Brendan Bourque-Sheil

Memorial is a massive, mid-gentrified neighborhood in the American South, where just about every kind of American life is crammed into fifteen chaotic miles. When a group of Memorial High School Theatre students get their production of The Laramie Project shut down by the school board, they decide to make their own piece of documentary theatre about the fight to get it back, which takes them to the frontlines of a hijinks-filled culture war, guaranteed to transform Memorial, and all of them along with it. The Sparkle Wars is a mockumentary about how communities choose the stories of who they are.

Hallie Heaton is a beloved Nurse Practitioner in a tiny Texas town beset by every economic and existential struggle one could think up. But after showing up in the ER one night with enough Oxy in her system to kill an elephant, she loses her medical license and has to forge a new path to treating her patients...by teaming up with a local witch and a drug dealer, to bypass the medical establishment. Magic and Medicine collide and coalesce in Sunrise Coven, a dark comedy about healers, healing, and pharmaceuticals, in a town that’s barely holding on.

[FULL-LENGTH PLAY] Pasadena, Texas, 1973. Down the street from the famous Gilley's country-western night club, an all-night diner has revamped itself into a Honky Tonk that celebrates “Pasadena Pride and Houston Heritage.” This should be great news for Freddy Espinoza, the diner’s oddball fry cook, a third generation Tejano and Pasadenian who jumps at the chance to put his old family recipes on the menu and cement his family story into the history of his hometown. But when he’s told his family’s food is not “on concept,” Freddy bypasses his boss by creating a secret menu that’s too good to stay secret for long. And once one secret comes out, many others follow. With the help of a Brechtian chorus, ghosts, radio hosts, some historical reenactors who can't help breaking character, and Willie Nelson, Secret Menu takes the audience on a tasting tour of some lesser known History.

Recipient of the 2025 Local History Play Commission from San Jacinto College South Theatre & Film.

Written by Brendan Bourque-Sheil with Madison Smith.

During World War One, the British government hired Girl Scouts to act as spies and couriers to protect King and country; this is the story of a troop who took their jobs way too seriously. Dogrose Patrol is a coming-of-age spy dramedy that follows a troop of teenage spies, as they investigate a mystery that calls into question where their true loyalties are.

A one-hour comedy thriller about modern conspiracy theory culture. Alex, the host of a successful podcast, is in the middle of a media storm, after hosting a controversial interview on her show, when Parker, an old friend from high school shows up at her door, to pitch her a wild story that he believes will launch both of them into the national spotlight. When Alex says no, the ensuing debate delves into conspiracy theory culture, mental illness, and how we engage with people who's interpretation of reality is fundamentally different from our own.

Judas Iscariot and Pontius Pilate, whiling away the afterlife as frenemies in the eternal Inferno, are offered a chance for redemption by a sci-fi-writing Saint Peter. The assignment? Teach a suicidal woman the value of life—before the whole world goes to Hell.

Parker, a recovering conspiracy theorist, hopes to rekindle his love of sharing conspiracy theories, in a responsible and ethical way, by making some points about Armageddon (1998).

B's mom was a witch. When he was 18, she made him join her in a ritual to get rid of a ghost that was haunting their apartment. Now B's trying a similar ritual for a ghost that's haunting him. My Favorite Funeral is a one-hour solo show about living with suicidal ideation and, hopefully one day, living without it. Written for The Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow's "Real People, Real Struggles, Real Stories: Writing About Mental Illness" Fellowship.

Alyssa had no idea her father was a sperm donor, but now her previously unknown half-sister Liv has flown across the country to ask some questions about their shared genetic history that will force Alyssa to question how well she really knows her father and how this new sort-of sibling fits into her life.