
Richard
Byrne






Plays & Productions



PLAYWRITING CREDITS
Untangling Ava
World Premiere May 1989
A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival
Drama Studio, Washington University, St. Louis MO
Winner, First Prize, A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Festival
Burn Your Bookes (One Act Play)
World Premiere March 2007
Prague Post Playwriting Festival
Divadlo Minor, Prague, Czech Republic
Winner, First Prize, Prague Playwriting Festival
Page to Stage Festival
September 2009
Taffety Punk Theatre Company
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC
Burn Your Bookes (Full-Length Play)
World Premiere April/May 2010
Taffety Punk Theatre Company
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington DC
Nero/Pseudo (Book & Lyrics: Richard Byrne / Music: Jon Langford & Jim Elkington)
World Premiere May/June 2014
WSC/Avant Bard
The Shop at Fort Fringe, Washington DC
An Evening with Lola Montez
World Premiere July 2019
920 Productions
Capitol Fringe Festival
Revival 2024
920 Productions
Washington DC (DCAC); Alexandria VA (The Atheneum); New York NY (Crystal Lake)
Plays Pandemical
World Premieres on YouTube July 2020 - January 2021
Mind the Gap Theatre (Day 21 and The Garden of Earthly Delights)
920 Productions/Pandora Machine (Let the Darkness In; A Pair of Shoes; Flamingo; Helsinki)
Featured online at Prague Fringe (Let the Darkness In) and Vancouver Fringe (A Pair of Shoes)
Hotel Mayflower (Previously Three Suitcases)
Semifinalist, Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference 2019
Reading: Center for Jewish History, New York NY 2019 (as Three Suitcases)
Reading: Avant Bard Scripts in Play, Arlington VA 2019 (as Three Suitcases)
Reading: Literaturhaus, Innsbruck, Austria 2025 (in German translation)
Published in 2024 in a bilingual edition (English/German) by Moloko Print
The Drowned Girl
Screenplay for a film released 2023 by Pandora Machine. Streaming on Fawesome TV.
Congressman Davy (Book and Lyrics: Richard Byrne / Music: Dean Schlabowske)
Reading: Lankford Auditorium - True Reformer Building Washington DC 2024
Released in June 2026 as an online radio play with an accompanying soundtrack on Plenty Tuff.
Work also featured in:
Hothouse, Theater Alliance Washington DC (2018); First Draft at the Rose Reading Series: OBE: Overcome by Events Washington DC/Arlington VA (2018); Live Art DC 24 Hour Play Festival, Washington DC (Seeds - First Prize, 2015 and The Coolidge - 2016); Washington DC One Minute Play Festival, Bethesda MD (2015, 2016, 2017); My Bloody Valentine by Pinky Swear Productions, Washington DC (2015); Baltimore One Minute Play Festival, Baltimore MD (2014); Re Acts at Forum Theatre, Silver Spring MD (2011)
(Top) Jill Bean, Christian Campbell, Stacy Mathison and Seth Alcorn in Seeds - Live Art DC (2015)
(Bottom) Alyson Harkey and Steve Lichtenberg in Abigail and John - My Bloody Valentine, Pinky Swear Productions
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