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AFTER ORLANDO an international theatre action AFTER ORLANDO is an international theatre action curated by Missing Bolts Productions and NoPassport Theatre Alliance & Press (Caridad Svich, founder) comprised of over 70 plays written in response to the tragic shooting at Pulse Nightclub, June 12, 2016. https://www.brianjamespolak.com/news/2016/10/13/an-epidemic-of-temporary-lunacy-part-of-the-blank-theatres-living-room-series monthly 0.5 2016-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1476376527773-HVTP0YR38LACR274EVSF/image-asset.png News - AN EPIDEMIC OF TEMPORARY LUNACY part of The Blank Theatre's Living Room Series https://www.brianjamespolak.com/news/2016/9/28/loyola-marymount-hidden-heroes monthly 0.5 2016-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1475074255902-VO0NABI7UGQ7JDWAMPZ6/image-asset.png News - Loyola Marymount - HIDDEN HEROES https://www.brianjamespolak.com/news/2016/9/9/chalk-reps-bi-annual-flash-festival-october-6-22 monthly 0.5 2016-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1473430715798-UQU9IMF8ZQHQH1SKA0ZA/image-asset.jpeg News - Chalk Rep's Bi-annual FLASH Festival October 6-22 https://www.brianjamespolak.com/news/2016/7/12/news-for-the-deaf-man-part-of-the-road-theatre-companys-summer-playwrights-festival monthly 0.5 2016-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1468337353076-XLCKFOW24TV7OC2R0BC0/image-asset.jpeg News - "News for the Deaf Man" part of The Road Theatre Company's Summer Playwrights Festival https://www.brianjamespolak.com/news/2016/7/1/welcome-to-keene-nh-to-be-workshopped-at-cypress-college monthly 0.5 2016-07-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1467387330222-T6YB7I34FFBXWT3MPDG1/image-asset.jpeg News - "Welcome to Keene, NH" to be workshopped at Cypress College https://www.brianjamespolak.com/news/2016/6/29/monologues-for-nobody-at-the-toronto-fringe-festival monthly 0.5 2016-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1467248835957-6ARUP0E1TX521VXZ9KCI/image-asset.jpeg News - "Monologues for Nobody" at the Toronto Fringe Festival https://www.brianjamespolak.com/news/2016/5/13/public-reading-of-welcome-to-keene-nh-set-for-june-5th-at-6pm monthly 0.5 2016-05-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1463153805588-NX58FWDFFGGRQCX1ELX9/image-asset.png News - Public Reading of "Welcome to Keene, NH" set for June 5th at 6pm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1463757884363-38D82LOXK3EXWN6OLAF7/image-asset.jpeg News - Public Reading of "Welcome to Keene, NH" set for June 5th at 6pm https://www.brianjamespolak.com/news/2016/4/27/usc-school-of-dramatic-arts-alumni-qa monthly 0.5 2016-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1461766008329-ARSV0EF1PSACTEDKOWF5/image-asset.jpeg News - USC School of Dramatic Arts: Alumni Q&A https://www.brianjamespolak.com/news/2016/4/9/tales-from-tent-city-opens-at-rogers-state monthly 0.5 2016-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1460243639381-CAN1CM1V8H8Y0CGOS598/image-asset.jpeg News - "Tales from Tent City" opens at Rogers State https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1460243663381-9M801LZ97CTBZFJR0C2N/image-asset.jpeg News - "Tales from Tent City" opens at Rogers State https://www.brianjamespolak.com/news/2016/1/22/rogers-state-univ-to-produce-tales-from-tent-city monthly 0.5 2016-01-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1453476384295-RDCRZW7DB53DP80L6NWP/image-asset.jpeg News - Rogers State Univ. to Stage "Tales from Tent City" This spring, Rogers State University Theatre (Claremore, OK) will produce a show entitled “Tales from Tent City” by Brian James Polak. This play is about a photographer who delivers a presentation about runaway teenagers she photographs on the street. As the presentation morphs into a play, she becomes part of the narrative, forcing her to decide if advancing in her career is worth exploiting the lives she documents in the city. Admission for all regular performances is $12 for adults, $7 for seniors and $3 for RSU students, faculty and staff who present university ID. All proceeds will benefit student participation in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival regional competition. 