Philip Middleton Williams
Each play and anthology on this list contains a sample of the complete work. If you want to read the entire play, please contact me through my website, www.pmwplaywright.com, or through the Contact button on the page.
Philip Middleton Williams has written over sixty plays ranging from one-minute to full-length. “A Moment of Clarity” and “A Life Enriching Community” were finalists in the City...
Each play and anthology on this list contains a sample of the complete work. If you want to read the entire play, please contact me through my website, www.pmwplaywright.com, or through the Contact button on the page.
Philip Middleton Williams has written over sixty plays ranging from one-minute to full-length. “A Moment of Clarity” and “A Life Enriching Community” were finalists in the City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting. “All Together Now” won first place in the 2016 Playgroup playwriting contest and was produced as part of the Willow Theatre 2017-2018 season and will be published by Next Stage Press on July 1, 2022. “Can’t Live Without You” was his first play to receive an off-off Broadway production in January 2008 and was produced by The Playgroup for their 2018-2019 season at The Willow Theatre in Boca Raton, Florida. “Can't Live Without You” is published and licensed by Next Stage Press, and three monologues from the play are included in The Best Men's Monologues for 2019. “Dark Twist” is published and licensed through Next Stage Press. “The Sugar Ridge Rag” will be published by Next Stage Press on September 1, 2022. “Home-Style Cooking at the Gateway Café” has been selected for inclusion in the Smith & Kraus anthology The Ten Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2022, to be published in December 2022. “A Life Enriching Community” is published and licensed through Senior Theatre Resources.
His work has been seen in the South Florida One-Minute Play Festivals, the Midwest Dramatist Conference, the William Inge Theatre Festival New Play Labs, Bartell Theatre of Madison, Wisconsin, Odenbear Theatre of Taos, New Mexico, Theatre Roulette of Columbus, Ohio, the Short+Sweet Festival of Sydney, Australia, the Valdez Theatre Conference of Alaska, Vermont Pride Theater, Silver Tongued Stages of Miami, Seaside Players of Lauderdale by the Sea, Theatre Arts Productions of Palm Beach, Open Eye Theater of Margaretville, New York, Bendigo Theatre Company of Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, and LAB Theater Project of Tampa.
He has a B.F.A. in drama from the University of Miami, an M.F.A. in theatre from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and a PhD in playwriting and dramatic criticism from the University of Colorado. In 1992 he was appointed to the national advisory board of the William Inge Theatre Festival. He has written numerous articles on the works of William Inge and Lanford Wilson and contributed to The Facts on File Companion to American Drama edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Mary C. Hartig. His doctoral thesis, "A Comfortable House – Lanford Wilson, Marshall W. Mason and the Circle Repertory Theatre,” was published by McFarland and Company in 1993. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
Plays on the list below are arranged by type and in alphabetical order: full-length, one-act, shorts, monologues, and anthologies.