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Playwright’s Directory
This directory contains unpublished scripts from Mississippi playwights. These scripts were submitted to the Mississippi Theatre Association’s Playwriting Competition in 2008. Scripts will be added to this directory each year as a means of sharing the works of these Mississippi playwrights. Contact the author if you are interested in reading or producing one of these scripts. If you are a Mississippi playwright, consider submitting your script to our annual competition.
| Competition Award | Title | Full Name | Play Description | Characters | Contact Info | Competition Year | Division |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Carp Named Cherry | Peggi Phillips | A one act comedy/drama about an upper class family in the Deep South dealing with a son who brings home a girlfriend beneath their social status. | john_phillips38804@yahoo.com | 2009 | Adult | ||
| A Glass Of Wine At Christmas | Ronny Broussard | The setting is a middle class home. While Matthew , a middle aged gay man, is talking on the phone with his over bearing mother there is an unexpected knock on the door. Its Johnathan, Matthews ex-lover of 6 years, who after 5 long years seeks closure. | ronnys78@cableone.net | 2009 | Adult | ||
| Altered | Adele Elliott | This play is a conversation between an elderly mother and her adult daughter. It takes place one year after Katrina. The daughter, who lost everything in her New Orleans home, tries to adjust to her mother’s life in a small Mississippi town. | 2W, 1M (non speaking) | adeleelliott@bellsouth.net | 2008 | Adult | |
| 2nd Place Winner | At The Floating Palace | Mary Dayle McCormick | At the Floating Palace is a contemporary one-act monodrama. One summer afternoon on a Mississippi River gambling boat, a woman discovers her worth. | mdandhbm@bellsouth.net | 2009 | Adult | |
| 1st Place Winner | Blame the Fool | Kristen Bankston | Blame the Fool is written in a modern – shakespearean voice. It takes place in the 1600s. In the play, Scott wishes nothing more in life than to be with Lea, however, Lea wishes nothing more in life than to be with Scotts married brother, Anthony. | 2009 | Youth | ||
| Crosses | Kevan Jenner Brown | Crosses is what I call a “melodramedy” satirizing elements of Protestant fundmentalism in the Deep South. | kevan@cableone.net | 2009 | Adult | ||
| D | Miles Beard | Young, first time writer Graham is torn over artistic freedom and family ties as he is faced with decisions concerning his future. | 2010 | Adult | |||
| Dangling | Wes Hanson | In an odd possible future, a young ‘creative’ gets a job at an advertising agency where he works dangling from a pole outside the building. He must learn to deal with his sickness (Right Brain Syndrome) as defined by the government’s national health plan. | Wesley.Hanson@usm.edu | 2011 | Adult | ||
| Dinner Guests | Kate Leslie | Tom and Tina live a pretty normal life. Tom works all day, and Tina is the perfect homemaker. One night, Tina invites Betty over for dinner…but Betty brings along an unexpected guest. | kleslie@oxford.k12.ms.us | 2011 | Adult | ||
| 2nd Place Winner | Duality | Frankee T. Harris | New York Times Best Selling Author, Stephen Kopek, is currently working on his new book. However, he finds it extremely difficult to concentrate as he is confronted by severe, recurring nightmares of a tragic childhood memory. | frankeeharris@yahoo.com | 2010 | Youth | |
| Echoes of Merridy | Jules Wood | Told in fairytale style inspired by Hans Christian Anderson, “Echoes of Merridy” follows a young, lonely woman with a beautiful singing voice. Her music had enthralled all the fairies in the surrounding hills, but after Merridy’s loneliness consumes her | 2009 | Youth | |||
| 1st Place Winner | Fishbowl | Suehyla El-Attar | A trip back to the new year of 1998 with two teenagers trying to be heard in the world. Sam has her radio show, Brad has his gun… and a bomb he made out of a speak-n-say. Both have only 1 hour before the bomb explodes and they’re locked in the WNAQ-AM r | suehyla@suehyla.com | 2011 | Adult | |
