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Daniel Guyton
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1. I'M NOT GAY! - 6M,1F. Full-Length (80 min). Gary is a homophobe. The play
explores his prejudices in one of the funniest, most shocking tragedies of all
time. Revered and hated by critics across the globe, this play nearly caused
someone to choke to death on opening night in Iceland. Some say it was from
laughter. Others say it was the bile in the back of her throat. Regardless, you'll
never forget the experience as Gary tries to prove how "not gay" he truly is.
Mature audiences only.
---Performed at SUNY Albany in New York, 1999
---Performed at The Shandaken Play Fair in New York, 2001
---Performed at The University of Georgia in Athens, GA in 2001
---Performed at the Maureen Stapleton Theatre in New York, 2001
---Translated into Icelandic as Eg Er Ekki Hommi! in 2004
---Performed at the Loftkastalinn Theatre in Reykjavic, Iceland in 2005
---Performed at TSI/Play-Time in Manhattan, 2005
---Adapted by The Talented Talent Brothers in Manhattan, 2005
---Performed at The Author's Playhouse in New York, 2005
---Winner of the "Best Comedy" Award at The Author's Playhouse New Author Festival in 2005
---Performed by Talegate Productions in New York, 2008
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton, 2009
---Published by Lulu.com, 2009
---Produced by Baxter's End Productions as a short film, 2009
---Official Entry of the Lancaster Area Film Festival (LAFF) in PA, 2010
2. WHERE'S JULIE? - 5M,4F. Full length (90 min), 15-year old Julie runs away from
home to escape her abusive, alcoholic father, her desperately happy mother,
and her autistic younger brother, only to find herself "knocked up" by her too-
old Latino boyfriend, harassed by her older sister, and shunned by her Born-
Again Christian friend. But, when she contemplates abortion, that's when the
play gets really funny. Mature audiences only.
***Where’s Julie?, a play written by Kennedy Center short-play award winner Daniel Guyton,
takes audiences on a journey through the lives and living room of an exceptionally generic
American family. Correction: an American family who is exceptionally crazy! If you enjoy
the humor of South Park or Family Guy, you are sure to enjoy Guyton’s dark comedies, of
which this play is one of the best." (Kat Reynolds, Savannah College of Art & Design, 2009)
***I'll never forget seeing Where's Julie?... The Nintendo plugged into nothingness, the
audience, the involvement of the Stage Crew and their Romeo and Juliet, the Catholic guilt.
It took me back to being a kid in the 80s in a creepy, discomforting, and revelatory way."
(Ryan Wilson, University of Georgia, 2010)
---Winner of the Kennedy Center/ACTF Region II Short Play Award in 2001
---Performed at the Maureen Stapleton Theatre in New York, 2001
---Published in Best Students One-Acts: Volume 7 in 2002
---Performed at The Town & Gown Playhouse in 2003
---Performed at The Author's Playhouse in New York, 2006
---Performed at Prince Rupert Secondary School in British Columbia, Canada in 2008
---Performed at The Spirit of the Mask Festival in Canada in 2008
---Winner of the Northwest Zone High School Drama Festival Best Production, Best Actress,
Best Supporting Actress, and Best Sound Awards in 2008
---Published by Lulu.com in 2009
---Performed at Belton High School in Belton, MO in 2009
3. THE MOTHER OF GOD VISITS HELL - 7M,7F (flexible gender). Full Length (90 min),
Based on a line from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; and
written in rhyming Iambic pentameter. The Virgin Mary travels to hell to
comfort the souls in torment. While there, she sacrifices her own soul to save
all of mankind. What erupts is a war between Heaven and Hell, with our souls
as the prize.
***The Mother of God Visits Hell by Daniel Guyton... is tightly structured with an amazing
premise... The story captivates you, it has a premise that is delectable to the nth degree..."
