Hank Willenbrink

Hank Willenbrink

Hank Willenbrink's play The Boat in the Tiger Suit premiered at The Brick (New York) and is published by Original Works Publishing. Hank's work has been seen at Sala Beckett (Barcelona), JACK, Performance Highways, WordBRIDGE, quiet, and World Interplay International Festival of Young Playwrights (Australia). 18 won the John Cauble Award for Best Short Play from KCACTF. Hank’s monologues have been...
Hank Willenbrink's play The Boat in the Tiger Suit premiered at The Brick (New York) and is published by Original Works Publishing. Hank's work has been seen at Sala Beckett (Barcelona), JACK, Performance Highways, WordBRIDGE, quiet, and World Interplay International Festival of Young Playwrights (Australia). 18 won the John Cauble Award for Best Short Play from KCACTF. Hank’s monologues have been featured in Monologues for Men by Men, More Monologues for Men by Men, and Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2014. He co-founded the music blog We Listen for You (welistenforyou.com).

Plays

  • Ambos by Hank Willenbrink
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: immigration, family + 5 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: immigration, family, combat veterans, Family of A Veteran, Arizona, Mexico border, political
    Ambos Nogales is a border town split in two by a wall. Ed lives on one side where he is trying to get his life back together. He’s engaged in a custody battle for his daughter, Emily, settling down with his new girlfriend, Vanessa, and under investigation for the shooting of a Mexican teenager while working for US Customs and Border Patrol in the run up to the 2016 election. As the world tries to drive us apart...
    Ambos Nogales is a border town split in two by a wall. Ed lives on one side where he is trying to get his life back together. He’s engaged in a custody battle for his daughter, Emily, settling down with his new girlfriend, Vanessa, and under investigation for the shooting of a Mexican teenager while working for US Customs and Border Patrol in the run up to the 2016 election. As the world tries to drive us apart, Ambos asks what it takes for stay together as a nation, as neighbors, and as a family.
  • The Boat in the Tiger Suit by Hank Willenbrink
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: family, nautical
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: family, nautical
    This surreal dark comedy interrogates the divisions and distinctions that make up family. Set on two different dinghies, The Boat in the Tiger Suit begins at Herman’s funeral, who left his family to join the army (and hide from his wife in the process). As Herman’s wife searches for reasons to make her adult children stay, her son Rene slips off to seduce Gene, the solider who accompanies Herman’s casket....
    This surreal dark comedy interrogates the divisions and distinctions that make up family. Set on two different dinghies, The Boat in the Tiger Suit begins at Herman’s funeral, who left his family to join the army (and hide from his wife in the process). As Herman’s wife searches for reasons to make her adult children stay, her son Rene slips off to seduce Gene, the solider who accompanies Herman’s casket. Meanwhile, Rene’s sister April attempts to free herself longtime partner and high school sweetheart, Dave. Tacit allegiances are formed, tried, and tested as the quartet of remaining characters stare into an uncertain future of turbulent waters which may contain tigers.
  • American Pageant by Hank Willenbrink
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2–4
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    Genre: comedy, pageant + 2 more
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    Keyword: American, metatheatrical
    Genre: comedy, pageant, political, satire
    Keyword: American, metatheatrical
    A playwright sits on a stage. He has to tell the world what the fuck is going on in the US. Other playwrights come in. They help out. It becomes a story about who we are, which means who we were as much as who we want to be.
  • La Princesa by Hank Willenbrink
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: Jesuit, History + 2 more
    Genre: biography, comedy, drama, experimental, period, satire
    Keyword: Jesuit, History, Spanish, Inquisition
    When B, a Jesuit and the Royal Confessor, returns to the court of J, Queen Regent of Spain, control is slipping from the power of the throne. His daughter has devised a plan to get the Emperor to marry her. The Cardinal is out to diminish Jesuit influence (and increase his own) in the kingdom. And, the Queen is beginning to lose faith after her Grandmother has refused to confess before her death. As court...
    When B, a Jesuit and the Royal Confessor, returns to the court of J, Queen Regent of Spain, control is slipping from the power of the throne. His daughter has devised a plan to get the Emperor to marry her. The Cardinal is out to diminish Jesuit influence (and increase his own) in the kingdom. And, the Queen is beginning to lose faith after her Grandmother has refused to confess before her death. As court intrigue flourishes, J attempts to hold onto the throne by any means possible, including the Inquisition, to hold the throne.
  • About the Cabin by Hank Willenbrink
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama
    Genre: comedy, drama
    On a flight from Detroit to Tulsa, a chance occurrence brings two old flames into the same row. As the plane passes from state to state, Jimmy and Margaret catch up and wonder if the past will reappear.
  • MIRANDA BRANSON BRANSON MIRANDA by Hank Willenbrink
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    4
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy
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    Keyword: Magician, Branson + 1 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy
    Keyword: Magician, Branson, quirky
    Five years ago, Miranda’s father, The Magician, made her mother disappear…or did he? Now, Miranda’s haunted her father’s assistants, her best friend is honing in on Miranda’s indie rock boyfriend, and she’s just gotten out of school. To reconnect with her mother Miranda travels to Branson, Missouri – the family-friendly Las Vegas. While she’s there, her Mother reveals a deep secret of her past and Miranda...
    Five years ago, Miranda’s father, The Magician, made her mother disappear…or did he? Now, Miranda’s haunted her father’s assistants, her best friend is honing in on Miranda’s indie rock boyfriend, and she’s just gotten out of school. To reconnect with her mother Miranda travels to Branson, Missouri – the family-friendly Las Vegas. While she’s there, her Mother reveals a deep secret of her past and Miranda attempts to discover who she is after her past has been whittled away.