jody handley production history

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  • All plays copyrighted to Jody Handley. please e-mail me if you'd like to read the play.

TO ENGAGE IN MUTUAL TOUCHING OR CARESSING OF THE LIPS

(One act) Sarah and Jack have been dating for a few months. Kind of dating. Only they haven't touched. When Sarah pops the question - "What are we doing?" - the answer's not what either of them expected.

  • 2005 Produced by Oakland Center for the Arts for A Night of One-Acts. (Director: Anna Frabutt)
  • 2004 Produced by Prince William Sound Community College Drama Department for Five Tens at Eight festival. (Director: Dawson Moore)
  • 2002 Produced by Unidentified Theatre Company for Unidentified One-Acts Marathon at Union Square Playhouse. (Director: Carl Thelin)
  • 2001 Winner, Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco’s DramaRama competition. Staged reading at Blue Bear Theatre. (Director: Carl Thelin)

SUBJECTS

(One act) Lisa's desperately in love with her absentee, work-obsessed boyfriend, and now she thinks she might be pregnant, too. When Nick's old high school friend, a paralyzed, handsome young man named David, comes to stay at their apartment, the two strangers begin to realize they've never really known the man they both love.

  • 2005 Produced by Redfeather Theatre Company for Shorts Festival at Foothills Second Stage Theatre, Worcester, MA. (Director: Timothy Smith)
  • 2003 Produced by Unidentified Theatre Company for Bay Area One-Acts Festival at Eureka Theatre, San Francisco. (Director: Donna Trousdale)
  • 2003 Published in collection called B.O.A. II. (Publisher: Three Wise Monkeys)
  • 2001 Semifinalist, Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco’s DramaRama competition. Staged reading at Blue Bear Theatre. (Director: Carl Thelin.)

CURLS

(One act) Carol, a Midwestern wife who wants desperately to become a mother, volunteers to spend an evening with Melanie and Pia, traveling judges of Little Miss Princess Beauty Pageants. She finds out there's a bit more to judging curly-haired toddlers than watching them tap-dance - and a lot more to Melanie and Pia than brittle beauty.

  • 2005 Produced by Isis Arts Company for Bay Area One-Acts Festival at Eureka Theatre. (Director: Mike Ward)
  • 2005 Published in collection called B.O.A. 4. (Publisher: Three Wise Monkeys)
  • 2003 Staged reading by Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco at EXIT Theatre.

THE WAITING ROOM

(One act) After his crucifixion, Jesus descends into Hell and promptly meets Judas in Hell's waiting room. Thrown into an alternately furious and saddening examination of their relationship and Judas' betrayal, they bare their souls for the final time.

  • 2005 Staged reading by Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco scheduled at Off-Market Theatre. (Director: Anna Budd)

MIDNIGHT WATCH

  • 2004 Staged reading by Playground at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. (Director: Carl Thelin)

LAND'S END

(Ten minutes) Brandon brings Caroline, his girlfriend of five years, to the spot where they met: Land's End, an outcropping of rock overlooking the Golden Gate. As he's about to drop to his knees and propose, she makes a startling revelation: five years earlier, she'd entertained thoughts of shoving him over the cliff, just for kicks.

  • 2004 Staged reading for Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco’s Sheherezade at EXIT Theatre.

THE MOON SEES ME

(Two acts) Cleo, a 37-year-old professional who craves motherhood, walks into a fertility clinic and shakes up the sheltered world of Mary - a young member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. As their friendship develops, they both must face their sexuality, spirituality, and romantic relationships.

BLESS ME, FATHER

(Ten minutes) Felicity O'Farrell is a good Catholic girl: she confesses every week to make up for the carnival of sins she commits on a regular basis. Enter Father Frank, a young, unsuspecting priest who's about to hear his first (and possibly last) confession.

  • 2004 Produced by Prince William Sound Community College Drama Department for Five Tens at Eight festival. (Director: Dawson Moore)
  • 2001 Staged reading for Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco’s Sheherezade at EXIT Theatre.

ALL'S FAIR

  • 2003 Produced by Three Wise Monkeys for Overnighters Play-in-a-Day Marathon at EXIT on Taylor.

LUCKY PENNY

  • 2004 Staged reading for Three Wise Monkeys’ Short Leaps festival at Eureka Theatre.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S REAL WORLD

  • 2001 Produced by Rough Theatre Company for Daytrippers Play-in-a-Day Marathon, Best of Fringe Festival at EXIT on Taylor. (Director: Lisa Giglio)

MEMBERSHIPS

  • Producing Director, Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco.
  • Member, Theatre Bay Area
  • Playground’s 2004-2005 Writing Pool for Monday Night Playground