(What the Butler Saw theatre website, 2009)
***The Mother of God Visits Hell has my strongest recommendation. It holds out the hope
that American playwrights will move above realism. What's more, Mr. Guyton's talents as a
poet and a dramatist are stellar, and the script is a model for other dramatists." (Steve
Capra, producer for the Living Theatre in NYC, 2009)
---Performed at Stageworks Theatre in Tampa, FL, 2008
---Performed at the Town & Gown Playhouse in Athens, GA, 2009
---Performed at the Alive Theatre's Cherry Poppin' Play Festival in LA, 2009
---Published in Alive Theatre's Cherry Poppin' Plays 2009, 2009
---Performed on WUGA (97.1 fm Athens, GA) as a Radio Drama, 2009
---Performed at the Living Theatre in Manhattan, NY, 2009
---Published by Lulu.com in 2009
---Published by Production Scripts in 2009
4. ATTIC - 3M,1F. One-Act (35 min), A dark, poetic journey into the mind of a
troubled teenager; it combines poetry, audience interaction, and dark humor in
a unique storytelling manner, inspired aesthetically by Edgar Allan Poe.
***This is the most innovative, original play I've ever seen... from a college student." (Gary
Garrison, executive director of the Dramatists Guild, 2004)
---Winner of the Kennedy Center/ACTF Region IV Short Play Award 2004
---Performed by The Incumbo Theater Company in Manhattan, 2004
---Published by Original Works Publishing in 2005
---Performed at TSI/Play-Time in Manhattan, 2007
---Performed at The University of Georgia in 2007
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
5. GEORGIE GETS A FACELIFT - 1M,2F. One-Act (12 min), A young man tries to kill
himself in this dark, disturbing comedy, but an accidental murder puts things
in perspective. Mature audiences only.
***Georgie Gets a Facelift is a dramedy about a guy who loses his job, and about some of the
bad decisions he's made involving himself, his mother and a girl scout. Not like you’re
thinking, though." (Patricia Sindelar, The Omaha Reader, 2009)
***[Eric] Grant-Leanna... stood out in the evening's first one-act entitled Georgie Gets a
Facelift, portraying a suicidal schlemiel." (Mark Robinson, Omaha Theater Examiner, 2009)
***The first offering, Georgie Gets a Facelift by Daniel Guyton, gave Liz Mulhern a chance to
shine as an airhead mother pooh-poohing the problems of her suicidal and psychopathic son."
(Warren Francke, The Omaha Reader, 2009)
---Performed at the Maureen Stapleton Theatre in New York, 2002
---Performed at The University of Georgia in 2003
---Finalist in the Kennedy Center/ACTF Region IV 10-Min Play Competition 2003
---Performed by The Incumbo Theater Company in Manhattan, 2004
---Semi-Finalist in The Riant Theatre's Strawberry One-Act Festival in Manhattan, 2005
---Performed on Truth Unvarnished Lacquered Up Shiny (Verizon Public TV) 2007
---Published in Desert Road's One Acts of Note 2008, 2009
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
---Produced at the Shelterbelt Theatre's Shelterskelter Festival XIV in Omaha, NE, 2009
---Published by Production Scripts as a Digital Download, 2009
---Produced by Third Eye Theatre as part of the Grand Guignol Festival in Portland, OR, 2010
---Produced by The Pegasus Theatre in Dallas, TX, 2010
6. MILO & BARBARA - 1M,1F. One-Act (15 min), Barbara's life is turned upside-down
when her husband suddenly vanishes without a warning. When he returns
four weeks later, they each try to pick up the pieces.
---Finalist in the Kennedy Center/ACTF Region IV 10-min Play Competition 2002
---Performed at the Maureen Stapleton Theatre in New York, 2002
---Performed at The University of Georgia in Athens, GA 2002
---Performed at The Author's Playhouse in New York, 2005
---Performed at Left of Center Theatre in LA in 2008
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
7. SPAT! - 2M,1F. One-Act (10 min), A man and wife have a horrible argument over
the wife's affair with an illegal immigrant.
---Performed at Saturday Night Lites in LA in 2005
---Published in Quick & Painless: Volume I in 2005
---Performed at The Author's Playhouse in New York, 2005
---Adapted by The Talented Talent Brothers in New York, 2005
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
8. DEATH OF A SNOWMAN - 1M, 1F. One-Act (10 min), Frosty and a little girl discuss
the afterlife in this existential Yuletide comedy.
