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Lindsey Humphries: director, actor, & designer.
Lindsey Humphries is a Dallas based director, actor, and designer. She has served on several theatrical nonprofit boards, including McKinney Repertory Theatre where she is the current Secretary. Below is the creative CV for Lindsey Humphries. Lindsey’s directing credits include: • Much Ado Out West by Wade Bradford July 2022, McKinney Repertory Theatre • 12…
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Stage CV for Joel Frapart
The Writing Curriculum Vitae of Joel Frapart includes the following works:• 2001: Gambling With Death— Short comedy about bargaining with the Grim Reaper— Won an award for it in middle school. Don’t remember the name of the award. shrug • 2007: The Kemah Mermaid— Short story about a romantic encounter with a mermaid • 2008:…
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The Vampire Countess: Elizabeth Bathory
Elizabeth Bathory – the Blood Countess – murdered young girls and bathed in their blood to preserve her youth. But, was she a vampire?
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World Dracula Day 2022
125 years ago today, Dracula was published. This year marks the Quasquicentennial for the birth of a whole genre of horror stories. Prior to Dracula, most vampire stories were of the credulous “non-fictional” type – that is, they were told because they were believed to be true. There were a few fictional vampires prior to…
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Origins of Children of the Night in Judaism
by Joel Frapart The idea for Children of the Night first came to me in college when I was taking a class called “The History of Anti-Semitism”. I took this class because, as a Jew, I truly felt like I hadn’t suffered enough in my short life, and thus wanted to learn more about how…
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Acting & Writing Bio for George Morris CV
CV & resume for George Morris – a Texas based writer, playwright, actor, appraiser, collector, brewer, activist, dreamer, numismatist, geek, traveler, Cornucopianist,, Dallas, DFW, Texan, SEO guru, stubborn, dedicated, messy, crank, gainfully unemployed
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The Prohibitioners play Synopsis
Prohibition is a rich & well chronicled period. We decided to cheapen & pun up the lore with a comical treatment of the bootlegging era. The Prohibitioners is an over-the-top 3-act play set in the 1930’s timeperiod. It tells the tale of brave, but out-of-touch G-Men, who attempt to break up the mob and circumvent…
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Fritz Haarmann: Vampire of Hanover
Fritz Haarmann was a frighteningly successful serial killer, black market butcher, and police informant. Was he also… a vampire?
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The Weird Sisters Trope
The Weird Sisters Trope by Joel Frapart Why does Grimlocke have three daughters? Why did Dracula have three brides? Why does Macbeth receive his prophecy from three witches? It isn’t entirely clear, but the trope of the three supernatural women is one of the oldest recurring themes in the history of literature. One of the…
