Dan Remmes

Dan Remmes is an award-winning, published playwright and produced screenwriter whose work has featured Emmy-, Obie-, Tony- and Oscar-winning actors. His plays have been produced across the United States, Canada and the U.K.—including the White House.

He is best known as the book-writer of GRUMPY OLD MEN: THE MUSICAL which enjoyed is U.S. premier at the Ogunquit Playhouse in 2018 and West Coast premiere at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts in Southern California in 2019. It is licensed by Theatrical Rights Worldwide (TRW).

Productions and developmental readings of his plays have featured such notable performers as F. Murray Abraham, Susan Anton, Didi Conn, Charles Durning, Marilu Henner, Carol Kane, Vicki Lewis, Hal Linden, Christopher Lloyd, Cathy Rigby, Sally Struthers as...

Dan Remmes is an award-winning, published playwright and produced screenwriter whose work has featured Emmy-, Obie-, Tony- and Oscar-winning actors. His plays have been produced across the United States, Canada and the U.K.—including the White House.

He is best known as the book-writer of GRUMPY OLD MEN: THE MUSICAL which enjoyed is U.S. premier at the Ogunquit Playhouse in 2018 and West Coast premiere at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts in Southern California in 2019. It is licensed by Theatrical Rights Worldwide (TRW).

Productions and developmental readings of his plays have featured such notable performers as F. Murray Abraham, Susan Anton, Didi Conn, Charles Durning, Marilu Henner, Carol Kane, Vicki Lewis, Hal Linden, Christopher Lloyd, Cathy Rigby, Sally Struthers as well as a long list of Broadway heavyweights. His award-winning play, THREE TABLES, is published by Samuel French and enjoys multiple productions each year across North America and Europe. DanRemmes.com

Scripts

Safe Space

by Dan Remmes

Synopsis

An unconventional psychotherapist counsels a distressed young wife and mother.

An unconventional psychotherapist counsels a distressed young wife and mother.

Leaving London

by Dan Remmes

Synopsis

On their last night in London, a guarded American traveler reluctantly engages in conversation with a quirky local woman. What begins as an awkward pub encounter evolves into a fleeting connection between two strangers.

On their last night in London, a guarded American traveler reluctantly engages in conversation with a quirky local woman. What begins as an awkward pub encounter evolves into a fleeting connection between two strangers.

Three Tables

by Dan Remmes

Synopsis

3 women, 3 men, 1 man or woman; ages flexible
Three couples eating dinner at a restaurant. One is celebrating an anniversary, one is finalizing a divorce and a third is on a blind date. By dinner's end, all six lives have changed.

3 women, 3 men, 1 man or woman; ages flexible
Three couples eating dinner at a restaurant. One is celebrating an anniversary, one is finalizing a divorce and a third is on a blind date. By dinner's end, all six lives have changed.

What Doesn't Kill Us

by Dan Remmes

Synopsis

2 women, 3 men (ages flexible); set may be simple or suggested

A black comedy in the style of Christopher Durang.
Joy Kerring is at a crossroads. She’s cheating on her live-in boyfriend, develops a crush on a gay man and seeks counsel from a screwball psychiatrist. As the play unfolds, we discover each character’s unique secrets, strung together by Joy’s slow psychological unraveling. One year earlier...

2 women, 3 men (ages flexible); set may be simple or suggested

A black comedy in the style of Christopher Durang.
Joy Kerring is at a crossroads. She’s cheating on her live-in boyfriend, develops a crush on a gay man and seeks counsel from a screwball psychiatrist. As the play unfolds, we discover each character’s unique secrets, strung together by Joy’s slow psychological unraveling. One year earlier, she was nearly killed. We’re witnessing her world as she comes to grips with “bonus time.”

Night Out

by Dan Remmes

Synopsis

2 men; 1 woman; ages flexible; single set

A romantic comedy in the style of classic Neil Simon.

Norman and Amanda arrive at an exquisite suite at Manhattan’s St. Moritz Hotel overlooking Central Park. They’ve already enjoyed a luxurious night on the town; but their evening has just begun. The couple laughs and reminisces until Norman drops to one knee, present a diamond engagement ring and proposes. Amanda...

2 men; 1 woman; ages flexible; single set

A romantic comedy in the style of classic Neil Simon.

Norman and Amanda arrive at an exquisite suite at Manhattan’s St. Moritz Hotel overlooking Central Park. They’ve already enjoyed a luxurious night on the town; but their evening has just begun. The couple laughs and reminisces until Norman drops to one knee, present a diamond engagement ring and proposes. Amanda balks, for this is the first time the couple has seen each other in ten years. In fact, she’s already engaged to another man.

The evening and following morning unfold with contentious revelations, confessions and deception, fueled
by champagne made bottomless by a wise and satiric bellhop several years their senior. The hanging question
remains: Can Norman and Amanda ever be together, or were they right to break up ten years earlier.

Close to Home

by Dan Remmes

Synopsis

3 men, 2 women, single set
The story of a witty yet dysfunctional family set in the 1980s.
Derick is a New York writer who returns to his family home in Connecticut upon learning of a childhood neighbor's death. It doesn't hurt that he once had a crush on June, the deceased's daughter -- this may be a unique opportunity to see her again as an adult.
On the day of the funeral, June, her two brothers (one...

3 men, 2 women, single set
The story of a witty yet dysfunctional family set in the 1980s.
Derick is a New York writer who returns to his family home in Connecticut upon learning of a childhood neighbor's death. It doesn't hurt that he once had a crush on June, the deceased's daughter -- this may be a unique opportunity to see her again as an adult.
On the day of the funeral, June, her two brothers (one unnervingly bitter, the other amicably gay) and her impressionable sister-in-law reunite at the family home. Derick stops by to express his condolences, but his previous neighbors barely recall him. Nevertheless, a spark may be developing between the adult June (now divorced) and Derick after all these years.
Any potential romance is cut short when the siblings' deep, dark secret is violently revealed.