Recommended by Jason Parrish

  • Jason Parrish: The Gentleman Thief by Mark Brown
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    This play is incredibly funny, inventive, and full of great characters. I was lucky to play a role for Florida Rep's 2017 PlayLab Festival, and cannot say enough good about the script. It is sort of "Gentleman's Guide meets 20s crime caper." Fast-paced, funny, and full of heart. This is Mark Brown at his most inventive. The laughs came steady for the May 2017 reading.

    This play is incredibly funny, inventive, and full of great characters. I was lucky to play a role for Florida Rep's 2017 PlayLab Festival, and cannot say enough good about the script. It is sort of "Gentleman's Guide meets 20s crime caper." Fast-paced, funny, and full of heart. This is Mark Brown at his most inventive. The laughs came steady for the May 2017 reading.

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  • Jason Parrish: Damascus by Bennett Fisher
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    Florida Repertory Theatre read this play as part of its 2017 PlayLab Festival, and it has been selected for a premiere in the fall of 2018. This is a tight, timely, and hopeful play about what drives someone to be a terrorist and what it is to be Muslim and African in America today. These roles are great for actors to dive into, and could be staged on a small. An important, provocative, timely, and moving story of forgiveness. A MUST-READ!

    Florida Repertory Theatre read this play as part of its 2017 PlayLab Festival, and it has been selected for a premiere in the fall of 2018. This is a tight, timely, and hopeful play about what drives someone to be a terrorist and what it is to be Muslim and African in America today. These roles are great for actors to dive into, and could be staged on a small. An important, provocative, timely, and moving story of forgiveness. A MUST-READ!

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  • Jason Parrish: DOUBLEWIDE by Stephen Spotswood
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    Florida Rep chose this play to be read as part of our '16 PlayLab Festival, soon after a premiere. I cannot say enough good about this play. It is an important story for this moment in American history and speaks to the struggles so many people are dealing. It could be described as an issue play, but it isn't at all. It is a moving family story about giving your children more than you had and leaving the world a better place than you found it. It has a powerfully hopeful message and the characters remain positive against terrible odds.

    Florida Rep chose this play to be read as part of our '16 PlayLab Festival, soon after a premiere. I cannot say enough good about this play. It is an important story for this moment in American history and speaks to the struggles so many people are dealing. It could be described as an issue play, but it isn't at all. It is a moving family story about giving your children more than you had and leaving the world a better place than you found it. It has a powerfully hopeful message and the characters remain positive against terrible odds.

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  • Jason Parrish: The Firestorm by Meridith Friedman
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    Florida Rep selected this play for a reading in out 2015 PlayLab Festival. It is a great script. Full of nuance, suspense, and raises a lot of sadly relevant questions about race and politics. The dialogue is fresh and the characters layered and believable. Looking forward to working on it.

    Florida Rep selected this play for a reading in out 2015 PlayLab Festival. It is a great script. Full of nuance, suspense, and raises a lot of sadly relevant questions about race and politics. The dialogue is fresh and the characters layered and believable. Looking forward to working on it.

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  • Jason Parrish: Split in Three by Daryl Lisa Fazio
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    SPLIT IN THREE was read as part of Florida Rep's inaugural festival of new works on 2014, and was selected immediately for a world Premiere to close our 2014-15 season. We've spent the past year nurturing it's development.

    The play is powerful, very funny, crisply and honestly written, full of heart, hope, and humanity. It is an important story about family dynamics, sisterhood, and America's checkered past with civil rights. It's a very personal story set against the backdrop of America's civil rights struggle.

    Most importantly, Daryl's play introduces three AMAZING, complex roles for...

    SPLIT IN THREE was read as part of Florida Rep's inaugural festival of new works on 2014, and was selected immediately for a world Premiere to close our 2014-15 season. We've spent the past year nurturing it's development.

    The play is powerful, very funny, crisply and honestly written, full of heart, hope, and humanity. It is an important story about family dynamics, sisterhood, and America's checkered past with civil rights. It's a very personal story set against the backdrop of America's civil rights struggle.

    Most importantly, Daryl's play introduces three AMAZING, complex roles for women (and two for men).

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