Brian Wilson
Playwright
About
Brian Wilson is a playwright based in Rock Hill, South Carolina, writing character-driven dramas for the stage — from ten-minute one-acts to full-length works.
His play Introductions and Goodbyes is being produced this month as part of the Chapin Theatre Company's 6th Annual 10 Minute-ish Play Festival. His other plays include the full-length Alone Together Forever, along with a growing catalog of one-act comedies and dramas exploring family, faith, grief, and the stories people tell to survive them.
Plays
Alone Together Forever
When a husband's shooting leaves him silent, and his wife's quiet betrayals surface one object at a time, a marriage vowed as one union comes apart into two people who never stopped carrying the broken families that shaped them.
Introductions and Goodbyes
A treasured family cookbook and a nonagenarian grandmother's shady doings — in the end, a story about understanding, acceptance, and a final act of love.
Dearly Beloved
A grieving man's funeral for his late partner becomes the target of a small-time con — a dark comedy about grief, hustle, and who really shows up when it counts.
Logged Out
A job interview conducted over a laptop turns into an accidental confession, as two blunt old friends refuse to let a man keep lying to himself.
Whole Again
Six years after a quiet, devastating divorce, a chance encounter in a medical waiting room forces two ex-spouses to confront what they never said.
Gluten-Free Water
A father reclaiming his garage workshop collides with his adult son's latest startup dream — a comedy about family, ambition, and knowing when to let go (of the garage).
4-F
Two teenagers scheme to flunk their draft physicals by any means necessary, while a third actually wants to go — a comedy about loyalty, cowardice, and growing up fast.
Lifetime Subscription
A wry, tender two-hander about growing old together — and whether love outlasts the jokes you make about it.
Already Older
A mother and daughter pack up the family home on moving day, arguing over what to do with an old photo album — until a voicemail from the mother's own aging mother turns a familiar old line about growing older into something neither woman expected: an offering.
Reflections
Alone in the church he's swept for forty years, a recently widowed custodian revisits the interracial marriage that once scandalized his congregation, the neighborhood boys he mentored on the court outside, and a promise he made to raise a dying friend's son — a deal that might finally make him a father.
That Son-Of-A-Father!
When his father's life partner turns out to be his own exact bone-marrow match, an entitled adult son backs out to protect his inheritance — only to learn, in the reading of two wills, exactly what that choice cost him, and what it was always meant to teach him about fatherhood.
Prose
The Path Home
A fictional dramatization drawn from real events in the author's life — a retired surgeon wakes to an unfamiliar morning, and an unfamiliar sense of who he is.
Productions
Introductions and Goodbyes
- Antonio — Mark DiNovo
- Steve — Marshall Spann
- Nonna — Debra Kiser
- Director — Clayton King
Contact
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