Greg Hatfield - My Plays: Page Two

Curtain Call

Included in the book "Six Short Plays Anyone Can Do" available on Amazon (https://tinyurl.com/2m2bsbts)

COMING FALL 2025, Curtain Call will be available in the compilation
COMEDIES FOR THE VIRTUAL STAGE: Short Plays Adaptable for Online Performance
Paperback ISBN - 978-1-968919-04-7, Ebook ISBN - 978-1-968919-05-4

2023: The Drama Workshop, Cincinnati, Ohio, Production

2023: The North Street Playhouse, Production
2021: PlayZoomers, Productions

"Sometimes there is no telling a writer when a performance is bad and that is what this wonderfully timed comedy centres around. Greg's wonderful characterisation is something I love in a lot of works and here you get to enjoy four wonderfully strong characters as they debate the performance they were just a part of. As well as being wonderfully funny it also provides a fabulous insight into the world of theatre, and there can be no debate about that! - Rachel Feeny-Williams

"GREG HATFIELD has hit-the-nail-on-its-head, so to speak, with a delightful comedy of the insecurities actors can have. “Curtain Call” will delight audiences and surely remind us of an actor or two, who felt they were hopelessly terrible although their performance was joyful." -Jack Levin"The only more insecure people in theatre other than playwrights are actors. Even with adulation and adoration flowing at them like a riptide, they have doubts about their own work and will believe the slightest misstep or flaw is a harbinger of Doom; or worse, a bad review. For this legendary couple, numerous curtain calls and rapturous applause are suspect because... well, only an actor can explain it (or a playwright). Greg Hatfield's delightful comedy would be perfect for a short play festival, and the actors would earn the genuine applause." - Philip Middleton Williams

A married acting couple — glamorous, talented, and utterly exhausted by each other — finish their first performance of a new play. Instead of celebrating, they quarrel over missed cues, poor choices, and whether they should even continue in the run, all to the chagrin of the playwright, who is also in the cast and thinks the show went perfectly. Modeled after the legendary Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, and Noel Coward, this one-act comedy finds both heartbreak and hilarity in the rituals of the stage.

Lily Blossoms, or Modern Subdivision Zoning in the Present Day

2020, Shortlisted: The William Inge Theater Festival
2020, Cincinnati Playwrights Institute, Staged Reading

"Greg Hatfield has a knack for witty dialogue!" --Pittsburgh New Works Festival

"A light-hearted send-up of NYC magazines and theatre from another era. Amusing characters deliver some really funny one-liners. This will play well with many audiences. A fun read!" - Kim E. Ruyle

"Sophisticated humor -- through wit, wordplay, and charm -- infuse this light, one-act comedy set in 1950s New York. Hatfield clearly understands and enjoys the high-brow charm of shows of this period, and has created a group of characters -- world wearing magazine writers, a misled wife, and a tortured editor -- that fits right in. Stylish and enchanting. - Steven G. Martin

"The dialogue is witty. The characters are sophisticated, quirky, likable. The working out of the plot is clever. Lily’s bravery in seeing her dilemmas clearly, albeit indirectly, is touching." Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative

Set among the sharp tongues and sharper wits of literary New York's magazine and theater circle, this play examines what happens when art, friendship, and commerce collide. Theodore Barkley is preparing to decamp for Hollywood, while his best friend, Lily Palmer drinks, jokes, and resists change. Styled like a New Yorker cartoon come to life, Lily Blossoms blends wit with melancholy in a portrait of friends forced to choose between loyalty and ambition.

The Ten-Minute Play (with a Nice Picture of Jimmy Carter)
My most popular play!
Listen to it here!

Included in the book "Six Short Plays Anyone Can Do" available on Amazon (https://tinyurl.com/2m2bsbts)

2018, Midwest Dramatists Conference, Reading
2025, Theatrical Shenanigans, Audio Podcast
2024, Rebound Productions, London, England, Production
2022, The Drama Workshop, Cincinnati, Ohio, Production

"What a treat it was to listen to a production of this quirky 10-minute play about writing 10-minute plays on Theatrical Shenanigans with performances by Jeff and Jacquelyn Priskorn. Writers will get it. Audiences will too. That's not an easy task. Way to go, GREG HATFIELD."- Debra A. Cole

"I can see the phones coming out now..." Funny! Love the meta-theatricality of this piece and the commentary on today's attention spans. There are some very funny moments as one character, with a very clear voice and opinions, tries to help an enthusiastic playwright who really doesn't have very much of a clue." - Nora Louise Syran

"So, I actually discussed this play with Greg on a podcast interview, so it was destiny that I was always going to read it. In it, Peter is portrayed as a very real playwright excited about a new piece, which is of course something I related to, as will many others. Not only has Greg created a wonderfully relatable situation for his two characters but he's intertwined it with brilliant back and forth dialogue. I had great fun reading it and enjoying moments of just smiling and laughing out loud. Its a play within a play that made me smile!" - Rachel Feeny-Williams

In this comedy, an aspiring playwright finishes a ten minute play and wants to share it with a friend. Race and gender neutral and appropriate for all ages, with no sets or scenery.