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EDWARD CROSBY WELLS |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Kristine McGovern, Literary Agent |
International award-winning American playwright, Edward "Edd" Crosby Wells, has had scores of plays produced from coast to coast in the U.S. and in Barcelona. One of his most successful comedies, 3 Guys in Drag Selling Their Stuff (1999), was awarded Best
Plays by Edward Crosby Wells
20th Century Sketches | ||
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| 1st Published: | Crosby Wells, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41518 | |||
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Genre: | 10 Short Skits Sketch | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Comic highlights from each decade of the 20th Century are captured in this series | |||||
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21 Today | ||
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| 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 | #125078 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Confessions of a serial killer | |||||
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3 Guys in Drag Selling Their Stuff | ||
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Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Cyberpress | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41519 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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| Diva, Lillian, and Tink (three men in drag) are having a yard sale to raise funds for a Faberge egg in which to place the ashes of Diva's dead husband. Diva bosses Lillian, whose principal expertise is making punch with ingredients that could fuel a rocket. Tink is confined to a wheelchair, mostly comatose, but when she does try to make herself heard, the others invariably misunderstand, causing dire consequences. The miscommunications of this misfit trio cause a friend to be run over by a pickup truck while trying to cross the street with her walker. We meet an entire neighborhood of characters through the eyes of the "ladies" during the course of their yard sale, including Diva's mother who has the yard wired with eavesdropping devices and is listening in from her room in a nursing home across the street. Finally, in an explosive climax, the day's shenanigans result in a police shootout when someone plays with a starter pistol filled with blanks. | |||||
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Civil Unionized | ||
| 1st Produced: | Barcelona, Spain | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Crosby Wells, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41520 | |||
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Genre: | Short Skit One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | This takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the debate over gay marriage and civil unions | |||||
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Cornered | ||
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| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Lavendar Ink - Four Gay One Act Plays" published by Crosby Wells | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95189 | |||
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Genre: | Fifteen minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Black is accused of murdering his long term partner. Whyte is assessing him to see if he can stand trial | |||||
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Curse Of The Snake Woman | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2002 | ||||
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 | #106289 | |||
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Genre: | Black comedy | |||||
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Synopsis: | The Third Reich is anxious to get it's hands on an American secret weapon. From her mansion in Hollywood Baroness Von Cobra and her henchman Otto Python set about getting the plans for the weapon. But private eye Dick Palmer and his girlfriend who works in Woolworths are about to thwart them | |||||
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Edward Crosby Wells is Alive and Well and Living in the The Venus Arms | ||
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| 1st Published: | Crosby Wells, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41521 | |||
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Genre: | Black Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | This black comedy features the playwright himself. Spiritless, Wells is threatened by the night manager of The Venus Arms, a residential hotel, with permanent dispossession, leaving an empty,'though very animated body. Four literati arrive to perform an "inorcism" (as opposed to an exorcism) to restore Wells's spirit. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas along with Oscar Wilde and Marcel Proust raise havoc while trying to raise the consciousness of the subject of their inorcism in this fun-filled, clever and very diabolical farce. And Franz Kafka, the night manager, keeps popping up in the form of a cockroach seemingly intent on the playwright's doom. WARNING - Read at your own risk. Or, you could find yourself possessed and living in The Venus Arms - permanently ! | |||||
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Flowers Out Of Season | ||
| 1st Produced: | Director's Lab at Circle Repertory Company in NYC | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Crosby Wells, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41522 | |||
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Genre: | Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Quite simply the best unsolicited manuscript I have ever read. It throws together sex, religion and suicide in a fresh, original and transcendent way . . . I stopped paying attention to character, plot, dialogue etc. and just turned the pages to see how it would come out . . . I think I have just seen the future of American Theatre. It reminds one of young Albee (if he had written about sex and religion in the Southwest). While there is nothing formally or stylistically new . . . it charts what seems to me totally uncharted territory. It concerns a couple who, in desperate financial and religious straits, decide to commit suicide so their children can go on. In Act One the husband kills the wife (while singing Here She Comes" from the Miss America contest) and then in Act Two the husband, BUCK, goes out and finds a woman who - after one of the most sensual, exciting "sex scenes" I've ever read - is persuaded to kill him. As a plot alone, this is fascinating. But it is carried off in a thrillingly theatrical manner . . . ". Michael Bourne, then an intern at Circle Repertory Company in NYC, wrote the above as part of his script evaluation in May, 1987 | |||||