***[Michal] Shelton and Amanda Lynn Meyer team up nicely in Death of a Snowman, a
poignant moment between a girl who has lost her mother and her snowman, who explains the
circle of life in the coolest way possible." (Elizabeth Musgrave, Gotta Go! Newsletter, 2009)
***Best of the bunch is Daniel Guyton’s Death of a Snowman, in which actor Michael Shelton
gives the best performance I’ve seen from him (and I’ve seen some fine ones) as a snowman
discussing life and death with a young girl (Amanda Lynn Meyer)." (Lou Harry, Indianapolis
Business Journal, 2009)
***Nor is [A Very Phoenix Xmas 4] all fluff. One short play has a little girl charmingly but
profoundly discussing death and the after-life with a compassionate snow man, for example.
(Death of a Snowman, by Daniel Guyton)." (Hope Bough, Indy Theatre Habit, 2009)
---Produced by the Phoenix Theatre's A Very Phoenix Xmas 4 Festival in Indianapolis, 2009
---Published by Heuer Publishing in 2009
9. UTOPIA 69 - Full-Length Screenplay (2 hrs) - Co-written with Rachael Lambert.
Somewhere betwixt A Brave New World and Woody Allen's Sleeper rests Utopia
69; a dystopian nightmare fantasy in which illness, wars, and poverty have
been erased. In their stead is moral decay, a lack of love, and a whole lot of
one-night stands...
---Unproduced
10. A FRIEND TO ALL THE LITTLE GUYS - 3M,1F. One-Act (40 min); Two mob thugs
pressure a poor schlub into doing their dirty work. Ey, it's freakin' hilarious.
---Performed at The Author's Playhouse in New York, 2005
---Performed at The University of Georgia in 2005
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
11. GOT CHANGE FOR A TWO? - 3M,2F. One-Act (45 min) - Co-written with Spencer
Temkin. Two friends get drunk, discuss money, and bad-mouth the opposite sex.
Well... not as much as they bad-mouth each other.
---Performed at SUNY Albany in 1999
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
12. YOU TRIPPIN? - 4M. One-Act (10 min); 4 bored teenagers plan to shoot up their
high school. Is it a game? Or are they just "trippin?" It's a very dark comedy.
---Performed at SUNY Albany in 2000
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
13. ROMANCE IS DEAD - 1M. Monologue (20 min). A medical school professor sleeps
with his cadavers. And he likes it.
---Performed at The University of Georgia in 2004
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
14. FATHER AND SON - 2M, various voices. One-Act (10 min), God becomes an atheist.
Hijinks ensue.
---Performed at The Someday Lounge in Portland, Oregon in 2008
---Performed at Theatre! Theatre! in Portland, Oregon in 2008
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
15. MACBREATH - 5M,5F. One-Act (25 min), a parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Set
in corporate America. Highlights include Dunkin', the president of the Donut
company, getting killed by a scalding cup of coffee.
---Published in Dimensions Magazine in 1995
---Performed at Sachem High School in 1995
16. DON WANNABE -1M,1F. One-Act (10 min); A handsome Hollywood player actually
wants to be sincere with women, but he just can't seem to do it. His inner
monologue keeps taking over...
---Performed at the Maureen Stapleton Theatre in New York, 2002
17. IN THE SHADOW OF A WAR - 2M. One-Act (10 min), A nod to Samuel Beckett,
and a satire of this blasted war. Two roommates await the cannon fire of an
impending army.
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
18. HALF-WIT - 2M,1F. One-Act (1 min), A couple neglect their unstable father
because he is not "socially acceptable."
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
19. THE ARTIST - 2M. One-Act (10 min), A young artist struggles against the
Industrial Revolution in this Steampunk-style universe.
---Performed at the Process Theatre's Read-A-Thon in Atlanta, GA, 2009
20. MID-DAY AT THE GREASY SPOON - 2M. One-Act (10 min), Two friends meet at a
greasy spoon diner, eat lousy soup and talk about love.
---Unproduced
21. BOYS NIGHT IN - 2M. One-Act (10 min), The power goes out on the hottest night
of the year. As the thermostat rises, so does the tension between these two
roommates.
------Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
22. BEDFORD'S STY - 3M. One-Act (10 min), A grown man named Bedford refuses to
clean up his pig sty of a bedroom - even when a ghost tells him he has to!
