Bob Stewart

Bob Stewart

Bob Stewart (Playwright & Screen writer) is presently surviving the Covid-19 Pandemic. JESUS IN A BEEHIVE-THE LAST TEMPTATION OF MITCHELL PANTENE (PICK OF THE WEEK BY THE NEW YORK TIMES) in NYC & Philly’s Gay & Lesbian Theater Festival. A MEMORY PLAY: WorkShop Theater Co.’s 2008/09 MainStage Season and “Best of the Festival” at The Mid-Town International Theater Festival. His modern tragedy,...
Bob Stewart (Playwright & Screen writer) is presently surviving the Covid-19 Pandemic. JESUS IN A BEEHIVE-THE LAST TEMPTATION OF MITCHELL PANTENE (PICK OF THE WEEK BY THE NEW YORK TIMES) in NYC & Philly’s Gay & Lesbian Theater Festival. A MEMORY PLAY: WorkShop Theater Co.’s 2008/09 MainStage Season and “Best of the Festival” at The Mid-Town International Theater Festival. His modern tragedy, AMERICAN INHERITANCE (an earlier draft of AMERICAN INHERITANCE) was a Finalist-The Kennedy Center’s New American Plays and recently a Industry Reading with Tom Wopat and Angelica Page. Directed by Virginia Repertory Theater’s Artistic Director: Nathaniel Shaw. Tony Award Winner-Michael Rubenstein and currently helping by shopping it around for Regional and London productions. Other full lengths-ALL YOU CAN EAT: (Play and screenplay adaptation) and a con-artist comedy: BONE TO PICK. Bob's CHICKEN & EGG SOUP was produced in NYC, RI, KY, GA, & NJ. BETHESDA & FABULOUS DARSHAN were in The Workshop Theater’s 2011 Season in NYC. FABULOUS DARSHAN was chosen as one of the “Top Plays of the Year” by INDIE THEATER NOW. It was also a Fundraiser Reading for Schenectady Light Opera with the original NYC cast and recently in The CELEBRATION THEATRE’s READING SERIES in Los Angeles. Latest full length: CAROL OF CARROLL GARDENS, chosen by 2018's BROADWAYCON Reading Series. Chosen in 2019 for development by THE CLAMOUR THEATRE's 2019 WATER & CLAY Playwriting Retreat in FLA and THE DEPOT's 2019 NEW PLAY READING SERIES in Hampton CT.
CAROL OF CARROLL GARDENS was also AEA Equity Reading with Tony Winner-Karen Ziemba in the lead, by Tony Winner Producers Michael Rubinstein, Robin Milling, and Stephanie Rosenberg in June 2019 in NYC. Bob is presently just had a Reading of his and writing partner, Jeff Zelmanski's musical THE UNTITLED 1969 MUSICAL PROJECT IN BETHYL NY (a musical retelling of the epic concert in Aug of 1969) at the Patchogue Theatre in Aug as a 3& 1/2 Hour Reading. That work-in-progress that got a Standing Ovation! Producers are presently reviewing it's prospects. Bob Stewart & Jeff Zelmanski are presently working on an epic theater piece for 8, racially diverse, male actors that span over a century of Queer Men's lives, in NYC called NEW YORK STORIES FROM MY UNCLE ELLIOTT: IMMORAL, ILLEGAL, ILLICIT. 1897-THE PRESENT.
Screenplays Sci-Fi Thriller: PROJECT #6,
A slacker comedy: CRACKER SLACKER
A Teen-Comedy: DRAMA CLUB.

