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Elementary School

Adaptation of the classic Grimms Fairy Tale of a meek little tailor who kills 7 flies in one blow. A small misunderstanding leads the tailor into the challenge of fighting giants, dragons and an evil king to win the hand of a princess.

4-12+

1+

2+

2008-9 Walnut Street Theater (professional touring production), 2008 Town Hall Theater (Dayton, OH), 2005 Omaha Theater Company (professional production in black box)

Educ

Upper Elementary/Middle School

An interactive play about the problems of bullies in the schools. Audience watches the problem filled pilot of a new game show Who Wants to be a Bully?

3

1

2

2009 Lexington Children's Theater; 2005 South Carolina Children's Theater (school tour) 2003- present, Omaha Theater Company (school tour) 2002 Kennedy Center (Staged Reading)

2002 Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices

Orig

Middle School

Haley, a thirteen year old girl, is the only human being; everyone else in the entire world are aliens in disguise as humans sent to Earth to create her world.

10 +

8+

1+

2003 St. Joseph's School San Jose CA (staged reading), 1999 Omaha Theater Company (Teen Production) 1997 University of Texas at Austin ( Lab production)

2003 Children's Theater Foundation Playwrights in Schools selection

Adapt

Middle School/Upper Elementary/High School

Jonas lives in a world where everything is under control and every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training from the Giver. The Giver holds all the memories of true pain and pleasure of life. Now it’s time for Jonas to receive the truth.

6+

3+

3+

2008 Omaha Theater Company (professional mainstage production)

2008 Omaha World Herald Top Ten Productions of the Year (first TYA production so honored in several years)

Adapt

Elementary

An Interactive play introducing audience members to holiday stories from Greece, Germany, Israel, Africa, Mexico, and Russia

2

1

1

2005-2006 Omaha Theater Company (Professional Mainstage); 2003-2005 Omaha Theater Company (Professional production in Black Box)

Adapt

Elementary

Laura gives her new Cat a cupcake. The Cat is so excited and happy, but he then asks for sprinkles. Laura gives him sprinkles, but the Cat makes a huge mess. Cleaning up the mess will get him wet, so Laura gives him a bathing suit....which leads to crazy adventures to the beach, the gym, a mountain, a lake, and a museum..

3-8

1+

1+

2010 Omaha Theater Company Mainstage Production; 2010-2011 National Tour

Adapt

Upper Elementary/Middle School

World premiere stage adaptation of the Newberry Award winning book about a 13 year old Inupiat Eskimo girl who gets lost on the Alaskan tundra and must befriend a wolf pack for survival. Production is a heavily movement based show.

6

3

3

2000 Omaha Theater Company (Professional production on Mainstage)

Orig

Upper Elementary/Middle School

An original story of two kids battling leukemia who use imagination to help them deal with the fear and pain of chemotherapy.

4-6

2+

2+

2003 Omaha Theater Company (Teen Production) 1997 Macon College, Georgia (College production); 1996 University of Texas at Austin (University touring production)

2002 Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship for Playwriting,
1997 Southwest Theatre Association's Best New Children's Script

Adapt

Elementary School

Robin Hood uses many disguises to continually trick the Sherrif of Nottingham, his daughter Luciana, and Prince John. Robin Hood eventually needs HER merry band of outlaws and her childhood friend, the brave Maid Marian, to save her from the gallows.

8-30

6+

2+

2009 Omaha Theater Company Youth Production; 2003 Omaha Theater Company (Youth production) 2002 Papillion La Vista Arts Network Youth production

Adapt

PreK-Lower Elementary

Three sisters lovingly exaggerate an old family story about their Grandfather who brings back millions of cats for his wife and the problems the cats cause.

