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CARL L WILLIAMS |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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A veteran playwright, Carl L. Williams has won numerous playwriting competitions for his full-length and one-act plays. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and resides in Houston, TX.
Plays by Carl L Williams
20-Year Crush, The (formerly Poetic License) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fort Bend Theatre, Stafford TX | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #63918 | |||
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Genre: | two act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Winner of the Fort Bend (TX) Theatre New Play Contest. | |||||
Synopsis: | Martie's idyllic memories of a poet from her college years rise again when he reappears, willing and able to continue the romance. Her regular-guy husband, who'd rather bowl than read poetry, seems a poor match against the dashing, artistic Brook Oliphant. Martie's best friend Janice, who also knew the suave poet when he was a teaching assistant, is drawn to Brook again as well, especially now that she is recently divorced. Suddenly, their nostalgic used-to-be's contend with the ordinary here-and-now until the women meet one of the professor's current students. They discover that Brook uses the same old poem to romance all his lady friends and students. Will they separate his iambic from his pentameter or, at the very least, have him arrested for the reckless used of a concealed poem? Ultimately Martie realizes the four rhyming lines Tom writes are much sweeter than Brook's poetic license will ever be. | |||||
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Accused of Comedy | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66990 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the Maxim Mazumdar Contest. | |||||
Synopsis: | In the near ridiculous future, when comedy has been outlawed, two bottom-of-the-barrel comics face trial for committing comedy, along with their accomplice, a young woman who broke the law by laughing at them. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Agatha Christie Tackles Texas | ||
| 1st Produced: | Country Playhouse Black Box, Houston TX | 2001 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I.E. Clark Publishing Co., 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66991 | |||
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Genre: | Mystery | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | When Dame Agatha visits Texas to research a new novel, someone in her rented house turns up murdered. Agatha sets out to find the killer among her weekend houseguests, all of whom had possible (if sometimes implausible) motives. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Another Turn of the Scrooge | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eldridge Publishing Company, FL, USA (2008) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138878 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Published as part of "Christmas With a Twist," along with two other short Williams plays related to Christmas. | |||||
Synopsis: | Dickens' redeemed curmudgeon pays the price for his first good deed when he's accused of poisoning the Cratchit family with a spoiled turkey. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Authors Anonymous | ||
| 1st Produced: | Branch County Community Theatre, Coldwater Michigan | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66992 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| Four writers of different types of fiction (mystery, romance, detective, and literary) gather at the country home of a reclusive and slightly addled heiress to compete for a $100,00 grant.. A timid secretary and a respected literary critic evaluate the writers, leading to the discovery no once present is really who he or she seems to be. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Bad Blood in the Bookshop, or Her Beauty Spoke Volumes | ||
| 1st Produced: | Encore Theatre, Houston TX | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66993 | |||
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Genre: | melodrama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | Clarice DeLovely, a beautiful young London actress, arrives in Cactus Junction, Texas, to manage a small bookshop that she inherited from her late father. Little does she know that Sylvester Swineheart (a devious and distant relative) is planning to take over the shop and is in cahoots with crooked Sheriff Hornswoggler, who schemes to put the young mummer six feet under, along with her traveling companion, Winifred Snitwhistle, a grande dame of the British stage. Complicating matters are a charming book-publishing heiress, Fann C. Free, and the shy and studious Chester G. Whilakers, who carries a torch for the lovely DeLovely. With many plot twists and turns the "good guys" fight their way through a tangle of jokes, puns, and show-biz humor while saving the day. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Can't You See We're Acting? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Main Street Theatre, Houston TX | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Scriptwriters/Houston | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eldridge Publishing Company, FL, USA, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57962 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Ten min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of multiple contests, produced off-off-Broadway. Published as part of "It's All an Act," along with two other short Williams plays. | |||||
Synopsis: | Three seniors on the front row of a little theater disrupt the play with their incessant comments, questions, noisy candy wrappers, and occasional snoring. How long can an actor take it before he explodes? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Coming Back to Jersey | ||
| 1st Produced: | Brevard Little Theatre, Brevard NC | Jun 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eldridge Publishing Company, FL, USA (2012) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138883 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of multiple play contests, including the Brevard Little Theatre New Play Competition. Voted "Audience Favorite" at Dayton FutureFest. | |||||
Synopsis: | A middle-aged tailor indulges in daydreams to escape his humdrum existence, but his wife suspects he is fantasizing about a sexy widow friend. Her plan to test his fidelity backfires, leading to an escalation of flirtatious behavior by both man and wife, witnessed by their increasingly scandalized daughter and her boyfriend. A widower gets drawn into the charade while seeking a romance of his own. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Danger Lurks in Music City, or The Ditty That Saved a City | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pasadena Little Theatre, Pasadena TX | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66994 | |||
