G William Zorn

G William Zorn

Produced a lot. Workshopped a lot. Won some awards. Would love to work with you and/or your organization.

Plays

  • Walls by G William Zorn
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: biography, tragedy
    Genre: biography, tragedy
    A middle-aged woman with agoraphobia has the Corona virus.
  • Housekeeping by G William Zorn
    Cast: 
    4–8
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, gay
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, tragedy
    Keyword: LGBTQ, gay
    Based on "La Ronde." Meet the archetypes of gay life, from The Pretty Young Thing to The Tourist, to the Marrying Man in a series of short plays that come full-circle.
  • Sick Day by G William Zorn
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: LGBTQ
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, tragedy
    Keyword: LGBTQ
    Will and Rob have been together for a while. While domesticity rules, they still have moments of impulsiveness. After a night of partying, they both decide to call in sick and spend the day together. When Rob gets called in to work, he is in a car accident and dies. Will must relive the day until he can get past the heartbreak.
  • The Speed of Falling Objects by G William Zorn
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: small town, LGBTQ
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, tragedy
    Keyword: small town, LGBTQ
    In Mayersville, MS, Lucy is trying to decide whether or not to attend her twenty-year high school reunion. When she gets together with friends and her h.s. love, she realizes that the truth of the past isn't just uncomfortable, it's a bitch.
  • Sand Man by G William Zorn
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: gay, bullying + 3 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: gay, bullying, sleep, medical, based on a true story
    In 2007, a boy named Terry was shot and killed for giving another boy a valentine. When no major news outlet picks up the story, Robert, an entertainment reporter for the Chicago Tribune attempts to get it into print, to no avail. Obsessing over this indifference, he doesn't sleep for fourteen days, does physical harm to himself and ends up in a clinic for sleep disorders. What is it about this kid...
    In 2007, a boy named Terry was shot and killed for giving another boy a valentine. When no major news outlet picks up the story, Robert, an entertainment reporter for the Chicago Tribune attempts to get it into print, to no avail. Obsessing over this indifference, he doesn't sleep for fourteen days, does physical harm to himself and ends up in a clinic for sleep disorders. What is it about this kid's death that Robert has taken so personally?

    You can see the original 10-minute play, "The Valentine Kid," that started this one-act on YouTube.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCxyu5NlzOQ
  • Metropolis Has No Superman by G William Zorn
    Cast: 
    7–10
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: superman, gay + 4 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: superman, gay, metropolis, family, coming out, death
    Chance Loring created the gay superhero comic, Queer-Boy. What did you expect from a kid who grew up in Superman's hometown, Metropolis, Illinois? After a falling-out with his father, Chance now has to return to Metropolis for his dad's funeral. How did his dad die? He tried to "kill" Superman.

    Winner of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for Comedy Playwriting....
    Chance Loring created the gay superhero comic, Queer-Boy. What did you expect from a kid who grew up in Superman's hometown, Metropolis, Illinois? After a falling-out with his father, Chance now has to return to Metropolis for his dad's funeral. How did his dad die? He tried to "kill" Superman.

    Winner of the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for Comedy Playwriting. Available from Next Stage Press.