| 3rd Place Winner | Forgotten | Stephanie Grammar | Eugene, an Alzheimers patient is trapped inside his own mind. He must battle daily to try and free himself. | stephanie.grammar@gmail.com | 2010 | Youth | |
| Freedom to Breathe | Julie Whitehead | Freedom to Breathe is a one-act play set in a hotel room between two people who are thinking about suicide. | bwhitehead@peoplepc.com | 2011 | Adult | ||
| Half-Life | Angela D. Ward | Mick, a part-time waiter and busboy, is a man down-on-his-luck, but the situation was not always this way. What could have befallen such a once promising you man? Will he ever regain the rich, full life he once took for granted? | wardad12@hotmail.com | 2010 | Adult | ||
| Hard Little Heart | Judy Tucker | Single mother and teenaged daughter grapple with their station in life–their past and future. | Dtucker6@comcast.net | 2011 | Adult | ||
| Heart of the Matter | Marianne Hill | The setting is Oklahoma City, April 1995. Katy, a junior in high school, has been killed in the Murrah Federal Building bombing. The play opens with a soliloquy by her grief-stricken mother Marlene, and then flashes back to Katy’s last day at school. | 2M, 4W | mhill@mississippi.edu | 2008 | Adult | |
| 1st Place Winner | His and Hers | Steven Mockler | Roland and Susan are the quintessential power couple. They have good careers, friends, and an apartment, but they arent happy. Throughout the play their subconsiouses, named His and Hers, fight and say everything to each other that Roland and Susan should | menelaus_1@hotmail.com | 2010 | Youth | |
| If You Didnt Do It, Then Who | Martha Carole Jones | marthacarolejones@comcast.net | 2010 | Adult | |||
| 3rd Place Winner | In the Garden | Megan Morrison | High school sweethearts Ruth and Thomas once lived with Thomas’s mother Emily in her large farmhouse in the country. Ruth and Thomas, both artists, experimented with various mediums, cultivated a bountiful garden, and generally shined light and hope into | zamegan@hotmail.com | 2009 | Adult | |
| IZZ.Inc | Elliott Street | “IZZ, Inc.” is a zany new futuristic twist to an age-old folk tale about straw transmuting into a precious metal. “IZZ, Inc.” is a spectacle for the young audience with remote VDU’s, popular modern mythological monsters, and the ultimate LHC of all. | ezzstreet@comcast.net | 2011 | Adult | ||
| Justice is Blind | Katrina Byrd | Huntersville all white police force is being forced by the mayor to hire a person of color. As they await the arrival of “The New Guy” they have two murders to solve. Both victims were found on Cooper Rd not far from Buck Sim’s trailor. | mhservices@bellsouth.net | 2011 | Adult | ||
| 2nd Place Winner | Knightmare | Genevieve Miller | julep6@aol.com | 2011 | Youth | ||
| 1st Place Winner | Letting It Ride | James Pfrehm | Letting It Ride tells the story of a young married couple, financially strapped yet expecting their first child, and the standoff between them and the grandmother-to-be when the unexpected happens: their unborn child is diagnosed with Down Syndrome. Inev | 3W, 2M | pfrehmj2001@yahoo.com | 2008 | Adult |
| Lost in Ifugao | Angela Ward | Lost in Ifugao centers around Tessa Duvall, a young woman struggling to cope with the traumatic death of her boyfriend while both were Peace Corps volunteers. Although she was once outgoing and ambitious, she now finds herself unable to leave her apartme | wardad12@hotmail.com | 2009 | Adult | ||
| Love and Loss | Destiny Reynolds | xx_dessy_xx@yahoo.com | 2011 | Youth | |||
| Love Notes | Naiemah Brown | Love Notes is a one-act play about art, romance, youthfulness, and the unexpected beauty that comes with following the natural course of life. The main characters are Nina and Alleghany, both of whom are high school students and best friends. | nbrown.t1@gmail.com | 2010 | Youth | ||
| Memories | Heather Bourque | In a futuristic society, there is a power controlling all of its subjects. This power is called Socie. They take away all forms of expression, love, and happiness. Two children, each honing extraordinary Gifts, accidently meet and become instant friends. | hlb007@yahoo.com | 2009 | Adult | ||
