Allan Maule

Allan Maule

Allan is a Durham-based playwright and writer with more than twelve years of writing experience for the stage and digital media. His plays have been performed in New York, Chicago, and theaters across NC. Favorite productions of his plays include Framing the Shot (Sonorous Road Theater, Wordshed Productions), EverScape (NYC Fringe 2015 and Sonorous Road Theater), Tales and Fermentations (SEED Art Share with the...
Allan is a Durham-based playwright and writer with more than twelve years of writing experience for the stage and digital media. His plays have been performed in New York, Chicago, and theaters across NC. Favorite productions of his plays include Framing the Shot (Sonorous Road Theater, Wordshed Productions), EverScape (NYC Fringe 2015 and Sonorous Road Theater), Tales and Fermentations (SEED Art Share with the City of Raleigh Museum), Two Late (Carrboro Arts Center 10x10), An Awkward Family Boodle (Burning Coal Theatre), Imperfect Strangers (Sonorous Road), and Objectively (Sonorous Road). Allan also worked as a video game writer and voice director on the MMORPG Fallen Earth and the serious games GE 2050 and Uptick. Allan is a graduate of Duke University and holds a masters in performance studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Plays

  • The Weight of Everything We Know
    In May 2019, the kilogram changed its mass to be based on mathematical precision instead of a physical weight. This was both a huge breakthrough for human knowledge and a complete disaster for a Bumble date between Lucia and Darrow. With her astrophysics research in turmoil and an immigration hearing imminent, Lucia has to decide if she can take a leap of faith and trust Darrow's creative instincts as he...
    In May 2019, the kilogram changed its mass to be based on mathematical precision instead of a physical weight. This was both a huge breakthrough for human knowledge and a complete disaster for a Bumble date between Lucia and Darrow. With her astrophysics research in turmoil and an immigration hearing imminent, Lucia has to decide if she can take a leap of faith and trust Darrow's creative instincts as he tries to keep her in the country. The Weight of Everything We Know is a romantic comedy about physics, storytelling, and how we cope with the sudden change of the unchangeable.
  • Shared Calendar
    Technology makes everything about modern marriage easier—until shared digital calendars double-book a hungry couple on the night of a must-eat dinner fundraiser. In this 10 minute comedy, Alain and Gwyneth must solve the mystery of who committed them to a mysterious event three months in advance. Will they escape Bastille Day at the Glenwood and taste the delights of the strudel of gold?
  • Proud Woke Man
    What happens when police mistake a white protester for black—and he captures the encounter on video? Does technology make it possible for flawed, individual courage to effect change in a corrupt and broken system? Can someone bear witness to racial injustice while still clinging to his privilege?

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    A viral video captures a white policeman shooting and killing an unarmed black teenager,...
    What happens when police mistake a white protester for black—and he captures the encounter on video? Does technology make it possible for flawed, individual courage to effect change in a corrupt and broken system? Can someone bear witness to racial injustice while still clinging to his privilege?

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    A viral video captures a white policeman shooting and killing an unarmed black teenager, Julius Thompson. This video draws protestors to Thompson’s southern city, including a white man named Aaron and his black girlfriend, Lea. Aaron and Lea organize a protest at the white officer’s house in which the protestors all wear black hoodies pulled up in solidarity for Thompson, who wore such a hoodie when he died.
    As Lea films Aaron on his phone, the police attack Aaron and, because they cannot see his face with his hoodie raised, call him n***** as they hit him. He pulls back his hoodie and looks to see Lea, still filming the encounter. The police panic, then confiscate all the camera phones before arresting Lea and Aaron. The two find themselves arrested and in a cell at the county’s police headquarters.
    Now Aaron believes if he can only get his phone back and publish the video, he can bring down the entire police department that murdered Thompson. Lea knows they’re in a dangerous position as long as they're in the custody of racist police officers, so she urges caution. Things grow more complex as they are separately interrogated by Marcus, a black detective driven to protect his department and the city he grew up in.
    As Aaron, Lea, and Marcus face impossible choices of truth, justice, and loyalty in the internet age, they each must decide how far they’re willing to go to protect what—and who—they love.

  • Two Late
    Is being late a momentary inconvenience, or can it ruin your life? A delayed air traveler faces this question after she declines to go through the TSA’s X-ray scanner and has to wait for a female TSA agent to pat her down. As a male TSA agent waits with her, the traveler tries every trick in her book to get through airport security. What begins as a cat-and-mouse conversation becomes a shared moment of...
    Is being late a momentary inconvenience, or can it ruin your life? A delayed air traveler faces this question after she declines to go through the TSA’s X-ray scanner and has to wait for a female TSA agent to pat her down. As a male TSA agent waits with her, the traveler tries every trick in her book to get through airport security. What begins as a cat-and-mouse conversation becomes a shared moment of vulnerability and courage in the face of life’s ticking clock and everything we cannot control.

  • Framing the Shot
    Terri has a ho-hum existence as a Chicago glass worker until one day she miraculously dodges a sniper attack. Suddenly convinced she's the center of a massive conspiracy, Terri joins with her photographer neighbor Nicola in solving the mystery of why someone would plan a hit on Terri's life.

    The result is a dark comedy about life, friendship, and how nothing brings meaning to your life...
    Terri has a ho-hum existence as a Chicago glass worker until one day she miraculously dodges a sniper attack. Suddenly convinced she's the center of a massive conspiracy, Terri joins with her photographer neighbor Nicola in solving the mystery of why someone would plan a hit on Terri's life.

    The result is a dark comedy about life, friendship, and how nothing brings meaning to your life like someone trying to kill you.
  • EverScape
    EverScape follow​​s four city dwellers who clock out of mind-numbing day jobs each day to get online and play their favorite fantasy video game. But when EverScape Inc. offers them the chance to play their way to jobs as game developers, the ​lines ​between reality and the virtual world start to blur.​ This forces them to question: What’s more real: the game, or their lives?

    Written for a bare...
    EverScape follow​​s four city dwellers who clock out of mind-numbing day jobs each day to get online and play their favorite fantasy video game. But when EverScape Inc. offers them the chance to play their way to jobs as game developers, the ​lines ​between reality and the virtual world start to blur.​ This forces them to question: What’s more real: the game, or their lives?

    Written for a bare stage, the script relies on movement and fight choreography from the cast of eight to create the dotted lines between the game world and their urban reality.