Edward Precht

Edward Precht is a South Carolina-born playwright and essayist. His plays include: BREAD & CIRCUSES (2014 KCACTF David L. Shelton Full-Length Playwriting Award; NAPAT Playwriting Excellence Award); STRANGE, AMERICA (developed/workshopped at Primary Stages); DOWN SOUTH; and bipolar (A WORKPLACE COMEDY). He is a frequent collaborator with composer/lyricist Preston Max Allen, having written the book for A VERY NETFL*X MUSICAL: NOW STREAMING LIVE! and the upcoming AMY ADAMS WINS AN OSCAR.

His works have received readings and productions from such places as the Kennedy Center, the Barrow Group, the Drama Book Shop, Fordham/Primary Stages, and the Spoleto Festival USA. Dramatists Guild member. Frequent contributor to The Broadway Beat. BA: College of Charleston. MFA: Fordham University. He...

Edward Precht is a South Carolina-born playwright and essayist. His plays include: BREAD & CIRCUSES (2014 KCACTF David L. Shelton Full-Length Playwriting Award; NAPAT Playwriting Excellence Award); STRANGE, AMERICA (developed/workshopped at Primary Stages); DOWN SOUTH; and bipolar (A WORKPLACE COMEDY). He is a frequent collaborator with composer/lyricist Preston Max Allen, having written the book for A VERY NETFL*X MUSICAL: NOW STREAMING LIVE! and the upcoming AMY ADAMS WINS AN OSCAR.

His works have received readings and productions from such places as the Kennedy Center, the Barrow Group, the Drama Book Shop, Fordham/Primary Stages, and the Spoleto Festival USA. Dramatists Guild member. Frequent contributor to The Broadway Beat. BA: College of Charleston. MFA: Fordham University. He currently lives in New York and owns far too much Golden Girls memorabilia.

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Scripts

Down South

by Edward Precht

Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
fable/folktale,
melodrama,
period,
political

Shady Mae Beauford has developed the perfect method for raising her son with Down Syndrome: keep him as close as possible. But as America’s Bicentennial approaches, and new neighbors - with a radically-different parenting style - move in next door, this mother-son bond is tested as their small, protective life begins to unravel. This is a touching new work about motherhood, independence, and the Turtle that...

Shady Mae Beauford has developed the perfect method for raising her son with Down Syndrome: keep him as close as possible. But as America’s Bicentennial approaches, and new neighbors - with a radically-different parenting style - move in next door, this mother-son bond is tested as their small, protective life begins to unravel. This is a touching new work about motherhood, independence, and the Turtle that Holds up the World.

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Strange, America

by Edward Precht

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
fable/folktale,
faith-based,
horror,
romantic comedy,
science fiction

In STRANGE, AMERICA, a young couple finds themselves stranded in a mysterious town in the Pacific Northwest. Their uneasy relationship is about to become the least of their worries. This magical, dark, funny new work explores the tall tales we tell others, the lies we tell ourselves, and the monsters that lurk behind us all.

In STRANGE, AMERICA, a young couple finds themselves stranded in a mysterious town in the Pacific Northwest. Their uneasy relationship is about to become the least of their worries. This magical, dark, funny new work explores the tall tales we tell others, the lies we tell ourselves, and the monsters that lurk behind us all.

The Court of Khan

by Edward Precht

Cast Size
2
Genre
adaptation,
biography,
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
period

Marco Polo and Kublai Khan: best friends, strangers, confidantes, enemies, brothers. One of history's most complex relationships is explored in this quasi-heartfelt, quasi-ridiculous, quasi-adaptation of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.

Marco Polo and Kublai Khan: best friends, strangers, confidantes, enemies, brothers. One of history's most complex relationships is explored in this quasi-heartfelt, quasi-ridiculous, quasi-adaptation of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.

Bread & Circuses

by Edward Precht

Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
commedia dell'arte,
dark comedy,
fantasy,
farce,
immersive,
movement/physical,
romantic comedy,
satire

It’s the classic love story – boy meets girl, boy tries to woo girl, boy takes a powerful hallucinogen in an attempt to become the greatest actor ever and impress girl, boy is introduced to a host of theatrical monsters (including a three-headed method actor, a filthy jester, and a puppet that looks similar-to-yet-legally-distinct-from Bertolt Brecht) to guide him on his journey, boy slowly loses his grip on...

It’s the classic love story – boy meets girl, boy tries to woo girl, boy takes a powerful hallucinogen in an attempt to become the greatest actor ever and impress girl, boy is introduced to a host of theatrical monsters (including a three-headed method actor, a filthy jester, and a puppet that looks similar-to-yet-legally-distinct-from Bertolt Brecht) to guide him on his journey, boy slowly loses his grip on reality as the power of the drug takes hold. You know the rest.

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