer, Rebecca McDonald and Nic McMinn share directing credit. Erin Singleton produced all of it.

If there’s a running theme in this year’s entries in N47 Theatre’s A Very Nouveau Holiday mini-fest at the Margo Jones Theatre in Fair Park, it’s that Christmas just isn’t the same after Mom dies. Or if you’re stuck at the airport with the Abominable Snowman. Or if a comic book super hero can’t bring you out of your coma. You know, the usual fa-la-la-derol.
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Brad McEntire’s The Yeti in the Airport Lounge, directed by Kuenzer, finds a chatty woman (Hunter) stuck in a waiting lounge next to a patient Arizona-bound Himalayan snowbeast (DeWayne Blundell in head-to-paw white fur). Yeti listens as his fellow traveler unloads her woes in a rapid-fire monologue about a wayward boyfriend, her fear of going back home alone for the holidays and her personal issues about control and abandonment. Yeti never says a word, just offers the lady a juice box and a big fuzzy shoulder to cry on. A little dance party erupts. A friendship is made. And McEntire’s playlet reminds us that anonymous airport oversharing sometimes helps pass the time between flights.

Full review... HERE

Pics from CORNER OFFICE SKY

RUDNICK in TheaterJones

RUDNICK in performance at the Margo Jones Theatre

Nice review of A VERY NOUVEAU HOLIDAY in TheaterJones.com with a nice mention of my play RUDNICK THE CANDLE-HEADED BOY:

[Brian] Witkowicz ... also scores as the title character in Brad McEntire’s Rudnick the Candle-Headed Boy, a cheeky retelling of a certain reindeer myth.

Bring your mom (as long as she doesn’t mind quite a bit of blue language) or drag your loved one or create a decidedly untraditional tradition for the season. Hopefully this concept will return again next year.

See the whole review HERE.