Radio-plays are uniquely suited for
both remote productions as part
of distance-learning classes or in-person ensemble
performances—both of which can be recorded for distribution via broadcast,
Zoom, or other web-based platforms. I DO license on-demand downloads, with no restrictions as to what platform (your website, YouTube, etc.)
Scary stage-plays & radio plays for Frightening
Nights!
OVERVIEW: I am a professional radio drama playwright and
performer--having done over 2500 shows (on-air, on-stage, in-studio) since the
late 1990s. This page lists my darker radio and stage-plays that troupes can license
for production--for stage, broadcast, classrooms, recordings, churches,
workshops, and fundraisers. I charge a traditional royalty-per-performance, but
also license on-demand downloads for a flat fee.
My plays have been produced by Hollywood stars, professional actors, and troupes at community theaters, colleges, high-schools, middle-schools, grade schools, churches, and even family productions.
Please note that radio plays are especially well-suited to fundraisers--as they don't require
memorization, extensive rehearsals, props or costumes. The scripts are appropriate for all ages--nothing too
gruesome, but pretty spooky. Think: Edgar Allen Poe, Agatha Christie, or H. G. Wells.
Scripts are delivered as PDF files via e-mail.
NO script-booklets to buy. You print out the PDF and can make as many copies as you need for cast
& crew. (Other play-publishers charge a royalty of $60-$100 per performance
PLUS $10 per
script-booklet for each cast-member.)
I offer professional-quality pre-recorded music and sound effects tracks--MP3s
you download from special webpages.
Each radio script appendix has a SFX "cookbook"
section: How to buy/make the manual SFX called for in the script.
Royalty fees vary by the particular play, the venue (broadcast/theater/classroom/church) and the number of performances.
I accept credit cards via the free and secure Paypal.com service.
Institutional checks and school PO's are OK.
TO ORDER: Contact me at Sales@RuyaSonic.com and explain about your troupe, venue, and
how many performances of whichever play you are interested in. I will reply with full details, including how to pay.
You can have the script, music & sound effects tracks within hours.
Minimum Royalty Rate: $100/performance-broadcast-zoomcast - (depending on venue/broadcast market, ticket price, etc.
Classroom productions get special rate)
On-demand downloads
(audio or video): $250 for unlimited streaming
NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF file. Troupes print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving you hundreds of dollars!
Pre-recorded music tracks [22 MP3s]: $30 (one-time fee)
ABOUT: Adapted from Washington Irving’s classic short-story
of Ichabod Crane, bringing to life scenes and characters that were merely
described in the original, including the one-room schoolhouse, the Van Tassel
household, the country damsels, the townsfolk’s ghost stories, singing-master
Ichabod’s terrible choir, the quilting frolic, and the climatic chase by the
Headless Horseman. The treatment is both spooky and funny, with a poetry
duel, a rained-out pie-eating contest and several are-they-or-aren’t-they dream
sequences with the Horseman. As with my adaptation of Dickens’ Christmas
Carol, this show is suitable for
all audiences, yet performable by students. However, it is not dumbed-down for
kiddies. I remain true to Washington Irving’s short story, bringing plenty of
authentic 1789 elements—from the traitor, Major Andre, to Isaac Watts, to
Jonathan Edwards, to spooky Hudson Valley folktales
'Grim Scary Tales' horror anthology
radio series - 2 different episodes
Grim Scary Tales is a horror anthology series similar to Lights
Out or the Inner Sanctum Mysteries. The series
itself is set in 1955, so the horror is not as gruesome as
contemporary horror films or fiction. We offer two different
episodes; Both include humorous ads at the very end--to leaven the horror.
The two episodes can be presented together to form a Halloween program.
'The Pirate's Curse' [radio-play]
by
Anthony E. Palermo - An adventure-filled mashup of the
horror and pirate genres
Minimum Royalty Rate: $40/performance-broadcast-zoomcast - (depending on venue/broadcast market, ticket price, etc.
Classroom/Family productions get special rate)
On-demand downloads (audio or video): $80 for unlimited streaming
NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF file. Troupes print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving you hundreds of dollars!
Pre-recorded music tracks [13 MP3s]: $30 (one-time fee)
ABOUT: Horror story set in 1720, where swashbuckling
pirates, mired in the Sargasso Sea, find the Fountain of Youth... and its horrid
curse! This classic-style radio drama features a thrilling naval battle, a
mysterious sea of lost ships, a ghostly survivor of Columbus' first voyage, a
raging tempest, and terrifying twist ending--all wrapped in a spooky orchestral
score.
Minimum Royalty Rate: $45/performance-broadcast-zoomcast - (depending on venue/broadcast market, ticket price, etc.
Classroom/Family productions get special rate)
On-demand downloads (audio or video): $80 for unlimited streaming
NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF file. Troupes print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving you hundreds of dollars!
Pre-recorded music tracks [13 MP3s]: $30 (one-time fee)
ABOUT: Set in Turkey in 1205 A.D., a corrupt army
of knights conquers a city, but finds something truly terrifying in
the caverns below. The story serves as a subtle allegory for
the political “witch-hunts” of the McCarthy-era of the 1950s. This show is
especially popular with students who tend to be both horror fans and pirate
fans.
Inspector Rufflethorpe - 'The Twitshyre Murder Case' [radio-play]
by
Anthony E. Palermo - from [original
author's name goes here, plus year and novel/story]
TO ORDER: Contact me at Sales@RuyaSonic.com
Run time: 25-minutes
Cast size: 11-14 actors (many non-gendered roles)
Minimum Royalty Rate: $40/performance-broadcast-zoomcast - (depending on venue/broadcast market, ticket price, etc.
Classroom/Family productions get special rate)
On-demand downloads (audio or video): $80 for
unlimited streaming
NO per-script-booklet fee - Script delivered as PDF file. Troupes print/copy scripts for cast & crew, saving you hundreds of dollars!
Pre-recorded music tracks [16 MP3s]: $30 (one-time fee)
ABOUT: A 1930s-style Agatha Christie-esque detective program similar to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Inspector Rufflethorpe is a classic Golden Age whodunit, with an
English manor and a fresh corpse. In this episode, "The
Twitshyre Murder Case," Inspector Rufflethorpe, of
Scotland Yard, and his assistant, Everett Frimly are called
to a country manor in Margate to investigate the mysterious
"locked-room murder" of Lord Archibald
Farquhar-Bensington. The list of suspects includes Lady
Margaret Bensington, Colonel Cuthbert T. Frothingham, the
mysterious Countess Valeska, Gretchen Laytherly--a West End
ingénue and her beau, Ralph Stellsmore, the rakish personal
secretary, Reginald Sklemsdale, and the family solicitor,
Kirwood Crumpton, Esq. There's a ghostly séance, a series of
baffling murders and a monument to deductive logic when the
dastardly culprit is finally unmasked. See the
program notes for
background info. A snippet/parody of this story appears in
episode 1 of my Rick Lowell, Private Eye
series. This "jolly-good show" features a classic 1930s-style radio theatre
organ score.
