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Playwriting - Current/Past Projects!
You can always read my work on the New Play Exchange!
The Consciousness - Winner of Best Play at the Tampa Bay Theatre Festival, 2018. (pictured l-r: Elena Scarringe-Peene, Nic Stelter) The Consciousness also went to the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, the Orlando Festival DigiFringe, and 10+ digital festivals around the country in 2021-2022. In the play, a music student visits the digitally archived consciousness of a dead composer, presumably to find inspiration - until he starts to steal his ideas.
“There are twists and turns regarding relationships, emotions, and who can have what attributed to who…The strength of the emotions that are at play are impressive both with writing and acting…intriguing and a little mind bending.”
Review - The Utah Theatre Bloggers Association, “The Consciousness: Writing and Acting Impresses”
Click here to watch Theatre Odyssey’s production of my short play: “A Squad of Our Own.”
A promotional image for “A Squad of Our Own!”
The Vast of Darkness - winner of Best Play (Drama) at the Orlando Fringe Festival, 2023 (produced by Whiskey Theatre Factory). Two astronauts from enemy countries are orbiting on the dark side of a distant planet. Suddenly, they experience a cascade of strange events. Alarms go off. Strange entities appear on the monitors. Are these events actually happening? Are they symptoms of isolation? Or is one of the astronauts trying to destroy the other?
“[The] initial tension ramps up throughout the drama, thanks in part to director Joe Llorens and his fine cast, Charis Walter and Manuel Solis-Bauza, who all have the sense not to let things get too over-the-top too fast. Instead, there’s a delicious slow burn of nerves and an ending that cleverly lets you interpret what you’ve just seen.”
A poster featuring my short play, “Next Year,” from Birdhouse Theatre’s “Edge Fest”
A promotional image for an audio version of my play “What’s in the Basement, Honey?” Click to hear the trailer (link to the full production is in the video description!).
Click to watch a conversation on my full-length play, Leviathan, with Elaine Smith of Clamour Theatre Company during their 2021 development workshop.
I’ve really enjoyed working with Threshold Theatre in the past few years! This is a promotional postcard for a reading they did of my full-length play “Sword Art Real Life.”
Click to listen to an interview of me discussing my 60-minute one-act, Evie & Loren, at the Hippodrome Theatre’s New Works Festival.
Click to read the full press release about my short play, “All I Want for Christmas is Pizza,” which won the Kumu Kahua Theatre And Bamboo Ridge Press’ Go Try PlayWrite Contest.
Click to listen to “Bird Girl and the Hammer’ - an audio production by the good folks at the Stories Found Podcast. They do amazing work!
Click the image to watch “The More You Know…” one of my many short-play collaborations with OG Productions in Columbus, Ohio. Love this group! My most recent play they produced was “Big Night Out,” which premiered in July 2023.
Click on the image to read an interview about my 10-minute play, “Angel,” which was recently produced by B Street Theatre, Carollwood Players, and students at the University of Texas. The interview was conducted by Ilana Lydia of B Street Theatre.
A promotional image for a production of my most-performed short play, “Inevitable,” at the Road Theatre. The play also won the Andaluz and Audience Choice Awards at FUSION Theatre’s Festival, “The Seven,” and was a part of the Samuel French Short Play Festival. In 2023, it will make its debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as part of The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show.
“Inevitable…manages somehow to capture not one but a multiplicity of lives in a funny, energetic, highly charged, fast-moving and thoroughly engaging 10 minutes or so of marvelous theater. It is nothing less than a tour de force by a young woman…I suspect we will be hearing a lot more about her in the coming years.
The setup for the brief skit is that a young nerd meets a beautiful girl and tries to decide whether to pursue a potential affair. He spins out in his mind and diagrams on a whiteboard various scenarios, all of which end badly. Nevertheless, he ultimately decides to give it a try. Why not? It is pure magic.”
Click on the image to see an interview with me about “American Love,” as part of a production by NextStage Theatre Company.
A promotional image for “Jigsaw: An Inverted Murder Mystery,” which I contributed to along with some other amazing local Orlando talent. “Jigsaw” was produced at Orlando Fringe’s DigiFest in 2022 and then in-person at the Orlando Fringe Festival in 2023.
(Most of) The team at Whiskey Theatre Factory, the collective I co-founded in Orlando, Florida! (from l-r) Katye Thayer, Liz Bernstein, Meghan Pratt, Kate O’Claire, Charis Watler, and also a photo of Jodi Antenor lurking in the back! We’ve produced dozens of plays since our founding in February 2021, including several of mine! Learn more: WhiskeyTheatreFactory.com.
Actors performing my play, “Once Upon a Dream,” at Valencia College - my second time at this terrific student-led festival.
The cast of “American Love,” at the dress rehearsal for Playwrights’ Round Table’s 2018 production, which won the Audience Awards for Best Script and Best Show and went on to have several more productions.
Early table reading for Evie & Loren at the Hippodrome in Gainesville. I clearly had zero idea a photo was being taken! Busy with rewrites! :D
Click HERE to read the article on the new works festival in The Independent Florida Alligator.
Producing
Fragmented Play Festival in Cincinnati, October, 2019. That’s a good group of humans L-R: McLane Nagy, Stephen Woosley, Zoe Peterson, Robyn Rae Stype, Carlee Coulehan, and Leonard Peterson III, reading a play by Ryan Steffen.
I just love and believe in the power of new works so much, I couldn’t sit around and wait for other people to produce them :)
Those who know me, know I have no chill, especially when it comes to producing works that challenge, encourage, and inspire me. Here’s a small sample of what I’ve produced:
Three iterations of the Fragmented Theatre Festival, once in-person at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, and two virtually, with my friend Carlee Coulehan;
Through my collective, Whiskey Theatre Factory: Bi, Bi, Bi: An Evening of 10-Minute Staged Readings Celebrating and Exploring Bisexual and Pansexual Perspectives (producer); The Saints of West Orange County (staged reading) (producer); Cyrano on the Moon (virtual) (co-producer with Logan Turner), Romeo and Her Sister (producer); A Night of Nancy Rose Ostinato (producer); The Vast of Darkness - Winner of Best Play at the Orlando Fringe Festival (co-producer).
Through just me, Bethany Dickens Assaf LLC: The Consciousness at both the Cincinnati Fringe Festival and the Tampa Bay Theatre Festival (producer - Winner of Best Play at Tampa Bay Theatre Festival).
Want to work with me getting a project off the ground? Reach out and let’s see if it’s a fit! Best bet is to go through Whiskey Theatre Factory’s website and fill out our interest form (it’s on the home page).
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