| 2nd Place Winner | Moving Out on Tuesday | Patti Brummett | Moving Out on Tuesday is a family comedy about a lonely teenager worried that no one loves her as she gets shuffled around one summer while her parents divorce. She ends up moving into the quirky side of her family–her Aunt Honey and her aunts mother. | 2009 | Youth | ||
| 3rd Place Winner | My First Love | Brittany Womack | After the death of Chriss mother, he becomes more of an alcoholic. His wife, Lori, tries to help him with his problems. Old tensions between Chris and his brother Reuben resurface because Reuben was Loris former boyfriend until he left town because of a j | 2009 | Youth | ||
| New Roman Comedy | Karon Davis | kjd38@hotmail.com | 2009 | Adult | |||
| No Longer a Stage | Allison Price | A one act farce in which three play characters come to life and interact with the actors and playwright to the confusion of all. | allisonlvn@hotmail.com | 2011 | Youth | ||
| 1st Place Winner | Patience Tolerance Kindness | Dayton Williams | A witty comedy that involves a lawyer waiting in line at the DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles)who deals with a psychopath and her strange mood swings. | 2011 | Youth | ||
| 3rd Place Winner | Picture Perfect? | Tabitha Tovey | The play gives insight into the lives of teens who have a lot to deal with in their lives. It also shows that the people who deal with the most are often extremely strong. | tabithtaovey@yahoo.com | 2011 | Youth | |
| 4th Place Winner | Re(Pete) | Megan Morrison | Tired of repeating relationship blunders, Chelsea joins a tech-savy dating service. She brings her “self”, Shay, along with her, much to the disapproval of the dating service counselor. | zamegan@hotmail.com | 2011 | Adult | |
| Return to Mississippi | Paulina Dennis | A young African American Singer/composer/guitarists, comes back to Mississippi some 20 years after the Freedom Summer of 1964, partially to come to terms with some of the things that summer; and to come to terms with changes in her life. | ppkdennis@ms.metrocast.net | 2011 | Adult | ||
| Reunion | Martha Carole Jones | Reunion describes middle-aged Martha Janes return to her hometown for a class reunion. She also has expectations of having another kind of reunion with Tommy, her long-ago first love. She is anxious to see if Tommy and her husband, Leslie, look alike. | marthacarolejones@comcast.net | 2009 | Adult | ||
| Saddle Whispers | Kellie Olson | Lizzie McCallister and her teenage daughter, Jackie, have had a rough year. Lizzie’s husband, Billy, was killed in a drunk driving accident and she has been forced to continue raising Jackie alone, while keeping their horse farm up and running with the h | kelliehudson@hotmail.com | 2011 | Adult | ||
| 1st Place Winner | See Jane Quit | Beth Kander | See Jane. Jane is a chain-smoking, single, thirty-year-old waitress living with her aging-Southern-belle grandmother, Bessie. But her lifes not so bad – she has a calm, sweet big brother named James; her brother’s wife, Diane, is her best friend; and ther | beth_kander@yahoo.com | 2009 | Adult | |
| Shoot or Be Shot | Koreen Hull | koreen.hull@yahoo.com | 2011 | Youth | |||
| Something to Remember | Rachel Thone | It’s the last show of the year! However, these seniors are bored. Will they be able to entertain themselves and keep their friendships intact? Will they be able to get along enough to perform? No matter what happens, it will certainly be “Something to Rem | nikkithone@yahoo.com | 2010 | Youth | ||
| Spill Baby, Spill | Ray Dailey | In an ironic twist of fate, after deep water drilling is allowed in the Gulf of Mexico in an attempt to improve life and the economy, a rig explodes bringing death, destruction and ecomomic misery. | raydailey1@gmail.com | 2011 | Adult | ||
| Tales From The Closet | Nathan Maxwell | It is a collection of six scenes. They each involve a strange subject or strange ending. | 2madnmmax2@gmail.com | 2011 | Youth | ||
