This just in:
Safe Harbor has been selected for Theater Resources Unlimited’s TRUSPEAK ... HEAR OUR VOICES! Dead and Buried will receive its seventh production at Restless Artists Theatre in Sparks, NV during the 2025-26 season. (Distant Music just received its 13th production there.) Festival in New York next September. A Parting (Provody) received a staged reading at the Ukraine Festival in New York on March 27. Baggage will be produced as part of White Room Theatre/Bite-Size Plays 18th Anniversary Showcase in London and later Brighton in March and May respectively. Family Justice will be produced at MadLab Theatre's 26th Annual Theatre Roulette Festival, in Columbus, OH; I Don't Know is now available on public radio's Playing On Air Podcast, starring Jay O. Saunders, Bobby Moreno and more.
James is now on the NNPN New Play Exchange where you can read his plays. Go to https://newplayexchange.org/users/4206/james-mclindon for more.
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James McLindon is a member of the Nylon Fusion Theatre Company in New York. His play, When We Get Good Again, won the Playhouse On The Square's New Works @ The Works competition and premiered there this past January, where it won the Ostrander Theater Award for Best Original Script. Comes A Faery was developed at the O'Neill National Play Development Conference, Sean Daniels directing, and was a Finalist for the Humana Festival. It was premiered at the New Ohio Theater by Nylon Fusion. Salvation was produced in New York by Hudson Stage Company, Giovanna Sardelli directing, to critical acclaim in the New York Times and elsewhere. Distant Music, published by Dramatic Publishing, has had ten productions. Dead and Buried, also published by Dramatic Publishing, has been produced by the Detroit Rep, Dreamcatcher Rep, U. Miami (Ohio), and most recently Apollo Kine in Tallinn, Estonia. One-Acts Broken, I Don't Know, Put Asunder, and Fightbook, were produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Laying Off and Knuckleheads were produced at the Samuel French Festival; and Broken, Safe, The Wilderness, Ebenezer Creek, Japanese Schoolgirl Night, and Squirrelly were finalists for the Heideman Award. Many of them have been published by Smith & Kraus and Applause Books in their Best 10-Minute Plays anthologies. Although he makes his home in Northampton, his plays have been produced in New Yorik, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and indeed all over the United States as well as England, Scotland, Ireland, The Philippines, Hong Kong, Dubai, Singapore, Estonia, Luxembourg, and Australia.
UP NEXT:
Pending Produtions:
Distant Music: Production: Ensemble Stage, North Carolina, August 16-25, 2024.
When We Get Good Again, Flashback Theater Co., Somerset KY, Feb, 2025.
Distant Music: Production: Restless Artists Theatre, Sparks, NV, May 16-26, 2025.
Dead and Buried: Production: Restless Artists Theatre, Sparks, NV, 2025-26 season, TBA.
Baggage: Production: White Room Theatre/Bite-Size Plays 18th Anniversary Showcase, Brighton, UK, May, 2025.
Choices: Production: Mercyhurst University, Erie, PA, May 3-4 2025.
Choices: Production: Baldwin Wallace University's Conservatory of Performing Arts, Berea, OH, May 6, 2025.
Family Justice: Production: MadLab Theatre 26th Annual Theatre Roulette Festival, Columbus, OH, May 15-31, 2025.
Candy Store: Production: Eastbound Theatre East/West PlayFest, Milford, CT, July 2025.
Path of Love: Production: GreenMan Theatre Troupe 8 to the Bar Festival, Chicago, IL, July 18-20, 2025.
The Fault In Our Genes: Production: Studio Players 10-Minute Play Fest, Lexington, KY, July 24-27, 2025.
Choices: Production: Stageworks Theatre Group, New Jersey, July 25-27, 2025.
The Fault In Our Genes: Production: Vermont Playwrights Circle TenFest, Montpelier, VT, Aug. 14–24.
Path of Love: Production: Vidalia Theatre Company Summer Harvest 2025, Atlanta, GA, Summer 2025.
War Dog: Production: Broken Arts Entertainment Good Vibes Summer, 2025.
Safe Harbor: Production: Eden Prairie Players Collection of One Acts, Eden Prairie, MN, Sept. 2025.
Safe Harbor: Production: Theater Resources Unlimited’s TRUSPEAK ... HEAR OUR VOICES! Festival, New York, September 2025.
Safe Harbor: Production: 2025 Fern Street Play Festival, Hartford, CT., Sept. 19-21, 2025.
Choices: Production: Westfield Theatre Group An Evening of 10-Minute Plays, Westfield, MA, Dec. 5-13, 2025.
Choices: Production: Red Phoenix Theatre A Promenade of Short festival, Adelaide, Australia, Jan. 5-24, 2026.
Podcasts/Audio/Radio
I Don't Know: Playing on Air Podcast.
Drunk Christmas: Playing on Air Podcast.
Broken: Ensemble Theatre of Chattanooga Lights Up podcast.
Choices: Audio Production: Whiskey Radio Hour, Chicago, IL, Oct. 6, 2024.
Pending Workshops/Readings
Feline Navidad: Production: tiny_theatre, Tuscaloosa, AL, Dec. 26, 2024.
A Parting (Provody): Staged Reading: Ukraine Festival produced by TownSquare Productions in partnership with New York’s Ensemble Studio Theater, Vinnytsia Mykola Sadovsky Music and Drama Theater, and New York City’s Ukrainian Institute, March 27, 2025.
A Christmas Karl: Reading: Blank Theater, Hollywood, CA, TBD.
For performance rights, contact [email protected].
Read my plays at https://newplayexchange.org/users/4206/james-mclindon.
