Is My Verse Alive?
Steve's latest play, Is My Verse Alive? is based on the letters, diaries, poetry, and biographies of Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Mabel Loomis Todd and tells the story of Dickinson's and Higginson's epistolary relationship, which began in 1862 when she sent him four poems and asked him "Is my verse alive?" Higginson, an author and ardent abolitionist and feminist, had trouble deciphering her poems' meanings, but he instantly knew that she was a genius. This seventy-minute play explores their relationship and Higginson and Todd's posthumously publishing her poetry for the first time, four years after her death.
Read the full script.
Read the full script.
Inside the Tornado: A COMMUNITY'S RESPONSE TO CATACLYSM THROUGH THEATRE
In January 2012, the first assignment I gave my Playwriting class was for each of them to write a ten-minute play in any style on any subject touching upon the devastating F4 tornado that hit Tuscaloosa on April 27, 2011. There were no limitations on what each student could write except it had to be performed in ten minutes maximum. Michael Carr from Shelton State Community College wanted to produce a theatrical event which could provide some closure for the community. On May 3, 2012 Inside the Tornado was produced and performed at Shelton State in collaboration with the writers and several actors from UA.
I have put together an anthology of these original plays, along with photos from the production, and essays from Michael Carr and myself on the production, and an essay from Dr. Steve Jacobs from Religious Studies at UA on the healing nature of theatre on a community after a cataclysmic disaster.
Pending publication. Watch for news and updates.
Read the review of the production.
I have put together an anthology of these original plays, along with photos from the production, and essays from Michael Carr and myself on the production, and an essay from Dr. Steve Jacobs from Religious Studies at UA on the healing nature of theatre on a community after a cataclysmic disaster.
Pending publication. Watch for news and updates.
Read the review of the production.
WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? AN ONTOLOGICAL DISCOURSE ON STAGE ADAPTATIONS FROM NOVELS
This book addresses the history of stage adaptations from novels in the American theatre, the less than respectful treatment on the part of many critics, and the successes both with the public and the critical establishment of such plays as Uncle Tom's Cabin (George L. Aiken from Harriet Beecher Stowe), Look Homeward Angel (Ketti Frings from Thomas Wolfe, Pulitzer Prize), Benito Cereno (Robert Lowell from Herman Melville), All the Way Home (Tad Mosel from James Agee, Pulitzer Prize), The Grapes of Wrath (Frank Galati from John Steinbeck), and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Dale Wasserman from Ken Kesey).
CURRENTLY IN-PROGRESS.
CURRENTLY IN-PROGRESS.