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2022 “Script Tease of Short Plays” Competition
LIVE FROM THE MEMPHIS MORGUE, by Tom Steward
On the night Elvis Presley died, his private physician is caught selling his patient’s leftover prescription pills to a local drug dealer in a Memphis morgue.
B17, by James Hebert
If there’s a first for everything, there’s also a last — and for Olivia, who is struggling to deal with some difficult truths, that notion has become an obsession. When she crosses paths with (or, more accurately, crashes into) Max — a veteran rocker whose own life has gotten a little out of tune — the stage is set for a reckoning over music, friendship and the power of an old song on a jukebox.
About the Authors…
Tom Steward wrote the one-act play LIVE AT FOLSOM PRISON, which was selected for New Village Arts’ Final Draft New Play Festival 2020. In 2018, Tom wrote and performed THE BOND SHOW at San Diego International Fringe Festival. Other produced plays include THE FUTURE OF COFFEE HOUSES (Navigators Theater, NY).
James Hebert is an Encinitas-based writer and the former theater critic for the San Diego Union-Tribune. While he has written about thousands of plays, this is his first try at writing one of his own. James has served as a Pulitzer Prize juror and has won numerous awards for his journalism, but so far none for his surfing.
Tom Steward James Hebert