Doug Brook
Playwright/Columnist/Director/Actor/Technical Writer
http://www.brookwrite.com
djbrook@sbcglobal.net
Doug Brook is a published, award-winning playwright from Alabama, residing in Northern California.
His play RETROGRADE has been repeatedly produced, including professionally off-off-Broadway, and is published by Smith & Kraus. Eight of his plays have been produced or staged, most recently ALTERNATE PROPOSAL and MORE THAN PETTICOATS. He also has extensive credits for acting, designing, and directing in the San Francisco Bay Area.
A former B'nai Mitzvah Instructor and Torah Reading staffer at multiple synagogues, he has been a humor columnist for the DEEP SOUTH JEWISH VOICE since 1996. He's a former Ramahnik, AZA brother, and an international award recipient of Alpha Epsilon Pi.
Outside the theatre, Doug is a technical writer and manager in Silicon Valley. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in writing and theatre from Carnegie Mellon University.
Judaically-Related Plays (Award-winning and staged)
ORIGINAL SYNERGY is the true story of the first seven days, as abridged in Genesis. This biblical and corporate satire goes behind the scenes, showing how everything was actually created by a committee comprised of the Big G and personifications of his Left Brain, Right Brain, Ego, Super Ego, Id, and (once woman is created) Feminine Side.
TWO JEWS is a short play depicting what actually happened when "two Jews walked into a bar." This previously quiet establishment erupts, but what does it seem to have to do with them?
SELF EXPRESSION explores the expression of "self" in two manners. The main story is a man and woman, at dinner, as the man struggles through the evening to express himself propose. Interspersed during this story are five sequences that represent five major stages of life, in which the two actors are the main characters. The stages include birth (or Genesis, in a trial of Eve who is charged with theft and dealing illegal substances), adolescence, young adulthood, mid-life, and death (including what happens next).
Other Staged Plays
MORE THAN PETTICOATS (principal writer)
RETROGRADE
ALTERNATE PROPOSAL
WINTER FOLLIES
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS
Other Judaic Plays (in progress)
THE DREYFUS AFFAIR (musical)
LOT IN LIFE
MORTAL SYNERGY
FINDING GOD
THE ATHLETE SPY (the Moe Berg story)
THE FRISCO KID (musical, permission pending)
FIDDLER ON A HOT TIN ROOF (musical parody, permission pending... and unlikely)