William J. Goodwin

After losing his brother Wally to the Vietnam War twenty, years earlier, Theo, dragged by his wife Tina, finally visits the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington DC. There, the couple reconnects with Clarence, Wally's old high school friend. Together, Tina and Clarence try to help Theo find closer.

A father wields a pistol in an attempt to protect his family when a drunk mistakes their apartment for that of his estranged girlfriend. Featuring a bare stage with just a door dividing the heartbroken from the handgun. Will the door hold? Will the trigger?

A ten minute play to be performed via video conference, Masks Up tell the story of a grieving widow who struggles with a Methodist pastor for the right to use his church for the funeral of her lesbian wife.

A father attempts to reconnect with his estranged son over a phone connection filled with "dead spots." The son is lost and the father only wants him home. Is it too late?

An English teacher dad struggles to accept his daughter's pronoun of choice.

A husband and wife's argument over the need for a weather radio leads to some uncomfortable truths about the world in which they work and live.

When Gil and Richard Shakespeare learn that their sister Joan has been secretly writing and directing plays, they are determined to see Joan and her all-female acting troupe face the Queen's justice. Luckily, older brother Will comes to the rescue. With characters based on the actual family of William Shakespeare, this play explores the possibility that maybe Will had a little help from his sister Joan in writing his plays.

In this full length Radio Play, Sherlock Holmes joins forces with C. Auguste Dupin to solve a series of murders around the theft of a priceless diamond, all aboard the night train to London. Holmes, Watson, and Dupin are also joined by none other than Irene Adler and Holmes' nemesis, Professor James Moriarity.

When Little Orphan Amy, owner of the Down Home Depot and Orphanage, won't sell Dirk Dastardly, owner of the Down Lowe Depot and Saloon, the villain resorts to trickery, sabotage, and even kidnapping to put an end to those pesky orphans. Luckily, a new stranger in town, Ray O'Hope, is there to help Amy and the orphans save the day.

At the Perfect Poodle Pagaent, three contestants and their sidekicks resort to drastic tactics to take home the hundred grand prize. This is a three-title, one-act, audience participation melodrama, complete with HERO, HEROINE, and VILLAIN. The three poodles can be portrayed by kids or by props.

When a set of plans for a revolutionary new spacecraft appear at a NASA launch party, murder and mayhem blast off as everyone tries to get their hands on those plans!

When a baby store offers a million dollar prize to the first baby born in Y2K, chaos ensues as four couples try anything and everything to win the contest. This large cast, mad cap farce follows the insanity of labor, birth, cheating, and redemption, all while the lights go out and the world seems about to end. Go back in time to 1999 with Millennium Madness! Winner of the 2012 OWFI New Play contest.

A two-act juke-box musical based on the true story about how the song "Home on the Range" became the state song of Kansas.

In 1934, President Roosevelt said that "Home on the Range" was his favorite song, sending it to the top of the charts. NBC was then sued for copyright infringement. New York lawyer and music investigator, Samuel Moanfeldt is hired to scour the west for the true author. On his journey, he meet several memorable characters and hear many fine western and cowboy classics.

Finding Home is a story about love, music, and the true meaning of home.

A husband tries to convince his wife of the futility of owning a weather radio.

Logline: When a prototype of a smart speaker starts talking with the dead, a group of party goers discover a killer in their midst.
Synopsis: This radio ghost story features the computerized voice of Cassandra, an interactive, web connected, "smart" speaker. It takes place in a New York apartment at the surprise birthday party of Denise "Dennie" Bell. The other guests at the party are Dennie's parents Evan and Nan, their elderly neighbors, the Zeldings (affectionately known as Uncle Zig and Aunt Zag), her Aunt Lorraine, and tech genius Steve Wiseman, who designed the prototype and gave it to Dennie as a birthday present. Upon activation, it becomes apparent that Cassandra is receiving commands from an uninvited guest, the ghost of Maggie Blue.