Stephen Dasen Pearce Sheffer

Stephen Dasen Pearce Sheffer's full-length plays include the Toronto International Fringe Festival Patron’s Pick award-winning Back To Mine, Story of Four, Private Property (Out of the Box Theatricals), Lean-To (Pendragon Theatre) and the freshly-penned S.O.S. Other plays include the one-acts The Spark (Mastodon/Barrow Group) and IRMPOV SHOW as well as a stage adaptation of Trey Parker’s Cannibal! The Musical that played for a sold out run at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre. An early draft of Back To Mine was started under the tutelage of of John Lazarus at at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada where writing comedy shows that were performed in bars became a regular activity, too. Episodic concepts include: Geri Atrick Mayor, Cockfight, Salmon Elbow, Writing Wrong, Working Title, The Joint...

Stephen Dasen Pearce Sheffer's full-length plays include the Toronto International Fringe Festival Patron’s Pick award-winning Back To Mine, Story of Four, Private Property (Out of the Box Theatricals), Lean-To (Pendragon Theatre) and the freshly-penned S.O.S. Other plays include the one-acts The Spark (Mastodon/Barrow Group) and IRMPOV SHOW as well as a stage adaptation of Trey Parker’s Cannibal! The Musical that played for a sold out run at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre. An early draft of Back To Mine was started under the tutelage of of John Lazarus at at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada where writing comedy shows that were performed in bars became a regular activity, too. Episodic concepts include: Geri Atrick Mayor, Cockfight, Salmon Elbow, Writing Wrong, Working Title, The Joint, Birth Control and Archipelago (Blue Ant Media). In New York City, producing and performing comedy shows (some scripted, some improvised) continues to be an ongoing activity as well as acting off-Broadway and regionally on stages in the USA & Canada.

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Scripts

LEAN-TO

by Stephen Dasen Pearce Sheffer

Cast Size
3
Genre
adventure,
dark comedy,
drama

Three lonely souls meet at a rustic lean-to shelter and spend a night together in the woods. When they come together around the warmth of a campfire, the spark that ignites between them becomes too hot to handle. The trio fragments but not before they experience the joy of authentic connection. LEAN-TO explores the human desire to connect and the shadow of loneliness that lurks within all of us.

Three lonely souls meet at a rustic lean-to shelter and spend a night together in the woods. When they come together around the warmth of a campfire, the spark that ignites between them becomes too hot to handle. The trio fragments but not before they experience the joy of authentic connection. LEAN-TO explores the human desire to connect and the shadow of loneliness that lurks within all of us.

PRIVATE PROPERTY

by Stephen Dasen Pearce Sheffer

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
political,
satire,
science fiction

A pair of mid-career Canadian artists visit an older, wealthy couple they met by chance at a holiday party. The foursome convenes at a house in the woods upstate New York where everyone's inner opportunist comes out to stake their claim. Private Property examines interpersonal exploitation, wealth and the quest for legacy.

A pair of mid-career Canadian artists visit an older, wealthy couple they met by chance at a holiday party. The foursome convenes at a house in the woods upstate New York where everyone's inner opportunist comes out to stake their claim. Private Property examines interpersonal exploitation, wealth and the quest for legacy.