Douglas Post is the author of some twenty-five plays and musicals, which have been produced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Canada, England, Wales, Germany, Austria, Russia and China. Victory Gardens productions include the Midwest premiere of Earth and Sky, the American premiere of Murder in Green Meadows, and the world premieres of Drowning Sorrows, Blissfield, God and Country and Cynical Weathers. He has also been commissioned to write screenplays for Warner Bros. and NBC, teleplays for WMAQ-TV, and several radio adaptations of his scripts. Post has received the L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Award, the Midwestern Playwrights Festival Award, the Cunningham Commission Award and three Playwriting Fellowship Awards from the Illinois Arts Council, and has been nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award and an Emmy Award. He currently serves as the Chicago Regional Representative for the Dramatists Guild of America.
Recently, his recent productions include Detective Sketches in Hawaii, Drowning Sorrows in Georgia, Earth and Sky in California and South Carolina, Murder in Green Meadows in Colorado, Michigan and New York, and The Wind in the Willows in Florida, Maine and Ohio. He taught high school students this past summer as part of the Arts Education series Sound Off at Victory Gardens. He remains the Chicago Regional Representative for the Dramatists Guild of America.
Plays:
Prospero’s Saxophone (Musical adaptation), 1981
The Other Wise Man (Musical adaptation), 1981
Drums (Musical), 1982
Everyman (Musical adaptation), 1984
The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Musical adaptation), 1985
The Wind in the Willows (Musical adaptation), 1985
Belongings and Longings, 1986
The Long River Passes (Revue), 1986
Detective Sketches, 1987
Suffering Fools, 1989
The Real Life Story of Johnny De Facto (Musical), 1989
Earth and Sky, 1991
Escape From Groovytown (Short Play), 1991
Murder in Green Meadows, 1992
At Night in the Asylum (Short Play), 1992
Somewhere on the Coast of Belize (Short Play), 1993
Drowning Sorrows, 1996
Forty-Two Stories, 1997
Gethsemane (Musical), 1999
Blissfield, 2000
God and Country (Musical adaptation), 2002
Personal Effects, 2003
Somebody Foreign, 2006
The Kingdom of Grimm (Musical adaptation), 2006
Cynical Weathers, 2007
