Florida Playwrights' Theatre
# Florida Playwrights' Theatre

Florida Playwrights' Theatre or FPT was a 54-seat black box theatre in Hollywood, Florida that was in operation from 1993 to 1999. It was begun by Paul and Angela Thomas, whose goal was to create a small repertory company that would produce new plays and little-known plays, as well as the classics, including their annual Shakespeare festivals.

## New plays premiered

* "Apathy-The Gen X Musical" by Mickey Zetts (Both as a late-night 1995 and a mainstage 1997)
* "Love is a Masochist" by Mickey Zetts (shown with "The Piano that Jack Filled", adapted by Duncan Pflaster from the song-cycle by Adam Rabin) 1996.
* "Wilder and Wilder by Duncan Pflaster (Both as a late-night and a mainstage - 1995)
* "Amazing Dædalus" by Duncan Pflaster (Late-night 1997)
* "Audition Pieces" by Kim Mowrey
* "The Jessie Donovan Show" by Roberta Morgan

## Other plays produced

1993

* Dancin' to Calliope by Jack Gilhooley
* Eli: A Mystery Play of the Sufferings of Israel by Nelly Sachs
* The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam
* Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You by Christopher Durang
* Psycho Beach Party by Charles Busch
* Greater Tuna by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard
* 1st Annual Shakespeare Festival
   * Twelfth Night
   * As You Like It
* The Miss Firecracker Contest by Beth Henley
* Double bill of Graceland by Ellen Byron and Line by Israel Horovitz

1994

* Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
* The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare
* The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
* Messiah by Martin Sherman
* A Woman Called Truth: The Story of Sojourner Truth by Sandra Fenichel Asher
* The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman

1995

* Angel City by Sam Shepard
* Lenny by Julian Barry (Carbonell Award won for Best Actor Todd Durkin, nominated for Best Supporting Actor Larry Jurrist)
* 2nd Annual Shakespeare Festival
   * Much Ado About Nothing
   * A Midsummer Night's Dream
* The Secret Lives of The Sexists by Charles Ludlam
* Laundry and Bourbon and Lone Star by James McLure
* What The Butler Saw by Joe Orton
* Oleanna by David Mamet
* The Loman Family Picnic by Donald Margulies
* On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) by Eric Overmeyer
* Reckless by Craig Lucas

1996

* Macbeth by William Shakespeare
* Talk Radio by Eric Bogosian
* 3rd Annual Shakespeare Festival
   * The Comedy of Errors
   * Two Gentlemen of Verona
* The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam
* Laughing Wild by Christopher Durang (Carbonell Award 'nomination for Best Actress Angela Thomas)
* American Buffalo by David Mamet
* Times Square Angel by Charles Busch

1997

* Betty the Yeti: An Eco Fable by Jon Klein
* 4th Annual Shakespeare Festival
   * The Merry Wives of Windsor
   * Romeo and Juliet
* The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
* Mass Appeal by Bill C. Davis

1998

* 5th Annual Shakespeare Festival
   * Hamlet
   * The Tempest
* Black Comedy/White Lies by Peter Shaffer
* The Art of Dining by Tina Howe
* Titanic by Christopher Durang
