Award winning dramatist/screenwriter Ed Shockley shares unique insights into the craft of playwrighting plus practical suggestions for career development. "It's not how well you write, it's how well you see," says Shockley. These insightful and often humorous essays, created to assist adult and student authors during his decade long tenure as artistic director for the Philadelphia Dramatist Center, are certain to help a new generation of writers develop the vision that has earned Mr. Shockley five box office records and acknowledgement by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Notes from a Practicing Writer: The Craft, Career, and Aesthetic of Playwriting

Shockley, Ed

Humor & Entertainment

Hopewell Publications

The audience experiences the landmark Swann v. Board of Education case that completed the integration of American schools through the dream of a young African-American girl injured in a public school riot. With Jim Crow appearing in the guise of a giant trickster bird to battle the forces of progress, this award-winning epic begins at World War II and journeys to the moment when two innocent children can sit side by side en route to a new era in our nation's history. About 120 minutes. Flexible cast of 12-50. Ideal for middle schools, high schools, youth theatres, universities, and community theatres. Published and performances licensed by YouthPLAYS (www.youthplays.com), publisher of plays for young actors and audiences.

A Stranger on the Bus

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

YouthPLAYS

A modern painter struggles to capture the essence of the King Street Custom House clash that became immortalized in the historic engravings of Paul Revere. The entire stage is a giant canvas, and actors create tableaux with their bodies in response to her “painting.” These pictures animate to show key figures and moments leading up to and following the deadly confrontation between reluctant soldiers and rowdy townsmen. Future President John Adams defends Captain Preston and his men, while the painter explores events from every imaginable perspective until arriving at a final portrait that communicates the immortal themes that inspired a new nation. 40-50 minutes. Gender-flexible cast of 14-40+. Ideal for middle schools, hight schools, youth theatres, universities and community theatres. Published and performances licensed by YouthPLAYS (www.youthplays.com), publisher of plays for young actors and audiences.

The Boston Massacre

Let YouthPLAYS lead you on a quest for comedy with fifteen short plays all in one comic collection, ideal for short play festivals, classroom scene study and competition. From dirty toilet seat-induced “pregnancies” to the agonizing search for just the right outfit to turning nuclear weapons into dating accessories, teen performers will find a wide variety of comic subjects and styles to stretch their acting chops and tickle their funny bones. Anthology of 15 short plays running 5-15 minutes each. 2-21 males, 2-30 females (4-41 performers possible). Ideal for high schools, community theatres, colleges and advanced middle school performers. Plays include Wherefore Art Thou...Todd? by Steven Stack; Time Warp by Karin Diann Williams; After The Hill by Meron Langsner; G.B.F. Forever by Asher Wyndham; Wrong End of the Stick by Trevor Suthers; Vital Organs by Jonathan Dorf; Kadija &amp; Swann by Ed Shockley; Do These Jeans Make My Butt Look Massive? by Donna Latham; Poster Children by Nathan Selinger; The Ants and the Grasshopper by Trevor Suthers; What the Well Dressed Girl is Wearing by Arthur M. Jolly; DragonSlay by Robin Pond; Orni-what? by Nancy Brewka-Clark; How to Get Famous in Theatre by Karin Diann Williams and A-Bomb Wedding by Jonathan Dorf. Published and performances licensed by YouthPLAYS (www.youthplays.com), publisher of plays for young actors and audiences.

Follow That Funny: Fifteen Short Comedies for Teen Actors

Brewka-Clark, Nancy

Dorf, Jonathan

Jolly, Arthur M.

Langsner, Meron

Pond, Robin

Selinger, Nathan

Stack, Steven

Suthers, Trevor

Williams, Karin Diann

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