Drama
Many of the plays are published by Holly Grove Press. The translation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was published and is available for license from Eldridge Plays & Musicals. Approaching the Summer Sun was published in the June 2023 Issue of Mini Plays Review: An International Journal of Short Plays, The Judas Kiss was published in their September 2023 issue.
Full-Length Plays
Poster art for Night Shade
featuring R. Daniel Walker
Photograph courtesy R. Daniel Walker
Night Shade
monodrama in 2 acts, 2013, “Solomon,” a hitman, stages his final kill in such a way as to be caught. The nature of the hit has made him re-think his life of crime. First performance, April 2013- Theatre UAB, Birmingham, AL.
The Summer Bobby(ie) Lee Turner Loved Me
coming-of-age tragedy in 3 acts, 2006 (in The Summer Bobby(ie) Lee Turner Loved Me: A Coming-of-Age Tragedy). A seemingly perfect romance is interrupted by the arrival of a seductive newcomer. Bobby Lee Turner, the young man at the center of the love triangle, disintegrates on the precipice of adulthood. First performance, March 2007- Martha Moore Sykes Studio, Virginia Samford Theatre, Birmingham, AL.
Read a scene here.
And They Heard the Thunder of Angels (renamed The Summer Bobby(ie) Lee Turner Loved Me)
Photograph courtesy J. L. Clark
Short Plays
The Judas Kiss, 2023 (in Mini Plays Review: An International Journal of Short Plays September 2023 issue)
Approaching the Summer Sun, 2023 (in Mini Plays Review: An International Journal of Short Plays June 2023 Issue)
The Way She Lost Her Smile, melodrama
(in Songs of the Valley: Selected Plays of Robert Cole and The Way She Lost Her Smile: Acting Edition; first performance, June 2008- Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center, Birmingham, AL.)
Above the Mountains, comedy
(in Songs of the Valley: Selected Plays of Robert Cole and Above the Mountains: Acting Edition; first performance, March 2003- Margot Tenney Theater, Bennington, VT.)
Linda Roberts and Michael Hicks in the Theatre UAB production of Above the Mountains (part of the cycle Walstone)
Photograph courtesy Lee Eric Shackeford
Translations/Adaptations
A scene from the Brewbaker Middle School's production of Mr. Tittle's adaptation of The Gift of the Magi
Miguel Mercado in Cry of the Native Children
Photograph courtesy Eldridge Plays & Musicals
A scene from the Eveleth Drama Guild's production of Mr. Tittle's translation of A Doll's House
Danielle Gagne and Matthew Souther in
Love Suicide
The Gift of the Magi
2014
from the short story by O. Henry, short play. A one-act version of the story written with African-American middle/high school students in mind. First performance, December 2014- Brewbaker Auditorium, Montgomery, AL.
Cry of the Native Children
(in Cry of the Native Children, 2013)
from the play Pocahontas, or The Settlers of Virginia by George Washington Parke Custis, full-length play in one act. A high-tech take on the legend of Pocahontas and our country’s first story of culture clash. First performance, February 2011- PV Fine Arts Center, Pinson AL.
(in A Doll's House, 2011)
translated from the Danish from Henrik Ibsen’s play Et dukkehjem, play in three acts. A playable acting version of the classic work. First performance, September 2010- PV Fine Arts Center, Pinson, AL.
Love Suicide
2004
from the play The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Sonezaki Shinjû) by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, full-length play in one act. An adaptation of the classic play utilizing Noh, Bunraku, and Kabuki elements. First performance, May 2004- Margot Tenney Theater, Bennington VT.
Photograph courtesy Penn Genthner
Religious Sketches
A Christmas Message from the Kids, 2015
Comic sketch for worship services. First performance, December 2015- Montgomery Community of Christ, Montgomery, AL.
Talking God’s Kingdom in the Animal Kingdom, 2014-2016
Puppet sketches for children’s worship services. First performances 2014-2016, Montgomery Community of Christ, Montgomery, AL.
Apprentice Plays
Wes Stewart Seals and Sage Bierster in Discordia
Photograph courtesy Elizabeth Adkisson
Discordia, futuristic comedy in two acts, 2000
Based on Elizabeth Adkisson’s adaptation of The Minor (Недоросль) by Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin. First performance, 2000- ASFA Performance Hall, Birmingham, AL.
More Than Words, short play, 2000
Two people meet through an unusual dating service. First performance, 2000- ASFA Studio Theatre, Birmingham, AL
A Plumber’s Story, short play, 1999
A plumber and his apprentice in an endless cycle of blue-collar malaise. First performance, 2000- ASFA Studio Theatre, Birmingham, AL.
Hopeless Romantics, short play, 1999
Two guys in a bar– afraid of life, unlucky in love. First performance, 2000, as part of Four Blinks of the Eye for the final season of Southern PlayWorks at the Library Theatre, Hoover, AL.
Life’s Labor’s Love, short play, 1998
Shenanigans of close friends at a local bar and grill are interrupted by an intriguing newcomer. First performance, 1999- ASFA Studio Theatre, Birmingham, AL.
Michael Leslie and J. J. Marrs in Hopeless Romantics, part of Four Blinks of the Eye, a night of four one-act plays
Photograph courtesy Lee Eric Shackleford
"Mixes the heady idealism of Tennessee Williams with a Sam Shepard-level of stark despair."
- Barrett Hathcock
Birmingham Weekly