Ned Writes Things
Creative Work
Find my scripts for stage and screen on:
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a few ideas below might introduce me as a storyteller
BLUE REUNION
***2024 SEMIFINALIST
O'Neill National Playwriting Conference***
***Professional reading
produced by The Playwrights Workshop
@ Alchemical Studios, NYC, Nov. 2023***
On a cold December night in a rusted-over Pennsylvania nowhere town, the Class of 2003 football team reunites at their high school to watch the next generation win the state championship. Partying behind the bleachers, begging the glory days to return, the old players are haunted by their abusive coach who seemed to predict their dead-end futures. None of them got over how close they came to becoming champions back then, and tonight they’ll do whatever it takes to win for once in their lives.
DEERA'S COUNTRY FUNERAL
**Selected for Barter Theatre's 2025 Festival of Appalachian Plays and Playwrights
**2025 Austin Film Festival Second Round Selection
Ray Sally wants to have a funeral for his tractor. The old machine has played Santa’s sleigh in many a Christmas Parade, helped rescue folks during a flood, hard-worked too many harvests to count and she even met the Governor once. But this farmer can’t find parts anymore and it’s time for her to meet her maker. Troubled by his inability to keep her running and drowning in his grief, Ray Sally wishes he was the one on the short road to the great beyond. Questions about destiny, the role our communities play in holding us up and the measure of a useful life are themes in this humble dark comedy about a legendary tractor.
The Mothman Apocrypha
***Selected for Greenbrier Valley Theatre's Voices of Appalachia Festival, 2024***
25 minutes
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1M, Ensemble
A regular guy from West Virginia goes on a journey to publish his book as a way to show the world he's more than what meets the eye, but discovers he'll need to convince himself of this truth first.
Purgatory Intermediate Room
***Selected for 2023 NEWvember Festival of New Plays, AboutFACE Theatre, Dublin Ireland
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Existential Comedy / Drama
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5 Actors, 90 minutes
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Stuck in a classroom with a locked door, four poor souls must write the story of their lives in order to graduate from Purgatory. Most people just drop out. Who will get to open that door...and where will they be heading?
Up Bald Knob
***Selected for the Greenbrier Valley Theatre's Voices of Appalachia Play Festival, 2023
***Selected Alchemy Theatre's New Works Festival, 2024, Huntington WV
Comedy
2M, Ten minutes
Two woodhicks try to convince each other what a dream is worth for a blue collar, uneducated timber man above Cass, WV, 1907.
The Greens
***scored an 8 on The Black List, Comedy TV Pilot
***Quarterfinalist, WeScreenplay TV Lab 2023
***Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards Season 7
LOGLINE -- In this raucous and irreverent comedy about the birthplace of golf, four women must outwit and outmaneuver the patriarchy to found the world's first golf club strictly for women, the St. Andrews Ladies' Putting Club.
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"THE GREENS is a must-read satirical period comedy thanks to its extremely vivid characters, excellent dialogue, and consistent laughs that come within a compelling story about the formation of the world's first golf club for women at the renowned St. Andrews in Scotland."
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"An electric look at St. Andrews and golf, THE GREENS packs a punch through coarse, hilarious, hard-charging, and talented female characters and a historical setting."
Esperando
Drama TV Pilot
When her father is killed, a teenage girl from New Mexico realizes the stakes of being a Land Protector in her hometown and she has to rally the community and stop an onslaught of extraction.
