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
DECEMBER 2024 SALON
FRONTERAFEST PREVIEW!
Sunday, December 15th at 6:30pm
Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd St.
Join us as we preview these three Short Fringe pieces:
SILENT FACES by Alex Garza
In his original solo work, “Silent Faces,” Alex Garza fuses together several of his poems and performs them as character monologues to tell the journey of a gay man through his life. The play explores one’s person’s evolution and search for love, identity, and visibility in the world.
Alex Garza has been writing and performing in the Austin area for over 20 years. He has created and performed many one-person shows, and a few of his original plays have been produced at middle schools, high schools, and colleges.
THE YOLK or SCENES FROM THE EGG: A COMEDY by Noah Masterson
Set in a grotesque future where high tech meets low art, a new technology upends the lives of a man whose face sprouts feathers and a woman who lays eggs. THE YOLK is a set piece for a full-length play to be produced in summer 2025.
Noah Masterson got his start in the theater world as a musician, composer, and sound designer with Inverse Theater Company in New York City. He holds a degree in screenwriting and sculpture from the University of Miami and now lives in Austin, TX. THE EGG is his first play.
12 STEPS TO A MORE DYSFUNCTIONAL PART 5, THIS TIME IT’S PERSONAL! by Rob Nash
Rated R for language and adult situations.
Fred tours as a non-motivational speaker, Margot has a podcast for Christian Wives and Mothers, her husband Reverend Bob televangelizes every Sunday from the largest megachurch in the world, Windsong and Moonbird are trying to save the family by getting them to enroll in The Landmark Forum, Ashley is trying to save her plural marriage (not to be confused with a polycule) and Matt just wants to drink in peace. Oh, and Father Freddie (aka Junior) must deal with a criminal confessing crimes in the Confessional. And Billy’s mail order Russian bride has run off with the baby and his transgender daughter beat the crap out of a bully. Oh, and the twins have a secret.
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. This will be his first time participating in FronteraFest and he’s stoked!