Christian Neuhaus

Christian Neuhaus is a writer of comic short plays and co-creator of You’ve Ruined a Perfectly Good Mystery!, an interactive comedy-adventure. He has been an actor-writer in several ensembles for Are We Delicious?, which creates short plays and readies them for performance within two weeks. As the host of the MadStage Podcast, he conducted more than two years of interviews with Madison, Wisconsin theater artists. He can be heard as Inspector Collins and other roles on Hot Copy Radio Theater, a podcast re-creating a 1940s radio mystery series from the original scripts. Christian holds a bachelor’s degree in English with a Creative Writing emphasis from UW-Madison and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

Christian Neuhaus is a writer of comic short plays and co-creator of You’ve Ruined a Perfectly Good Mystery!, an interactive comedy-adventure. He has been an actor-writer in several ensembles for Are We Delicious?, which creates short plays and readies them for performance within two weeks. As the host of the MadStage Podcast, he conducted more than two years of interviews with Madison, Wisconsin theater artists. He can be heard as Inspector Collins and other roles on Hot Copy Radio Theater, a podcast re-creating a 1940s radio mystery series from the original scripts. Christian holds a bachelor’s degree in English with a Creative Writing emphasis from UW-Madison and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

Scripts

Mackerel Sky

by Christian Neuhaus

Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy

Mackerel fall from the sky at the home of Ariadne and Brunhilda. A stranger caught outside is anxious but the two sisters and their ma are undisturbed, until the angry mackerel start coming.

Mackerel fall from the sky at the home of Ariadne and Brunhilda. A stranger caught outside is anxious but the two sisters and their ma are undisturbed, until the angry mackerel start coming.

"Bearbaiting" Will Not Be Seen Tonight...

by Christian Neuhaus

1
Cast Size
7—8
Genre
comedy,
parody/spoof

Well-known Shakespearean characters engage in WWE-style physical combat.

Well-known Shakespearean characters engage in WWE-style physical combat.

MacSteele and Buttons

by Christian Neuhaus

Cast Size
4—5
Genre
comedy,
parody/spoof

A parody of mismatched buddy cop movies of the 1980s. MacSteele is a loose cannon who doesn't play by the rules. Buttons is his new partner, a literal clown who communicates only by honking a horn.

A parody of mismatched buddy cop movies of the 1980s. MacSteele is a loose cannon who doesn't play by the rules. Buttons is his new partner, a literal clown who communicates only by honking a horn.

An Adventure in Forms

by Christian Neuhaus

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy

An outsider bringing a form to a strange office is almost undone by a series of comically surreal bureaucratic encounters.

An outsider bringing a form to a strange office is almost undone by a series of comically surreal bureaucratic encounters.

Danger Has Red Hair

by Christian Neuhaus

Cast Size
10—12
Genre
adaptation,
comedy,
mystery/thriller,
parody/spoof,
period

Comic re-imagining of the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Red-headed League" as a 1970s TV cop show. Originally written for a youth theater company.

Comic re-imagining of the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Red-headed League" as a 1970s TV cop show. Originally written for a youth theater company.

Oedipus Simple, Sphinx Complex

by Christian Neuhaus

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy

A comic retelling of the Oedipus’s encounter with the sphinx, in which Oedipus contends with the famous riddle and the sphinx contends with her mother.

A comic retelling of the Oedipus’s encounter with the sphinx, in which Oedipus contends with the famous riddle and the sphinx contends with her mother.