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Reading of "An Epidemic of Temporary Lunacy" https://www.brianjamespolak.com/news/2015/4/30/m9rlqr9n9g4g5rrx380vmo95jd1lrf monthly 0.5 2015-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1430406775075-LRUNG0EDXUN2DHWC0Z8H/image-asset.jpeg News - Moving Arts: MADlabs https://www.brianjamespolak.com/news/2015/4/30/reading-of-tales-from-tent-city-with-drive-theater-in-la monthly 0.5 2015-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1430406453633-O46LE1TURMT666AN1BV2/image-asset.jpeg News - Reading of TALES FROM TENT CITY with Drive Theater in LA https://www.brianjamespolak.com/news/2015/3/22/digital-play-festival-polish-theater-month-in-los-angeles monthly 0.5 2015-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1427053287893-RBOID5QFEKADNUP11JNC/image-asset.jpeg News - Digital Play Festival - Polish Theater Month in Los Angeles https://www.brianjamespolak.com/news/2015/3/7/february-was-the-playwrights-union-new-play-month monthly 0.5 2021-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1425765239741-CH82K1D2YV2WE2HAGB4Y/image-asset.png News - 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The Subtext, a playwright podcast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/60a927e1-2d04-4f86-9c7e-bde237b338a7/newsweatshirtimage.jpeg The Subtext - The Subtext, a playwright podcast - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.brianjamespolak.com/home daily 1.0 2019-07-22 https://www.brianjamespolak.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-11-26 https://www.brianjamespolak.com/writing daily 0.75 2026-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1527974662057-FFZGC3UPC83OP4GEB15D/TheCallList.jpg Writing - The Call List A depressed legal assistant is tasked with calling individuals on a list left behind by a man who committed suicide. The work assignment could not come a worse time, as they are dealing with their own life/work existential crisis while their mother and sister badger them via text message. Wanting to connect with their estranged father, it's a few kind words from a stranger that might give them what they ultimately need. Solo play. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/2b6a4fc1-e99f-4afc-a7b6-a4298b7ae514/This+is+The+Subtext_website+image.jpg Writing - This is the Subtext In "This is the Subtext" a fledgling playwright finds themself in the liminal space between success and failure as they start a podcast interviewing masters of the craft. What they learn, however, is success is both amorphous and elusive. Theatre doors swing open wide for the podcast but remain closed for their playwriting. The playwright/podcaster finds themself at a precipice, pondering the end to interviewing, when the wise words from a playwriting hero and an email from a stranger changes everything. (Commission by Son of Semele Ensemble) Cast of 3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/119447ca-7fd1-4e43-936b-c127e8fd3806/Take+me.JPG Writing - Take me. (a folie à deux) A person decides they want to leave their current life so they turn to the dark web to hire somebody to kidnap them. It seems like a perfect plan until the kidnaper arrives and reveals themself to be less than up to the task. Cast of 2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1c864834-a238-4fb9-915d-675b9250ced0/The+Meeting+revised+image+2026.jpg Writing - The Meeting Five former theatre makers convene a meeting in a near-future, fascist America, when all forms of art (and even the utterance of any art-related words) have been banned. These artists discuss what a person is to do in a world when one's purpose in life has been eradicated. During the discussion both the artists and attendees of The Meeting begin to learn even the most fascist society can never stop people from being who they truly are. Cast of 5. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1527970328905-QR10ATFFALXT2G8RS6BX/Welcome+to+Keene.jpg Writing - Welcome to Keene, New Hampshire This is what it means to be a human being in this particular place and in this particular time. While being hounded by the local alt-right/anti-government activists, a Mexican-American meter-maid (ahem... Parking Attendant) narrates the daily lives of the residents of Keene, NH, a small town in the southwest corner of the state. She introduces us to the Korean owner of the only Chinese restaurant in town, the local attorney and tennis coach with a dark past, and the musician who needs to be seen for who they truly are and not the daughter their mother insists they will always be. "Welcome to Keene, NH" is a three-act play telling the fictional story of the encroachment of guns, heroin, and the alt-right on a real American small town. Cast of 11. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1552334696620-WZE6ZJ7TV78RP1DUSHE3/the+gravediggers+union.jpg Writing - The Gravediggers Union A group of people work at a cemetery in central New Hampshire, some wishing they were elsewhere, others perfectly happy to be right where they are. Ronnie used to be married to Bobby, who is unhappily married to Ricky. Mike plays drums in a wedding band on the weekend and can't stop talking about how incredible the song "Pour Some Sugar on Me," by Def Leppard. Johnny shows up at the cemetery surreptitiously recording a podcast called "AshTown." They all work together digging holes and passing the time. When the WalMart of cemeteries opens across the street everybody begins to worry about losing their jobs. So they plan to put on a play to raise money to buy the cemetery themselves. The only problem is nobody goes to plays anymore... Cast of 6. