unproduceable

In 1978, the New York City Film Critics Circle (Downtown Chapter, Below 14th Street- Alphabet City Branch) convenes for their Annual Vote of the Best Film of the Year: arguments ensue, thumbs are employed, whiffle bats are waved about, and nobody can leave the building a winner is declared.

full-length, dark dark DARK comedy, everything but the kitchen sink realism

17-117+ (yes, 117) characters, flexible casting, doubling-tripling-quadrupling or more

PETER RABBIT

A small-town Middle-West librarian on the run from her would-be rock-star husband finds herself at odds with the local town council about which books should or should not be on the school's bookmobile. Dog mayors, potato salad, pop rocks and soda pop abound in this weird American carnival.

full-length, comedy/drama, Pere Ubu-plus-corn pone

7f, 10m, flexible casting, doubling

Tonite I'm Gonna Break (your heart)

BUBBLE (or 'funny thoughts')

CURRENT PLAYS

currently drafting
BITCHES IN THE FUTURE
(or, the men are gonna ruin everything):

It's 1876 in Iowa, and an aging abolitionist & an upstart rabble-rouser working on a Voter Drive argue about how best to achieve True Freedom as they hurtle toward the New Century. With passenger pigeons, talking donkeys, ghost presidents, small-g god, corn, beards and shit people.

full-length, 19th Century Freak-Out, American Dream Space, Reconstruction Fever Dream, Post Civil War Acid Trip,

8 characters, super-flexible & diverse casting.

Stevie, a young aspiring singer-songwriter, tracks down Lou (one-hit-wonder/ cult figure/ recluse) to a bar in rural New Mexico where no digital technology is allowed so she can argue with him about music and art in the 21st Century- and to find out if this song she has in her back pocket is a Real True Song.

full-length, drama with music, no robots, 'Hot Stuff', i ain't your jukebox, dirt room

2f, 1m

When Dick and Belle's Chicago neighborhood is taken over by suits & fakes, they each choose their own manner of coping: Belle turns to civil disobedience & graffiti, while Dick chases virtual turtles until he can arrange to ascend to the abstract plane.

full-length, funny-sad comedy, gentrification, body rights, neo-Luddism, paranoia, analog formats, virtual turtles, supposed & theoretical babies

3f, 2m, flexible casting

BIO

Scot West is an emerging playwright based in Chicago, and occasionally Boston. He writes weird and ridiculous plays about working mothers, deadbeat dads, precocious children, make-shift families, and all sorts of folks who live on the margins. He has studied playwriting in courses at Primary Stages, Chicago Dramatists, and Ohio University and his plays and monologues have been performed in Iowa City and Minneapolis.

As an actor, he has worked on over forty plays in Chicago in productions, workshops, and readings with such companies as Victory Gardens, Griffin Theatre, Jackalope Theatre, Sideshow Theatre, Raven Theatre, Teatro Vista, and many, many others.

Billy Preston once held him when he was a baby.