TRAV S D
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Trav S D
Cold Fire |
| 1st Produced: | Performance Zone at Ubu Rep | 1996 | ||
| Company: | Mountebanks | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | comedy/radio play | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Approx. 45 minutes, contains one original song | ||||
Synopsis: A paranormal investigator looks into a mysterious rash of spontaneous combustions and -- surprisingly-solves them | ||||
Columbia, The Germ Of The Ocean |
| 1st Produced: | 2002 | |||
| Company: | Mountebanks | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1 may be played in drag | |||
Notes: Approx. two hours | ||||
Synopsis: A ridiculous-style history, in which, Columbus, a very ugly woman, discovers America, only to have it snatched away by a scheming, evil priest | ||||
Confidence Man, The |
| 1st Produced: | Coney Island USA | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Mountebanks | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | literary adaptation | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: 2 hrs | ||||
Synopsis: An adaptation of the Herman Melville novel about a series of mysterious con men on a riverboat. | ||||
Curse Of The Neckrophreniac, The |
| 1st Produced: | St. Mark's Theater | 2001 | ||
| Company: | Mountebanks/ DMTheatrics | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Approx. 30 minutes | ||||
Synopsis: A poet recounts his opium-fueled attempt to surgically exchange the necks of his wife and sister | ||||
Der Boogermeister |
| 1st Produced: | St. Mark's Theater | 2001 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Approx. 20 minutes | ||||
Synopsis: An executioner who tortures citizens with nasal fluid is given his come-uppance by a vengeful spirit of the dead. | ||||
Dorothy Building, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | experimental, 40 min | - | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 4 m/f | |||
Notes: - | ||||
Synopsis: A birth and a death in a mysterious compound inhabited by identical masked women named Dorothy | ||||
Exploitation Of Joice Heth, The |
| 1st Produced: | Metropolitan Playhouse | 2004 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Approx. ten minutes | ||||
Synopsis: P.T. Barnum presents Joice Heth, who, to his surprise, turns out not only to have been the actual nurse of George Washington, but his mentor and political advisor as well. | ||||
Ezekiels Wheelchair |
| 1st Produced: | Village Gate | 1993 | ||
| Company: | New Facktory for Excentrick Actors | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | Comedy/experimental | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | may be played in drag | |||
Notes: Approx. 45 minutes | ||||
Synopsis: The daughter and mother of the world's greatest physicist confront him about his greatest blunder-the draining of all color from the world. | ||||
Family Of Man |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | Theater for the New City | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | comedy/drama with music | - | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Part of the New City , New Blood reading series. approx 120 min | ||||
Synopsis: An aging pop singer cracks up when the mistakes of his youth catch up with. | ||||
Father's Name Was Daddy |
| 1st Produced: | 2006 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: part of East Village Chronicles, Volume 3 | ||||
Synopsis: Abbie Hoffman squares off with the biggest pig of all -- his old man | ||||
Gas Attack |
| 1st Produced: | Two Bits, at Bowerie Lane Theater | 1991 | ||
| Company: | New Facktory for Excentrick Actors | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Approx. 20 minutes | ||||
Synopsis: A government space ship accidentally brings deadly gas creatures back to Earth. | ||||
Hecate And Beckett, The Two Existential Magpies, In Dead Dog, Dead God, Dead Ducks |
| 1st Produced: | 1997 | |||
| Company: | Mountebanks | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | comedy/experimental | Comedy | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 2 (may be played by males or females) | |||
Notes: Approx. 30 minutes | ||||
Synopsis: A pair of cartoon magpies are adrift on a piece of an exploded ocean liner | ||||
House Of Trash |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||
| Company: | Mountebanks | |||
| 1st Published: | Plays and Playwrights 2001, New York Theatre Experience | 2001 | ||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||
| Genre: | comedy/musical | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Approx two hours | ||||
Synopsis: A garbageman/ Baptist preacher undertakes plots to straighten out the lives of his family members, doing more harm than good | ||||
Inside Out |
| 1st Produced: | St. Mark's Theater | 2001 | ||
| Company: | Mountebanks/ DMTheatrics | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Approx. 20 minutes | ||||