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1527970350423-2MYDB0KIVF73JRBCVAYD/newsforthedeafman.jpg Writing - News for the Deaf Man Having reached rock bottom, Harry reconnects with his estranged artist father. When the old man's health appears in decline, Harry is caught between cashing in his famous father's art in order to save himself, and reconciling their long-ago destroyed relationship. Cast of 3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1548015987557-X4OICNB693Q0LSFAPDQY/winter-morning-2963216_960_720.jpg Writing - The Patient (formerly titled: Henry and the Hippocampus) Henry suffers a head trauma causing him to lose the ability to create new memories. Maria, his wife, and Patrick, his doctor, become entwined as they both struggle to balance their own lives with the life of a man stuck in one perpetual moment. At a time when Patrick becomes frustrated by the lack of progress in his work, Maria convinces him to allow Henry to play piano. When music reenters their lives everything seems to change for the better, until they learn what is lost may never return. Recipient of the Jean Kennedy Smith Award. Cast of 3. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1548013294650-7ER66VZSGWR24Y96OAI5/Flag_of_Poland.jpg Writing - Here Rests the Heart A play about the value of family and friendships and finding your voice in a time of turmoil. Protests are everywhere, but they don’t seem to change a thing. The president of the United States is justifying caging children at the border. The president of Poland incites anti-LGTBQ violence and tries to restrict freedom of speech regarding the Holocaust. A play as much about the present as it is the past, "Here Rests the Heart" challenges us to find our voices and account for what matters most to us in the world, and calls us to take action in elevating others in what precious little time we get to live. (Alcove commission from Lucille Lortel Theatre) Cast of 8. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1527972213872-YUS09L9DUWC7N4M1SZMY/LasttoDie.jpg Writing - Last to Die for a Lost Cause Part 4 of the 4-part series The Way We Are and the Profits of War. After witnessing an event they cannot shake, two soldiers go AWOL during the height of the War in Iraq. With help from a soldier still fighting and a local Iraqi mother, they attempt to escape the country and start a new life elsewhere, but the complications of war push them into a corner, forcing them to make the most difficult decision. Recipient of the John Cauble Award. Published by Next Stage Press. Click here to purchase or license the play. Cast of 4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/a66a5b45-6b98-41ad-8ddc-e78caacec6f4/THEY+DANCE.jpg Writing - They Dance (A play with songs) The sanctuary 5 runaways build in a secluded alley of the city is disrupted when one of their family members arrives, hoping to bring them back home. Inspired by the photo exhibit "Raised by Wolves" by photographer Jim Goldberg, THEY DANCE presents a group of teenagers who decide to take on the challenges of the streets when life in the suburbs becomes too much to face. Cast of 7. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1527970461136-UT8SFLGFX576F25HFXRZ/Underground.jpg Writing - Underground The sad truth of domestic terrorism is the perpetrators tend to be white men, disillusioned by the changing world around them. In "Underground" a young subway musician gives up his search for love and grapples with his disillusionment by exploring the philosophies of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. On his final day playing guitar in a Boston T station, commuters patiently wait for him to kill the noise of the train with a tune that might never come unless his one true love appears... Cast of 6+. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1527972757744-G95F7U04NO124OS9TAPF/epidemic.jpg Writing - An Epidemic of Temporary Lunacy If you could go back and change your life, would you? A fledgling scientific genius and his little sister grow tired of being teased and neglected by their overprotective mother and deadbeat uncle. When the boy witnesses what he thinks is his uncle’s nefarious deed, he decides to devote himself to creating a time machine that will save him and his sister from their miserable life. Published by Next Stage Press. Click here to purchase or license the play. Cast of 4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1527973602640-T6GIS7TQD1JX4771AFXA/JiroYamaguchi.jpg Writing - Welcome to Your Life, Jiro Yamaguchi Years after the atomic bomb is dropped on his home during World War II, Jiro Yamaguchi finds himself on American television being forced to face a man responsible for dropping the bomb, while reconciling the life flashing before his eyes. Cast of 6. