 Missouri Playwright Hartley Wright |
PLAYS
A Successful and Produced Playwright
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In the past decade, five of my plays have been world premieres. I am incredibly grateful. Let's put things in perspective. I am one working playwright. Among many. In 2016, there are about fifteen to twenty-five thousand working playwrights in the United States. On the average, I will create one new play a year. My guess is, so will most of those other playwrights. Together, we will likely introduce 20,000 new plays into a nation only capable of producing 2,000 new plays per year. What this means is ninety percent of all new work will NEVER be produced. Since only one out of ten plays will ever make it to the stage, any playwright can reasonably expect to receive one world premiere per decade. So, when you consider these facts, I have to consider myself a successful and produced playwright. Even so, please don't misunderstand me: I don't think of myself as a genius; most of my plays fall within the ninety percent. But knowing I can birth just one creative and original play some might consider to be scintillating or of exceptional intellect fuels my passion to write each new play better than my last so it will become worthy of the ten. What an honor and privilege it is to write for audiences like yours.
MOST RECENT PRODUCTIONS
RICOCHET
November, 2015
Starting Gate New Play Festival
Talking Horse Theatre
(Columbia, Missouri)
HER SECRET VALENTINE
November, 2015
Starting Gate New Play Festival
Talking Horse Theatre (Columbia, Missouri)
THE HEART OF STONE
• June and July 2013 (Nixa, Missouri)
• Jan/Feb 2004 (Ozark, Missouri)
•May/June 2001 (Jefferson City, Missouri)
WINDOW PAINS
• April 2013 (Wausau, Wisconsin)
• February 2012 (Columbia, Missouri)
• November 2010 (St Louis, Missouri)
• February 2010 (Missouri Legislature)
• January 2010 (University of Missouri)
GIRL TROUBLE
• Sept 2006 (Jefferson City, Missouri)
•July/August 2002 (Jefferson City, Missouri)
ELI JOE January 2009; University of Missouri
THE GREAT DISCOVERY
April 2004, Cornerstone Playhouse
READY FOR THE STAGE
Full Length Plays
GIRL TROUBLE
THE GREAT DISCOVERY
THE HEART OF STONE
WAKE
WINDOW PAINS
One Act
THE SECOND BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT NEVER
STEPS
THREATS AND CONFESSIONS IN THE GALLERY OF COWS
Ten Minute
ANGER ASTRAY
DRESS CODE
ELI JOE
HER SECRET VALENTINE
MASKS
MISSING TIME OUT
WITH OR WITHOUT
WHO POKED THE ELEPHANT?
ON THE STAGE
IN THE WORKS
CUTTING GLASS HOUSES / 10 minute
HEARTS OVER LONDON / One Act
SHUTTERING STAR / 10 minute
WAKE / Full Length
RECENTLY WORKSHOPPED
CABRIOLET / One Act
September 2014
SHUTTERING STAR / Ten Minute
October 2015
VICTIMS OF GRACE / Full Length
February 2015 and September 2015
WITH OR WITHOUT / Ten Minute
October 2015