| Terminal | Beth Kander | Sara and Melanie are two strangers waiting in an airport terminal. Their plane is delayed, and chatty Melanie keeps attempting to strike up a conversation with shy Sara. Just before they board their flight, Sara confesses she is going to visit her estrang | 1M, 3W | 2008 | Adult | ||
| 1st Place Winner | Thanks to Mama | Kevan Jenner Brown | Set between the 1960s and 2009, and told from two different points of view and memories, this play portrays the psychological damage inflicted upon a loyal, hard-working young man by his needy and manipulative mother. | kevan@cableone.net | 2010 | Adult | |
| 3rd Place Winner | The 6th Stage of Grief | Brent Hearn | Two women from different backgrounds–one a young journalist, the other an elderly champion of AIDS research and civil rights–find common ground in personal suffering. | sydekix@yahoo.com | 2011 | Adult | |
| The Bingo Game | Amy Bain | The play is set in the activities room of a mental hospital in Mississippi. We have the activities director and five male patients playing their weekly bingo game. As expected it is a chaotic scene with five very destinct characters vying for the attenti | abain@NMSH.state.ms.us | 2009 | Adult | ||
| The Friend Zone | Willie Mitchell III | The “Friend Zone” is a six-person, one-act play that involves a character named Aeden and his love interest, Semaj. The two are on a double date with a married couple -mutual friends, Damien and Michelle Black. After attending a movie, they dine at Deshun | Willie_Mitchell_iii@excite.com | 2009 | Adult | ||
| The Mayor of Bellwood | Karen Sanford | Today is the last day of work for the 60-yr-old Mayor of Bellwood, Mississippi. He is being charged with bribery in connection with a powerful local drug dealer. Media from all across the state are vying for an interview, but the only press he will see is | karentsanford@aol.com | 2010 | Adult | ||
| 2nd Place Winner | The Playhouse | Joe Frost | 2010 | ||||
| The Swellest Girl I Know | Steven Moockler | The Duncan Brothers Canteen has finally made its way to New Orleans. Its main feature, the Sinclair Sisters, entertain the audience and servicemen with song and dance. Taking place mainly backstage, the girls share stories about their boys overseas. | steven.j.mockler@gmail.com | 2011 | Youth | ||
| 3rd Place Winner | The Visit | Judy H. Tucker | A family visits aging, childless wheelchair ridden Aunt Lillian on the family farm. Lillian owns the farm and the family is concerned about who inherits. There are many family secrets revealed in this one act play. | dtucker6@comcast.net | 2010 | Adult | |
| 2nd Place Winner | The Volunteer | Stonewall Lane | “The Volunteer” is a story of a young man’s first experience with the theatre as a volunteer soliciting phone subscriptions from elderly patrons of the Downhome Repertory Theatre. His telephone calls transport him into adventures and “close contact” with | stonewall4923@bellsouth.net | 2011 | Adult | |
| The Watch They Keep | Judy Tucker | The elderly mother is sinking into senility. The young-middle-age children–one man, alcoholic Jack, two sisters, flighty Sis and deadly serious Sandy, are trying to hold the family and the homestead together. Mama has bestowed all of her gratitude and lo | 2M, 3W | dtucker6@comcast.net | 2008 | Adult | |
| The Wrath of Frankenstein | Ray Dailey | The Wrath of Frankenstein is an original tale of addiction, obsession and Victorian horror. The familiar characters of Shelleys novel explore new, previously unexamined avenues of terror and suspense against the rich tapestry of 19th century Europe. | raydailey1@gmail.com | 2010 | Adult | ||
| Waiting Room | Phyllis Hollenbeck | A doctor’s waiting room is a place of boredom, fear, and aggravation, and some would say a place to wait for God–the famous One or the doctor who thinks he is one. | phyllish@cmc.net | 2011 | Adult | ||
| Who’s Voldermort? | Jessica Byrd | It’s the story of a girl named Cass, who up until the time at the start of her senior year of high school, has been homeschooled and has never heard of anything involved around Harry Potter. | theatre_teen@yahoo.com | 2010 | Youth |
