Alec Seymour

MFA Carnegie Mellon Dramatic Writing.

Alec is a writer, actor and producer of stage and film. He is a winner of the AP Sloan grant for science in TV & Film, as well as a finalist for the Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting Award. His short play "Beautiful People in a Living Room Doing Nothing" was selected for a workshop at the Kennedy Center College Theatre Festival. He is a Drama Desk winner / Tony nominee for his work producing "The Inheritance" and he generally will just do anything to get affection from any dog.

MFA Carnegie Mellon Dramatic Writing.

Alec is a writer, actor and producer of stage and film. He is a winner of the AP Sloan grant for science in TV & Film, as well as a finalist for the Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting Award. His short play "Beautiful People in a Living Room Doing Nothing" was selected for a workshop at the Kennedy Center College Theatre Festival. He is a Drama Desk winner / Tony nominee for his work producing "The Inheritance" and he generally will just do anything to get affection from any dog.

Scripts

Pass It On

by Alec Seymour

Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
mystery/thriller

Jamie tells stories. He doesn’t do much else. He collects information and spins it into gossip. He wants to stop. He wants to be a man of action, a hero among men, a god of—no, those are stories, too. Really, he wants to fix the family dynamic that traps him in the role of entertainer, but his adult siblings want to keep the party rolling at all costs. ALL COSTS! Will Jamie carve a new identity for himself, or...

Jamie tells stories. He doesn’t do much else. He collects information and spins it into gossip. He wants to stop. He wants to be a man of action, a hero among men, a god of—no, those are stories, too. Really, he wants to fix the family dynamic that traps him in the role of entertainer, but his adult siblings want to keep the party rolling at all costs. ALL COSTS! Will Jamie carve a new identity for himself, or will his family maintain the status quo? Pass It On explores the long-term effects of dysfunction and the subjectivity of personal history.

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Beautiful People In a Living Room Doing Nothing

by Alec Seymour

6
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
farce,
melodrama,
mystery/thriller,
parody/spoof

A very regular living room play. Two beautiful people drinking and talking about things. Nothing interesting going on here...

A very regular living room play. Two beautiful people drinking and talking about things. Nothing interesting going on here...

Super Teen Awesome Squad, Go!

by Alec Seymour

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
movement/physical

Three teenage actors prepare to film the intro sequence for a Kids/Family action show. One actor can't reconcile a family emergency with the upbeat action the director demands.

Three teenage actors prepare to film the intro sequence for a Kids/Family action show. One actor can't reconcile a family emergency with the upbeat action the director demands.