|
|
RIC AVERILL |
|
Nationality: n/a Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
|
|
Literary Agent: n/a |
Ric Averill has been the Artistic Director of the Seem-To-Be Players professional children's theatre company since he and his wife, Jeanne, founded the company in 1973. Mr. Averill writes plays and music for children, youth, and adults, and has degrees in both Music Composition and Playwriting. Mr. Averill has received numerous playwriting fellowships and been selected for six professional play development symposiums, including the Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival New Plays Competition (Rough Stock), the Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices, and the Indianapolis Bonderman Youth Theatre Playwriting Symposium. Mr. Averill's published plays include The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor; Bird Woman: the Story of Sacagawea; Pixies, Kings, and Magical Things: Four Tales by H.C. Andersen; The Princess and the Pea and other short plays; Alex and the Shrink World; and T-Money and Wolf (with Kevin Willmott). Two of Mr. Averill's screenplays are currently optioned in L.A.: Riding the Pine, with Will Averill, and The Man She Was, a Civil War screenplay, of which there is a stage play by the same name. Included among Mr. Averill's many commissions are the Kennedy Center's Alice in Wonderland,First Stage Milwaukee's Little Drummer Boy, the Kansas Health Foundation's Red Blood and High Purpose, and most recently an opera for children based on the story ofThe Emperor's New Clothes, commissioned by the Kennedy Center.
Plays by Ric Averill
Alex and the Shrink World | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74520 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A young boy shrinks to the size of an ant. He is made King of Shrink World. But then King Brown Spider threatens his world. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Bird Woman: The Story of Sacagawea | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | Making Books Sing | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #101001 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A Shoshone girl plays an important part in the trek of Lewis and Clark | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Frankenstein | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74521 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Childrens one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on the novel by Mary Shelley | |||||
Synopsis: | Student Frankenstein seeks to re-animate life and creates a monster. The monster is befriended by one of the university professors. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Pedro's Magic Shoes (Los Zapatos Magicos) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74522 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
Notes: | 15% in Spanish | |||||
Synopsis: | Pedro must prove that he is the greatest trickster of all time. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Reliable Junk | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74523 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Brainy student, Michael is trying to come to terms with his grandfather's illness. He meets an eccentric inventor who is building a flying machine for another cancer sufferer. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Rough Stock | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lawrence Community Theatre (Lawrence, KS, United States) | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #1326 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | 95-105 min Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 4 males, 4 females | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Ray has left school to live with his father, Wally, on the rodeo circuit. Wally is a hard-living, big-talking, bull-riding cowboy with incorrigible attitudes and appetites. Over the course of a tumultuous weekend, Ray becomes aware of the alcohol and drugs eroding Wally's life and relationships, finds a little romance, and begins to make some choices about how his own life may be similar or different from his father's. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74524 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | Childrens play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 4 to 40 actors | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
T-Money and Wolf | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatic Publishing Company | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133507 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
|
| ||||||
Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Ric Averill and Kevin Wilmott | |||||
Synopsis: | In their respective jail cells the stories of a gang member from New Jersey and a Nazi War Criminal | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
|
