Joshua Piper

Joshua Piper

Joshua Piper (He/Him) is a Senior Theatre Performance major at Wagner College as well as an actor/playwright. He was recently seen in his plays Café Americano (Texas/Playwright) at Teatro Latea for the New York Theater Festival, and Place of Departure (or The Airport Play) (B/Playwright) at the wild project for the Fresh Fruit Festival. Another play of his entitled 10-72 Fire In Progress was produced at The...
Joshua Piper (He/Him) is a Senior Theatre Performance major at Wagner College as well as an actor/playwright. He was recently seen in his plays Café Americano (Texas/Playwright) at Teatro Latea for the New York Theater Festival, and Place of Departure (or The Airport Play) (B/Playwright) at the wild project for the Fresh Fruit Festival. Another play of his entitled 10-72 Fire In Progress was produced at The Tank during the International Human Rights Art Festival. Recent educational credits include: The Vehicles That Brought Me Here (B/Playwright), The Boys In The Band (Cowboy), and Cabaret (Kit Kat Boy). He’s a member of the LGBTQ+ community and Asian community. 건배! Follow him on Instagram @joshua.t.piper and find him on New Play Exchange at https://newplayexchange.org/users/67878/joshua-piper

Plays

  • Café Americano by Joshua Piper
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    2–6
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    Genre: drama, experimental
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    Keyword: gay, diary + 5 more
    Genre: drama, experimental
    Keyword: gay, diary, coping with death and grief, LGBTQ, France, Texas, San Francisco
    A successful playwright from Texas moves to Paris to try finish writing a play after his husband passed away prematurely at 24. A barista from San Francisco finds out her husband is cheating on her. This play is about how these two people find and lose each other.
  • In The Beginning by Joshua Piper
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, gay + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, faith-based
    Keyword: LGBTQ, gay, college, baseball, college scandal, god, faith
    Apollo and Hyacinthus work at the same coffeeshop on their college campus. They're total opposites, but through a set of events they find themselves wrapped up in a colligate scandal when Apollo's baseball coach kicks him off the team due to his dating Hyacinthus. Apparently, the student. athlete handbook, follows "Biblical standards". Through the retelling of two Greek myths, "In The...
    Apollo and Hyacinthus work at the same coffeeshop on their college campus. They're total opposites, but through a set of events they find themselves wrapped up in a colligate scandal when Apollo's baseball coach kicks him off the team due to his dating Hyacinthus. Apparently, the student. athlete handbook, follows "Biblical standards". Through the retelling of two Greek myths, "In The Beginning" is about the power we give to private institutions and the queer people searching for a place in Christianity in a world where people's prejudices have seeped into not just our day to day life, but into the Bible as well. However, at the end of the day the love we pour onto others and the love we find will always reign victorious.
  • The Tall Tales Of Niko, Estelle, and Josie Suther by Joshua Piper
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: round top, Texas + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, romantic comedy
    Keyword: round top, Texas, a young couple, night
    Originally called "Too Early To Be An Antique In Round Top", this play is about a young couple dealing with unfortunate news outside a bar in the antique capital of Texas, a small town called Round Top.
  • ESTHER-53 by Joshua Piper
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, radio drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: death and grief, aerospace + 4 more
    Genre: drama, radio drama, zoom
    Keyword: death and grief, aerospace, space, stars, blackholes, brother and sister
    Orion, a young astronaut on the international space station, is on a video call with his sister Ashton, who has news she is attempting to withhold from him. Orion and Ashton discover what's beyond a blackhole.

