Stage plays and Screenplays
The scripts listed below are available for production through the publisher, or if unpublished by contacting the author at: louisfelder@aol.com
TRIBUNE 2004 Silver Medalist, Pinter Review Prize for Drama Winner of the National Founder's Award for Playwriting 2000, Riverside Stage Company, Wilton, CT (Drama) Post 9/11, a religious terrorist confronts a newspaper editor who must choose between the public's right to safety or freedom of the press.
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FAR FROM THE TREE
Produced at the El Portal Theater North Hollywood, CA.
(Drama) A sixteen year old boy moves in with his father and one of them will be homeless.
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THE JOLLY ROGER (Romantic mystery) A young Public Defender, his girl friend, and his best friend are in peril from a rogue cop. Click for full synopsis and cast breakdown >>>
TAKING ISSUE (Drama) A young assistant DA must prosecute an embryologist, and a Grand Jury must decide when life begins, which impacts the abortion issue. Click for full synopsis and cast breakdown >>>
COLD FEET McLaren Finalist, Produced 2005 by Midland Community Theatre, Midland, Texas (Mystery/Comedy) Three woman of various ages believe they've each murdered a despicable old man, but he's alive and wants revenge. Click for full synopsis and cast breakdown >>>
HOT SET
Produced by Theatre East, Los Angeles.
(Comedy) A writer wants to star in his own life script but his supporting players want to be stars too.
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PEOPLE'S CHOICE
Produced in Los Angeles.
(Drama) A woman banker learns about politics from some dishonest old pros.
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FROZEN STIFF
(Comedy) The quiet life of a wealthy man of 55 is shattered by the surprise return of his father – a charming narcissist who had been cryogenically frozen forty years ago and is still 35 and wants his money.
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FLIGHT OF FANCY Winner of the Love Creek Festival in New York, 1999. Produced by City Theater 2003, Miami, Fla. Published by Samuel French, Inc (Romance) A young woman in marketing meets an experienced salesman at an airport cocktail lounge.
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THE MAGIC KINGDOM
Winner of the National Pathways Drama Competition. Published in Multicultural Theatre 2, Meriwether Co.
(Romance) Two rural kids, one white, one black, plan to honeymoon in Disneyland.
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SPARKS (Comedy) A woman leaves her husband and runs off with the cab driver. Click for full synopsis and cast breakdown >>>
TRUMPS (Comedy) A wealthy New Yorker has a young wife from Arizona who has theatrical dreams and no talent. Click for full synopsis and cast breakdown >>>
LEMONADE ON THE PROMENADE (Comedy) On a cruise ship, an older couple has a rough passage. Click for full synopsis and cast breakdown >>>
JUNGLE EXPRESS Produced in the Malibu Third International Festival of One-Act Plays, 2004. (Drama) On a commuter train, a doctor invites a woman to follow him for volunteer work in a Cambodian clinic. Click for full synopsis and cast breakdown >>>
THE MAN IN THE RED SUIT (Comedy) A mysterious department-store Santa interviews a selfish father and explains what Christmas is all about. Click for full synopsis and cast breakdown >>>
thanksgiving.com
Finalist in the Louisville Short Play
competition 2000.
(Drama) A father proudly reveals his plan to leave his son his estate (paint store) but the son has other ideas.
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ATTENTION PLEASE Produced 2005 by Theatre Three, Port Jefferson, Long Island, NY (Very dark drama) A dysfunctional woman needs her father's attention and goes to extremes to get it including sex and violence. Click for full synopsis and cast breakdown >>>
POPSICLE (Drama) A rich man, cryogenically frozen forty years ago, is revived and is still 35 when he confronts his son of 55 and wants his money. Click for full synopsis and cast breakdown >>>
CASH IN YOUR HOME (Drama) A woman applies for a home loan to get money for her wedding, but the man she plans to marry may have other plans for the money. Click for full synopsis and cast breakdown >>>
SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS (Drama) Knowing it's her last Christmas, a mother wants to leave a home video for her boys to remember her. Click for full synopsis and cast breakdown >>>
PARENTAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED (Comedy) A 17-year-old student wants to hang with her friends on a school night and maneuvers her strict father into giving her money, his car, and permission to stay out late. Click for full synopsis and cast breakdown >>>
MAGGIE - HAWAIIAN GODDESS (Comedy) On vacation in Hawaii, a woman has a vision of Pele, goddess of fire, but her husband wants to go home to Saginaw. Click for full synopsis and cast breakdown >>>
THE SHAKESPEARE CRITIQUES (Comedy) After a workshop reading of a new play by William Shakespeare, six actors offer their critiques to help the playwright make Hamlet better. Click for full synopsis and cast breakdown >>>
FROZEN STIFF (Dramedy) The quiet life of a wealthy man of 55 is shattered by the surprise return of his father – a charming narcissist who had been cryogenically frozen forty years ago and is still 35 and wants his money.
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THE COMEDY OF MURDER (Comedy/Caper) A scenic film painter uses his talent to arrange the "accidental" deaths of his odious siblings to become the sole beneficiary of the billion dollar Saxon Oil trust. Click for full synopsis and cast breakdown >>>
REACH FOR THE SUN
An American Screenwriters Associaton winner 2006
(Action/Caper) An African-American high school genius invents a solar/voltaic cell so powerful it could replace oil, coal and natural gas as the world's energy source. He's a threat, he's a target.
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TRADING PARTRNERS (Comedy/Adventure) A wealthy woman hires a sexy girl to seduce her husband, leaving her free to marry a younger man, but the girl may have her own ideas. Click for full synopsis and cast breakdown >>>
BEAT
Adapted from the novel by Louis Felder. published by Contact Editions.
(Comedy/Caper) A "beat generation" poet finds himself involved in noir criminal adventures in 1959.
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The scripts above are available for production through the publisher, or if unpublished by contacting the author at: louisfelder@aol.com