WHAT WE DO
ScriptWorks is playwright development and service organization that was founded to:
- Create a home for dramatic writers that stimulates imagination
- Develop new dramatic works to their fullest potential and feed them into the local and national markets
- Produce and encourage the production of new work that lends dignity to the playwright’s vision
- Network and enhance the visibility of the diverse community of playwrights in the Central Texas area
LATEST NEWS
FEBRUARY 2025 SALON
12 STEPS TO A MORE DYSFUNCTIONAL PART 5, THIS TIME IT’S PERSONAL! by Rob Nash
Sunday, February 23rd at 6:30 PM
Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd St.
A one-man, 20+ character play spanning one week and for generations. FRED tours the country giving unmotivational speeches, MARGOT hosts her own podcast for Christian wives and mothers. REVEREND BOB runs the largest megachurch in the world, WINDSONG and MOONBIRD try to save the world by getting people to take the Landmark Forum, MATT just wants to drink in peace, SHELLY wants another divorce, ASHLEY tries to save her plural marriage, BILLY tries to fix his marriage to his wife ANUSHKA who wants to move back to Russia with their child ANNIKA, JUNIOR, a Catholic priest, gets harassed by a STRANGER who flaunts his sins/crimes in confession, DIAMOND beats the crap out of a trans-basher and somehow MILDRED manages to keep the whole family together. Again. Oh, and the twins VIOLA and SEBASTIAN have a secret.
Rated R for language and adult situations.
Rob Nash wrote the prequel 12 Steps to a More Dysfunctional You in 1992 followed by …Dysfunctional Christmas in 1993, Dysfunctional Family in 1995 and …Dysfunctional Musical in 2004. His magnum opus Holy Cross Sucks! won Top Ten Broadway/off-Broadway Shows 2005 from Time Out New York. Rob currently works with 9-12-year-olds at a Montessori school here in Austin.