Art by Riley Meehan
Stay for Dinner is a short romantic comedy. It was one of the six finalists of the 2019 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and was published in the 44th Off Off Broadway Festival Play Compilation.
Joe is stuck. Literally. His job as a severed head in a haunted house has its ups and downs. On one hand, he spends most of his night confined under a table. On the other, he gets to spend time chatting with his crush. But how does a guy make his move when he can’t… move?
Press about Stay for Dinner and the experience of the 2019 festival:
Broadway World The Winston-Salem Journal The Culpeper Star-Exponent Triad City Beat
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The Witch in the Woods is a scripted, family-friendly horror podcast. Yes, we said family friendly horror.
The podcast follows four children as they seek out the witch in the woods on a dare. They befriend her and her familiars: a fastidious dog named Barnaby and a snarky cat named Grimalkin. To prove to their friends that they’ve visited the witch, Barnaby and Grimalkin tell them supernatural stories and spine-chilling tales. As Season One unfolds, the children find themselves in a scary story of their own when faced with a supernatural threat. Will they be able to count on the witch to help them? Or does she have threatening motivations of her own?
Aimed at a middle grade/young adult audience and featuring classic tales such as The Hook Hand, The Vanishing Hitchhiker and Bloody Mary, this podcast balances laugh out loud humor with gasp out loud spookiness. It will have you and your children wondering: “Am I brave enough to be listening to this? And when does the next episode come out?”
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Caitlin Stafford and Michael Ackerman Photo Credit: Shannon Murphy
Other short plays have been produced around the country, and you can find them on New Play Exchange. The Bathtub Play, a one-act monologue that features a woman stuck in her bathtub and unable to get out because of a broken foot, was produced by The Feral Theatre Company for the 2020 Minnesota Fringe Festival. First Day on the Job and Sunshine Boy were selected for the 2019 and 2020 Winston-Salem 10 Minute Play Festivals, and Dark Web, A Night in Keen Cottage and Xanax and Mimosas were all produced as staged readings by Spirit Gum Theatre Company.