About the Play

Dramedy. 85-90 minutes. 6 females, 3 males, 6+ any gender (10-23 performers possible). Suitable for high school and older performers, and middle school and older audiences.

Premiered at The Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts (Hammond, LA).

The author grants productions pre-approval to make cuts to meet time limits and community standards regarding profanity and obscenity for Texas UIL and other one-act competitions.

The Graveyard Girls is in pre-publication and is currently available in manuscript format.

Synopsis

Every Halloween, teenage besties Lauree, Sydney and Nancie have made a tradition of sneaking into an abandoned graveyard and attempting to outscare each other with a series of campfire tales packed with premium spookage. But when Nancie’s new boyfriend joins in on the fun, the girls’ night is thrown out of sorts, and long-buried ghosts from the past begin to rise from the grave once more. Briskly-paced, highly-theatrical and threaded with heart, humor and three of your favorite scary stories to tell in the dark, The Graveyard Girls is guaranteed to give audiences goosebumps!

“As thrilling as Halloween itself.” - The Daily Star (Hammond, LA)

"The Graveyard Girls features well-developed and multi-dimensional teenagers as its leading characters, while also treating the audience to more than a few scares. The response to our production of The Graveyard Girls was overwhelmingly positive. Many were impressed with the play’s deft balance of comedy, drama and horror. The relatable characters and witty dialogue garnered significant praise, as did the tight plot and runtime.” - Jim Winter, Artistic Director of the Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts (Hammond, LA)