Featured Playwright
Helen Elliott
About Me: I currently work as a DSM however I am trying to move my practice to Writing and directing. I have a couple of assistant director credits and have had an audio play produced. Last year I was commissioned to write a full-length play loosely based on The Tempest.
Featured Play
SYD
3 Female, 2 Male • Two-Act/Full Length • ~120 Mins
www.craighouk.com/syd.html
Years before the horrific mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016, thirty-two men perished in an arson attack at a gay bar in New Orleans on June 24, 1973, a fire set by one of their own. On that same evening, Sydney “Syd” Trahan, a young nursing student, is taken into custody for dancing at Brady’s, a notorious lesbian bar in the French Quarter nearby. Immediately following her arrest, Syd’s parents, Bud and Helen, struggle to gain control over their lives and to restore normalcy. At the same time, their neighbors, Beau and Beverly Larson, are hiding their own dark secrets that intertwine with both the fire and Syd’s arrest. While Syd demands the chance to be the person she’s meant to be, the Trahans and Larsons are forced to face the truth.
Playwright: Craig Houk