5+

4+

1+

2005 Omaha Theater Company (Professional Mainstage Production)

Adapt

Pre-K and Lower Elementary

Adaptation of 3 popular picture books by Joseph Slate about a Border Collie Kindergarten Teacher and her 26 animal students

6+

3+

3+

2009 Omaha Theater Company national tour; 2007 Omaha Theater Company Mainstage Production

Educ

Upper Elementary

A TIE play where audience is put in role to help planners decide which famous Nebraskans to honor first in the theme park. (can be adapted for other state histories)

3

1

2

1999-present Omaha Theater Company (school tour)

Adapt

Upper Elementary/Middle School/High School

An aspiring film maker enacts a one woman found object puppet version of the classic Greek myth

1 (ei

1

1

2004-present Omaha Theater Company (School Tour)

Adapt

Upper Elementary

World Premiere Adaptation of classic novel using puppetry

5+

2+

3+

2006 Omaha Theater Company (Professional Mainstage Production); National Tour 2007-8

2008 AATE Unpublished Playreading Project Winner

Adapt

Lower Elementary

One Man show exploring 9 different tall tale heroes including Febold Feeboldson, Annie Christmas, John Henry, Sal Fink, Pecos Bill, Mose Humphreys and Paul Bunyan

1 (ei

1

1

2002-2003 Omaha Theater Company School Tour

Orig

high school/college

A collection of skits, parodies, scenes and monologues exploring created by teens exploring the challenges and successes of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered or straight allied teens

10-30

6+

4+

1999-present Omaha Theater Company (Teen productions)

2006 National Education Association's Human and Civil Rights Award Winner

Orig

Upper Elementary, Middle School

Jane is a 14 year old who is dragged along on a family road trip following the route of the Corps of Discovery led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. History comes to life for her though when the family reaches Ft. Mandan, South Dakota, where Sacagawea, a 16 year old Shoshoni Native American, joined the 1804 expedition.

3

1

2

2003 Omaha Theater Company professional Black Box production and local tour; 2002 Omaha Theater Company Black Box professional production

Orig

Elementary School

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2004 Omaha Theater Company (Youth production) 2003 Papillion La Vista Arts Network (Youth production)

Adapt

Elementary

A beautiful, but pampered princess publicly humiliates all of her suitors, including a kind young prince. Then the princess is given a gift of a minstrel from an anonymous prince, she dismisses the minstrel and sends him to sing to the pigs. However, the minstrel eventually tricks the princess into kissing him. When her father catches them, the princess is forced to marry this poor minstrel. When she must work in the kitchen for the kind young prince whom she rejected earlier, her humiliation is complete. The humbled princess, though, still has one more surprise in store for her.

4 (a

2+

2+

2007 Summer Camp Youth Production, Papillion NE

Adapt

Elementary

An 1880's medicine show sells its strength elixir by entertaining the crowd with tales of strong women who drank the elixir including Slue Foot Sue (the cowgirl); Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett (the Tennessee frontier gal) and Annie Christmas (New Orleans Keelboater).

2006 Papillion Arts Camp (youth production)

Adapt

Elementary School

A turn of the century medicine show troupe of players performs three patriotic tall tale hero stories: Paul Bunyan, John Henry, and Sally Fink.

5+

2+

3+

2002 Omaha Theater Company (Mainstage professional production)

Adapt

Elementary School

A new musical comedy about the tall tale Texas cowboy Pecos Bill told through the eyes of Slue Foot Sue and her Hot Foot Granny. Production uses traditional cowboy songs.

12-50

5+

5+

2002 Omaha Theater Company (Youth production) 2000 Papillion La Vista Arts Network (Youth production)

Adapt

Upper Elementary/Middle School

World premiere stage adaptation of the children's literature classic story of the devotion of boy and his two hunting dogs. Production features puppets.

6+

2

4

2008 Barter Theater (VA) regional tour, 2004 Lexington Children's Theater (professional) 2001-2002 Omaha Theater Company National Tour 2000 Omaha Theater Company (Mainstage Professional Production),

2002 AATE Unpublished Play Reading Project winner