Adam Alonzo

Adam Alonzo

Adam Alonzo is a writer, photographer and public radio host from Dayton, Ohio. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Ohio Playwrights Circle.

Plays

  • Counting All Our Tears by Adam Alonzo
    Cast: 
    12–14
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    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic + 4 more
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    Keyword: Paul Laurence Dunbar, Black artist + 6 more
    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic, drama, period, romantic comedy, tragedy
    Keyword: Paul Laurence Dunbar, Black artist, courtship, marriage, separation, literature, poetry, black history
    Paul Laurence Dunbar, a Black poet in the nineteenth century, pursues a relationship with the writer Alice Ruth Moore while struggling to build a literary career in a society controlled by whites.

    The sample script is the first scene of a three-act play. Also included is explanatory front matter and a page of sheet music for the optional incidental music.

    The 150th anniversary of...
    Paul Laurence Dunbar, a Black poet in the nineteenth century, pursues a relationship with the writer Alice Ruth Moore while struggling to build a literary career in a society controlled by whites.

    The sample script is the first scene of a three-act play. Also included is explanatory front matter and a page of sheet music for the optional incidental music.

    The 150th anniversary of the birth of Paul Laurence Dunbar will occur in 2022.
  • Blocked by Adam Alonzo
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: monologue, female friendship + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: monologue, female friendship, social media, online stalking, bitterness, college reunion
    A woman tries to use social media to reconnect with a college friend so they can reminisce about the old times and reopen old wounds.
  • Audition by Adam Alonzo
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: auditioning, overconfidence + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: auditioning, overconfidence, deception, gangsters, mobsters
    An overconfident actor at an audition is so self-absorbed that he misses obvious clues that he's actually being recruited by mobsters to deliver a threatening message to a rival gang.