Templeton Moss

Templeton Moss

I began writing in high school because I saw 'Shakespeare In Love' and thought being a writer would help me get girls. It didn't, of course, but by then I found I wasn't actually good at anything else, so I just kept it up. My first play, 'The Workshop,' was presented at the University of Kentucky in 2003. More recently, my short play 'Three Hours To Dawn' won Best Short...
I began writing in high school because I saw 'Shakespeare In Love' and thought being a writer would help me get girls. It didn't, of course, but by then I found I wasn't actually good at anything else, so I just kept it up. My first play, 'The Workshop,' was presented at the University of Kentucky in 2003. More recently, my short play 'Three Hours To Dawn' won Best Short Play by a Local Author from Arts-Louisville.

Plays

  • The Workshop
    The story takes place in Santa's Workshop at the North Pole. But this isn't the place you've seen in all those holiday specials, with tiny elves wearing pointy hats singing as they work. The Workshop is an office, not that different from yours. Only your boss probably doesn't have to deal with runaway reindeer, a coal miner's strike, or an impossibly long list of who's been naughty or nice.
  • Scrambled Eggs
    Sally has just moved into a new apartment after breaking up with her husband of three years. Meanwhile, Nathan's fiancee has just dumped him on the eve of their wedding. As these two strangers attempt to move on from their failed relationships, they unknowingly are drawn closer together.
  • Love Among the Chickens
    Adapted from the first novel ever written by the great British humorist, P. G. Wodehouse, this play tells the story of Jeremy Garnet, an up-and-coming London novelist who is dragged out to the country to run a chicken farm with his old friend, Stanley Ukridge, despite neither of them having any experience raising chickens. While in the country, Garnet meets and falls in love with a girl called Phyllis. But his...
    Adapted from the first novel ever written by the great British humorist, P. G. Wodehouse, this play tells the story of Jeremy Garnet, an up-and-coming London novelist who is dragged out to the country to run a chicken farm with his old friend, Stanley Ukridge, despite neither of them having any experience raising chickens. While in the country, Garnet meets and falls in love with a girl called Phyllis. But his attempts to ingratiate himself with the girl's father only lead to more trouble in this lighthearted, poultry-filled romp.
  • Ebenezer: A Ghost Story of Christmas
    A slightly looser adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol. It still tells the story of Scrooge, who is visited by ghosts on Christmas Eve, but I've taken some liberties with the words, the scenes and other minor details.
  • Pantheon
    Thousands of years after the Golden Age of Greek Gods and Goddesses, the former Olympians are living quiet lives among the mortals when Hermes seeks them out to deliver a message from Zeus. He's calling all the immortals back to Mount Olympus for the first time in centuries. But what is the Skyfather planning?
  • Toil and Trouble
    Mabel and Gertrude are two witches who live in a cottage in the woods with their young apprentice, Audrey, who is using her magic to make herself look more beautiful to win the heart of a boy named David. Meanwhile, secrets about Audrey's past come to light which may change the lives of this unconventional family forever.
  • American Fairy Tales
    An adaptation of four short stories by Oz creator, L. Frank Baum. "The Box Of Robbers," "The King of Quok," "The Capture of Father Time," and "The Wonderful Pump."
  • The Adventures of the Real George Washington (Short Play)
    Hugo goes back in time to meet his hero, George Washington, but something has clearly gone wrong.
  • The Door (Short Play)
    Two men have to go through a certain door at a certain time. There's nothing they can do to change that...or is there?
  • Epitaph (Short Play)
    Kyle has something vitally important to tell Sylvia. And he'll do whatever it takes to tell her. There's just one slight problem: Kyle is dead.
  • If The Shoe Fits (Short Play)
    Prince Charming is searching for the foot that will fit the glass slipper he found after the Ball. But, after he tries it on Cinderella, the story you know starts to go off the rails.
  • Step (Short Play)
    Three famous evil stepmothers (Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella) tell their stories while a present day stepmother struggles to make peace with her stepdaughter.
  • Three Hours Till Dawn (Short Play)
    The night before his execution, Tyler pleads for his life with the Marshall in this Western drama about honor, justice and what it means to be a good man.
  • Vigil (Short Play)
    A ghost keeps a vampire company as she waits by the grave of her latest victim to see if they will rise and walk the night with her.