Timothy J Foley

Gary is planning a funeral, his own. He has a role for Melissa the barista. The bond they form will change both their lives. A play about an unlikely friendship and the enduring power of literature. Staged by Theatre One in Sacramento in 2019 and nominated for an Elly.

Jefferson Barnes is an Oklahoma death row inmate, an African-American prisoner, with an execution date. The governor wants to kill him, his lawyer wants to save him, a preacher wants to heal him. A play loosely based on the Clayton Lockett case.

Novelist Thomas Kingfisher has seen his sales slump and his reputation fade. When he disappears after a car accident and is presumed dead, the publishing industry goes into a frenzy and his books sell like never before. His agent, his wife, and his best friend must deal with the consequences, all the while wondering whether Thomas is dead or alive. A satirical drama about modern media and old-fashioned ambition.

An adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell’s classic (and very influential) Victorian ghost story first published in 1852. A little girl and her nurse are banished to a decaying mansion in northern England where the ghostly specters of a family curse threaten to destroy them. A framing device is used, featuring Gaskell herself as a character and exploring her disagreement with Charles Dickens regarding the structure of the story. There are six speaking roles, and three ghostly apparitions who do not speak.

Adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale of cruelty and revenge, primarily using Poe’s own language, with a narrator and a chorus. Can be done as a radio play, or with a minimal set.