---Unproduced
explores his prejudices in one of the funniest, most shocking tragedies of all
time. Revered and hated by critics across the globe, this play nearly caused
someone to choke to death on opening night in Iceland. Some say it was from
laughter. Others say it was the bile in the back of her throat. Regardless, you'll
never forget the experience as Gary tries to prove how "not gay" he truly is.
Mature audiences only.
---Performed at SUNY Albany in New York, 1999
---Performed at The Shandaken Play Fair in New York, 2001
---Performed at The University of Georgia in Athens, GA in 2001
---Performed at the Maureen Stapleton Theatre in New York, 2001
---Translated into Icelandic as Eg Er Ekki Hommi! in 2004
---Performed at the Loftkastalinn Theatre in Reykjavic, Iceland in 2005
---Performed at TSI/Play-Time in Manhattan, 2005
---Adapted by The Talented Talent Brothers in Manhattan, 2005
---Performed at The Author's Playhouse in New York, 2005
---Winner of the "Best Comedy" Award at The Author's Playhouse New Author Festival in 2005
---Performed by Talegate Productions in New York, 2008
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton, 2009
---Published by Lulu.com, 2009
---Produced by Baxter's End Productions as a short film, 2009
---Official Entry of the Lancaster Area Film Festival (LAFF) in PA, 2010
2. WHERE'S JULIE? - 5M,4F. Full length (90 min), 15-year old Julie runs away from
home to escape her abusive, alcoholic father, her desperately happy mother,
and her autistic younger brother, only to find herself "knocked up" by her too-
old Latino boyfriend, harassed by her older sister, and shunned by her Born-
Again Christian friend. But, when she contemplates abortion, that's when the
play gets really funny. Mature audiences only.
***Where’s Julie?, a play written by Kennedy Center short-play award winner Daniel Guyton,
takes audiences on a journey through the lives and living room of an exceptionally generic
American family. Correction: an American family who is exceptionally crazy! If you enjoy
the humor of South Park or Family Guy, you are sure to enjoy Guyton’s dark comedies, of
which this play is one of the best." (Kat Reynolds, Savannah College of Art & Design, 2009)
***I'll never forget seeing Where's Julie?... The Nintendo plugged into nothingness, the
audience, the involvement of the Stage Crew and their Romeo and Juliet, the Catholic guilt.
It took me back to being a kid in the 80s in a creepy, discomforting, and revelatory way."
(Ryan Wilson, University of Georgia, 2010)
---Winner of the Kennedy Center/ACTF Region II Short Play Award in 2001
---Performed at the Maureen Stapleton Theatre in New York, 2001
---Published in Best Students One-Acts: Volume 7 in 2002
---Performed at The Town & Gown Playhouse in 2003
---Performed at The Author's Playhouse in New York, 2006
---Performed at Prince Rupert Secondary School in British Columbia, Canada in 2008
---Performed at The Spirit of the Mask Festival in Canada in 2008
---Winner of the Northwest Zone High School Drama Festival Best Production, Best Actress,
Best Supporting Actress, and Best Sound Awards in 2008
---Published by Lulu.com in 2009
---Performed at Belton High School in Belton, MO in 2009
3. THE MOTHER OF GOD VISITS HELL - 7M,7F (flexible gender). Full Length (90 min),
Based on a line from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; and
written in rhyming Iambic pentameter. The Virgin Mary travels to hell to
comfort the souls in torment. While there, she sacrifices her own soul to save
all of mankind. What erupts is a war between Heaven and Hell, with our souls
as the prize.
***The Mother of God Visits Hell by Daniel Guyton... is tightly structured with an amazing
premise... The story captivates you, it has a premise that is delectable to the nth degree..."
