Listen

Listen is a full length play in one act with a running time of approximately 90 minutes.

A brilliant but unstable artist has rediscovered his own joy of painting through the wisdom and technique of Bob Ross, but is the art world ready to accept his new style? Listen explores the nature and source of the creative impulse, and the basic human need we all have to make art our own.

Productions:
Theatre Salina, October 10-26, 2025 (World Premiere) as part of the 2026 AACT NewPlayFest 

Awards:
Winner of the 2026 American Association of Community Theatre (AACT) NewPlayFest
Finalist for the 2020-21 Woodward/Newman Drama Award
Finalist for Kitchen Dog Theater's 2020 New Works Festival.
Semifinalist for AITI Theatre's 2021 Cimientos
Semifinalist for Wild Imaginings' 2022 Epiphanies New Works Festival 

Readings:
5th Wall Productions Staged Reading Series in Charleston, South Carolina, 2018.

Director: John Bryan
Dale: Jamie Young
Carson: Carolyn Kennedy Graupner
Jay: David Moon
Kelly: Ashlan Stephenson

The Theater Project NEW PLAYS Reading Series, Cranford, New Jersey, 2024

Director: Gary Glor
Dale: André DeSandies
Carson: Serena Marie Smith
Jay: Scott Cagney
Kelly: Kayla Stewart

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