NEWS 2024
THE NEXT MOVE Produced in Ontario
Posted August 2024
Something's not quite right as Donald and Roberta, an elderly couple, prepare to entertain company one Sunday afternoon.
THE NEXT MOVE, a one-act play by William Ivor Fowkes, is being produced Thursday, September 5, 2024 at the Newmarket International Festival of One Act Plays in Newmarket, Ontario. THE NEXT MOVE has been produced several times, presented in readings, and presented as a radio play. Most recently, it was presented in a staged reading in 2023 at Valley Players' Summer Staged Reading Series in Napa , CA. Its first production was at the One-Act Play Festival in Frostburg, MD in 2012.
2024 Newmarket International Festival: https://oneactplayfestival.com/2024-newmarket-international-festival-of-one-act-plays-season-announcement/
A MISUNDERSTANDING AT SUNSHINE QUEST to be Presented in Houston
Posted August 2024
New Year's Eve 1999. Retired men flock to the Sunshine Quest Club in Fort Lauderdale to welcome in the new millennium. But in the midst of all the celebrating, one attempted flirtation goes awry.
A MISUNDERSTANDING AT SUNSHINE QUEST, a short play by William Ivor Fowkes, is being presented in a holiday festival at Cone Man Running Productions in Houston this December. This play is an excerpt from the full-length play, SUNSHINE QUEST.
STUCK IN PLACE Presented on Zoom
Posted July 2024. Updated August 2024.
An anxious playwright refuses to focus on his imminent move.
STUCK IN PLACE, a 10-minute play by William Ivor Fowkes, was presented on Zoom by Tiger's Heart Players, a theater company based in the Bronx, on Sunday, August 11, 2024.
WHEN PHILOSOPHERS SPLIT THE CHECK to be Presented in California
Posted June 2024. Updated August 2024.
A group of philosophers struggle when it comes time to split the bill at lunch.
WHEN PHILOSOPHERS SPLIT THE CHECK, a 10-minute play by William Ivor Fowkes, was be presented in a staged reading at the Hindsight Festival by Sonoma's Left Edge Theatre in Santa Rosa, CA, Sunday, July 28, 2024.
WATCH THE VIDEO: Here's a video of a reading of my 10-minute comedy, WHEN PHILOSOPHERS SPLIT THE CHECK, at the Left Edge Theatre's Hindsight Festival in Santa Rosa, CA in July.
WATCH THE VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5-wmilN1ko&t=5100s
ATTACHMENT Presented at Industry Festival
Updated July 2024
The need for love is universal, but sometimes our search leads us to addiction instead. In this play, two men of different generations embrace on a rocky affair that ping pongs between passion and rejection.
In the next step in its developmental process, ATTACHMENT, a new full-length play written and directed by William Ivor Fowkes, was presented in two readings this month at Create Theater's New Works Festival, an industry festival at Clinton Cambio Studios in Manhattan.
MARRIAGE Presented in Filmed Reading
Posted April 2024
STUCK IN PLACE Presented in New Jersey
Posted February 2024
Updated April 2024
An anxious playwright refuses to focus on his imminent move as he works away on a play whose ending he can't figure out.
STUCK IN PLACE, a 10-minute play by William Ivor Fowkes, was presented in a fully staged reading at Curtain Rising: Staged Readings of New Works by Burlington County Footlighters at 2nd Stage in Cinnaminson, NJ, March 1-2, 2024. (Fowkes appeared at a talkback on March 1.)
One-Act Play Featured on National New Play Network
Posted May 2024
Earthbound Sisyphus and flight-obsessed Icarus meet and fall in love. Two years later, they find themselves in couples therapy.
SISYPHUS & ICARUS: A LOVE STORY, a one-act play by William Ivor Fowkes, was featured on the home page of the New Play Exchange 3-8-24.
This play had its world premiere at St. Louis Actors' Studio's LaBute New Theater Festival at the Gaslight Theater in St. Louis, MO, July 19-28, 2019. It was also presented in a livestream production on Zoom on December 15, 2020 in Third Citizen Theatre Company's Digital Dionysia Festival.