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Genre: | Melodrama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | Villainous Victor Vomitus runs a music publishing company in 1899 St. Louis and keeps a songwriter chained in his basement, trying to come up with a prize-winning song for the Exposition. A rich young man meets a poor young woman searching for her long-lost father, and they become entangled with Victor, a crooked commissioner and his foolish family, a dancehall girl, and a crazy old river rat named Bessie. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Final Curtain | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Southwest, Houston TX | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Festival of Originals | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eldridge Publishing Company, FL, USA, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66995 | |||
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Genre: | comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Published as part of "It's All an Act," along with two other short Williams plays. | |||||
Synopsis: | The estranged family members of a dying Shakespearean actor gather around his bedside and squabble over long-held grievances, prompting the semi-comatose thespian to respond with appropriate lines from the Bard. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Flowers From Our Father | ||
| 1st Produced: | Country Playhouse, Houston TX | Aug 2010 | ||||
Company: | Scriptwriters/Houston | |||||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers 2011 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138880 | |||
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Genre: | Ten-Minute | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Two sisters clash following their father's memorial service, each one carrying different memories of their individual relationships with him. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Foster's Hat | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre One, Houston TX | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Scriptwriters/Houston | |||||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138881 | |||
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Genre: | Ten-Minute | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A man inherits a hat from a mentally challenged friend. Home from the funeral, he shares with his wife a bittersweet reminiscence of what made the friend so very special. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gift Of The Magi: The Untold Story | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grand Theatre At The Producers Club, New York | 22 Sep 2007 | ||||
Company: | Phare Play | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eldridge Publishing Company, FL, USA (2008) | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #113742 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Originally performed as part of "Inside Carl's Shorts". Published as part of "Christmas With a Twist," along with two other short Williams plays related to Christmas. | |||||
Synopsis: | Reality sets in after the conclusion of O'Henry's short story as husband and wife quarrel over the cutting of her hair and the selling of his watch. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Girl in the Tutu, or The Villain Kept Her On Her Toes, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harbor Playhouse, Corpus Christi TX | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eldridge Publishing Company, FL, USA, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66996 | |||
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Genre: | Melodrama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Written by Catl l Williams and Eddie Cope | |||||
Synopsis: | A young showman tries to assemble a dance act to save his parents' failing restaurant in 1899 California. A conman shows up with three dancing girls and a scheme to cheat two old prospectors out of their newly refound lost gold mine. | |||||
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His Critical Condition | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grand Opera House, Dubuque IA | Aug 2004 | ||||
Company: | Dubuque Fine Arts Players | |||||
| 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 | #113743 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Originally performed as part of "Inside Carl's Shorts". Winner of the DFAP one-act play competition. A two-character version has been published under the title "A Quick Review." | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In the Trap | ||
| 1st Produced: | Country Playhouse, Houston TX | Aug 2007 | ||||
Company: | Scriptwriters/Houston | |||||
| 1st Published: | in 2008: The Best Ten-Minute Plays 3 or More Actors, Smith & Kraus, (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1575257105 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97349 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| A strange man sitting in a sand trap on a golf course ensnares a crooked businessman while reconnecting with the man's wife, a former classmate. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Inside Carl's Shorts | ||
| 1st Produced: | Producer's Club, The Royale Theater, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Phare Play Productions | |||||
| 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 | #113744 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Inventor's Daughter, or The Villain Made a Grab for the Lab, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harbor Playhouse, Corpus Christi TX | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Pioneer Drama Service, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66997 | |||
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Genre: | melodrama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | Adora Winsome, a lovelorn widow, is stuck with a cluttered workshop after the death of her husband, an unsuccessful inventor who left them nothing but a strange "talker box." She and her beautiful daughter Charmaine have sent for a patent application for the apparatus, but they don't know a thing about it. Frankie Fixitt, the lab assistant, lends a helping hand. After all, he is secretly in love with Charmaine. But what good is the patent application if the talker box is in the clutches of greedy landlord Gustav Guttermost and his flirtatious confederate, Ima Foxx? The two villains barge in to collect the rent and steal the valuable invention while they're at it. Of course, their efforts are thwarted when Cashin DeVault, the dashing banker-and Adora's old flame-arrives just in time to catch Ima and Guttermost red-handed. Love and justice prevail, as it should be! | |||||