Plays

  • A MEMORY PLAY by Bob Stewart
    Recommendations: 1
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: adult, wedding + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, fantasy, period
    Keyword: adult, wedding, memory, family, writers, magical realism
    A Meta-Comedy about a single, unsuccessful, playwright who claims: "I'm writing a big hit in the popular theatrical form of an upbeat memory play." Restaging his parent's, (STEVE & JUDY from ALL YOU CAN EAT) wedding day, (creating a play within a play) he explains the only way to end this play upbeat is to take his parent’s horrible marriage and make certain that they never marry each other.
  • ALL YOU CAN EAT by Bob Stewart
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: Times Up, forgiveness + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: Times Up, forgiveness, metoo, Two seniors
    A MEMORY PLAY's, (STEVE & JUDY) are now in their late 70's. Divorced for years, newly widowed Steve, waits in a Salad Bar's back-dining room to meet Judy. Steve apologizes for making their marriage disastrous, and for a drunken incident that almost happened with their, (at the time) 12 year old daughter. They meet there in the Spring and into the Fall, to stumble towards forgiveness & hope.
  • CAROL OF CARROLL GARDENS by Bob Stewart
    Recommendations: 4
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    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: 20-somethings, cancer + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, fantasy, movement/physical
    Keyword: 20-somethings, cancer, magical realism, friendship, comedy
    CAROL OF CARROLL GARDENS is magic realism comedy about a curmudgeon, single, Baby Boomer named CAROL, who's managing her leukemia. Narrated by three unexpected characters, her journey's supported by her younger, caregiver with Aspergers named, SCOTTY. All helped along by mystical visions, an overworked Specialist, healing dreams, and an ever changing medical staff to help lead CAROL to place she's never been before.
  • AMERICAN INHERITANCE! by Bob Stewart
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller + 1 more
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    Keyword: me too, Times Up + 6 more
    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller, tragedy
    Keyword: me too, Times Up, adult, military, justice, sexual abuse, American drama as a Greek tragedy, family
    A modern tragedy. In a transient study, a determined doctor interviews a retired military man who's disturbed by memories of a crime he committed years ago and got away with. Told using only 5 chairs and performed in "out-of-time-sequences," the doctor reveals the friends and family's distorted compliancy about the tragic abuse of male entitlement.
  • FABULOUS DARSHAN by Bob Stewart
    Recommendations: 1
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    4
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    Genre: comedy, fantasy + 2 more
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, gay + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, fantasy, movement/physical, romantic comedy
    Keyword: LGBTQ, gay, HIV/AIDS, Gay Black Men, young Gay white man, young gay Middle Eastern man, uplifting, spiritual, adult comedy
    FABULOUS DARSHAN moves around the mind of a very routined Ken Satchel, (a middle-age, HIV Survivor, African-American, Broadway Character-Actor with a deep spiritual life and an incredible love of camp movies). Ken's solace is his daily meditations with an Hindu god who helps a wary KEN to be more fearless. Suddenly his routine is turned upside down when he befriends a trust-funded, young, white actor from Wisconsin, named Stu.
  • JESUS IN A BEEHIVE! (The Last Temptation of Mitchell Pantene) by Bob Stewart
    Recommendations: 1
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    1
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: Jesus, christianity + 4 more
    Genre: biography, comedy, dark comedy, docudrama/historic, faith-based, fantasy, political
    Keyword: Jesus, christianity, VirginMother, Magdalene, St. Paul, LGBTQ
    Setting up a NYC salon, a southern hairdresser/part-time Drag Queen awakens under his hairdryer. He states he’s channeling Jesus & the Second Coming. He confides that he is a "Spiritual Warrior with a message" who is gonna graduate to an even higher heavenly realm in 90 minutes. (If he can keep from getting so “emotionally involved” with the world this time.) And so a makeover begins!
  • Stephen, Jeffery, and David Save Dreamworks! by Bob Stewart
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: comedy, Movies + 4 more
    Genre: biography, comedy, docudrama/historic, satire
    Keyword: comedy, Movies, celebrity, satire, white men, bio drama
    In a greenroom in the Glendale CA’s Arts Center before an important Press Conference in 2000, David Geffen demands that his partner Jeffery Katzenberg admit to bankrupting their Dreamworks Studio with his flop, ROAD TO EL DORADO. Jeffery never admits his failures. David will not go back out to the Press’ microphones until he coerces their 3rd partner, Stephen Spielberg to make Jeffery confess his weakness or else!
  • Vanderbilt's Folly by Bob Stewart
    Cast: 
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: History, Old New York
    Genre: biography, comedy, dark comedy, docudrama/historic
    Keyword: History, Old New York
    1868's historical spiritualist/sister-scammers, Victoria Woodhull & Tenne Chaflin are visiting widowed, arrogant, billionaire, Cornelius Vanderbilt. They've planned a fake séance to make Vanderbilt ask Tenne to marry. Unfortunately, Victoria's having visitations from a real spirit that frightens her and is uncontrollable. The fake seance becomes real as that Spirit tells Vanderbilt things that he never wanted to hear.
  • BETHESDA by Bob Stewart
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, political + 1 more
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    Keyword: Iraq, war + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, political, tragedy
    Keyword: Iraq, war, adult, veterans, adult language
    Two young, Iraqi War Vets are in the navel hospital, Bethesda. Bedridden, they play their ongoing game of “Gross Out,” as they wait for their visiting mothers to return from a smoke-break. Playing their game reveals the poverty and neglect of their upbringings and how they survived a bombing while driving officers in Iraq. They love that they will now be war heroes. They hear their mothers returning and hope to prove that to be so.
  • CHICKEN & EGG SOUP by Bob Stewart
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: comedy, grandmothers + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: comedy, grandmothers, daughters, adoption, teenage pregnancy
    In a Food Court at a local mall, an Elderly Woman/cancer survivor and her adult Daughter await at a Food Court table. The Elderly woman is exhausted from Chemo and her controlling Daughter. They await having their 1st meeting with a strange man who is the son the Elderly Woman gave up for adoption when she was 15 years old. The Son appears. All discover a part of themselves that they never knew they had in this tender play of redemption.