Bill Doncaster

Adaptation of the novel by George V. Higgins. Eddie Coyle is a bottom of the barrel hood facing a five year sentence for trucking stolen booze, but hoping he can tip someone in to the feds in exchange for a kind word to the judge. But he navigates a dangerous world, and he's got badly healed broken fingers for past mistakes with the underworld. While making a living acquiring untraceable handguns to a team of ruthless bank robbers, he navigates 1970 Boston's swirl of cops, robbers, student radicals, gun runners, bartenders and hitmen.

The Friends of Eddie Coyle was produced by Stickball Productions at OBERON, the Second Stage of the American Repertory Theater, to sold out audiences in 2012, and reprised by invitation of the A.R.T. at the 2012 Emerging America Festival.

"Eddie doesn’t really have any friends. The late novelist Higgins, however, has some in Bill Doncaster and Stickball Productions, who have turned his book into an atmospheric, enjoyable theater piece at Oberon." -- Jeffrey Gantz, The Boston Globe

Every Christmas Eve, Eddie Molineaux goes looking for his brother Jimmy, because it’s Christmas and “Ma wants you home.” Mentally ill, scared of shelters, Jimmy sleeps in the unlocked utility rooms of the MBTA. This is the last Christmas together for the Molineaux clan and everyone in the family’s got something to say about it, even if they don’t all know what really happened.

Nominated for TWO Elliot Norton Awards by the Boston Theater Critics Association including Outstanding New Script and Outstanding Production by a Fringe Company.

Nominated for FIVE 2015 IRNE Awards from the Independent Reviewers of New England, including Best New Play, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and two for Best Supporting Actress.

"“Two Boys Lost” is a terrific new script that establishes Doncaster as a playwright with a keen ear for dialogue and a wonderful understanding of character development. At play’s end, he leaves the audience still thinking about the Molineaux family, wondering “what if” and “what’s next.” -- Terry Byrne, The Boston Globe

"Huge of heart, graced with plenty of humor, and propelled by its own emotional honesty, this is a small production that deserves major notice." -- Killian Melloy, Edge Boston

Two vampires on a rooftop lament their decades of getting on each others' nerves, and the storied truth of their kind finding no way to find glorious death across centuries. To escape the boredom, with one hoping to leave the other a companion so he can leave with less guilt, they "turn" young Julia. But she's different -- she can be cut, she feels pain, she can cry. Can she also die?

Luna Ragazza approaches the vampire genre from a different angle, without sex ("it's a bloodflow thing"), no religion, and examines them as biological beings in order to examine the role and importance of death in the lifecycle by spending time in a world without it.

Chuckie's an adult with a cognitive disability whose been holding signs and dropping flyers for local politicians his whole life. But now his father's dying, and soon he'll have to move in with his sister in Derry, NH, far from the only neighborhood he's ever known. He does not want to go. He doesn't know how, but it's time to call in his favors to those that said "we'll take care of ya, buddy," in the midst of a contested race in a rapidly changing city. Developed with SpeakEasy Stage Company as part of The Boston Project.

Eddie, played by a 12-year-old boy, sits with the memory of a long-ago predator. While the memory of "Mitch" works to seduce and threaten, and Eddie grapples with the guilt of his own actions as a child, Eddie grows increasingly suspicious of an off-stage man ogling his own son.

This memory play explores the conscious decision to alter one's memories in order to cope with the present, and plays physically with memory through embodiment of adult roles and issues through a child actor.

Eddie, 19, is selling ice cream on the corner unable to locate the neighborhood kids when Julie, 18, corners him, hoping for forgiveness for her past sins. But forgiveness isn't automatic, and she's not yet accepting full responsibility for what she did with Eddie's older brother, the star pitcher on his way to the majors.

Published, Smith & Kraus, Boston Theater Marathon Anthology

Dad and his precocious young daughter wait for a train, making up stories about passers-by, at the end of a tense weekend of shared custody.