Rick Karlin

Rick Karlin is a playwright ("Witches Among Us", ""Moving Day",“Spin Cycle”, “As Time Goes By”, “Greece!”, “Scrapbook”, “Women at Large”, “Full of Beenes”, "Alice in Discoland", "Fractured Fairy Tales", "Boy Meats Whirl" and “Seuss on the Loose”), novelist ("Show Biz Kids", "Tales of the Second City" and "Death on the Rocks") and a free-lance journalist/editor (South Florida Gay News, The Mirror, Palette, Wisconsin Gazette, Chicago Free Press, Bay Area Reporter, Windy City Times, Genre, Chicago Tribune’s Metromix, NotforTourists.com and OutTraveler.com) and was the Entertainment Editor for Gay Chicago Magazine for 10 years.

Rick Karlin is a playwright ("Witches Among Us", ""Moving Day",“Spin Cycle”, “As Time Goes By”, “Greece!”, “Scrapbook”, “Women at Large”, “Full of Beenes”, "Alice in Discoland", "Fractured Fairy Tales", "Boy Meats Whirl" and “Seuss on the Loose”), novelist ("Show Biz Kids", "Tales of the Second City" and "Death on the Rocks") and a free-lance journalist/editor (South Florida Gay News, The Mirror, Palette, Wisconsin Gazette, Chicago Free Press, Bay Area Reporter, Windy City Times, Genre, Chicago Tribune’s Metromix, NotforTourists.com and OutTraveler.com) and was the Entertainment Editor for Gay Chicago Magazine for 10 years.

Scripts

Greece!

by Rick Karlin

Synopsis

A parody of Grease! taking place during the 1950s Athens Olympics. The Pink Ladies are the women's gymnastics team, led by nearsighted Coach Tumblebum. Danny's on the Olympic track team led by befuddled Coach Geezer, while the TBirds are in town for a classic car race, which they discover means chariots! Slapstick comedy, mistaken identities, and parody lyrics to the familiar songs (music rights not included)...

A parody of Grease! taking place during the 1950s Athens Olympics. The Pink Ladies are the women's gymnastics team, led by nearsighted Coach Tumblebum. Danny's on the Olympic track team led by befuddled Coach Geezer, while the TBirds are in town for a classic car race, which they discover means chariots! Slapstick comedy, mistaken identities, and parody lyrics to the familiar songs (music rights not included) make for an evening of hilarity. 75 minute run time.

Moment of Judgment

by Rick Karlin

Synopsis

The lives of a young gay couple are forever changed when one becomes a police officer and is involved with the shooting of an unarmed black woman. How does his moment of judgment effect their lives?

The lives of a young gay couple are forever changed when one becomes a police officer and is involved with the shooting of an unarmed black woman. How does his moment of judgment effect their lives?

Turning Tables

by Rick Karlin

Synopsis

Two one acts set in the same apartment 50 years apart.
The cast of three (1 older man, 1 younger man, 1 older woman) can be used for both plays in the first act the older actors are a Jewish couple preparing to retire to Florida, the younger actor is their son. In the second act, the older man and younger man are a gay couple, the older woman is the younger man's mother. In the second act the mother and son are...

Two one acts set in the same apartment 50 years apart.
The cast of three (1 older man, 1 younger man, 1 older woman) can be used for both plays in the first act the older actors are a Jewish couple preparing to retire to Florida, the younger actor is their son. In the second act, the older man and younger man are a gay couple, the older woman is the younger man's mother. In the second act the mother and son are Jewish, the older man can be any race/religion.
The set is simple an apartment dining room with a large table. In the first act the family is moving out, all that is need is the table and a few pictures hanging on the wall. In the second act a couple is moving in, all that is needed is the table, some chairs and a few boxes. A large print is needed to hang on the wall.

Witches Among Us

by Rick Karlin

Synopsis

Beginning on All Hallow's Eve in the mid-1960s, a coven of witches in New York City finds their lives disrupted when Mayor Wagner decides to raid and close down bars serving pinkos, commies, queers and weirdos to clean up the city for the World's Fair. Two of the police heading up the task force fall in love with members of the coven, finally quitting their jobs to help the coven rebel agains tthe opression they...

Beginning on All Hallow's Eve in the mid-1960s, a coven of witches in New York City finds their lives disrupted when Mayor Wagner decides to raid and close down bars serving pinkos, commies, queers and weirdos to clean up the city for the World's Fair. Two of the police heading up the task force fall in love with members of the coven, finally quitting their jobs to help the coven rebel agains tthe opression they've faced.