Roland Tec

Roland Tec

Roland Tec is a filmmaker, composer and playwright with several productions under his belt. His play, BODILY FUNCTION won the top prize at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska and was an O'Neill finalist. His first feature film, ALL THE RAGE, was hailed as "one of the sharpest, sexiest and most amusing satire of gay life ever filmed" by The Los Angeles Times. He has received commissions...
Roland Tec is a filmmaker, composer and playwright with several productions under his belt. His play, BODILY FUNCTION won the top prize at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska and was an O'Neill finalist. His first feature film, ALL THE RAGE, was hailed as "one of the sharpest, sexiest and most amusing satire of gay life ever filmed" by The Los Angeles Times. He has received commissions from The Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation, Concorde Chamber Ensemble, the Bar Harbour Music Festival and most recently from Resonance Ensemble for his full-length play, KENNEDY V, about a young junior senator from Massachusetts named Teddy Kennedy. As a composer, his most recent collaboration was with playwright Katherine Burger on her musical, THE CURSE OF BATVIA. Roland is a faculty member of the Dramatists Guild Institute and enjoys teaching workshops on music for non-musicians, as well as frequent online scriptwriters workshops.

Plays

  • A Better Boy
    Christopher Bedford is everyone's fantasy, including his own. And therein lies the problem. A two-act study of a gay male professional narcissist. (adapted into the 1998 feature film, ALL THE RAGE.) ALL THE RAGE was hailed by Los Angeles Times as "one of the sharpest, sexiest and most amusing satires of gay life and values ever filmed."
  • The Wreck Behind Us
    The Wreck Behind Us is inspired by the true story of the 1969 automobile accident that claimed the life of a 39-year old actress, wife, and mother. On the morning of June 3rd, Evelyn Beckett was the star of a top-rated daytime drama, she was fielding offers from Hollywood, and she was the proud mother of three "clever little rascals," as she liked to call them. She was on top of the world. By midnight...
    The Wreck Behind Us is inspired by the true story of the 1969 automobile accident that claimed the life of a 39-year old actress, wife, and mother. On the morning of June 3rd, Evelyn Beckett was the star of a top-rated daytime drama, she was fielding offers from Hollywood, and she was the proud mother of three "clever little rascals," as she liked to call them. She was on top of the world. By midnight she would be dead, her family changed forever.
  • Gratuitous Nudity (by Roland Tec & John Yearley)
    A collection of monologues, naked & otherwise. Gratuitous Nudity was produced by Pipeline Theatre Company in the upstairs bar of Barrio, a restaurant on the Lower East Side of NYC during the summer of 2001. Half the monologues were written by Roland Tec and half were written by John Yearley. Roland Tec directed the production. Incidental music was composed and recorded by the electronica duo, Rubberlegs (...
    A collection of monologues, naked & otherwise. Gratuitous Nudity was produced by Pipeline Theatre Company in the upstairs bar of Barrio, a restaurant on the Lower East Side of NYC during the summer of 2001. Half the monologues were written by Roland Tec and half were written by John Yearley. Roland Tec directed the production. Incidental music was composed and recorded by the electronica duo, Rubberlegs (Gordon Smith & Thomas Rolanti).
  • Bodily Function
    In the efficiency-minded world of the multinational corporation, time is money and Donald Trieblasser has been pissing away company resources. . . literally. As he is told at his one-year review by Suzanne Goodman, VP of HR at Global Com, his frequent bathroom breaks pose a serious threat to workplace morale. The darkly comedic,disorienting and endlessly evolving one-year review of a mid-level corporate...
    In the efficiency-minded world of the multinational corporation, time is money and Donald Trieblasser has been pissing away company resources. . . literally. As he is told at his one-year review by Suzanne Goodman, VP of HR at Global Com, his frequent bathroom breaks pose a serious threat to workplace morale. The darkly comedic,disorienting and endlessly evolving one-year review of a mid-level corporate employee forms the backbone of this fast-paced irreverent fever dream.

    Bodily Function draws a caricature of a culture in which the body has come to represent something to be at once feared, worshiped and, above all, controlled.
  • If There's A Cure For This, I Don't Want It, I Don't Want It
    Two gay men in post-Stonewall New York City, Marco and Joey have been a fixture of gay nightlife for as long as anyone can remember. They are club buds, with a friendship born of countless sweaty nights spent twirling an spinning across the dance floors up and down the island of Manhattan. Their simple bond endures long after the colorful parade of boyfriends, tricks and one night stands has faded from view. As...
    Two gay men in post-Stonewall New York City, Marco and Joey have been a fixture of gay nightlife for as long as anyone can remember. They are club buds, with a friendship born of countless sweaty nights spent twirling an spinning across the dance floors up and down the island of Manhattan. Their simple bond endures long after the colorful parade of boyfriends, tricks and one night stands has faded from view. As they tear up the dance floor tonight, if we're paying close attention, we might notice that they are both quite literally dancing for their lives.
  • Why Certainly! Let's.
    Macy Boesendorf and Jim Umansky might not have meant much at all to each other but for the point in their lives at which they happen to meet.. Macy is approaching her retirement as an executive secretary with the same lively attention to detail she brings to everything she does. Jim is resentful, exhausted and depressed, making him a less-than-adequate clerk at the local Social Security Office. So, he's a...
    Macy Boesendorf and Jim Umansky might not have meant much at all to each other but for the point in their lives at which they happen to meet.. Macy is approaching her retirement as an executive secretary with the same lively attention to detail she brings to everything she does. Jim is resentful, exhausted and depressed, making him a less-than-adequate clerk at the local Social Security Office. So, he's a little rude and she's not shy about calling him out for his need of an attitude adjustment. In a week's time, there will be no recovery for either of them.
  • You Kiss Me Right This Minute
    Larry wants a kiss. And he's not taking "no" for an answer.
  • Kennedy V
    In 1962, Teddy Kennedy, notorious playboy, runt of the litter and unremarkable junior senator from Massachusetts, seems content to defer to the presidential ambitions of his older brothers Jack and Bobby. In a few short years, however, the boy who learned to keep the peace by making his mother Rose laugh until she cried, will find himself the most unlikely remaining heir to his father's ambition. Relying...
    In 1962, Teddy Kennedy, notorious playboy, runt of the litter and unremarkable junior senator from Massachusetts, seems content to defer to the presidential ambitions of his older brothers Jack and Bobby. In a few short years, however, the boy who learned to keep the peace by making his mother Rose laugh until she cried, will find himself the most unlikely remaining heir to his father's ambition. Relying on his charming willingness to play the innocent, (even sometimes the fool) in order to move legislation forward, it will be Teddy, not Bobby, not Joe, nor Jack who will have the greatest impact on the shape and the tone of the American Experiment in the last years of the 20th Century.