We’re excited to welcome this fantastic material written by Jan Buttram, our first selection for the PRISM PRESENTS: NEW (ZOOM) PLAY DEVELOPMENT SERIES. The first 100 registered persons to arrive will be able to join the Zoom room. Within 24 hours, an ENCORE link will be posted to our YouTube channel for viewing.

“The playwrights of my youth were not human beings, they were Gods. Williams, Inge, Chekov, Shakespeare were not people, they were religious icons. Once I understood these playwrights were walking, breathing humans, who were dedicated to storytelling, I began to write.” ~ JB

Cover Art for RAPIDS Prism Stage Company.png — Rapids

By Jan Buttram
Set in 1928, two newlyweds disappear while riding the rapids of the Colorado River in pursuit of adventure and glory. Based on historic events, RAPIDS is the story of two risk-takers and the family they leave behind.

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JAN’S BIO:

Her plays have been performed in New York City and across the U.S. Texas Homos (directed by Tony® award winner Melvin Bernhardt) received a rave review from Neil Genzlinger of The New York Times: “Ms. Buttram, despite the plot and the abundance of sex talk, has not really written a play about gay men at all. She has written about everyone who has a secret life - the closet alcoholic, the compulsive shoplifter, the illegal immigrant, the child-pornography collector - and the nightmare that envelops such people once they are discovered."

Her play The President and Her Mistress was named “A hoot—a feminist future fantasia!” in "Backstage." Anita Gates of "The New York Times" lauded her play about Private Albert Cashier (aka Jennie Hodges) Private Battles—"[A] beautiful script, rich in observations about sex roles then and now."

Her family drama, The Parker Family Circus—was reviewed as, “the nicest kind of theatrical surprise, a compassionate, engaging portrait of the type of family that many contemporary playwrights treat as hopeless.”—CurtainUp.

Her play Backwoods won the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays. Lost on the Natchez Trace won the AB*IE for best play. Totally Cool, Captive, and Parker Family Circus are published by Samuel French. Her short plays and monologues are published by Smith and Kraus, and Heineman Books.

For More Information: www.janbuttram.com