Plays Available for Production

Full-length Plays

Shakespeare’s Robin V

Shakespeare’s Robin V is a mock Shakespearean tragedy in blank verse based on the legend of Robin Hood and the history of Richard the Lionheart. A comedy in five acts, Robin V follows Robin of Loxley as he struggles to convince his merry band of men to use their stolen wealth to help the poor and save his true love, King Richard, from captivity in Germany before the dummy-prince John usurps the throne of England.

Shakespeare’s Robin V has had staged readings at National Taichung Theater and 2-3 Comedy Club in Taiwan.

Kit Marlowe’s Henry

Kit Marlowe’s Henry is a mock Renaissance tragedy based on the life of Henry Fitzroy, bastard son of Henry VIII and one-time contender for the throne. Fitzroy was married at 15, died at 17, and never consummated his marriage. It is a consummate tragedy. But Henry is not just a comedy about sex and erectile dysfunction written in blank verse. It is a story of a love that grows out of friendship. It is also a story of a love that turns to poison, as Anne Boleyn and her execution by her own husband plays a prominent role in the plot.  

Ben Jonson’s Dogsbody

Ben Jonson’s Dogsbody is a mock Shakespearean tragedy in blank verse based on the real life history of Sir Henry Norris, King Henry VIII’s Groom of Stool. A comedy in five acts, Dogsbody tells the story of the king’s best friend and greatest political ally, executed after being accused of sleeping with Anne Boleyn. Henry Norris lived a tragic life with tainted hands before he died with a tainted name. A shittier tragedy has yet to be written.

Thomas Kyd’s The Scottish Lady

Thomas Kyd’s The Scottish Lady is a mock Renaissance tragedy in blank verse based on the short reign of Gruoch, Queen of Scotland and wife of the tyrant Macbeth. A comedy in five acts, The Scottish Lady goes behind the scenes of Shakespeare’s more famous version, revealing Gruoch’s machinations as she bribes three old women to pose as witches and set her plan in motion. Her fight against toxic masculinity is ultimately futile, however, so she takes her own life in the tragic denouement. 

Thomas Kyd’s The Scottish Lady has had a staged reading at 2-3 Comedy Club in Taiwan and has been selected for Baltimore Playwrights Festival, 2027.

Tom Middleton and The Ur-Thello

Imagine a world where black men are regularly beaten and killed by white men in power simply for being black. Now put down today’s paper and imagine it’s the English Renaissance. This is Urthello’s world, but this is not Urthello’s play. This is Tom Middleton’s play, a tragedy in five acts about a white writer who has no idea what it’s like to be black. But he tries. Before Shakespeare wrote all those racist tropes in Othello, Middleton did it better. Tom Middleton and The Ur-thello—black comedy at its best.

Tom Middleton and The Ur-thello was featured in Baltimore Playwrights Festival, 2025.

Elizabeth Cary’s I AM TITANIA

Elizabeth Cary’s I AM TITANIA is a Mock Renaissance Tragedy in blank verse about a bicameral Amazon warrior struggling to comprehend the cryptic voice inside her head. Titania is not just a warrior though—she is the famous Amazon fighter who once defeated Achilles. Now the Trojan war is raging, and her wife and sisters need her, but her filial piety and a hallucinated goddess hold her back. Queen Penthesilea fights the half-god Greek in her stead, and we all know how that turned out—torn between love and family obligation, Titania loses it all.

Witch’s Tit

Witch’s Tit is a dark comedy set in Puritan New England. The protagonist, Bessie Bloodsmyth, is accused of witchcraft by the obsessive town minister, though it is her wife who is caught by the constable. When her Sarah is hanged, Bloodsmyth plots revenge against the minister who did it and the mayor who encouraged it. This play is not a crucible of women, but of men.  

Witch’s Tit was shortlisted in the 2024 Epiphanies New Works Festival.

Pandemonium in Blank Verse

When Peter Pan “rescues” young James Hooke, the boy who never grows up is immediately smitten. After being unexpectedly inducted into Peter’s crew of Lost Ones, James starts to wonder what really happens to the orphans who are sent to Never- Neverland. When he discovers the dark truth, James steals Peter’s magic dust, hijacks the Jolly Roger and its crew, and makes it his life’s mission to defeat the insidious Peter Pan. 

One-Act Plays

God Project

The students at Numen University have an assignment: Project Creation. But this project is a little too much for Gawd, who gives it a shot but misses the mark. Despite accidentally flooding the project and really having no clue what to do, Gawd creates a dramatic and compelling world that could be this year’s winner. If only it survives.

Terminal

Jim is dead, but his consciousness lives on in a computer simulation called VirtuEarth™. It’s a perfect simulation, but there is one thing missing—his wife, Siri. After promising to meet Jim in virtual reality, Siri ends up there with another man. But one day, 100 years after Jim’s death, Siri returns to him. Jim should be happy, but he struggles with the thought of Siri loving another. When he decides to end his existence in VirtuEarth™ by taking the “train to Terminal,” Siri tries to join him, a gesture that restores his will to live. So to speak.

Death Is Hell: The Gospel of Nicodemus (Abridged)

Jesus is sent to Hell after the crucifixion to retrieve a list of Old Testament heroes for his dad, but he fails. Miserably. And his dad is not the forgiving type.

Coming Soon

John Webster’s Jews of Hormuz

A ruthless Jewish arms dealer in 16th century Hormuz concocts a plan to rack up sales, but his daughter’s illicit love affair and a couple of secret agents cause him to be hoisted by his own petard.

After his father is brutally murdered, the boy Fleance assembles a team of certainly not children and sets out on a journey that begins as a quest for revenge and turns into a road of trials that none of them expected.