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Indifference | ||
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| 1st Published: | Crosby Wells, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41523 | |||
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Genre: | 20 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | All is metaphor in this brief, moving slice-of-life drama. She's working on her memoirs. Her memory is not what it used to be. He's turned his back on field-work and writing to teach anthopology at the local community college. Together they have shared thirty years of marriage. It is the last day of summer and he tries to coax her into a walk in the woods | |||||
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Leaving Tampa | ||
| 1st Produced: | Director's Lab at Circle Repertory Company in NYC | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Crosby Wells, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41524 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | In this One-Act drama, Wells turns his attention to examining gay self-hate, abusive relations, the role of the gay male in relationship to his father and in relationship to Christianity. Roy, bitter about childhood abuse by his father, sits with his lover in an airport restaurant on their way home from Roy's father's funeral. At another table sits the ghost of the father, whom only Roy can see. The dialogue between Roy and his lover overlaps with that of his father - building to an unexpected and emotional climax. | |||||
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Moon Away, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Devanaughn Theatre, Boston, MA | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Crosby Wells, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41525 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Based on a true story, this powerful and intense drama takes place between September 1984 and April 1985. Joe, a photographer in southern New Mexico while grappling with his identity as a gay man, is suddenly thrown into a nightmare world when he is wrongly accused of criminal sexual contact with a minor. The story follows seven months of his life as he struggles to overcome his obstacles. Dream sequences and flashbacks take the audience on a surreal journey through the nightmare world of the inner-self and the hostile environment in which Joe finds himself. | |||||
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Next | ||
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| 1st Published: | Crosby Wells, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41526 | |||
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Genre: | 15min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 4 actors | |||||
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Synopsis: | An existential exercise about four characters in a waiting room unaware of what it is they are waiting for | |||||
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Pedaling to Paradise | ||
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| 1st Published: | Crosby Wells, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41527 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Sally and Teddy have reached a point in their lives where their insecurities and lessening sense of worth have begun to affect their good judgment. They pedal and pedal on their exercise bikes and get nowhere while trying to "get fit.". It's all about cosmetics and getting your man in order to feel complete, or is it? Is "getting fit" worth it? Are men all that necessary? Is Paradise all it's cracked up to be? What exactly is "fit?". Pedal, girls, pedal! | |||||
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Pink Gin for the Blues | ||
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| 1st Published: | Crosby Wells, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41528 | |||
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Genre: | 30 min One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | A monologue for a mature drag queen. Trick, a sadder but wiser drag queen, in her cups, sits at a bar where she pours her heart out about lost love and lost innocence | |||||
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Proctologist's Daughter, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Spotlight On Productions, NYC | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Crosby Wells, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41529 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Gorilla & Cobra | |||||
Notes: | aka Curse of the Snake Woman | |||||
Synopsis: | A comedic look at the film noir of the 1940s. Baroness Von Cobra is the epitome of the "dragon lady" of this particular genre - a spy for the Third Reich, running her operation from her mansion high atop the Hollywood Hills where Otto Papschmier, her ever-faithful servant, and Frau Schnapps, her deviously clever housekeeper, assist her. There is a secret weapon that the Third Reich is anxious to get its hands on but all attempts are foiled by Dick Palmer, the cool secret agent for the Allied Secret Submarine Service (ASSS) and his girlfriend, Velma Lombard the Woolworth's saleslady and wannabe movie star. | |||||
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Roadkill | ||
