Brian Guehring, Playwright: Children's Theater Playscripts and Youth Theater Playscripts for Elementary, Middle School, High School, and College Level Audiences

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Play Title	Type	Target Audience	Description	Cast Size	Cast: Female	Cast: Male	Production History	Awards/Reviews	Script Sample
Brave Little Tailor, The	Adapt	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+	1+	2+	2005 Omaha Theater Company (professional production in black box)		BraveLilTailor Scene .pdf
Bully Show, The	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	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	BullyShowSceneSample.pdf
Creating Haley's World	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	CHaleyWSceneSample.pdf
Holidays Around The World	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)		HolidaysAroundWorldScene.pdf
Julie of the Wolves	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)		JulieofWolves_SceneSample.pdf
King Chemo	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	KingChemoSceneSample.pdf
Many Disguises of Robin Hood, The	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+	2003 Omaha Theater Company (Youth production) 2002 Papillion La Vista Arts Network Youth production		Robin Hood scene sample .pdf
Millions of Cats	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)		Millions of Cats Scene w.pdf
Miss Bindergarten Welcomes You To Kindergarten	Adapt	Elementary	Adaptation of 3 popular picture books by Joseph Slate about a Border Collie Kindergarten Teacher and her 26 animal students	6+	3+	3+	2007 Omaha Theater Company Mainstage Production		Miss Bindergarten Scene.pdf
NEBRASKALAND! The New Nebraska History Theme Park	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)		NebraskaLAND! Scene Sample .pdf
Odysseus!!	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)		OdysseusSceneSample.pdf
Old Yeller	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		Old Yeller Scene Sample.pdf
Paul Bunyan's Favorite Tall Tales	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
Pride Players, The Best of	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	PRIDE PLAYERS Scene Sample.pdf
Sacagawea: Discovering History	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		Sacagawea Scene Sample .pdf
Shiver Me Timbers! My Life as a Pirate	Orig	Elementary School		large			2004 Omaha Theater Company (Youth production) 2003 Papillion La Vista Arts Network (Youth production)
Stories in the Stars	Adapt	Elementary	in development
Stronger Than Strong: Great American Tall Tale He	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)
Tall Tale Heroes of Americana Show	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)		Tall Tale Heroes Scene .pdf
Totally True Tall Tales of Pecos Bill: The Musical	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)		Pecos Bill scene sample.pdf
Where the Red Fern Grows	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	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	WRedFernGSceneSample.pdf

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