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Jesus At The Rehab | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Southwest, Houston TX | Aug 2001 | ||||
Company: | Phare Play | |||||
| 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 | #113745 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Originally performed as part of "Fall Shorts" | |||||
Synopsis: | In a rehabilitation group for various addictions, Jesus (yes, that Jesus) clashes with the psycho-babbling facilitator. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Little Off The Top, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pasadena Little Theatre, Pasadena TX | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5810 | |||
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Genre: | 90-120 minutes Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| With the help of a toupee salesman, Steve and Jerry, two lonely balding bachelors, find a perfect toupee with which to attract women. The only problem is that they don't have enough money to buy it. Desperate for hair, they purchase a used toupee that was repossessed from a dead man and decide to time-share the toupee by taking turns wearing it. The new toupee gives Steve and Jerry a confidence boost, and they soon meet two lovely ladies. Romance is in the air until both girlfriends show up at Jerry and Steve's house at the same time. With two bald men and just one toupee, things get a bit hairy for Steve and Jerry. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Magician's Daughter, or The Villain Refused to Disappear, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Harbor Playhouse, Corpus Christi TX | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66998 | |||
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Genre: | Melodrama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | Here's a fast-moving melodrama about dastardly doings in a run-down professional theater in Sagebrush, Nevada. The evil theater owner Rance Bottomgard schemes to make ailing magician Alexander the Great disappear so he can steal both his act and his lovely daughter Loverly. He fools the magician's fading-rose assistant Carrie Meebak into helping set up a fatal stage trick. Before all is lost, heroic and love-struck young stage manager Will Powers, aided by dim-witted Nurse Krenk, rush to the rescue. | |||||
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Making a Move (formerly Getting a Move On) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Opera House, Charles Town WV | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | E-Script, seniortheatre.com | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138876 | |||
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Genre: | 20 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | The play was titled "Fit for Love" when originally produced. | |||||
Synopsis: | A woman conspires with an athletic friend to make her husband jealous as a means of getting him to agree to move to a retirement community. | |||||
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Man Who Shot Santa Claus | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stages Theatre, Houston TX | Aug 2003 | ||||
Company: | Scriptwriters/Houston | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eldridge Publishing Company, FL, USA, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #79530 | |||
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Notes: | Winner of multiple play competitions. Published as part of "Christmas With a Twist," along with two other short Williams plays related to Christmas. | |||||
Synopsis: | A man stands trial for shooting Santa. His slick lawyer argues that Santa was a chronic trespasser and predatory home invader who had it coming. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Members Of The Club | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Southwest, Houston TX | Aug 2004 | ||||
Company: | Phare Play | |||||
| 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 | #113746 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Originally performed as part of "Inside Carl's Shorts" | |||||
Synopsis: | A woman serves tea and vengeance to three unsuspecting friends, all of whom had affairs with her husband. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Must the Show Go On | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stages Theatre, Houston TX | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Scriptwriters/Houston | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eldridge Publishing Company, FL, USA, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #57963 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Ten min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of multiple contests, produced off-off-Broadway. Published as part of "It's All an Act," along with two other short Williams plays. | |||||
Synopsis: | Everything goes wrong on opening night as four actors persevere despite a drunk in the tech booth, a slipping dress, a gun that doesn't fire, and a sneezing corpse. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Not-So-Grand Hotel, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Country Playhouse Black Box, Houston TX | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #66999 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams | |||||
| When a mudslide blocks the main highway, the dilapidated Hotel Horace in the town of Swampy Corners gets an unexpected influx of guests, including a British world traveler, a high school teacher and her two students, and a female fugitive, who tries to hide from the local sheriff, who is courting the hotel's widowed owner. | |||||
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| 1st Produced: | Brazos Valley Troupe, Bryan TX | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67000 | |||
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Genre: | comedy Ten min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A sensitive playwright confronts the cynical drama critic who savaged her new play. While exchanging barbs, writer and critic learn more about each other in the course of a changing relationship. | |||||
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The Boys at IHOP, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | NYC | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Phare Play Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers 2009 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138879 | |||
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Genre: | Ten-Minute | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Dracula and the Wolfman stop for a midnight snack at IHOP, where the clueless waitress thinks they've been to a costume party. | |||||
