Trace Turner

Trace Turner is a playwright and theatre director. Originally from Austin, TX Trace is interested in bold storytelling through music, myths, magic, and captivating characters, whether old or new, always with a hint of the absurd.

Trace Turner is a playwright and theatre director. Originally from Austin, TX Trace is interested in bold storytelling through music, myths, magic, and captivating characters, whether old or new, always with a hint of the absurd.

Scripts

The Last Séance of Harry Houdini

Co-Writer by Trace Turner and Cynthia Reifsteck

Cast Size
8
Genre
dark comedy,
docudrama/historic,
drama,
immersive,
melodrama,
movement/physical,
period

Join Edward Saint and Bess Houdini to conduct the tenth and final séance to conjure the spirit of Harry Houdini. They have gathered their peers, friends, enemies, and you at the Knickerbocker Hotel on Halloween night, 1936. An immersive piece centered around the historical event, The Last Séance of Harry Houdini explores themes of love, fame, and grief and the ways each of these can change us. The night unfolds...

Join Edward Saint and Bess Houdini to conduct the tenth and final séance to conjure the spirit of Harry Houdini. They have gathered their peers, friends, enemies, and you at the Knickerbocker Hotel on Halloween night, 1936. An immersive piece centered around the historical event, The Last Séance of Harry Houdini explores themes of love, fame, and grief and the ways each of these can change us. The night unfolds with drinks, mingling, ghosts, and the consequences of disturbing a man’s final rest.

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The McRaven Sisters

by Trace Turner

3
Cast Size
3—4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
experimental,
period,
radio drama,
satire

Ella and Annie Murray are the final surviving owners of the McRaven mansion. They have been living their lives in isolation and navigate their increasingly absurd lives together. A story about growing old, surviving, dying and all the weird moments in between.

Ella and Annie Murray are the final surviving owners of the McRaven mansion. They have been living their lives in isolation and navigate their increasingly absurd lives together. A story about growing old, surviving, dying and all the weird moments in between.

Dead Letters

by Trace Turner

Cast Size
1—6
Genre
docudrama/historic,
drama,
movement/physical,
radio drama,
zoom

What happens when a piece of mail gets lost in the shuffle? Here in the Mail Recovery Center in Atlanta, Georgia we hear from six different employees of the Dead Letter Office (a branch of the U.S. Postal Service) about their interpretations of various packages and letters left unclaimed in their warehouse.

First conceived and devised in 2018 as a text based movement piece.

What happens when a piece of mail gets lost in the shuffle? Here in the Mail Recovery Center in Atlanta, Georgia we hear from six different employees of the Dead Letter Office (a branch of the U.S. Postal Service) about their interpretations of various packages and letters left unclaimed in their warehouse.

First conceived and devised in 2018 as a text based movement piece.

The Green I See at Knight

by Trace Turner

Cast Size
4—5
Genre
adaptation,
comedy,
dark comedy,
fable/folktale,
mystery/thriller,
satire

WAYNE GARRISON is a young twenty something photographer who is apartment sitting for an old woman named Elizabeth Sweetheart in NYC's East Village. Over the course of his stay Wayne meets several characters connected somehow to Elizabeth Sweetheart all the while Wayne is haunted by images of a woman in green at christmastime. Adapted from the classic tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

WAYNE GARRISON is a young twenty something photographer who is apartment sitting for an old woman named Elizabeth Sweetheart in NYC's East Village. Over the course of his stay Wayne meets several characters connected somehow to Elizabeth Sweetheart all the while Wayne is haunted by images of a woman in green at christmastime. Adapted from the classic tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Heroides

by Trace Turner

Cast Size
2—10
Genre
adaptation,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
musical,
verse

* Completed Draft for a 2019 site specific staged reading *
A lot has happened to Orpheus since losing Eurydice. He has wandered the earth, revelling in stories, and learning new instruments. Now with Sappho by his side, the two embark on a musical journey to hopefully uncover the soul of Eurydice one last time. Along the way we hear from many other famous Heroines of Greek Mythology. Adapted from Ovid's...

* Completed Draft for a 2019 site specific staged reading *
A lot has happened to Orpheus since losing Eurydice. He has wandered the earth, revelling in stories, and learning new instruments. Now with Sappho by his side, the two embark on a musical journey to hopefully uncover the soul of Eurydice one last time. Along the way we hear from many other famous Heroines of Greek Mythology. Adapted from Ovid's Epistualtory Poem "Heroides".

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