One of the first things I ever wrote, when I was a wet-behind-the-ears college freshman, was a one-act describing the wild nights I had observed more than taken part in. This was called Send in the Clowns, and because sophomore year we were trying to do a one-act festival, it got put on. I had to do re-writes on it, but it was performed. I was a playwright.

I did it again the following year, turning a dialogue written for one of my theology courses into a play, then directing it myself in the following year’s one-act. That was In the Beginning.

The following year the One-Act Play Festival became it’s own thing, with it’s own Student Organization, the Student Theater Guild, to run it. This was the era in which Too Two Many and Social Animals came about. The former is a reference to Once Upon a Time in the West and the latter was originally titled Beer, Beer, Beer, Said the Private, for reasons known only to God. I’m not sure which one came out first, but since Social Animals makes reference to Senior Year it’s possible it came last.

After this, I graduated, so the last two plays in this series are technically not “collegiate”, but I wrote both within the next 1-2 years. Clinical Insanity was performed at the Delaware Ten-Minute Play Festival in 2000. The Morning Star at Night, undoubtedly the darkest of these, has never had a performance, but was written soon after, so I include it.

Since then, I’ve only written three plays. The first, A Brief Conversation With Aaron Burr, was performed at Glass Mind Theater in Baltimore. As a Five-minute play, I haven’t published it in script form. I may revisit that later.

The second, How I’m Pretty Sure World War One Started, can be found in Issue 9 of Unnamed Journal. I’ve given thought to expanding it from a one-act to a full-length, but probably won’t.

I have actually written a full-length, or at the very least, a two-act play, The Sirens, set in a future America following a second Civil War. I had intended to submit it for a festival, only to discover it wasn’t long enough. I could add another act, but I don’t really want to.

In any case, for the interested, the plays are here. I’ve said before that Production Rights come with the purchase, and that seems right to me. I own the copyright, so, go nuts.