Jim Snowden

Jim Snowden

Jim Snowden was born in Santa Monica, CA in 1971. As a kid he moved around a lot, spending time in New Jersey, Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, and small towns in Utah and Washington State before graduating high school. He started out as a physics major at Lawrence University, but quickly discovered that his passions lay with the arts, so he switched to drama. He sold his first short story to Pulphouse magazine...
Jim Snowden was born in Santa Monica, CA in 1971. As a kid he moved around a lot, spending time in New Jersey, Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, and small towns in Utah and Washington State before graduating high school. He started out as a physics major at Lawrence University, but quickly discovered that his passions lay with the arts, so he switched to drama. He sold his first short story to Pulphouse magazine in 1992. He's since written two novels, Dismantle the Sun and Summer of Long Knives, as well as novellas, short stories, and plays. His work has won the David Guterson award, the first prize in the 2015 Bill and Peggy Hunt Playwright's Festival, and a spot on StorySouth's 2004 list of notable fiction. He lives in Bellevue, WA with his sweetheart, Venice.

Plays

  • Dracula by Jim Snowden
    Cast: 
    7–10
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    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Vampire Hunters, vampire + 7 more
    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy, satire, tragedy
    Keyword: Vampire Hunters, vampire, fascism, anti-fascist, Count Dracula, complicity in evil, price of ambition, media, Cults
    Count Dracula, head of the DRACO Institute, comes to America to feed and spread his brand of far right political philosophy. Aided by Renfield and Jonathan Harker, Dracula establishes his power in the US. Opposing him are vampire hunter Van Helsing, philosopher and political pundit Mina Murray, and media consultant Lucy Westenra. Dracula deploys both his vampiric powers and his charisma to separate Mina from...
    Count Dracula, head of the DRACO Institute, comes to America to feed and spread his brand of far right political philosophy. Aided by Renfield and Jonathan Harker, Dracula establishes his power in the US. Opposing him are vampire hunter Van Helsing, philosopher and political pundit Mina Murray, and media consultant Lucy Westenra. Dracula deploys both his vampiric powers and his charisma to separate Mina from her allies and sorely test her willingness to defend humanity from creatures like him.
  • The Harmonyville Horror: A (Mostly) Untrue Story by Jim Snowden
    Cast: 
    6–8
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: comedy/horror play, 1970s + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, parody/spoof, satire
    Keyword: comedy/horror play, 1970s, Amityville, ghosts, Hoax, courtroom, famous murder
    In November 1974, Dutch Bianchi murdered his parents and four siblings. The lies that flow from Dutch’s crime spread far beyond Harmonyville, gripping the nation, making everyone from ghostbusters to movie producers rich, and burying the reality of that the murders so deep under nonsense that hardly anyone remembers.
  • Doctor Kritzinger's 12 O'Clock by Jim Snowden
    Cast: 
    16–18
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    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic + 2 more
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    Keyword: Third Reich, Nazi + 3 more
    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic, drama, tragedy
    Keyword: Third Reich, Nazi, genocide, 20th Century, World War II
    Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, Permanent Secretary of the Reichs Chancellery office and top political advisor to Adolf Hitler, has several meetings scheduled on January 20th, 1942. His noon appointment brings him to a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, where he’s to meet with fourteen other officials for a discussion of the Jewish question. Kritzinger believes he knows what the answer to that question...
    Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger, Permanent Secretary of the Reichs Chancellery office and top political advisor to Adolf Hitler, has several meetings scheduled on January 20th, 1942. His noon appointment brings him to a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, where he’s to meet with fourteen other officials for a discussion of the Jewish question. Kritzinger believes he knows what the answer to that question will be, that the Jews will be deported to a place where conditions are livable, and that he has the authority to block the extra-legal ambitions of SS deputy leader Reinhard Heydrich, chairman of the meeting. What Kritzinger learns over the course of his lunch is how wrong he is on both counts, and how his history inside the Nazi regime makes it impossible for him to argue effectively against the Final Solution Heydrich plans to implement.

Recommended by Jim Snowden

  • Local Deity by Margaret O'Donnell
    11 Mar. 2021
    “ An amusing little tale. I'd be curious to see Swizzle realized. ”