Neal Bell

Neal Bell

Neal Bell's plays have appeared at Playwrights Horizons in New York, and in regional theaters including Berkeley Rep, Actors Theater of Louisville and the Mark Taper Forum. The recipient of Rockefeller, Guggenheim and NEA grants, Mr. Bell teaches play and screen writing at Duke University, and is the author of the book, "How To Write A Horror Movie."

Plays

  • Golem by Neal Bell
    Cast: 
    5–7
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    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic + 4 more
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    Keyword: monsters, ethnic identity + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic, horror, mystery/thriller, political, satire
    Keyword: monsters, ethnic identity, murder of Israeli/Palestinian director Julio Mer-Khames, politics in the arts
    In post-9/11 New York, young graduates of a theater school react to a death in the Middle East - and their hopes and fears begin to bring an ancient mythical being, the Golem, back into the fractured world.
  • Carry Me Back by Neal Bell
    Cast: 
    10–20
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    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: ghosts, grief + 4 more
    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy, drama, horror, mystery/thriller, period, satire
    Keyword: ghosts, grief, racism in 'classic' literature', gay relationship, Mark Twain adaptation, representation in the arts
    A college drama department wrestles with questions of race and representation, when their play-selection committee has to deal with a troublesome entry: an anonymous adaptation of Mark Twain's bleakly comic novel "Pudd'nhead Wilson" (where a white baby and one who can 'pass' for white are switched at birth.) Ben, a black professor, who's been haunted by the death of his...
    A college drama department wrestles with questions of race and representation, when their play-selection committee has to deal with a troublesome entry: an anonymous adaptation of Mark Twain's bleakly comic novel "Pudd'nhead Wilson" (where a white baby and one who can 'pass' for white are switched at birth.) Ben, a black professor, who's been haunted by the death of his former partner Jake (a white playwright), begins to suspect the 'haunting' is literal - he's starting to see the partner he lost to cancer... and a new and troubling thought occurs: could Jake have been the author of the divisive play?