Plays

From the West Texas A&M production of “Old Girl” (May 2025) – Left to right: Kyle Roberson as Neil, Avery Fedele as Molly (director: Jax Stubblefield, lighting designer: Travis Speer, playwright: John Adams)

Coming Soon

  • “The Damp, Dark Room Just Off the Parlor,” a Victorian monster romance
    • Staged reading at the Midwest Dramatists Conference (Midwest Dramatists Center – Olathe, Kansas – October 2025)


Past Productions and Readings

  • “The Damp, Dark Room Just Off the Parlor,” a Victorian monster romance
    • Premiere production at Alphabet Soup: Theater from Queer Voices Showcase (Whim Productions – Kansas City, Missouri – October 2021)
    • Staged reading at the 40th Annual William Inge Theatre Festival New Play Lab (William Inge Center for the Arts – Independence, Kansas – April 2023)

  • “The High Who Spied Me,” a romcom spy spoof in rhyme
    • Premiere production at Alphabet Soup: Theater from Queer Voices Showcase (Whim Productions – Kansas City, Missouri – April 2025)

  • “Old Girl,” a sad but hopeful look at the afterlife
    • Premiere production at the 6×10 Play Festival (The Barn Players – Mission, Kansas – December 2016)
    • Staged reading at the Midwest Dramatists Conference (Midwest Dramatists Center – Olathe, Kansas – September 2017)
    • Production at the 10 Minute Play Festival (West Texas A&M University – Canyon, Texas – May 2025)

  • “The Record Don’t Stop Spinnin’ for Robby Ray Robinson,” an absurdist country-music biopic
    • Staged reading at the Midwest Dramatists Conference (Midwest Dramatists Center – Olathe, Kansas – October 2023)

  • “Seven Polaroids of Men’s Bottoms: A Cautionary Tale,” a quirky romcom about a midnight meet-cute and long-buried family mementos
    • Premiere production at Alphabet Soup: Theater from Queer Voices (Whim Productions – Kansas City, Missouri – April 2024)
    • Staged reading at Midwest Dramatists Conference (Midwest Dramatists Center – Olathe, Kansas – September 2024)

  • “Some Specter,” a Scooby Doo-esque dramedy
    • Premiere production at Alphabet Soup: Stories from Queer Voices (Whim Productions – Kansas City, Missouri – April 2018)
    • Staged reading at the Midwest Dramatists Conference (Midwest Dramatists Center – Olathe, Kansas – September 2018)
    • Staged reading at the 39th Annual William Inge Theatre Festival New Play Lab (William Inge Center for the Arts – Independence, Kansas – April 2022)
    • Production at A Fall Evening of One-Acts (Northwest Missouri State University / Theatre Northwest – Maryville, Missouri – September 2023)
    • Staged reading at the Valdez Theater Conference (Prince William Sound College / University of Alaska Anchorage – Valdez, Alaska – June 2025)

  • “Through the Darkest of Stars, Toward the Brightest of Futures,” a quasi-Victorian, sci-fi pot-boiler about gender dynamics, scheming siblings and romantic entanglements
    • Staged reading at the Midwest Dramatists Conference (Midwest Dramatists Center – Olathe, Kansas – September 2019)
    • Premiere production at An Evening of One Acts (Grossmont College Theatre Arts Department – El Cajon, California – March 2023)

Fellow playwrights, please visit John’s New Play Exchange page.

Program page from the Grossmont College Theatre Arts Department’s “An Evening of One Acts”