DEATH PLAYS

These three short plays are part of the DEATH play archive, which was launched by a call for scripts posted on the RAT-list in the week before that list was shut down on December 2, 2004. There will be future calls for DEATH plays.

Director V. F. Zialcita is a member of Philadelphia Dramatists Center. His own plays have been performed in Philadelphia, New York, Houston, Austin, Tucson, and Eugene.

Languages of Love: A Death Play
by Adam Szymkowicz
with Chelsea Bulack, Michael Dura, and Anna Eliot

"Adam Szymkowicz recently received an MFA from Columbia University. His plays have been produced throughout the country, in England and Lithuania. He lives in Brooklyn."

Soak
by Sheila Callaghan
with Julie Ann Marra, Melanie DiPiero, and Gwendolyn Rooker

"Sheila Callaghan's plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwright's Horizons, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The LARK, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, Annex Theatre, Moving Arts, and LABrynth, among others. She teaches playwriting at The University of Rochester, and is aproud member of the Obie winning playwright's organization 13P."

The Short Happy Life of Bernd Wilhelm Heinrich von Kleist
by Samuel Wallin
with Morgan Eckert, Caroline Tamas, and Dylan Clements

"Sam is a writer and director based in Portland OR."