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1527974276242-ZKAW5QFY6VS59SHMFJSP/Fledglings+%281%29.jpg Writing - Fledglings Part 1 of the 4-part series The Way We Are and the Profits of War. It's December 31, 1999 and five American teenagers gather to celebrate the new year. With Y2k looming over them, the teens play music and drinking games while debating what the future may hold. As the night of heavy drinking gives way to the sunrise the following morning, Heather is left with foggy memories and a sinking feeling something horrifying happened to her that night. Cast of 5. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1528149466111-NS4P49T7A3FVU7JSY85X/momentsbeforemedicine.jpg Writing - moments before medicine The walls are closing in on Cody and Betsy. They're sure they love each other, but they're as trapped in their own fantasies as they are the broken down trailer where they live. If Cody can get off the clouds he's huffing, perhaps they can finally open that door and walk outside. The thing is, they can't help but stand in each other's way and there isn't much the sleeping dog in the corner, or the baby growing inside Betsy will do to help the situation. Cast of 2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1608404288507-5201EMPRY814TGL8MXZK/workwebsiteiamge.jpg Writing - Work Three Polish siblings manage the canteen at Auschwitz where guards come to relax when not at work in the camp. The environment is tense and fraught and made even more so when an escaped prisoner seeks the help of these three workers. Published in Volume 2/Issue 3 of Talon Review. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1528066879358-DFE2C07ESHCQLGK96NI8/Smoking+Room.jpg Writing - The Smoking Room En route to his mother's funeral, a man finds himself stuck in smoking room of the Detroit airport. A conversation with a stranger has unexpected results as he fears the confrontation he'll have with his father as soon as his plane touches down in Buffalo. [Link to an audio version of this play can be found here.] Solo play. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1528067428333-AANBRST5JLVRA5ZLBLI0/whatweneed.jpg Writing - What We Need at the End of the Day Siblings visit their dying father with both resentment and forgiveness on their minds. Actors Theatre of Louisville - 2015 Heideman Award Finalist Cast of 2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1528067927163-W66NQYKU61D77FMBRT98/protectandserve.jpg Writing - Protect & Serve Inspired by the shooting death of Tamir Rice by a police officer in Cleveland, "Protect & Serve" explores the aftermath of a similar tragedy. Following the funeral for her son, a mother confronts a police officer and a friend of the family. She desperately pleas for him to explain why this happened and who was looking out for her son as he laid bleeding on the ground. She is ultimately left wondering what parents are supposed to tell children when the people who are meant to protect them could be a source of danger. [In 2018 this play was adapted into a short film which can be viewed at this link.] Cast of 2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1528068341324-WZRHNL3WE5YSSAUZRLIK/Curiosity.jpg Writing - Curiosity A woman living in the suburbs steals her abusive husband's fancy car, drives to LA's Skid Row, and accidentally strikes a homeless man. Cast of 2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1528224240101-SENJBF2ZVIHGQGM3CKLF/ReverseEvolution.jpg Writing - Reverse Evolution While watching SportsCenter, two roommates learn a nuclear bomb was detonated nearby. Unable to check the internet, or change the channel, they assume the news is true and prepare to be the last two people alive as one considers how two men might be able to repopulate the planet. Cast of 3. Published in The Best 10-Minute Plays for 2 or More Actors (Contemporary Playwrights Series) by Smith & Kraus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1528224400089-NWZNDCVAJ5WBZ4KIM5MP/PassGo.jpg Writing - Pass Go, the Monopoly Play The stakes are high as a team of strategists plan the next move for the Monopoly player they represent. If they fail, their player dies and one of them must take his place. Cast of 3. Published in The Best 10-Minute Plays 2013 by Smith & Kraus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1528224477252-WW9G7XL33ZTEAKB66ZRP/OnlySleeping.jpg Writing - I'm Only Sleeping Two siblings awake in a car being driven by their brother, who died of a drug overdose several years earlier. Cast of 3. Published in The Best 10-Minute Plays 2017 by Smith & Kraus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5293cf58e4b006d90611a658/1528224840840-QEELRDUJX25SUHKWBV1F/Painkillers.jpg Writing - Painkillers In reverse-chronology, a brother and sister travel through a hospital performing mercy-killings, until going far enough back in time to the moment they decided this was their life path. Cast of 4. Published in What it Means to Be a Grown-Up, by Commonplace Books.