Synopsis: A mad scientist transforms a young student reporter into a stomach monster | ||||
Irish Melodrama, The |
| 1st Produced: | Metropolitan Playhouse | 2005 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Approx: ten minutes | ||||
Synopsis: A 90-pund weakling carries out his dying father's wish to protect his sister from bad boyfriends. | ||||
Jasper Jaxon |
| 1st Produced: | The Great Room, ART/NY South Oxford Street Space, NY (play reading) | 2007 | ||
| Company: | Andhow! Theater Company | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 3 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Andhow! Theater Company presents its 7th annual play reading series, Dialogue '07 | ||||
Synopsis: A ne'er-do-well outlaw finds posthumous fame as a sideshow mummy | ||||
Lactation |
| 1st Produced: | Surf Reality | 1999 | ||
| Company: | Surf Reality | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | comedy/experimental | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1/2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Approx. 20 minutes | ||||
Synopsis: An insufferable abstract expressionist contends with quotidian interruptions by his mother and the milk man | ||||
Merrymount |
| 1st Produced: | 2008 | |||
| Company: | Mountebanks | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||
Notes: Part of the Hawthornicopia Festival 15 minutes | ||||
Synopsis: Adaptation of a Hawthorne story about a 17 century Massachusetts governor who cracks down on the merrymaking in a nearby village | ||||
Misshapen Jack, The Nebraska Hunchback |
| 1st Produced: | Sanford Meisner Theatre, NYC | 1989 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | comedy/experimental | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Approx. 45 minutes, contains two original songs | ||||
Synopsis: An insane lecturer instructs us about the evils of Nebraskan hunchbacks named Jack-unintentionally revealing a bit about his own psychology along the way. | ||||
Nihils, Or The Performance Artist |
| 1st Produced: | Bullet Space | 1997 | ||
| Company: | Mountebanks | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | comedy/experimental | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Approx. 45 minutes, contains two original songs | ||||
Synopsis: A vain and awful performance artist contends with the sharp wit and critical mind of his stage manager. | ||||
Parkhurst's Descent |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | 20 min | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: part of Metropolitan Playhouse presents the fourth annual installment of East Village Chronicles, an ongoing series of original one-act plays about/set in the theatre's local neighborhood in NYC's East Village/Alphabet City | ||||
Synopsis: In 19th century New York, a fire and brimstone preacher hires a private detective to show him the city's seemy underbelly -- and finds more than he bargained for. | ||||
Poison Shirt/ Boots Of The Transexual |
| 1st Produced: | the Real Theater | 1995 | ||
| Company: | New Facktory for Excentrick Actors | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | comedy/experimental | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | may be drag part | |||
Notes: Approx. 15 minutes | ||||
Synopsis: An angry trannie turns the tables on her two-timing old man by freaking him out on acid. | ||||
Sea Of Love |
| 1st Produced: | Sanford Meisner Theatre, NYC | 1989 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | comedy/experimental | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | 1 role possibly drag | |||
Notes: Approx. 45 minutes, contains one original song | ||||
Synopsis: A "type A" is successively accosted by a nymphomaniac so-worker, his lesbian mother, the ghost of his dead sea captain father, and the God Poesidon. | ||||
Strange Case of Grippo the Ape Man, The |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | experimental/comedy | One Act | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Approx 45 min | ||||
Synopsis: Two carnies bring their idiot savant attraction (a musical genius) to a conservative Connecticut town and cause an uproar. | ||||
Universal Rundle |
| 1st Produced: | Tree Café, Portland, Maine | 1988 | ||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | comedy/experimental | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Approx. 45 minutes, contains two original songs | ||||
Synopsis: A pair of music industry professional attempt to swindle a famous blues musician in his bayou home. He turns the table using voodoo. | ||||
White Trash |
| 1st Produced: | 1988 | |||
| Company: | - | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||
| Genre: | comedy/drama | Comedy | Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: Approx. 45 minutes | ||||
Synopsis: Working class family bicker brutally until the father collapses of a stroke | ||||