Fred Gordon

A dramatic thriller in one act using four actors, A WHITE COWBOY HAT is a fast moving narrative that tells the story of 27-year-old Joshua, a Princeton University drop-out and brilliant computer whiz. Joshua is the son of a millionaire New York City real estate magnate whose wife, Joshua’s mother, died under unclear circumstances when Joshua was eleven. Estranged from his father and becoming restless with his work in computers, Joshua has a chance meeting at a country music dance hall with a woman he immediately falls in love with and the man she loves. In order to impress them both, Joshua develops computer programs to help each of them in their businesses. But Joshua’s unorthodox data sourcing leads to discoveries about his father and about the death of his mother. Growing more and more desperate as his own medical condition worsens, Joshua, in an explosive confrontation, challenges his father and demands the truth.

LIFE IN THE FLESH is a full-length, contemporary, one-act drama, with four actors playing nine parts, and using only suggestive sets. The play explores the conflicts of a young couple desperate to have a child but who are faced with challenges of both becoming pregnant and of the looming possibility of breast cancer. We follow their battles and dreams but the play is not a straight forward naturalistic presentation. The characters are grounded in the reality of their battles with the spirit and the flesh even as their worlds are shown with theatrical leaps including a direct alignment with the audience. The play asks the question: can a couple’s love survive toxicities from both within their beings and from the outside world? The play confronts the position: We are here now, therefore what?

A thriller in one act using three actors, I AM THE WOLF is set in the year 2024 in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, where Russian mobsters are planning a drug deal to entice the Chinese mob in Hong Kong. But Zev, the 22-year-old son of one of the Brooklyn gang, wants to escape the tightening hold of his father's criminal past. His father is Ukrainian, his mother was Chinese, and Zev dreams of living the American dream without the mob. Balancing ambitions of self-fulfillment with the realities of the world-wide criminal underground that wants to drag him in, Zev must, in order to survive, fight for his father and fight for the independence of his own life.
Set against the background of the on-going war between Russia and Ukraine, I AM THE WOLF explores family dynamics and expectations with the hopes and dreams of a young man who wants to break free.

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Hannah was born on the Upper East Side, her husband, Norman, escaped from the South Bronx with a scholarship to Cornell University where they met. Married for almost thirty years, they have two grown sons in a very successful vitamin supplement business Hannah and Norman started together. But recently Norman secretly took a chance on a revolutionary new business venture and borrowed $350,000 from a syndicate but now he can't pay it back. The loan shark suddenly shows up in their Park Avenue penthouse and demands the money from Hannah. Infuriated, frightened, Hannah wants Norman out of her life but he wants reconciliation. Threatened by gangsters, torn by personal conflicts, they are forced to the edge.

Nabil Kakon, 27, born in Morocco, is released from an Israeli prison and immediately flies to New York to meet his younger brother and their Uncle Daveed, an international money launderer who works with gangs in Russia, Israel, and Morocco. Nabil wants to join his uncle's business but, in order to be considered seriously within his uncle's organization, Nabil must be seen as fearless which means he has to kill. But Nabil has only been a petty thief -- he has never taken someone’s life before. A GLASS OF BLUE follows Nabil as he realizes what he needs to do for his future with his uncle, is horrified because he’d rather be a lover than a killer, and yet he knows if he doesn’t do what his uncle and brother urge him to do, he may be trapped. A GLASS OF BLUE, a theatrical experience in one act, is a chilling story about how the possible moral corruption of a young man influences him as he seeks to win the love of his surrogate criminal father.
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