    Can be done on zoom, as a radio play, or on stage.
  • Dressed In Blues by Joshua Piper
    Cast: 
    3–5
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: Pre-STONEWALL, LGBTQ+ + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: Pre-STONEWALL, LGBTQ+, music, 1960's, gay, cops, mafia
    Leo is a saxophone player in a fictional gay club, The Triangle, situated in Greenwich Village, NYC in the 1960s, pre-Stonewall. Jack is the undercover cop meant to entrap and arrest him. As Jack gets to know Leo in this club he falls in love with Leo despite his job. After a raid set up by a New York mafia family Jack and Leo are arrested and interrogated, ending up with them both in the same jail cell. The...
    Leo is a saxophone player in a fictional gay club, The Triangle, situated in Greenwich Village, NYC in the 1960s, pre-Stonewall. Jack is the undercover cop meant to entrap and arrest him. As Jack gets to know Leo in this club he falls in love with Leo despite his job. After a raid set up by a New York mafia family Jack and Leo are arrested and interrogated, ending up with them both in the same jail cell. The final scene is their reconciliation after it had been revealed to Leo that Jack was an undercover cop. The scene displays their hope that one day things might be different for them.
  • The Paper Boy by Joshua Piper
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: paper, king + 6 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, drama
    Keyword: paper, king, Queen, dragon, Castle, kid, doctors and nurses, fire
    A young King rules over a paper castle. A monster threatens his kingdom and those he loves. His best friend recounts the story of his fateful encounter with the monster.

  • Place Of Departure or (The Airport Play) by Joshua Piper
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: Airport, gay + 8 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, immersive, romantic comedy
    Keyword: Airport, gay, religion, LGBTQ+, asian, Surreal, homophobia, internalized homophobia, racism, anti Asian racism
    Man A meets Man B. They start a conversation and over the course of several minutes, hours, days, or months they fall in love in this terminal between their separate destinations. “Place of Departure or (The Airport Play)” is about a serendipitous moment where two people lose track of time talking to each other while also tackling the issues of homophobia, body dysmorphia, and racism, specifically to Asian gay...
    Man A meets Man B. They start a conversation and over the course of several minutes, hours, days, or months they fall in love in this terminal between their separate destinations. “Place of Departure or (The Airport Play)” is about a serendipitous moment where two people lose track of time talking to each other while also tackling the issues of homophobia, body dysmorphia, and racism, specifically to Asian gay men. Above all it’s a story about love and how taking a step forward can be the hardest thing to do.

