Revision of ON PREJUDICE & FAITH, A Play in Two Acts

SYNOPSIS:  Drama.  This full-length play concerns events surrounding the murder of 13-year-old factory worker Mary Phagan in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1913.  Jewish factory supervisor Leo Frank was convicted of the crime, but the identity of the real murderer remains unsolved.  The case stirred up much bigotry and hatred against Jewish people in the region.  With overtones of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (which is quoted in the play), this is a story about prejudice.

World Premiere of SHARING THE DRESS in Chicago, August 2019

Violet Surprise Theatre just accepted my short Femslash play SHARING THE DRESS for an August 2019 world premiere in Chicago.

Femslash is a new genre featuring romantic or sexual relationships between well-loved female characters from TV or fiction. 

SYNOPSIS:  Drawing on the characters of Mary and Rhoda from the sitcom THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW of the 1970s, Mary and Rhoda are now roommates and have an argument about a dress, on the way to discovering their mutual attraction.

Veterans staged reading at Salem State U. - A FIELD OF POPPIES

For a special Veterans festival in the fall of 2019, Salem State University in Massachusetts will present a staged reading of my one-act, A FIELD OF POPPIES.

SYNOPSIS: Drama.  In a series of monologues spoken by an American vet, a Vietnamese woman, and the ghost of the young Vietnamese soldier the American vet killed, the sad story of a terrible war that still provokes controversy is brought to life.

Atlanta, Georgia production of HAMLET'S REVENGE

Brief parody HAMLET'S REVENGE will be produced as part of 'Tapas: The Great Divide', the Academy Theatre's short play festival that runs June 7 through the 23rd in Atlanta, Georgia.


SYNOPSIS: Comedy.  Hamlet's father's Ghost wants Hamlet to avenge his murder, but Hamlet, who is eating a sandwich, isn't interested and says his father never paid him much attention, anyway.

THAT WEEKEND IN BELFAST - comic monologue published by Smith & Kraus

New comic monologue THAT WEEKEND IN BELFAST has just been published in Best Women's Monologues of 2019 by Smith & Kraus.

SYNOPSIS: Joni remembers a cross-dressing musician who let her down.

GUINNESS OR BUD, New Short Play

SYNOPSIS:  Serio-comedy.  Two men, strangers, argue in a bar about beer and impending fatherhood.

New interview

Here's a just-published interview with me, plus a summary of some of my work, on the "Unknown Playwrights" blog written and edited by Bryan Stubbles:

unknownplaywrights.wordpress.com/2018/11/30/martha-patterson/