(What the Butler Saw theatre website, 2009)
***The Mother of God Visits Hell has my strongest recommendation. It holds out the hope
that American playwrights will move above realism. What's more, Mr. Guyton's talents as a
poet and a dramatist are stellar, and the script is a model for other dramatists." (Steve
Capra, producer for the Living Theatre in NYC, 2009)
---Performed at Stageworks Theatre in Tampa, FL, 2008
---Performed at the Town & Gown Playhouse in Athens, GA, 2009
---Performed at the Alive Theatre's Cherry Poppin' Play Festival in LA, 2009
---Published in Alive Theatre's Cherry Poppin' Plays 2009, 2009
---Performed on WUGA (97.1 fm Athens, GA) as a Radio Drama, 2009
---Performed at the Living Theatre in Manhattan, NY, 2009
---Published by Lulu.com in 2009
---Published by Production Scripts in 2009
4. ATTIC - 3M,1F. One-Act (35 min), A dark, poetic journey into the mind of a
troubled teenager; it combines poetry, audience interaction, and dark humor in
a unique storytelling manner, inspired aesthetically by Edgar Allan Poe.
***This is the most innovative, original play I've ever seen... from a college student." (Gary
Garrison, executive director of the Dramatists Guild, 2004)
---Winner of the Kennedy Center/ACTF Region IV Short Play Award 2004
---Performed by The Incumbo Theater Company in Manhattan, 2004
---Published by Original Works Publishing in 2005
---Performed at TSI/Play-Time in Manhattan, 2007
---Performed at The University of Georgia in 2007
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
5. GEORGIE GETS A FACELIFT - 1M,2F. One-Act (12 min), A young man tries to kill
himself in this dark, disturbing comedy, but an accidental murder puts things
in perspective. Mature audiences only.
***Georgie Gets a Facelift is a dramedy about a guy who loses his job, and about some of the
bad decisions he's made involving himself, his mother and a girl scout. Not like you’re
thinking, though." (Patricia Sindelar, The Omaha Reader, 2009)
***[Eric] Grant-Leanna... stood out in the evening's first one-act entitled Georgie Gets a
Facelift, portraying a suicidal schlemiel." (Mark Robinson, Omaha Theater Examiner, 2009)
***The first offering, Georgie Gets a Facelift by Daniel Guyton, gave Liz Mulhern a chance to
shine as an airhead mother pooh-poohing the problems of her suicidal and psychopathic son."
(Warren Francke, The Omaha Reader, 2009)
---Performed at the Maureen Stapleton Theatre in New York, 2002
---Performed at The University of Georgia in 2003
---Finalist in the Kennedy Center/ACTF Region IV 10-Min Play Competition 2003
---Performed by The Incumbo Theater Company in Manhattan, 2004
---Semi-Finalist in The Riant Theatre's Strawberry One-Act Festival in Manhattan, 2005
---Performed on Truth Unvarnished Lacquered Up Shiny (Verizon Public TV) 2007
---Published in Desert Road's One Acts of Note 2008, 2009
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
---Produced at the Shelterbelt Theatre's Shelterskelter Festival XIV in Omaha, NE, 2009
---Published by Production Scripts as a Digital Download, 2009
---Produced by Third Eye Theatre as part of the Grand Guignol Festival in Portland, OR, 2010
---Produced by The Pegasus Theatre in Dallas, TX, 2010
6. MILO & BARBARA - 1M,1F. One-Act (15 min), Barbara's life is turned upside-down
when her husband suddenly vanishes without a warning. When he returns
four weeks later, they each try to pick up the pieces.
---Finalist in the Kennedy Center/ACTF Region IV 10-min Play Competition 2002
---Performed at the Maureen Stapleton Theatre in New York, 2002
---Performed at The University of Georgia in Athens, GA 2002
---Performed at The Author's Playhouse in New York, 2005
---Performed at Left of Center Theatre in LA in 2008
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
7. SPAT! - 2M,1F. One-Act (10 min), A man and wife have a horrible argument over
the wife's affair with an illegal immigrant.
---Performed at Saturday Night Lites in LA in 2005
---Published in Quick & Painless: Volume I in 2005
---Performed at The Author's Playhouse in New York, 2005
---Adapted by The Talented Talent Brothers in New York, 2005
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
8. DEATH OF A SNOWMAN - 1M, 1F. One-Act (10 min), Frosty and a little girl discuss
the afterlife in this existential Yuletide comedy.
