Wayne L. Firestone

Wayne L. Firestone

Firestone was a member of the 2019-2022 John F. Kennedy Center Immersive Playwriting Workshop cohorts. In March 2022, he was named the Jewish Plays Project inaugural 21st Century Playwright Fellow and is spending a playwright in residence year in San Juan Puerto Rico. His plays have appeared in festivals in New York, Washington, DC, Israel and the United Kingdom. A member of the Dramatists Guild of America,...
Firestone was a member of the 2019-2022 John F. Kennedy Center Immersive Playwriting Workshop cohorts. In March 2022, he was named the Jewish Plays Project inaugural 21st Century Playwright Fellow and is spending a playwright in residence year in San Juan Puerto Rico. His plays have appeared in festivals in New York, Washington, DC, Israel and the United Kingdom. A member of the Dramatists Guild of America, in 2018 he founded Plays2Gather to perform diverse stories in homes and non-traditional venues.

Plays

  • Dr. Esperanto by Wayne L. Firestone
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4–10
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Jewish, Yiddish + 7 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, fable/folktale, faith-based
    Keyword: Jewish, Yiddish, German, Polish, debate, universal language, names, esperanto, dispute
    The Polish eye doctor and linguist L. L. Zamenhoff and his Yiddish humored patient debate the future of a universal language with the retelling of a German folktale about a threatening 19th century disputation with a priest.
  • Disappearing Magic by Wayne L. Firestone
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: magic, memory + 4 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama, fantasy
    Keyword: magic, memory, Jewish, Israel, Germany, Anti-Semitism
    A female magician meets an Israeli memory doctor on a train ride from Poland to West Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
  • The Amazing Adventures of...Lazerman! by Wayne L. Firestone
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adventure, fantasy
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    Keyword: superhero, comic books + 2 more
    Genre: adventure, fantasy
    Keyword: superhero, comic books, Miami Beach, growing up Jewish
    A teen falls asleep during school in Miami Beach in 1972 and wakes up as his comic book superhero with the power and proclivity to alter historic events.
  • Salome's Dance by Wayne L. Firestone
    Cast: 
    2–8
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, fable/folktale
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    Keyword: dance, magic + 4 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, fable/folktale
    Keyword: dance, magic, mother, grandmother/granddaughter relationship, Jewish, Sephardic
    A Yemenite Jewish refugee in 1947, conjures the mystical dance of Salome and her deceased grandmother’s Mediterranean secrets as a recipe for physical and spiritual escape.
  • Out by Wayne L. Firestone
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, parenthood + 2 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: LGBTQ, parenthood, university, undocumented immigrants
    A university student activist comes out to his religious parents— in one minute.