AMERICAN HOME
A Full-length play in 2 acts- 81 pages/ Drama
18 Characters, 5 women, 3 men
Florence Rainwater is a ninety-year-old widow in Ann Arbor, Michigan who just wants to be in her home with her memories until her last day. Mike and Dana Washington are a thirty-something couple who thought they would be in their dream home in the hills of Los Angeles forever, or at least until they could trade-up. Prosperity Preacher Paula never imagined in her wildest dreams that her Florida mega-church would ever be threatened by foreclosure. And Robbie West, Michigan cop, just wants to help people and does not enjoy kicking them out of their homes. American Home is about Americans forced to renegotiate the American Dream, the extremes people go to when faced with losing everything and the resilience of the American spirit.
AWARDS
-Winner of American Blues Theater’s first annual Blue Ink Playwriting Competition
-Semi-Finalist for the 2010 Princess Grace Award
THE ART OF DISAPPEARING
A full-length drama in two acts
2 W/ 1 M
When Melissa receives a mysterious invitation to brunch from her mother after a two-year estrangement, she returns to a home where nothing is as it seems. Fathers lie, friends leave and she herself is failing in the artist’s world she covets- as her mother practices the art of disappearing before her very eyes. The devastating truth she discovers in her parents’ house threatens to tear all of them apart for good. Will Melissa stay and fight for her family? Or will she disappear too?
The Art of Disappearing explores the notion of disappearing and discovering each other and ourselves while examining the particularly devastating terrain of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, the drifting apart of families, a young person’s search for self-worth beyond acceptance from family and forgiveness in the most difficult of circumstances.
AWARDS
-Finalist for the 2008 Princess Grace Award
SOMETHING OF GREAT IMPORTANCE
A full-length comedy in two acts
4 M/ 1 W
It’s one month until Will’s 30th birthday – the deadline for both the Mother of Invention competition and his personal mission to invent something revolutionary. The only problem is, his idea board is blank and time is running out. With the help of fellow members of his inventor support group (all two of them), Will forges ahead determined to prove his worthiness. Can he overcome his debilitating inventor’s block, panic attacks, self-doubt, nagging pregnant mother, a discouraging patent attorney and the memory of his dead father in time to invent Something of Great Importance? Set in the basement of his mother’s house in Akron, Ohio—home of the Inventors Hall of Fame.
THREE FITTINGS
A full-length dramedy in 1 act (90 minutes)
9 W or 5 W (with double casting)
Set in an upscale bridal shop on Chicago’s North Shore, Three Fittings explores the true meaning of the perfect bridal gown telling the tale of three brides-to-be. The first may have said yes too soon, terrified she’s purchased a gown (and perhaps more) she might, in the end, despise. The second believes matching bridesmaid dresses are fascist and would rather end world hunger than register at Tiffany’s. The third bride-to-be reminds us that it’s truly not about the dress.
THE WORLD PREMIERE
In October of 2004, Three Fittings received its World Premiere in Los Angeles, produced by Walker Kelly Productions under the Los Angeles 99-Seat Equity Waiver Agreement. It ran for six weeks, three performances a week, at the 40-seat Elephant Lab Theatre in L.A.’s Theatre Row.
Director: Johnny Duda
Assistant Director: Cece Tio
Stage Manager: Olivia Killingsworth
Cast: Dawn Balkin, Annie Cerillo, Porter Kelly, Laurie Lammens, Katrina Lenk, Catherine McGoohan, Mary Beth Pape, Wylie Small and Alisa Weiss
The production was reviewed by CBS Radio:
“FOUR STARS (Highest Rating.) Along with the wedding gowns—love, longing, heartbreak, and delusion are on display at a bridal boutique in THREE FITTINGS, the excellent new play written by Stephanie Walker and directed by Johnny Duda, currently making its debut at the Elephant Lab Theatre in Hollywood. With the help of a uniformly superb cast, Walker deftly explores various permutations of the mother-daughter dynamic, creating unforgettable characters in three vignettes. In the process, there is poignancy and humor, secrets shared and unshared, and, in the end, the unmistakable desire to see what Ms. Walker comes up with next. This is an enterprise worthy of being mounted off-Broadway.” – Todd David Schwartz, CBS Radio
SOUTHEASTERN PREMIERE
2008 – The Women’s Theatre Project in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
AWARDS
-Winner of the 2008 South Florida Theatre Festival Audience Favorite Grand Prize
