Steve Nordmark

Steve Nordmark

Steve Nordmark is a a founding member of the Telling Humans Playwright Studio and a network playwright with Chicago Dramatists. His recent work include the two act comedy “Course Society”, one acts "Ye Olde American Egg" and "The Pompous Playwright", and short comedies "Are You Sure?", “A Happy Announcement” and “The Unopened Box”. His plays have been developed and produced with...
Steve Nordmark is a a founding member of the Telling Humans Playwright Studio and a network playwright with Chicago Dramatists. His recent work include the two act comedy “Course Society”, one acts "Ye Olde American Egg" and "The Pompous Playwright", and short comedies "Are You Sure?", “A Happy Announcement” and “The Unopened Box”. His plays have been developed and produced with Yellow Rose Theatre, Powertap Productions, Theatre on the Lake, and American Blues Theatre.

Plays

  • The Slow Painful Death of the Privileged Class by Steve Nordmark
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: Golf Privilege End of Their Era
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: Golf Privilege End of Their Era
    The Redwood Course Society of Golf has become so selective that it now holds no members at all.
  • Ye Olde American Egg by Steve Nordmark
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: literature, adaptation + 4 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, docudrama/historic, period, radio drama
    Keyword: literature, adaptation, Sherwood Anderson, Chicken Farming, restaurant, narration
    A story of America 100 years ago. A country without internet, without computers, without television. It turns out none of these are required to feed the American notion of rising up in the world. The narrator recounts his childhood growing up in failing businesses of restaurants and chicken farming. The play gives him a chance to change the family's destiny.
  • Are you Sure? A Comedy of Computer Manners by Steve Nordmark
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: office, computers + 3 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: office, computers, work, manners, humans
    A Short Comedy about the terrible manners to which we've become accustomed.
  • The Pompous Playwright by Steve Nordmark
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: Theatre Farce Adaptation Comedy
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, farce
    Keyword: Theatre Farce Adaptation Comedy
    An adaptation of "Miles Gloriosus" this farcical comedy leaves no theatre trope unturned and is equally savage to all theatre roles.
  • Course Society by Steve Nordmark
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, farce + 3 more
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    Keyword: Screwball Comedy, golf
    Genre: comedy, farce, movement/physical, romantic comedy, satire
    Keyword: Screwball Comedy, golf
    High Comedy in Two Acts
    Course Society is high comedy that offers a screwball plot, witty dialogue, and strong female characters. Perennial country club reject Henry Brinkman commits to a scheme that he hopes will finally get him accepted. He must help the senior club chairman run away from home to join a ridiculously exclusive secret golf society.

    Synopsis
    The Redwood Course...
    High Comedy in Two Acts
    Course Society is high comedy that offers a screwball plot, witty dialogue, and strong female characters. Perennial country club reject Henry Brinkman commits to a scheme that he hopes will finally get him accepted. He must help the senior club chairman run away from home to join a ridiculously exclusive secret golf society.

    Synopsis
    The Redwood Course Society of Golf has become so selective that it now holds no members at all. Word of an opening in the society reaches a gated golf community in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Edgar Wentworth plans to fake his death in order to escape to it. Lawyer Henry Brinkman agrees to carry out the scheme so that he can take Edgar's place in Scottsdale. Little do they know that Edgar's son Richard and star golfer Becky Meadows have also learned about Redwood, and that Edgar's wife Carol will not be so easily fooled. When they all run into each other at Redwood, it becomes not so much who will be picked but who will survive the chaos.
  • A Happy Announcement by Steve Nordmark
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy
    Genre: adaptation, comedy
    10 Minute Comedy modeled after "The Proposal" by Chekov. Natalie receives happy news she is expecting, but arguments with her husband Ivan may prevent her from passing on the news to him.
  • The UnOpened Box by Steve Nordmark
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: zoom, Youtube + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, farce, parody/spoof, zoom
    Keyword: zoom, Youtube, Reaction Video, Unboxing, Online Top Ten
    A reactor tries to convince a rater to rate his reaction to a follower's apology to an unboxer.