A Blind Play

You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. A timid man with a dark secret tries to mend his broken relationship with his brother.  The Man from the Egg was written and directed by Michael Mau, And stars Andrew Hunter as Jamie Bryce Townsend as Cliff Annie Weaver as Mother Christa Burton as the Balloon Lady And introducing Lucien deMan y McGeehan as Young Jamie T...

You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Two Albanian refugees find comfort in their clandestine dance rendezvous while surviving the lasting trauma of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. Adapted from the short story "Best Launderette," first published in Fifth Wednesday Journal. Best Launderette stars Ethan Herschenfeld as Beznik Vassilea Terzaki as Bora Ir...

You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. This season on a Blind Play of Social Forces: BEST LAUNDERETTE: THE MAN FROM THE EGG LEFT & LEAVING THIS IS OUR NORTH DAKOTA GINA #ENGENDERED SLEEPWALKER X MARLBOROS, THE KING, AND 8 O’CLOCK BEAN GREETINGS FROM HAITI HOTEL DEL SOL ANOINT YOUR ENGINE FOR A HEAVENLY RIDE TEN SECONDS SIGNS Starting May 4 and every Thur...

You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Invited to a "Predator/Prey Summit," Lion, Gazelle, Polar Bear, Seal, Crocodile, and Pelican must decide if they are willing to make peace or tear one another to pieces. Adapted from the short story published in Ferocious Quarterly, Best Laid Schemes was inspired by a work of art by illustrator Emory Allen and...

You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Following a bigoted lesson on the September 11 tragedy, Sara is brutally attacked by a classmate. As school officials downplay the incident, the teacher who inspired the violence defends his backward beliefs.  “ A Blind Play Of Social Forces” is adapted from an unpublished story originally written in 2014 and performed...

You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Inspired by a painting by Bo Bartlett , “Papa” was published in the British journal Firewords Quarterly in 2014. In 2018, the story was adapted into a staged reading. It is one of two stories I wrote about Albanian refugees. Like many of my stories, this one features a young female protagonist (voiced by my daughter). N...

You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. A childhood memory of a racist encounter is brought to the surface when a young man once again faces a bigot. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” -WB Yeats, The Second Coming In the summer of 1994, I was a college student working as a stocker at Piggly Wiggly in Montevallo,...

You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. After Grace is institutionalized for a potentially dangerous "disorder," she learns to embrace her powers and grow her self-worth.  “To The Touch” was published in the 2020 edition of Jelly Bucket Literary Journal under the pseudonym Gina Urban. That year it was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. This story grew...

You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. Abandoned by her mother, twelve-year-old "Kid" takes on the mother role to care for her only father figure, her profoundly disabled step-father Pal. A visit from her classmate Evander, terrified by what he sees in the house, illuminates just how precarious this unconventional relationship is. Pal is adapted fr...

You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. When awkward teen Joey discovers that Shannon, the girl he is obsessed with is actually a platypus from another planet, he is forced to come to terms with his own definitions of gender, sexuality, and friendship.  Our second episode is adapted from the short story “Platypus” which began as a writing challenge in 2014. I...

You can leave a note for a writer or cast member. Click here to text the show. "They hate because they fear, and they fear because they feel that the deepest feelings of their lives are being assaulted and outraged. And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces." Richard Wright, Native Son. From Mau Haus Productions comes the anthology podcast series...