Quiz Bowl

Music | Julian Blackmore
Book & Lyrics | Dan Marshall & Becca Blackmore
Winner 2014 New York Musicals Festival
"Best New Musical" as Academia Nuts
Musical, Comedy – 9 Actors
Demos HERE

Quiz Bowl is an original musical comedy set in the zany world the national high school quiz bowl championship, a timed academic challenge between brainiac ubergeeks. Maggie McCutter, and her evangelical homeschool team face off against a public school team from the Pacific Northwest. There are star crossed lovers, a dream ballet, and a brutal MC battle in sung Klingon. Maggie learns to stand up for herself and her new friends once her eyes are opened to the world outside of her family. Everybody loves musicals and quiz shows – Quiz Bowl is BOTH!

Snow Way Out

Music | Julian Blackmore
Book & Lyrics | Dan Marshall & Becca Blackmore
Produced as radio play by Micro Musicals Podcast - 2018
Development: York Theatre Co. NYC - 2017
Musical, Comedy – 4 Actors
Demos HERE

Four strangers rent a rustic cabin each hoping for a solitary holiday. But everyone’s antisocial plans are frozen when an AirBnB glitch and unforeseen blizzard leave them trapped in the same cabin. A blackout, holiday spirits, and mysterious body bag converge to prove that even if you ​do ​escape ​your ​family, ​no ​one ​escapes the wrath of ​Christmas. ​There’s SNOW​ ​WAY​ ​OUT!  

President Mom

by Dan Marshall & Becca Blackmore
Song Zombie Prom Date by Julian Blackmore
Winner of the Ronald M. Ruble Prize for TYA
Productions at the Iolani School and Caryl Crane Youth Theatre
TYA Comedy – 13 to 19 Actors

Claire McCallister, is a typical teenage girl. She is stressed out about her bio exam and even more about finding a date to her school's Spring Chicken Dance. This would be tough for anyone to handle, but Claire's mother just  happens to be The President of the United States. Claire's Mom offers her the chance of a lifetime, to meet  her teen pop idol Swift Taylor – Claire can’t resist. The catch: She has to take Brent Baumgartner, the nerdiest boy in school, to the dance. She agrees to go along with her Mom's presidential scheme, until a European Prince arrives and turns Claire's world upside-down. 

Guncles

by Dan Marshall & Bixby Elliot
Sitcom Pilot, Mulitepisode – Half-hour

Nio and Steve are gays with a DINK lifestyle (double income, no kids) and they are completely happy.  Then Nio’s sister-in-law, Sarah, drops the news that she is being deployed to Africa (she’s in the military) but there is one big problem - Olivia.  Olivia is Nio’s niece. She is 14 and will be attending the High School for Performing Arts - it is her dream come true and she doesn’t want to give that up. 

Here is the thing...kids aren’t part of the equation for Nio and Steve. Sure they thought about it - they love kids, but life happened and it never felt like the right time. Olivia’s dad (and Sarah’s ex) is not an option since his new fiancé is allergic to kids. Nio’s Mom, Clara, can’t help. She would if she could but she lives in a studio apartment only big enough for her and her over-sexed boyfriend Zjelko.

The only place to turn are the Guncles (gay uncles). 
How can they say “no”? They can’t! 

Swish

Music | Joel Derfner
Lyrics | Dan Marshall
Book | Tim Acito, Joel Derfner, and Dan Marshall
Developmental Reading, Two River Theatre
May 2019 - dir. Lonny Price
Musical, Comedy, Queer Themes – 4 Actors

Freshly dumped by his alpha boyfriend for, “not being gay enough,” JD sets out on a journey to explore and exploit every stereotype known to gay mankind in a maladroit attempt to get him back. Somewhere along this hilarious and heartfelt road JD dabbles in male cheerleading, knitting and promiscuous sex (at the same time). He confronts his demons (read: Mom), finds love, loses it, and finds it again at a gay Exodus retreat. It’s the “gay Pippin” or as we call it in the gay community: Pippin.

