Author Lee Blessing
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A User’s Guide to Hell, Featuring Bernard Madoff
3 Male, 1 Female
Is there really a Hell? As a Jew, Bernie doesn't believe in Hell So why's he here? And why does everything look like Manhattan? Trying to solve these metaphysical mysteries, Bernie and Verge encounter…
Independence
0 Male, 4 Female
The setting is the small town of Independence, Iowa, the lifelong home of Evelyn Briggs. Her oldest daughter, Kess, is a university professor in Minneapolis, but she has come home at the request of her…
Eleemosynary
0 Male, 3 Female
Insightful drama presenting and examining the lives of three generations of women - a young girl, her mother, and her grandmother "...a play and a production of a caliber rarely seen on the Philadelphia…
Patient A
2 Male, 1 Female
An exploration of the experience of Kimberly Bergalis, whose case marked the first known instance of HIV transmission from a health-care worker to a patient. Issues of testing, discrimination and personal…
The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid
4 Male, 0 Female
Set in a one room shack out west at the turn of the last century, this at times funny and at times chilling play concerns Pat Garrett, the man who shot Billy the Kid Now, many years after the famous deed,…
Black Sheep
3 Male, 2 Female
A prominent family's "black sheep" nephew, the son of an interracial marriage, comes to stay with them after being released from prison But do they want him? And what does he want from them? In this dark…
Lake Street Extension
3 Male, 0 Female
The estranged son of a middle-aged man returns home to find that his father has taken in a young refugee from El Salvador Not only has the refugee moved in, but he's been given the son's room and is sleeping…
Flag Day - Good Clean Fun & Down and Dirty
5 Male, 1 Female
A play in two plays, Flag Day examines white/black relations in our society with an unblinking eye The first play - Good Clean Fun - is a darkly funny office comedy pitting two workers - one black,…
The Winning Streak
2 Male, 0 Female
Omar, a retired baseball umpire, suddenly gets a phone call from Ry, a son he’s never seen Ry is the product of a one-night stand long ago. He’s never wanted to meet his absentee father, but now in his…
Thief River
2 Male, 3 Female
This is the story of two men and their fifty-three-year relationship Ray marries and remains closeted in the small town where they grew up. Gil moves to the city to seek his freedom. Throughout their lives…
Down the Road
2 Male, 1 Female
A convicted serial killer hires a husband & wife team to write the story of crimes "With Down The Road, Blessing again shows his superiority at presenting an intellectual yet emotional look at the various…
Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music
2 Male, 2 Female
Suffering from a compulsion to yell occasional obscenities and bark like a dog, novice nun Catherine's been asked to leave her convent and so she visits her aunt Eve who lives over the "Nice People Dancing…