ScriptWorks is both a playwright-driven service organization and a theatrical producing company. We exist to support dramatic writers by providing opportunities at all stages in the writing process — from inception through production. ScriptWorks supports the whole writer, not just an isolated project, and dedicates itself to career advancement as well as artistic growth. read more ...
LOS TEQUILEROS by Dolores Diaz
Sunday, January 29 at 6:30pm
State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave.
Los Tequileros tells the story of the border ballad by the same name that commemorates a fateful day in south Texas and the revenge killing of three tequila smugglers by American law enforcement following the recent murder of a Customs inspector.
FronteraFest is a five-week long performance festival that ScriptWorks co-produces with Hyde Park Theatre annually. We commission four pieces for the Short Fringe, which appear weekly on Weds. nights. Every year, several of our members are involved in FronteraFest. Here …
AUSTIN
Sunday, December 11th at 6:30
State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave.
SOUTHIE PRIDE EZZAH GIVEN by Raymond V. Whelan
Catherine Marie Louise Flynn lives in the “Southie” section of Boston, where she is devoted to her invalid mother and the …
FLING SALON
November 2o, 2011 @ 5:30pm
State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave.
The November Salon will be the culmination of our Weekend Fling where members write 10-minute plays using three arbitrary ingredients over 48 hours. We’ll be reading these freshly-inked mini-masterpieces in a Salon that is open to the public.
The Play Formerly Known as Larius Likler (working title) by Aimée Gonzalez
Sunday, October 30th at 6:30pm
HYDE PARK THEATRE, 511 W. 43rd St. (PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION)
The Liklers are in a pickle. Parson Likler suddenly finds himself a single dad to his son Larius, an apsiring serial killer, his daughter Molly, a waitress attempting to fake obesity, and his youngest daughter Beluga, a middle schooler in love with a hairy older man. The family clumsily feels their way through this new life until a phone call changes everything.
MORPHINE by Gary Swaim
Monday, October 17 at 7pm
ArtCentre Theatre in Plano
5220 Village Creek Drive (map)
Plano, Texas 75093
MORPHINE
Dr. Benjamin has undergone heart surgery and finds himself in the predicament of acquiring almost everything the hospital has to give him in the way of other illnesses, resulting in a 6-month hospitalization and a 54-day coma. During his hospital stay, he encounters himself through morphine-induced hallucinations and the actions of his family and friends. Comedy meets philosophy. (based not all so loosely on my personal experiences in 2006)
KINDERMAN’S WAKE by George Obermiller
Sunday, September 25 at 6:30pm
State Theatre, 719 Congress Ave. (map)
KINDERMAN’S WAKE
The truth comes from an unlikely source, when a crotchety south Texas rancher is awakened from the dead by an illegal alien and spends one more night on earth, or hell–he can’t tell which, in order to reconcile with his dysfunctional family and solve a sixty year old mystery.
FRONTERAFEST 101
A primer in self-producing for the fringe, a workshop taught by Christina J. Moore
Wednesday, September 14, 7:00 pm
On Sunday, August 28th from 5:30-7:30pm, ScriptWorks members and their families, as well as area playwrights, actors, directors, designers, technicians, and those interested in finding out more about ScriptWorks are invited to the 14th Annual Meet & Greet:
the Vortex
2307 Manor Rd. (map)
Austin, TX 78722
Free, open to all
This is ScriptWorks’ annual party to kick-off the new year, welcome new members, swap summer triumphs and tribulations, and get informed on how ScriptWorks can help you in the coming year. ScriptWorks will provide libations and attendees are invited to bring their favorite finger food to the potluck. This party has no narrative through-line and no inciting incident, so drop by anytime and rub elbows and egos with the local bards.
We’re looking for a Dallas theatre to host our Dallas Meet N Greet — all suggestions welcome! Contact christi-at-scriptworks.org.
MAKING IT [FUN] AND GOING TO MARKET (Write. Laugh. Rewrite. Move it.)
With Paul Bonin-Rodriguez
Tuesdays, May 24 & 31, June 7 & 14, 7-9:30 pm
$100 ScriptWorks/ $125 General
Drop-in $30 ScriptWorks/ $35 General
Email info@scriptworks.org for reservation and location
Making it [fun] and going to market (Write. Laugh. Rewrite. Move it.)
This workshop begins with the proposal that new plays need time, space, and the support (and challenge) of comrades to get better. The playwright needs to witness the work. Over a period of four weeks, we will work as a community to create bad works that get better. And then we’ll plan on where they might go to build an audience to get even better. Artists may come for the whole, or for parts, although the writing used in class as examples will come from the first two weeks of work.