A Murder of Crows

By Dan Marshall
Official Selection: Brooklyn Generator 2020
Play, Darkly Comic, Queer Themes – 8 Actors

Who killed Reginald Crows, the dashing renaissance man of 20th century theater, who died in the bombing of London in 1940? Eighty years after his death, a banker's box of Crows ephemera lands on the desk of Kat Davidson, a graduate student in Berkley. The contents of that box compel Kat to scour the dusty corners of the internet where she finds herself squarely in the crosshairs of a rabid Crows preservationist. Fact bleeds into fiction in this off-beat, comic detective story.

Operation A.L.I.B.I.

by Dan Marshall
Production at Iolani School - May 2019
TYA Site-Specific/Environmental – 12 to 25 Actors

The agents of A.L.I.B.I. have their work cut out for them. They have a full slate of new recruits to train and time isn’t on their side. The agents of B.O.R.I.N.G. have infiltrated their school and brainwashed a few of the favorite teachers. Their diabolical plan: To harness the power of student creativity to power a Nuke Uke (read: nuclear ukulele) – a secret weapon of mass distraction. The agents of A.L.I.B.I. lead the new recruits through the perils of a campus under seige, deciphering riddles and unearthing clues along the way. Will they defuse the nuke uke in time to save their school… and the world from B.O.R.I.N.G.? There’s only one way to find out!

NoFilter: The Picture of Tori Anne Gray

Music | Julianne Wick Davis
Book & Lyrics | Dan Marshall
Musical, Drama – 10 Actors

Dr. Wotten’s art history class takes an unexpected turn when transfer student Tori Anne Gray is photographed by resident art geek Hallie Hallward. The beauty makeover app bHoldr places Tori Anne’s picture perfect image under the microscope of social media and her personality, like her photo, begins to experience alterations.

This provocative, timely, and ultimately heartwarming new musical is about the intense relationship that exists between artist and subject. It is loosely- based on Wilde’s Dorian Grey and features an all-female cast.

The Peculiar Tale…

Music | Julian Blackmore
Book & Lyrics | Dan Marshall & Becca Blackmore
Official Selection - Goodspeed Musicals FNM14 - 2019
Musical, Darkly Comic –10 Actors
Demos HERE

The Peculiar Tale of the Prince of Bohemia and the Society of Desperate Victorians is an off-beat adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club.

While concluding his studies in England, Prince Florizel learns that his father, the King of Bohemia is dead and immediately seeks to adbicate the throne and all adult responsibilities. He and his chaperone, Col. Geraldine, are induced to join a suicide club where each night members meet to play a deadly card game with stakes higher than the Prince has ever known. The deck appears stacked against the Prince and Geraldine as they both become inextricably linked to the club's members in a darkly hilarious new musical.

Five Sorrowful Mysteries

By Dan Marshall
Local Lab Co Semi-finalist 2021
Play, Serio-comic – 5 Actors

Newly ordained Fr. Nathan arrives at Central Catholic High School where his colleague, Sr. Pat and the students of her Advanced Theology Seminar immediately begin to challenge his newfound authority. 

The Roman Catholic Rosary, a beaded series of prayers and meditations on the life and death of Jesus, provides the structure for this play about a small town Catholic school and what happens when conflicting worldviews collide with dogma, and ambition.

Gaea’s Great Greek… Gabfest

by Dan Marshall
Production at Iolani School, May 2018|
Winner – Honorable Mention, The Aurand Harris Playwriting Award.
TYA Comedy – 12 to 22 Actors

On the day of her one millionth episode, Gaea, the undisputable mother of all living things and host of the eternally-popular "Great Greek Gab Fest" attempts to settle the score with her grandson Zeus and his noisy bride, Hera. Zeus has other plans, but this is live T.V. and anything can happen when Gaea and her roster of A-list immortals take the mic. It's Lightning bolts! Camera! Action! Winner – Honorable Mention, The Aurand Harris Playwriting Award.

Department of Ed

By Dan Marshall & Becca Blackmore
Sitcom Pilot, Mulitepisode – Half-hour

Disillusioned Edna "Ed" Matthews abandons her high-flying finance career to give back to society by working at the inner city school she attended as a young girl. Red tape, lunatic co-workers, and high-strung students make Ed think she may have made a mistake, but it's too late to turn back in this surreal Broadcity meets 30 Rock workplace comedy.