Kyle T. Wilson
kyle@fellswoop.net
bio
Kyle T. Wilson’s play, Bumblefuck, AR, was a finalist
for Lark Playwrights’ Week in 2010. This is his second
play to achieve that distinction, with Customary Monsters making
finalist in 2007; it received a Roundtable Reading at The Lark
in May 2008. Customary Monsters was also a semi-finalist for
the 2007 Princess Grace Fellowship and the 2008 O’Neill
Playwrights Conference. His 10-minute play, The Pissin’ Posse,
was a finalist for The 2007 Heideman Award at Actors Theatre
Louisville. Kyle received an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and has studied with Sherry
Kramer, Milan Stitt, and Edward Albee. His blog, Frank's
Wild Lunch, was cited by L.A. Weekly theater critic Steven
Leigh Morris in his column about the future of local theater
writing. Kyle is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
work
Plays [skip to Screenplays]
Bumblefuck, AR
Full-length – 1w/5m
It’s 1988 in Bumblebee, AR, a nowhere town just east
of the Oklahoma border the kids either can’t imagine
ever leaving or can’t wait to escape. The Murphy family
has roots there, with elder son Carl keeping a low profile
on his dope-smoking and younger son Terrance trying to stay
out of the sightlines of the biggest bully in junior high.
A punk kid named Josh starts hanging around and teaches the
boys a few things about themselves, but some lessons are more
welcome than others.
Customary
Monsters
Full-length – 4w/4m
Arthur Munby and Frederick Furnivall, scholarly footnotes in
the soot-covered stories of Victorian London, live lives fueled
by progressive ideals and sexual compulsions. Customary Monsters
is a history play about the limits of love, equality, and biography.
War and Jim
Full-length – 1w/2m
You are hereby invited to a gala opening of an exciting new
art show. Your host for the evening will be New York's
most underrated painter, Warfield Mitchell. He is joined by
wife Catherine, herself a poet of equally undistinguished stature.
Together the couple uses paintings, poetry, and performance
to take you on a tour through the east coast art world of the
50s and 60s. Assisting them is a very special guest -- James
Guest, to be specific -- a young gay writer who goes home with
them one night to sleep off a hangover and stays for six years.
The Rendezvous
Full-length – 2m
Professor Paul Simonson, Pittsburgh's finest semi-notable
author of memoir and personal history, always leaves the door
of his suburban two-story Victorian open for his favorite occasional
trick, Alex Schuyler. Alex, himself a budding novelist and a
student in Paul's creative writing program, scares a bit
easily, and after an unsuccessful attempt at a rainy Saturday
afternoon roll in the hay, Paul attempts to persuade his young
companion to take their relationship out of the bedroom. Making
dinner plans has never been so hard.
Toils and Snares
Full-length – 2w/2m
Two sisters in the City of Angels face the tumult of bad relationships,
missed call-backs, indie rock geeks, and Protestant priests.
An L.A. fable of sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll…and The
Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.
"Smoke Gets in Your Ears"
One-act – 1w/1m
Shelly is an aging agoraphobic who is plagued with swimmer's
ear and a spotty memory. Wayne is a young man who wants to take
her to the movies. Will he ever get her out of the house? Will
she find that shoebox full of Guatemalan photographs? Will she
ever get that damn water out of her ear?
"Sleep of the Dead"
One-act – 2w
Somewhere in The Middle Of Nowhere, Arkansas, Gran is trapped
in a well with her unconscious granddaughter, Betty…but
that won't stop her from letting Betty know who's
in charge.
The Day Clinton Fessed Up
Full-length – 2w/2m
On the day of Clinton's televised apology for improprieties
with Monica Lewinsky, Elsie Kirkpatrick, President of the Clinton
Birthplace Foundation, wages a war with a smart young southern
studies scholar named Sarah over the future of our 42nd President's
Arkansas childhood home. Caught in the crossfire is young CBF
Vice President Wilbur, an underemployed liberal arts grad who
carries a torch and a secret. Advised by the President himself,
Elsie Kirkpatrick vows to keep her world-class collection of
Clintonian memorabilia where it belongs, no matter who stands
in her way.
"Crutches"
Ten-minute – 1w/1m
Andrew returns home for Christmas in search of a pair of homemade
wooden crutches used by his crippled Aunt Sallie during her
childhood, only to find that his sister, a troubled young woman
named Susan, has developed a strange attachment to them.
"The Whores of West Hollywood"
One-act – 2m
A young playwright takes a meeting in a gay bar with a wanna-be
filmmaker and encounters the ugly truth about his ambitions
and anxieties.
"Leaving Little Rock"
One-act – 2w/3m
All Jordan wants to do is have a drink on a Friday night with
his friends. His friends would rather get stoned or pool shark
with hot methheads who're looking to party. It's a typical Friday
night at Mid-Town Billiards…and Jordan has had one too
many.
Screenplays [back to Plays]
War and Jim
A feature-length screenplay
An adaptation of Wilson's stageplay.
Billboards
A feature-length screenplay
Wade skips his own graduation in Hibley Springs, Arkansas, to
go on a rampage of artful vandalism that has the whole town
talking. His father thinks he's a mess, but pretty college sophomore
Laney Gregory thinks he might just be the real thing.
