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STEVE WILLIS (1959 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Steve Willis has received numerous prizes and awards for his plays including the 2004 and 2003 Carolina Contemporary Playwrights Competition (for Falling So Slowly and The Shadow of Eldorado); the North Carolina Theatre Conference's 2003 New Play Award (for The Shadow of Eldorado); and a 2001-2002 Playwrights' Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council (also for The Shadow of Eldorado). In 2005, his romantic comedy/drama Falling So Slowly premiered in Melbourne, Australia, produced by Fly-on-the-Wall Theatre. His plays have been performed in South Africa (National Arts Festival in Grahamstown), New York City (Grove Street Playhouse, Bank Street Theatre), Chicago (Bailiwick Rep), and various cities throughout the southeastern United States. In 2006, Steve completed a Scholar in Residence appointment at New York University during which he continued research for his latest project, a one-woman play based on the life and career of the late African American actress Diana Sands. He holds a Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A) degree in Acting/Directing from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in English/Dramatic Arts & Speech from Averett University. Currently, Steve resides in Greensboro, North Carolina where he is an Assistant Professor of Speech and Theatre at Bennett College for Women. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor at Guilford College, where he teaches playwriting, and a member of the teaching staff at Triad Yoga Institute.
Plays by Steve Willis
After Happily | ||
| 1st Produced: | OutCharlotte Cultural Festival, Charlotte, North Carolina | 2001 | ||||
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 | #86343 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | dobling | |||||
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Synopsis: | "and they lived happily ever after" or did they? What happens next to various fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Blessed Assurance | ||
| 1st Produced: | Guilford Technical Community College, Jamestown, North Carolina | 2003 | ||||
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 | #5350 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | An adaptation of the novella by Allan Gurganus. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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By Her Side | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bank Street Theatre, New York | 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 | #82584 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A fifty something lesbian has been told she has not much longer to live. She sets out to find a replacement for herself for her partner | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Condolences To Every One Of Us | ||
| 1st Produced: | Broach Theatre, Greensboro, North Carolina | 2001 | ||||
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 | #5066 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | An adaptation of the novella by Allan Gurganus. | |||||
Synopsis: | Two elderly women realise that they have gone to the wrong funeral parlour | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Falling So Slowly | ||
| 1st Produced: | St. Martin's Theatre, Melbourne, Australia | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Fly-On-The-Wall Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #60612 | |||
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Genre: | full length comedy drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of 2003 Carolina Contemporary Playwrights Competition, USA | |||||
Synopsis: | Falling So Slowly chronicles the first weeks of a relationship between Bobby, a young Caucasian man from Alabama who recently relocated to New York City, and Grant, an African American musician from Philadelphia who has lived in Manhattan for several years. Bobby and Grant quickly connect sexually, but they struggle in their efforts to share other parts of themselves. By the end of this two-act play, Bobby and Grant have discovered a unique and meaningful rapport that allows them to express to one another their private truths, their wants, and their needs. | |||||
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Gentlemen's Pleasure | ||
| 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 | #67280 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Adapted from "La Ronde" by Arthur Schnitzler. | |||||
Synopsis: | Gentleman's Pleasure is inspired by La Ronde, a play by Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931). Although it maintains Schnitzler's "roundelay" structure, the setting is moved to New York City in the 1920s-a time when the city was taking its place as the most powerful metropolis in the world. The play further stretches Schnitzler's original premise by exploring the fears and secrecy that were so much a part of urban gay life during the decades prior to the Stonewall rebellion. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Good Sense | ||
| 1st Produced: | Grove Street Playhouse, New York | 1998 | ||||
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 | #101282 | |||
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Genre: | Monologue play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | He lives in a remote rural town. When he realises that he is gay he decides not to move to the big city but to stay and be a role model for younger gay men | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Goodnight Professor Broadway | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #86344 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A retired professor meets a student that he had loved | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jeff Trilogy, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Broach Theatre, Greensboro, North Carolina | 1999 | ||||
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 | #4443 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Three one-act plays about Jeff, a young, gay man who faces many challenges after coming out to his rural North Carolina family | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Mother May I? | ||
| 1st Produced: | Guilford Technical Community College, Jamestown, North Carolina | 2001 | ||||
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 | #4711 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Sexuality, parenting, and family responsibilities are major themes in this play about a young mother's journey toward greater self-awareness and independence. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Notso Plain Folk | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1997 | ||||
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 | #86345 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Passing Ceremonies | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina | 2001 | ||||
Company: | OutCharlotte | |||||
| 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 | #4201 | |||
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Genre: | Fantasy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Poet/essayist/activist Essex Hemphill (1957-1995) meets Harlem Renaissance writer/visual artist Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987) in a terrace bar overlooking a river, somewhere between "earth life" and paradise. Essex is anxious to finish a project he was working on shortly before his death: a book on the lives of older black gay men. He wants to interview Bruce, but Bruce insists that it is now impossible for Essex to complete the book. Throughout the play, the two spar, lament, share stories about their passions, and challenge those left behind to "pick up [their] weapons." | |||||
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Personal | ||
| 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 | #86346 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A student tries out his public speaking assignment | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Postcards | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #5067 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | An adaptation of the short story by Lee Zacharias. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Ray's Request | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #86347 | |||
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Genre: | Ten minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A professor meets the brother of a former student | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Shadow Of Eldorado, The | ||
| 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 | #4177 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A powerful award-winning drama about a long-divorced couple brought together by their son's death. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Smoke Lilies And Jade | ||
| 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 | #5098 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A one-act play adapted from the short story by Richard Bruce Nugent. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Spring Visit | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greensboro Cultural Center | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Greensboro Playwrights' Forum | |||||
| 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 | #4929 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Brief encounter between Peter Pan and an elderly Wendy that takes place many years after their first meeting. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sprouting Wings | ||
| 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 | #4200 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A coming-of-age story about a young woman living in a small North Carolina town who dreams of Hollywood. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Truth About Fantasy, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Greensboro Playwrights Forum | 2003 | ||||
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 | #86348 | |||
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Genre: | Ten minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A businessman contemplates having an affair | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Truth and Noonday Light | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
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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 | #86349 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Based on "Ghosts" by Henrick Ibsen | |||||
Synopsis: | The Deep South of the United States 1980s | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Waiting Games | ||
| 1st Produced: | North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina | 1998 | ||||
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 | #86350 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Five people are in a waiting room - but none of them know what they are waiting for. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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We Never Close | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of North Carolina, Greensboro | 1994 | ||||
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 | #86351 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A stranded traveller meets a lonely waitress at a diner | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Whitney's Grace | ||
| 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 | #86352 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | The friendship of two young women from different religious backgrounds | |||||
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