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| 1st Published: | in 2009: The Best 10-Minute Plays for Two or More Actors, Smith & Kraus (December 1, 2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1575257594 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41530 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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| We meet Mary and Joey, a young homeless couple waiting by the side of the road for Joey's ride to his first day on his new job. In the shopping cart along with all their belongings, is their infant son. Optimism abounds next to the roadkill they find along the side of the road | |||||
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Streets of Old New York | ||
| 1st Produced: | Iridium Jazz Club in NYC | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Crosby Wells, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41531 | |||
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Genre: | Sing-Along Musical Melodrama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | Get ready to sing and have a barrel of fun in this 1890s style sing-along musical. Cheer the good guys and hiss the villains. Gideon Bloodgood, a corrupt banker in old New York, together with his partner in crime, Badger, cook the books and rob the innocent. Bloodgood's daughter, Alida, is no angel herself as she plots to marry into Society, even at the cost of a couple of broken hearts. Murder, suicide, intigue and treachery of every kind abound in this play of manners and morals. Freely adapted from the 1857 drama The Poor of New York by Dion Boucicault. | |||||
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Tales From Darkest Suburbia | ||
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| 1st Published: | Crosby Wells, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #46251 | |||
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Genre: | Black Comedy, full length Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | A diabolically black comedy constructed in six interconnected tales-each complete in themselves-that explore the typical quirks associated with American Suburbia-murder, adultery, blackmail, kidnapping, cutthroat art critics, devious financial advisors, cannibalism, back-stabbing divas, renegade nuns, Tallulah Bankhead and the nature of reality. A peach of a play | |||||
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Thor's Day | ||
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| 1st Published: | Crosby Wells, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41532 | |||
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Genre: | Thriller | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Philip, a middle-aged insurance salesman, brings home a gorgeous young man for an afternoon tryst. Their encounter is fraught with pleasure and danger as the clock ticks down to an explosive and unexpected climax. Perhaps possessed with supernatural powers, Buck takes Philip on a breathtaking, life-altering journey into the unexplored territory of his long-suppressed and hidden desires. Intelligent, erotic, powerful, provocative and terrifying, this thriller is sure to keep an audience on the edge of its seat. | |||||
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Tough Cookies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Rep East Theatre, Albuquerque, NM | 1988 | ||||
Company: | New Mexico Repertory Company's Theatre-in-the-Making | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0573651310 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41533 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
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| Set in the formerly oil-rich desert Southwest, this play explores the lives of two generations of women living under one roof. The story centers on Jo who, after her father dies, takes in her feisty mother. The dialogue between them and with a long-time neighbor is, at once, outrageously funny and heart-breakingly tragic. These women tear and rip into each other's psyche with reckless abandon and something barely resembling love. The cookies in question may or may not be poisoned, but just beneath the surface these women hide a more potent poison-the deadly venom accumulated over years of unfulfilled dreams mixed with the sudden and bitter acceptance of a life unrealized. If you like your tragedies hysterically funny then take a bite of this. | |||||
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Vampyre Holiday | ||
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| 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 | #125077 | |||
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Synopsis: | Bambi applies to be the nanny for Santa's elves - but neither of them are what they seem to be | |||||
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West Texas Massacre | ||
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| 1st Published: | Crosby Wells, | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41534 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 | ||
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Synopsis: | Marsha is the Queen of a West Texas community theatre. With her, it is always about Marsha - Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! Marsha is having an affair with Doctor Hal. Marsha's husband, Mike, is having an affair with Alyson. Alyson, Botoxed and liposuctioned, is the pretender to the Queen's throne. Is Bill the teacher having an affair with one of his students? Marsha's world is filled with intrigue, back-stabbing, secret board meetings and double-dealings. We learn all about the actors and their diabolical plots as they perform Massacre at Dirty Gulch, a rootin'-tootin' old-time melodrama, written, directed and starring none other than - Marsha! Marsha plays Mary Holiday whose illegitimate daughter is abducted by Indians. The Indian Princess Desert Flower, played by Alyson, sheds her feathers and we discover her to be none other than Mean Mabel Wiggens, the She-Scourge of the West. Marsha's husband plays Bad Bart Blackey who is in cahoots with Mean Mabel. Marsha's daughter plays Mary's daughter who returns to be reunited with her mother after many years of back-aching work in a house of ill repute. Was it the Bible or a bullet that done-in Madam Lillie? The two melodramas quickly become intermingled with enough devious-doings to curl the moustache on Fu Manchu. And then, of course, there is a massacre. Oh, what bloody fun! | |||||
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