William Missouri Downs

Full Length Plays

(Please Note: All of these plays are copyrighted and cannot be produced without permission of the playwright.)

POGOZELSKI!

(A New Comedy – Coming soon)

KOSHER LUTHERANS

(A New Comedy)

COCKEYED

(A Romantic Comedy)

1ST PLACE - GreenHouse New Play Festival – HotCity Theatre St. Louis

(Optioned until May 2009)

The “M” Word

(A Dark Comedy About A Mormon Professor & An English Department)

SEAGULLS IN A CHERRY TREE

(A Comic Fantasia in the Chekhovian Style)

1ST PLACE - Larry Corse Prize for Playwriting

JEWISH SPORTS HEROES & TEXAS INTELLECTUALS

(A Comedy About Texas Cowboys And The Women Who Put Up With Them)

1ST PLACE - Norfolk Southern Festival of New Works - The Mill Mountain Theatre

THE LITTLE TRAIN THAT COULD (BUT CHOSE NOT TO)

(A Serious Comedy About Politically Incorrect Children’s Book Author)

THE SCOPES MONKEY TRIAL

(A Play Based On The Actual Transcripts Of The Scopes Trial)

NIGHTS AT THE ROUND TABLE

(A Comedy About Love, Politics and Iowa)

INNOCENT THOUGHTS

(A Contemporary Drama That Deals With The Relationship Between Blacks And Jews)

1ST PLACE - NATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS AWARD The Unicorn Theatre in Kansas

DEAD WHITE MALES

(A Dark Comedy About A Jewish Teacher, The Religious Right and Teaching In America)

SEMI-FINALIST IN THE EUGENE O'NEILL

HEADSET: A View From The Light Booth

(A Farce About Technical Theatre)

CHASING PIRANDELLO

(A Comedy About How To Write Good Well)

A DOLL HOUSE

By Henrik Ibsen

(A New Adaptation)

KABUKI MEDEA

BAY AREA CRITICS AWARD For best production of the year in San Francisco

JEFFERSON AWARD - For best production of the year in Chicago

KABUKI FAUST

LITTLE FAMILY SECRETS

(A Dark Comedy About A Dysfunctional Flint Family And The End Of A Way Of Life)

MY LAUGHING YEARS

(There Is Nothing Funny About Getting Old)