My experience in writing
Aspiring playwright
D. Sherman Hall is a playwright with a long-term commitment to the craft. He began his love affair with the theater after seeing a multi-racial version of “MacBeth” at the LA Actor’s Theater. Throughout the 80s he was in a playwright’s group at The Public Theater in NYC. He then moved to Charlotte, NC in the 1990s to raise a wife and family. Over the years he’s written over four full length, multi-racial melodramas. They all focused on the intersection of race and class and business and inequity…
A listing and description of each play is as follows:
“Benefit of the Doubt”
Multi-racial love melodrama between black and white Millennials whose Baby Boomer parents don’t approve of their relationship.
“The Big Hustle”
Black mortgage broker and white banker do business together selling sub-prime loans to poor folks in the hood in the late 2000s. What could go wrong?
“Wings for the Justice”
The most controversial Supreme Court Justice has fallen ill and is in a coma. Should he go to heaven or to the hot place? Only Judge Thurgood Marshall can decide his fate as Clarence pleads his case to try to get into heaven or wind up in hell.
“Mean Green”
A $10M bank note goes missing. The white bankers accuse a black mailroom supervisor of stealing it. He didn’t do it. But who did?
In addition to being a playwright I am is a husband, a father and a family man. I’ve been married for 30 years with two grown children (29 and 24) and I’m “living the dream.” I was lucky enough to retire from a Fortune 500 multinational corporation after 25 years. I was a Telecom Procurement professional. I specialized in Video Conferencing and I also managed a national invoice processing system. The combination of these professional skills along with my love and dedication for playwriting gives me unique insight to the way that the theater can be broadcast over the internet. If my theory is correct and my plays are good enough, combining theater and video could be like creating a brand, new art form. And on top of that it also be very, very profitable...
