Alan Brooks

Alan Brooks writes. And writes and writes and writes.

I have a children's book out at Scholastic, 'Frogs Jump", a few science fiction books on Amazon and am writing more, but my passion is for playwriting, for stage and for screen. I had an agent in Hollywood and have scripts in circulation, a cop thriller currently under option, and feature length film I'm scrambling to finish and would like to shoot myself.
I've turned two of my short plays into films, "Catching the Sun", and "Lift", both released in 2025 and viewable on Vimeo. Another short, "The Food We Are About To Eat" was produced at the off-Broadway Strawberry Shorts festival. During the pandemic I've had many shorts produced on virtual platforms, which is a lot of fun, but not as satisfying as being in the room. In 2024 my...

Alan Brooks writes. And writes and writes and writes.

I have a children's book out at Scholastic, 'Frogs Jump", a few science fiction books on Amazon and am writing more, but my passion is for playwriting, for stage and for screen. I had an agent in Hollywood and have scripts in circulation, a cop thriller currently under option, and feature length film I'm scrambling to finish and would like to shoot myself.
I've turned two of my short plays into films, "Catching the Sun", and "Lift", both released in 2025 and viewable on Vimeo. Another short, "The Food We Are About To Eat" was produced at the off-Broadway Strawberry Shorts festival. During the pandemic I've had many shorts produced on virtual platforms, which is a lot of fun, but not as satisfying as being in the room. In 2024 my experimental short "Curtain Call" was staged as part of the Black Box Festival by the Gallery Players in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY. In 2026 my new full length play "Man in Motion" is on stage for the Broadway Bound festival in NYC with the goal of launching into a longer run.

I love comedy. I love drama too, tragedy, romance, thrillers... but my way into all of them is through human folly, so I try to keep my pen filled with funny ink. I live in Woodstock, NY and have ties to NYC and also back to my Water, Winter Wonderland hometown of Detroit, Michigan.

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Scripts

Curtain Call

by Alan Brooks

Cast Size
7
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental

A man wakes up on the backstage floor of a play in-progress, with no memory of who he is, and learns that he's supposed to be the lead, and needs to get on stage.

A man wakes up on the backstage floor of a play in-progress, with no memory of who he is, and learns that he's supposed to be the lead, and needs to get on stage.

Coupling

by Alan Brooks

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy

After a first night together, a couple gets to know each other much better, the morning after, in the shower.

After a first night together, a couple gets to know each other much better, the morning after, in the shower.

Catching The Sun

by Alan Brooks

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy

Two retirees muse about the past and try to flirt with their nurse.

This play was shot as a short film and submitted to festivals. The film or a segment of the film can be viewed online, on request to the author. The play was the result of a stage workshop at Byrdcliffe Theater in Woodstock, NY in 2018 and had an initial performance in-situ by the workshop attendees.

Two retirees muse about the past and try to flirt with their nurse.

This play was shot as a short film and submitted to festivals. The film or a segment of the film can be viewed online, on request to the author. The play was the result of a stage workshop at Byrdcliffe Theater in Woodstock, NY in 2018 and had an initial performance in-situ by the workshop attendees.

Slut Dick Bitch

by Alan Brooks

Cast Size
6—12
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
experimental,
romantic comedy

A couple works out their relationship difficulties via The Meisner Method

A couple works out their relationship difficulties via The Meisner Method

A Walk in the Park

by Alan Brooks

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
romantic comedy

A couple and their dogs meet in Central Park, where the dogs do all the talking.

A couple and their dogs meet in Central Park, where the dogs do all the talking.

The Food We Are About To Eat

by Alan Brooks

Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy

A family sits down to a meal and discusses why they pray over the food, then shift forward some years and see it all again from an adult perspective.

The play had its premier and 4 additional performances through the semifinal stage at the Strawberry Shorts Festival off Broadway on 54th Street, in 2019.

A family sits down to a meal and discusses why they pray over the food, then shift forward some years and see it all again from an adult perspective.

The play had its premier and 4 additional performances through the semifinal stage at the Strawberry Shorts Festival off Broadway on 54th Street, in 2019.

A Quick Drink At The Hemingway Bar, Paris

by Alan Brooks

Cast Size
5—6
Genre
comedy

An American tourist, looking for inspiration, visits the Hemingway Bar in the Ritz Hotel in Paris.

An American tourist, looking for inspiration, visits the Hemingway Bar in the Ritz Hotel in Paris.