Collin Smith

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This theatrical work attempts to portray the Peoples Temple from a bottom-up perspective, placing focus on Peoples Temple members rather than on the leader Jim Jones. For decades, historical scholarship and pop cultural interpretations of the Jonestown Massacre have placed Jones at the center of the story. This piece intends to decentralize Jones by placing narrative control in the hands of the general membership. I achieve this is by grounding the play in primary source texts created by former members and survivors, including autobiographies or Peoples Temple records. I also place members in control of the play’s narration, as they contextualize each scene through dialogue and invite Jim Jones into the scene to speak. This framing allows the Peoples Temple community, the survivors and the victims, to control the narrative of the Jonestown Massacre.

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This play declares "the damnable life and death of one Peter Stuppe, a most wicked Sorcerer, who in the likeness of a Wolf committed many murders, continuing this devilish practice 25 Years, killing and devouring Men, Women, and Children." (The Damnable Life and Death of Stubbe Peeter By George Bores, London Chapbook of 1590 via University of Massachusetts Boston)

In the years preceding 1589, a werewolf tore through the small town of Bedburg. Or at least that's what the pamphlets say. This play sees the community of Bedburg grapple with a period of intense bloodshed, while also looking at how retelling the story impacts the truth

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Boys keep going missing in The Heights neighborhood of Houston. But the police are not paying attention, labeling these boys 'runaways." In this American fairy tale, we see how these violent acts happen, who enables them, and the impacts on those victimized by a serial killer.

This play is a fully fictional story based on the crime sprees of Dean Corll and Ed Gein.

The story writes itself: Despite her fading life, Laurie Williams still managed to write her masterpiece. With her days ticking away, she slaved over a typewriter to finish her first and only book, which turned out to be a New York Times bestseller! Except, it may not be so simple. At a family party hosted by her husband, Herbert, questions arise about the novel at hand and what really makes an author.

A former youngman (sex worker) hires a young sex worker in an effort to grasp back to his past. Both discuss their contrasting worlds over an impromptu dinner as the younger tries to figure out why he is there in the first place.

Stewart Matthews's Pleasance Hill Immersive Haunt has caused some controversy, enough so that a documentary is being made. Milo, the documentarian, interviews Stewart on what constitutes an immersive haunt, and, more importantly, whether it's safe.

Brittany Driscoll, performing under the stage name 'lovergirl', has gained some success after her first tour. Her Record Label thinks it's time to move up a level: more marketing, bigger venues, the corporate machine behind her. However, she has to pass one final test.

The French Revolution's Reign of Terror, in 4 pages or less.

It's 1992, a bad year in the spandex-clad world of professional wrestling. Mikey Mitchell just lost his job at the biggest wrestling company in the world. Returning to the gasping corpse of the wrestling territories to make money and reinvent himself, he is booked on the same show as his former partner and wrestling journeyman Paul Douglas.