    A part of "The Vehicles That Brought Me Here" Trilogy.
  • In The Middle Of Nowhere, Texas: An Anthology by Joshua Piper
    Cast: 
    6–9
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: Texas, Don't Say Gay + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: Texas, Don't Say Gay, LGBTQ, dementia, space
    A high schooler draws a penis on a bathroom stall, a man watches his memories run from him, three girls sit the bench, and a brother and sister speak where sound can't be heard. "In The Middle Of Nowhere, Texas" is a collection of four short plays that have the common theme of setting, either being in the middle of nowhere, Texas, or both.
  • Gray Water by Joshua Piper
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Married couple, Grant and Michaela are going on the road trip they've been dreaming of for years. Their son, Easton, has moved out and is planning to get engaged to his boyfriend Dean. It seems like the perfect time to go on this trip. They've sold their house, bought a RV, and travel across the U.S.
  • Again? by Joshua Piper
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: greek myth, NYC + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: greek myth, NYC, love
    An adaptation of the myth of Calypso and Odysseus, we watch a couple live out their daily routine in the East Village of New York, until they can't continue anymore.
  • Conversations We Never Had by Joshua Piper
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    Another early draft. A play about a family grieving a suicide in the family, as well as a brother going through every "what if" to think up a world where his brother is still alive.
  • To The Moon And Back by Joshua Piper
    Cast: 
    8–9
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    Genre: adaptation, drama
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    Keyword: moon, love
    Genre: adaptation, drama
    Keyword: moon, love
    An adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's short story "A Day Goes By". A young man buys a young woman the moon. It was published in Volume 35 of the Pirandello Society of America's Journal. Note, there is sign language used in the show. In the case that it were to be done there should be deaf people working on the production. I have a version of the script in ASL gloss, but it feels more important...
    An adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's short story "A Day Goes By". A young man buys a young woman the moon. It was published in Volume 35 of the Pirandello Society of America's Journal. Note, there is sign language used in the show. In the case that it were to be done there should be deaf people working on the production. I have a version of the script in ASL gloss, but it feels more important to allow deaf people to create within the piece.
  • The Vehicles That Brought Me Here by Joshua Piper
    Cast: 
    7–9
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, korean american + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: LGBTQ, korean american, asian, vehicles, Airport, cars, subway, Texas, NYC
    Man A meets Man B, they fall in love in an airport.
    Beckett and Celiana, two high school best friends are looking to grow up without growing apart.
    A young man is trying to figure out how to be himself, sans the 10 other people he feels like when he's talking to his mom, his friend, the guy he likes, or his sister.
    "The Vehicles That Brought Me Here" is a play trilogy that...
    Man A meets Man B, they fall in love in an airport.
    Beckett and Celiana, two high school best friends are looking to grow up without growing apart.
    A young man is trying to figure out how to be himself, sans the 10 other people he feels like when he's talking to his mom, his friend, the guy he likes, or his sister.
    "The Vehicles That Brought Me Here" is a play trilogy that follows Beckett as he stumbles through what feel like the most formative years of his life, as well as the vehicles and, more importantly, people who get him to his final destination.
  • A Playlist For The Summer by Joshua Piper
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: Car, music + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: Car, music, LGBTQ+, car ride, summer, college
    Celiana and Beckett take car rides around their suburb after high school graduation, occasionally accompanied by Beckett's little sister Dodie. With music always in the background the audience sees the history between these two teenagers create tension as they navigate what it is to become an adult. In this coming-of-age play two best friends figure out how to move forward past high school.
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    Celiana and Beckett take car rides around their suburb after high school graduation, occasionally accompanied by Beckett's little sister Dodie. With music always in the background the audience sees the history between these two teenagers create tension as they navigate what it is to become an adult. In this coming-of-age play two best friends figure out how to move forward past high school.

    A part of "The Vehicles That Brought Me Here" Trilogy.
  • People You Meet On Your Daily Commute by Joshua Piper
    Cast: 
    5–7
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    Genre: comedy, drama
    Genre: comedy, drama
    A play about feeling like 10 different people on a daily basis, and how we as humans adapt to the environment we are in and the people we talk to.

    A part of "The Vehicles That Brought Me Here" Trilogy.
  • B5 by Joshua Piper
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    Jackson meets a hospital receptionist, Caroline, when urgently trying to visit a loved one.
  • Like Father, Like Son by Joshua Piper
    Cast: 
    9
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, family
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: LGBTQ, family
    This is an early draft of a play I wrote in the fall of 2021. It's a rough draft that I haven't got to editing yet. It was temporarily titled the "Drug Dealer Diner Play". In its simplest form the play is about a drug dealer and a diner that a good amount of the play takes place in. It's about the independence we seek as teenagers along with the naivety we tend to inherently have. It...
    This is an early draft of a play I wrote in the fall of 2021. It's a rough draft that I haven't got to editing yet. It was temporarily titled the "Drug Dealer Diner Play". In its simplest form the play is about a drug dealer and a diner that a good amount of the play takes place in. It's about the independence we seek as teenagers along with the naivety we tend to inherently have. It's also about a family, and the love a family has for each other. TW: homophobia, mention of drug dealing, sexual assault
  • Category 4 by Joshua Piper
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic
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    Keyword: Hurricane Harvey, Texas + 3 more
    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic
    Keyword: Hurricane Harvey, Texas, climate, climate change, Hurricane survivors
    When I was 16 Hurricane Harvey flooded my families house and the houses around me with close to two feet of water. This is a documentary play of two families, one being my family, and their evacuation and recovery from Hurricane Harvey. It is also a play about climate change and the uncertain future ahead of us. THIS IS A ROUGH DRAFT. NOT ALL THE INTERVIEWS ARE DONE.