Ron Capps
him/him/his
Damariscotta, ME
Emerging playwright.
Biography

Ron's plays have been produced and had readings in community and regional theaters, at colleges, and at U.S. and international festivals. Hand-Clubbed Baby Seal, was a top ten finalist in VetRep theater's 2022 playwriting contest. Come Dawn was selected for the Maine Playwright's Festival in 2024. 

 

 

Plays

God gets a new phone and isn't very good at operating it. The person he buttdials picks up. 

 

Produced at Lowell Arts' Things That Go Bump in the Night Festival, October 2022. 

Cast:
Two roles: one female, one gender neutral. One voice off.

Two strangers meet at a fancy wedding reception. They soon learn that the canapés they've been enjoying are made with hand-clubbed baby seal... or was that the carpaccio of spotted owl. 

Finalist. Veterans Repertory Theater playwriting contest 2022. 

Selection: Short+Sweet Dubai 2023 & 2024, Sydney 2024.

Cast:
Four roles: 1m, 3n.

Families navigate the death of loved ones in combat and the return of the survivors. 

The play includes seven songs.

Staged reading: Dare Arts, November 2022; Workshop: Heartwood Theater, February 2023; Reading: Fairfield University July 2023. 

Semi-finalist New Works New Voices, 2024.

Cast:
Seven roles: 3m, 2f, 2gn.
by Ron Capps

The Somme, 1916. A dugout just behind the British front lines. A soldier condemned for cowardice returns to his unit where the sentence will be carried out. 

Selected, Maine Playwrights Festival, 2024

Selected, Salem State University: Veteran Playwrights Festival, 2023

Cast:
Traditional casting: 5m.