***[Michal] Shelton and Amanda Lynn Meyer team up nicely in Death of a Snowman, a
poignant moment between a girl who has lost her mother and her snowman, who explains the
circle of life in the coolest way possible." (Elizabeth Musgrave, Gotta Go! Newsletter, 2009)
***Best of the bunch is Daniel Guyton’s Death of a Snowman, in which actor Michael Shelton
gives the best performance I’ve seen from him (and I’ve seen some fine ones) as a snowman
discussing life and death with a young girl (Amanda Lynn Meyer)." (Lou Harry, Indianapolis
Business Journal, 2009)
***Nor is [A Very Phoenix Xmas 4] all fluff. One short play has a little girl charmingly but
profoundly discussing death and the after-life with a compassionate snow man, for example.
(Death of a Snowman, by Daniel Guyton)." (Hope Bough, Indy Theatre Habit, 2009)
---Produced by the Phoenix Theatre's A Very Phoenix Xmas 4 Festival in Indianapolis, 2009
---Published by Heuer Publishing in 2009
9. UTOPIA 69 - Full-Length Screenplay (2 hrs) - Co-written with Rachael Lambert.
Somewhere betwixt A Brave New World and Woody Allen's Sleeper rests Utopia
69; a dystopian nightmare fantasy in which illness, wars, and poverty have
been erased. In their stead is moral decay, a lack of love, and a whole lot of
one-night stands...
---Unproduced
10. A FRIEND TO ALL THE LITTLE GUYS - 3M,1F. One-Act (40 min); Two mob thugs
pressure a poor schlub into doing their dirty work. Ey, it's freakin' hilarious.
---Performed at The Author's Playhouse in New York, 2005
---Performed at The University of Georgia in 2005
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
11. GOT CHANGE FOR A TWO? - 3M,2F. One-Act (45 min) - Co-written with Spencer
Temkin. Two friends get drunk, discuss money, and bad-mouth the opposite sex.
Well... not as much as they bad-mouth each other.
---Performed at SUNY Albany in 1999
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
12. YOU TRIPPIN? - 4M. One-Act (10 min); 4 bored teenagers plan to shoot up their
high school. Is it a game? Or are they just "trippin?" It's a very dark comedy.
---Performed at SUNY Albany in 2000
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
13. ROMANCE IS DEAD - 1M. Monologue (20 min). A medical school professor sleeps
with his cadavers. And he likes it.
---Performed at The University of Georgia in 2004
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
14. FATHER AND SON - 2M, various voices. One-Act (10 min), God becomes an atheist.
Hijinks ensue.
---Performed at The Someday Lounge in Portland, Oregon in 2008
---Performed at Theatre! Theatre! in Portland, Oregon in 2008
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
15. MACBREATH - 5M,5F. One-Act (25 min), a parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Set
in corporate America. Highlights include Dunkin', the president of the Donut
company, getting killed by a scalding cup of coffee.
---Published in Dimensions Magazine in 1995
---Performed at Sachem High School in 1995
16. DON WANNABE -1M,1F. One-Act (10 min); A handsome Hollywood player actually
wants to be sincere with women, but he just can't seem to do it. His inner
monologue keeps taking over...
---Performed at the Maureen Stapleton Theatre in New York, 2002
17. IN THE SHADOW OF A WAR - 2M. One-Act (10 min), A nod to Samuel Beckett,
and a satire of this blasted war. Two roommates await the cannon fire of an
impending army.
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
18. HALF-WIT - 2M,1F. One-Act (1 min), A couple neglect their unstable father
because he is not "socially acceptable."
---Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
19. THE ARTIST - 2M. One-Act (10 min), A young artist struggles against the
Industrial Revolution in this Steampunk-style universe.
---Performed at the Process Theatre's Read-A-Thon in Atlanta, GA, 2009
20. MID-DAY AT THE GREASY SPOON - 2M. One-Act (10 min), Two friends meet at a
greasy spoon diner, eat lousy soup and talk about love.
---Unproduced
21. BOYS NIGHT IN - 2M. One-Act (10 min), The power goes out on the hottest night
of the year. As the thermostat rises, so does the tension between these two
roommates.
------Published in The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays), 2009
22. BEDFORD'S STY - 3M. One-Act (10 min), A grown man named Bedford refuses to
clean up his pig sty of a bedroom - even when a ghost tells him he has to!
---Unproduced
Got Change for a Two?
