Josiah Thomas Turner

Josiah Thomas Turner

Josiah Thomas Turner is a queer Black artist, currently a 2023 - 2025 Many Voices Fellow at the Playwrights' Center.

Plays

  • BECOMING!!, or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 2279 and All That Followed by Josiah Thomas Turner
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: Michelle Obama, Obama + 5 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, dark comedy, farce, musical, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: Michelle Obama, Obama, satire, a play within a play, musical, future, adaptation
    Tasked with adapting 'Becoming' by Michelle Obama into a smash hit musical sensation, a small corps of actors in a post-apocalyptic colony undertake tech week. But with a revolution on the horizon, the cast must decide on which side their loyalties lie; with the pompous "Echelon" or the "Zealot" outcasts on the verge of overthrowing Canaan.
  • (currently) Untitled Dog Play by Josiah Thomas Turner
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    8–14
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: mystery, Scooby Doo + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, mystery/thriller, satire
    Keyword: mystery, Scooby Doo, cartoon, comedy, Young actors, ensemble, Depression, environmentalism
    Ten years after a botched case ended their careers - The Famous Five, America's favorite teenage-mystery-solvers return to their hometown to solve one last case. As crisis descends, and one of their own is accused of a heinous crime, the gang must revisit the mysteries of their past in order to reclaim their lost youths. But the question remains; Where is The Dog?

    (Previously Titled: Jinkies! or The Dog Play)
  • The Bible According to Alan Packard by Josiah Thomas Turner
    Cast: 
    7–20
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: comedy, Bible + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, immersive, musical, pageant, satire, tragedy
    Keyword: comedy, Bible, satire, cult, Sexual, heresy, Blasphemy
    An accidental charismatic leader of a violent, semi-sexual baptist cult must navigate the wacky world of religious racketeering. But when the lines between faith and fraud begin to blur, who will stop the newest self-proclaimed messiah from misleading his vulnerable flock down the path of destruction? A comedy in three acts.

Recommended by Josiah Thomas Turner

  • macbitches by Sophie McIntosh
    28 Jul. 2022
    “ A savage takedown / homage to pre-professional theatre training programs and the incestuous politics therein. Mclntosh's play is a smart and wickedly funny dark comedy with just enough inside baseball to be a real treat for those of us recovering from undergraduate theatre without alienating the uninitiated. ”