Development Update: ATTACHMENT
Posted February 2024
When addiction masquerades as love.
ATTACHMENT, a full-length play by William Ivor Fowkes, was presented at a table reading in January under the auspices of Cate Cammarata and Create Theater.
In this tale of an intense and intergenerational love affair between two men, Brian Fields, a 47-year-old senior corporate executive in the process of coming out and divorcing his wife, meets Curtis Leary, a seductive 22-year-old recent college graduate. As a newcomer to the gay scene, Brian is unsure what to make of Curtis's mercurial behavior. For his part, Curtis has mastered the art of charming and attracting older men but keeps undermining his own need for intimacy.
NEWS 2023
MARRIAGE Development Update
Posted November 2023
MARRIAGE, a full-length play by William Ivor Fowkes, was presented at a table reading in November. The reading was attended by a Broadway producer and the head of an off-Broadway theater company. MARRIAGE is the second of three plays that make up THE BRONXVILLE TRILOGY or MARRIAGES OF INCONVENIENCE.
THE SEEKER Has Been Published in OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters
Posted September 2023
Tommy Hamilton's looking for God, love, and sex--but not necessarily in that order.
OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, an online journal, has published THE SEEKER, a Play in Two Acts by William Ivor Fowkes. THE SEEKER was a SEMIFINALIST for both the Promising Playwright Award (Colonial Players, Annapolis, MD) and the Princess Grace Playwriting Award in 2015. It was presented in a reading at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock, Manhasset, NY, in 2014.
THE NEXT MOVE and MISS PEDDY & GRACE: Presented in Napa Valley
Posted May 2023. Updated September 2023.
Two one-act plays by William Ivor Fowkes--THE NEXT MOVE and MISS PEDDY & GRACE--were presented at Valley Players' 2023 Summer Staged Readings Series in Napa County, CA.
THE NEXT MOVE:
7PM, July 7, 2023.
Something's not quite right as Donald and Roberta, an elderly couple, prepare to entertain company one Sunday afternoon.
MISS PEDDY & GRACE:
2PM, August 5, 2023
Where is the caring in eldercare?
MONOLOGUE Published Online
Posted May 2023. Updated June 2024.
Non-binary Ricky confronts a questionnaire they don't know how to fill out.
some scripts literary magazine published BOXES, a monologue by William Ivor Fowkes, in their online blog series, "Scripts Highlights." BOXES was previously published in print in WE/US: Monologues for the Gender Minority, Smith & Kraus Inc., 2022.
DOLL PLAY Short-listed in UK
Posted April 2023
Life in a Dream House. When a man accidentally kills his own son, the spirit of the mother hovers over the family as the surviving members adjust to life without Josh.
DOLL PLAY, a Play in Two Acts by William Ivor Fowkes, has been shortlisted by the London Playwrights' Workshop, UK. DOLL PLAY was developed at the Stillwater Writers' Group, the Pulse Ensemble Theatre Playwrights' Lab, and the Dramatists Guild Institute, all in New York City.
Two Monologues from MUSEUM LOVERS to be published.
Posted April 2023
Sometimes the visitors are even more intriguing than the works on display.
Two monologues from MUSEUM LOVERS, a Play in Two Acts by William Ivor Fowkes, have been selected for publication in two Smith & Kraus anthologies: one in The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2023 and one in The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2023. MUSEUM LOVERS was most recently produced in Austria by Renegade Actors Innsbruck at the University of Innsbruck (June 2022). It was first produced by Harlequin Productions at Cayuga Community College, Auburn, NY in 2017. It was developed at the Pulse Ensemble Theatre Playwrights' Lab in New York City.
Short Play Published in Literature Today
Posted January 2023
AMOEBAS, a one-minute play by William Ivor Fowkes, has been published in the January 2023 "Love" issue of Literature Today, an international literary journal. AMOEBAS was also published in Door is Ajar Magazine Review, an online journal, in 2016. It was presented in a staged reading at Stage Left Theater, Spokane, WA, in 2016.
For news before 2023, see folders on left.