Joseph Goodrich
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William Morris Agency
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PANIC is the winner of the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Play. SMOKE AND MIRRORS was produced in 2007 off-Broadway at the Flea Theatre. Both plays are licensed and published by Samuel French, Inc. WHITE RUSSIAN is included in The Backstage Book of New Short American Plays 2004. STEAK KNIFE BACCHAE is included in Padua: Plays From The Padua Hills Playwrights Festival (Padua Hills Publications, distributed by TCG). CAPTAIN 11 and MY PANTS are published by Playscripts, Inc. His poetry has appeared in the Venice West Review, his fiction in Bullet magazine, and he is a contributor to Conducting A Life: Reflections On The Theatre Of Maria Irene Fornes. His work runs the gamut from opera libretti (The Art of Eating, music by Jeffrey Lependorf) to comic books (Human Interest, written for Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man Unlimited series).
POLAR
Drama
3M, 1W
The bedridden Booth hires Ron and Santos to steal an exceedingly rare
book; but he gets more than he bargained for when Ron and Santos move in
with him and Patrice, the woman who looks after him and may have known Ron
in the past. Booth and Patrice increasingly feel like prisoners in their
own home. Ron and Santos plan and execute their crime. But nothing works
out as planned, and the sole survivor is left with nothing but a
remembrance of things past.
THE CRYING ROOM
Drama
4M, 1W
Three women meet in the lounge-- “the crying room”--of an old movie
theater, and their lives become entangled. The disparity between cinematic
illusions and ‘real life’ is movingly, and sometimes shockingly,
dramatized in the weaving together of three lonely, unsatisfied lives.
MY PANTS
0ne-act Drama
5M, 4W
An old man’s approaching death sets off shock waves in his already
unstable family. Things go from bad to weird as the family unravels. If
‘the pure products of America go crazy’ (William Carlos Williams), then
this is American family life in all its horrid, funny, tragic splendor.
Theatre of NOTE, Los Angeles, CA, 1993.
CAPTAIN 11
Two-act Drama
6M, 1W
Dave loses his job as Captain 11, host of a space-age-themed after-school
show for kids, and returns to a violent and surreal life on the edge with
his old friends Cal and Jocko -- and Cal’s wife. An old enemy returns, as
well: the suave, malevolent Sorge. Dave and Cal and Jocko prepare for a
fight to the death. Or worse.
Reading: Portland Stage Company’s Little Festival of the Unexpected, 1999.
BLUE RIBBON BITCH
One-act Drama
3M, 1W
Kisko and Bonner (who may be cops) take Jude and Paula (who may have done
nothing wrong) to a warehouse where Jude and Paula are subjected to mental
and physical torture; but Jude turns the tables on his torturers and the
woman who betrayed him. BRB is a modern revenge tragedy.
Circus Minimus Theatre Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA (1994), San
Francisco Fringe Festival (1998).
QUASI UN FANTASIA
One-act Drama
1M, 1W
Lucy disappeared for 36 hours; on her return, she can’t -- or won’t --
tell Toby where she’s been. Toby’s attempts to discover the truth
concerning her absence drive them both to the brink of psychic and
physical violence … and over.
Portland Stage Company’s Little Festival of the Unexpected, (1999).
SEDAN DELIVERY
One-act Drama
3M
Cotton and Rolf, two bottom-of-the-barrel thugs, wait for the telephone
call that will tell them when and where to drop off a certain package. If
the waiting doesn’t drive them crazy … if they don’t kill each other first
… things might work out. But can they hold on to the package?
Theatre of NOTE, Los Angeles, CA (1993). Filmed in New Orleans by
Asylum Productions, (2001).
WHITE RUSSIAN
One-act Drama
1M, 2W
Adriana and Katja are members of the European elite in a country
undergoing a revolution. In an atmosphere of increasing violence, they’re
forced to decide if they’ll stay or if they’ll leave the country they call
home. But history has rendered them deaf and blind to reality, and in a
startling conclusion the decision is taken out of their hands.
Produced at HERE Arts Center's American Living Room Series (2002).
STEAK KNIFE BACCHAE
One-act Drama
1M or W
SKB is an adaptation of Euripides’ classic for one actor and cardboard
puppets mounted on steak knives…hence the title. The piece is a vibrant,
jagged cascade of language -- a shotgun wedding of Gertrude Stein and The
Sex Pistols.
Padua Hills Playwright Festival, (1995); Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary
Center for the Arts (New Orleans) (2000).
MEDEA
One-act Drama
5M, 3W
A new adaptation of Euripides’ play.
Produced at Six Figures Theatre Company's Artists of Tomorrow Festival (2002).