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Thirties Affair, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Henderson County Performing Arts Center, Athens TX | Apr 2011 | ||||
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 | #138885 | |||
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Genre: | Two-Act Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the Texas Nonprofit Theatres POPS! New Play Project, finalist in multiple others. | |||||
Synopsis: | A woman tries to match up her divorced friend with a friend of her husband's and happily discovers they both like old movies from the 1930's. Their romance is complicated by the return of the ex-husband, who wants to reconcile, and by an attractive young actress who just wants to have fun. | |||||
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Under A Cowboy Moon | ||
| 1st Produced: | Backdoor Theatre, Wichita Falls TX | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Norman Maine Publishing, FL, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67002 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | opt extras | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the Backdoor Theatre New Play Project and the Hill Country Playwriting Festival's People's Choice Award. Produced off-off-Broadway. | |||||
Synopsis: | Residents of Spitwhistle, Texas hold a cowboy poetry festival to bring business to their dying town. A PBS crew arrives to film the contest as the young guns aim to beat legendary cowboy poet Boone Hawkins. The outcome determines who stays, who moves on, and who just keeps on dreaming. | |||||
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Unleashed | ||
| 1st Produced: | Country Playhouse, Houston TX | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Scriptwriters/Houston | |||||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #138882 | |||
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Genre: | Ten-Minute | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A small-town judge settles a dispute between a female deputy and the man she ticketed for walking his dog without a leash, revealing their mutual and long-suppressed attraction. | |||||
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Watchmaker's Daughter, or The Villain Ticked Her Off, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Brooklyn Publishers2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67003 | |||
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Genre: | melodrama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the Backdoor Theatre New Play Project and the Hill Country Playwriting Festival's People's Choice Award. Produced off-off-Broadway. | |||||
Synopsis: | The beautiful young heroine's dear mother (the watchmaker's widow and jewelry store owner) is falsely accused of participating in a human- smuggling ring, and what's more, she is accused by the stalwart young hero who is the object of her daughter's desire! The villainous import/export merchant, who keeps importing and exporting the same suspicious grandfather clock, tries to frame the widow and make time with the heroine, only to see his plans upset by his own assistant (a femme fatale with an eye for the hero) and a South American gentleman who makes a surprise appearance, along with two formidable-looking women "customers" who have been casing the store. | |||||
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Well-Diggers Daughter, The or, She Found Herself In Deep Water | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | - | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58287 | |||
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Genre: | Melodrama, 30 min One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Eddie Cope and Carl L Williams | |||||
Synopsis: | Caution: The humor in this play may be a bit dry. Set in Tarantula, TX at the turn of the last century, a humble well-digger, Hardrock Flint, and his soon-to-be son-in-law, Gus, have set out to strike it rich by digging wells, but all they've found so far is a lot of dirt. Meanwhile, the exceptionally evil Sly Snookerall has hatched a heartless scheme to steal the well-digger's homestead, send him to the poorhouse, and then marry his beautiful daughter, Dolly. Hardrock better find a way to dig himself out of this one, or he's going to end up at the Last Roundup Retirement Home! | |||||
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What Are Words Worth To A Long Fellow? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grand Theatre At The Producers Club, New York | 22 Sep 2007 | ||||
Company: | Phare Play | |||||
| 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 | #113748 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Originally performed as part of "Inside Carl's Shorts" | |||||
Synopsis: | An idle young man, intent on living the dissolute life of a struggling poet, faces reality when confronted by his new girlfriend and his older sister. | |||||
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When Bullfrogs Sing Opera | ||
| 1st Produced: | Midland Community Theatre, Midland TX | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Eldridge Publishing Company, FL, USA, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #67001 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of the McLaren Memorial Comedy Playwriting Competition in Midland, TX. | |||||
Synopsis: | Country sister Coreen comes to visit big-city highbrow Millicent on the very night she's entertaining a society couple. To conceal her embarrassing background, Millicent passes Coreen off as an actress immersed in a new role. Conceits and deceits abound before down-home honesty prevails. | |||||
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Woman on the Cusp, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dayton Playhouse, Dayton OH as part of FutureFest | 2011 | ||||
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 | #138884 | |||
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Genre: | Full-length Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | New play. Finalist for the Stanley Drama Award in New York and in the Dayton FutureFest. | |||||
Synopsis: | A mentally unstable woman attempts to write her memoirs at her brother's insistence as a form of therapy. But the ghost writer brought in to help her is actually a psychiatrist, hired to certify her as insane so her brother can gain control of their dying father's financial empire. The psychiatrist faces an ethical dilemma as he tries to discover the nature of the woman's trauma while holding off her brother's impatient demands that he finish the job. | |||||
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