Dying Like Ignacio
Willow Mill Productions produced the premiere of my new play Dying Like Ignacio as an Equity Showcase production for 14 performances from March 25th, 2016 to April 10th in New York City at the Workshop Theater's main stage at 312 W. 36th St.
Set in modern-day New York, playwright Louis Mascolo’s psychological drama explores the evolving relationships between two life-long friends; one an actor, the other a police officer. When the officer marries a sexy and caring wife, she is included in their circle of friendship. A friendship that is undermined by the actor's new boyfriend who seduces him into a dark world of S&M and makes it his obsession to destroy the trio's relationship.
About the Director: Director by Karen Case Cook was recently nominated for the New York Innovative Theater Award for her direction of Phoenix Theatre Ensemble’s Don Juan in Hell, a production that won Outstanding Revival of a Play. She has also directed other New York productions including Medea and the Furies, On the Verge and The Lifeblood, as well as several regional theater productions including The Guardsman and Emma Goldman, My Life for East Lynne Theater Company in Cape May, New Jersey.
Written by Louis Mascolo
Produced by Thomas Raniszewski
Directed by Karen C. Cook
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Back To The Warning
Track
This Neil Simon-esque dramedy provides a goodly amount laughs and tears.
When blue-collar, lifelong Philadelphia Phillies baseball fanatic, Harry Buntley, husband and father of two, suddenly comes into a small fortune via the return of his successful daughter, he finally enjoys a life with money in his pocket. When it is abruptly taken away, he attempts to reclaim the “joy of cash” by entering an illicit scheme with his gangster brother-in-law and to deceive his lifelong best friend into participating in the wrongdoing.
But life takes a nasty twist when his scheme is discovered by his friend, the news of his only son's demise in Viet Nam and his wife's abandonment. It is then that he is forced into the realization that the “good life” is not about money, but about the precious connections to humanity and the people he loves that make life precious.
The Year the Phillies Blew the Pennant, was written in 2013 and staged as a workshop in June of 2014 at the Ashley McCormick Theater in Bridgeton, NJ. Subsequently, the play was revised and renamed Back to the Warning Track and a staged reading of the play was done at the Eagle Theatre in Hammonton, NJ as part of the Eagle Theatre New Works Development Series in 2016. It is now scheduled for a 2020 World Premiere at the Eagle.