Listed below are plays 20-18. I’m one play behind (#21) and I still need to write today’s (#22), but I’m pretty confident that I will. Play 20: Our Last Dance – When Hector hires an actress to make his ex-fiance, Salma, jealous at the wedding of their mutual friend, things don’t go as planned… but…
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Conrad's a San Francisco Bay Area Playwright. He loves long walks upon the concrete and rainy days. Aside from writing words for actors to regurgitate into an audience's ears and eyes, he loves sports, 90's R&B, and learning.
Plays 9 – 17. Getting the Hang of It.
So I’ve been on a crazy writing binge as of late just trying to get caught up in with 31 Plays | 31 Days. And this process has taught be that I LOVE to write stories in script format! I still have to write today’s play, which I’ll do after the Niner Game (GO NINERS!),…
Day 8: A Lost Heart
The Script: A Lost Heart A bored and jaded police officer comes to grip with her own lost heart when she loses her daughter. Process: A one-page play written in 30 minutes during lunch. Busy day and this is all I had time to write. But the thing is, I was really focused on it….
Day 7: Leaving Christmas Past
The Script: Leaving Christmas Past While JEFF wonders why some people keep their Christmas lights up in July, JORDAN wishes that the memories of Christmas would just stay in the past. Process: Terrible. The process of finding new plays to write ever day is starting to get a little difficult. I think I wrote down…
Having a Case of the Blocks
It happens. Sometimes, I just don’t have “it”. This morning at 5:30am I woke up trying to find an idea for my daily play. Didn’t happen. I usually try to force it, but after absorbing my lesson from the other morning (write by being inspired) and I wasn’t really inspired by anything. Hoping that it…
Day 6: Cornered
The Script: Cornered Nicky Coletti reached the pinnacle of his profession by becoming a boxing referee at the 2012 London Olympics, but when he’s faced with a decision to provide honor to the sport he loves and the means to save his granddaughter’s life, he finds himself CORNERED. The Process: I actually started out writing…
Day 5: Russian Rou-Wrong
The Script: Russian Rou-Wrong Chase’s grandfather lays dead in the next room as her boyfriend freaks out when she knows it could’ve been him instead. World record time for a 4 pager 🙂 Well, maybe not, but glad I pulled this off in an hour. Process: Write and write fast. Inspiration: Watching the teaser for…
Day 4: The Infinite Line Between Me, Lolo, and Loco
The Script: The Infinite Line Between Me, Lolo, and Lolo A young man relates with an audience his relationship with his aging Grandfather’s active imagination. But when a tragic event is unearthed, the question of “Whose imagination is it that’s truly overactive?” Here I am at the scene of where many of my plays have…
Day 3: Romero and Julie
The Script: Romero and Julie A homeless man, ROMERO, and his foil, a city worker named JULIE, battle over the possession of a home, aka a bench, in Golden Gate park. Okay, this was a rough morning and play to get through. All I had was a basic premise that I thought about for like…
Day 2: Chicken Sandos, Tiaras, and the War In Between
The Script: Chicken Sandos, Tiaras, and the War In Between A daughter’s betrayal causes a father to question what she loves more: her two dads or a Chicken Sandwich? UPDATE: Yay, I found the link I was refering to below: Chick-fil-A Anti-Gay Controversy: Gay Employees Speak Out Welps, honestly, this was scary because I had…