Bill Cissna

Playwright, Novelist, Writer

275 Post Oak Road
Kernersville, NC 27284-8028

ph: (336) 996-0194

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Short Plays

Short Plays

In addition to full-length and one-act scripts, I have written a number of 10-minute plays (and one shorter one). Among those that have been produced or involved in readings are:

Communication Gap - 10-minute, EoSP #24, Greensboro, NC, February 2011; October 11-13, 2013, Vince Mazza ONE/Act Festival, BrooklynONE Productions. Published, Smith & Kraus' Best Ten Minute Plays: 2014 (June 2014). Oswego (NY) High School Drama Club, May 7-8, 2015; Arden Theatre Company's Apprentice Program, June 21-22, 2015; Dordt College (IA) Directors' Production, Nov. 19 & 21, 2015; Brooklyn Friends School, Brooklyn, NY, Jan. 29-30, 2016; Studio 1 10-Minute Marathon, Burlington, NC, April 29-30, 2016; Niagara University, New York, January 2017; University of Wisconsin-Platteville (May 4-6, 2017); Seattle Preparatory School (May 16 & 18, 2018); ARTC Short Plays (Feb. 15, 2020). Video production: Annapolis District Drama Group, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada (summer, 2020). Second production at U. of Wisconsin-Platteville, May 5-7, 2022.

Game of Chance -- 10-minute, premiered at NC 10 by 10 10-Minute Play Festival, Odyssey Stage, The Arts Center of Carrboro, September, 2021. Greensboro Playwrights; EOSP #40, March 30-April 3, 2022.

Venus/Mars -- 10-minute, BrooklynONE Productions, Brooklyn, NY. Zoom online production, May 15, 2020 - visit facebook.com/bkONE productions/ and find the video on that date; viewable on YouTube. "Venus/Mars" starts at around the 15- minute mark.

The Release -- 10-minute, premiered at EoSP #38, Greensboro, NC, March, 2019.

Losing It -- 10-minute, EoSP #33, Greensboro, NC, March 3-6, 2016.

Missing Dewey -- staged reading, Greensboro Fringe Festival, January 28, 2016, Scuppernong Books, Greensboro, NC; full productions, Studio 1 10-Minute Marathon, April 29-30, 2016; North Park Playwrights Festival, North Park Vaudeville & Candy Shoppe, San Diego, October 13-15, 2017.

At The Shrine - 10-minute, The Top :10, Franklin Park Arts Center, Purcellville, Va., August 2011; Studio 1 10-Minute Marathon, April 29-30, 2016; next: End of the Road Short Play Festival & Beach Party, Gulf Shores, AL, July 15-17, 2016.

Old Houses - 10-minute, EOSP #28, Greensboro, February 2013.

Where the Girls Are - 10-minute, EOSP #29, Greensboro, September 2013.

Crickets - short horror play, Stage Fright #5, Greensboro, Oct.-Nov., 2013.

Edmund's Ladies - 10-minute, Evening of Short Plays #30, Greensboro, NC, February 2014; Studio 1 10-Minute Marathon, Burlington, NC, April 29-30, 2016.

Some of the People, Some of the Time - 10-minute, reading at BrooklynONE productions, June 14, 2015; Studio 1 10-Minute Marathon, April 29-30, 2016.

Memory Lapse - horror genre, Stage Fright #2, Greensboro, NC,  October 2010; stage reading, "Get Your Fright On," Paper Lantern Theatre Co., October 2014.

She Won't Love You Like I Do (10-minute) - premiered at Studio 1's 10-Minute Marathon, Burlington NC, April 29-30, 2016; University of Wisconsin-Platteville, May 3-5, 2018, and May 5-7, 2022.

My Music (5-minute) - premiered at Studio 1's 10-Minute Marathon, Burlington, NC, April 29-30, 2016; EOSP #35, Greensboro (NC) Playwrights Forum, March, 2017.

The Road Not Taken (10-minute) - premiered at Dordt College, IA in mid-November, 2017; EOSP #36, Greensboro, NC, March, 2018.

A Lecture Gone Awry (10-minute) - premiered at Dordt College, IA in mid-November, 2017. Directing class final project, December 10, 2021 at Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI.

Singing a Different Tune (10-minute) - Vince Mazza ONE/Act Festival, BrooklynONE Productions, November 7-9, 2014.

Others are in various stages of drafting or submissions. These and other unproduced plays are available in the print book Collected Short Plays -- on Amazon.com.

 

 

Comm Gap Wisconsin

Communication Gap, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, May 4-6, 2017.

Old Houses, at Evening of Short Plays

Old Houses (Cameron Robles and Dave Burr), E0SP #28, February 2013.

10 Minute Marathon

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275 Post Oak Road
Kernersville, NC 27284-8028

ph: (336) 996-0194

wm.d.cissna@gmail.com