Pamela Turner

Pamela Turner
Playwrights on the Moon
February 25, 2025
My personal tube contents

• mask image from the website of multiShades.atlanta, a theatre company I co-founded with Sabina Maja Angel – the best rendering of my persona and a tribute to my artistic partner and best friend
• picture of dessert from Papa Haydn’s in the Pearl District of Portland, Oregon, the city care-taking my soul, and a restaurant still around since my childhood that understands temporal perfection
• picture of Seamus Ninian, age 18, one of my many miraculous cats, this one with a dignity that remained til his last breath
• Formula One, Team Lotus, John Player livery – won first and second at the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix – F1, my favorite mix of beauty, power, movement, and philosophy and a reminder of the Lotus Europa I owned for several years
• Script – Male Man- a long monologue/one act about the Viet Nam War which started creating itself while I was walking around in NYC’s Hell’s kitchen one day and had to quickly find a café with rental computers to get it down- won five awards
• Script – FACES- a full-length play commissioned by 7 Stages Theatre in Atlanta that is about the first full face transplant and features aerial work, projections, and a Dog as the wise man character who dominates the show regardless of the audience- the inside of my head on the page

Patrick Gabridge

I've always had a fascination with the moon and planets, so it's a special thrill to think that some of my work, even in digital form, can reside on the moon. Perhaps as a small bid for a chance that someone, someday to read it who has left earth themselves.

I've tried to include plays and novels that might give some sense of a sliver of life in the time in which we are alive, even if some of them are historical plays or novels, which, of course, reflect our own modern concerns mapped onto the past. A few of the works actually concern astronomy, space, and even the moon: "Reading the Mind of God" is an historical play about astronomers Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe and their all-too-human struggle to understand who the universe works, "Moonlight Abolitionists" is a play about the struggle for freedom that is designed to performed under the full moon at Mount Auburn Cemetery (a sublime experience at our 2021 and 2022 performances), "Mox Nox" has its climax under a full moon and is set in a world of rising water and sister-resentments, and "Distant Neighbors" is a play about a group of neighbors suddenly brought together when a chunk of an alien spacecraft lands in their backyards-- the space-based refugee is designed to bring them together, and despite their fears and protests, it works, and they find love. Finding love and connection seems like a decent goal on any given day.

Full-length plays:

• Blood on the Snow

• Chore Monkeys

• Distant Neighbors

• Reading the Mind of God

• Mox Nox

• Revolution's Edge

• Drift

• The Nature Plays

• Moonlight Abolitionists.

Two novels:

• Steering to Freedom

• Moving: A Life in Boxes.

Photos from The America Plays and Blood on the Snow and one of me from Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Pete Peterson

• Lost in the Woods for Thirty Years at Government Expense manuscript

• Personal photos of dogs and family

• Musings on the secrets to life

Sharon Goldner

I write dark humor which allows me to get audiences to laugh at things that make them feel uncomfortable. I feel this opens up the path for honest discussion. I think this work is a culmination of what it's like to be female in the 20th & 21st centuries.

• Full length plays

  • The Sisters Frank,

  • Flat-Chested

• Short plays

  • Down There

  • In Love with Bobby

  • The Essential Guide to Playing Doctor

  • Bob & Marlene's First Date

  • God as a Young Man

  • Intrepid 3000

  • Pulling a Rabbit

Steve Budd

""What They Said About Love" is a solo show and romantic comedy about how people meet, marry, and fall in love. It explores my relationship with an old love interest, Chinua (for whom I was over the moon) and includes dialogue taken from interviews with actual married couples. I figure there have to be lifeforms in outer space that will be able to relate. One of the songs that's part of the pre-show soundtrack is "Fly Me to the Moon."

• "What They Said About Love"

Steve Duprey

I'm sending a collection of my plays. Each reveals something about the human condition and why we do the things that we do.

• WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE

• MEN OF A CERTAIN AG

• HUMMINGBIRD IN THE HOUSE

• FROM TRAIN TO TRAIN

• GROUP

• GATHERS NO MOSS

• ON DECK

• SELF-REPORTING

• A PRIVATE REBELLION

• FOREVER GONE

• CUT ONE LEG

• FORGIVE ME, REDEEM ME

• QUICKSAND

Susan L. Cohen

My cousin Steve Budd has written a few plays, the latest one being Seeing Stars. Hoping the energy from his show I produced in 2018 will send Seeing Stars into the stratosphere!

• Postcard ad of Steve Budd’s play What They Said About Love

Tammis (Tammi) Doyle

I included photos of myself as a small child and one as a near-elder along with a cross section of writing that I, and others do regularly: An dramatic adaptation, A play written collectively with students, two short plays, a short story and a song cycle written for my wife.

• Two Photos

• Full length Plays:

  • The Admirable Crichton

  • Safe House

• Ten Minute Plays:

  • Root System

  • Rise Up Old Flames

• Photoleaping (a short story)

• A Song Cycle

Taute Family

Pictures of Laurie & Mike Taute and their family

Tita Theodora Anntares

TO FUTURE MOONLINGS -- if you are curious about Earthlings in the early 2000s AD or just bored, and you can open pdfs, read digital screens in English and all those silly details that block cosmic communications, enjoy my 3 full length stage plays, two short plays and a book of poems - they are about humans who take courageous stands for justice and compassion for other humans, even for strangers or people they fear or dislike. If Earthlings have already colonised the moon, you can invite actors - or astronauts with a theatrical pulse - to read these plays aloud, acting the characters and events.

By the time you open this time capsule and read the plays, you will have done what few humans can do - take the time to read these plays and those by other playwrights - and act them out in your mind, in readings with other Moonlings, or become the characters and act out the stories on a stage for other Mountings. If you don't understand some of the words, terms and hidden meanings, don't worry, just enjoy whatever resonates between my year 2025 AD and whatever future year you live in.

No matter what kind of human you have evolved into or other type of conscious creature you are, what really matters in life? Times when we give and receive kindness and compassion and learn at a deep level. My small housecat who is curled up next to my shoulder and my son upstairs, all give each other loving companionship. And yesterday I gave some of my children's old toys to an immigrant woman and her child, sitting in freeing weather on a New York City sidewalk, selling chocolate bars for a dollar. Today I wrote emails to elected leaders begging them to end the cancellation of visas for pro-democracy Afghans who had to flee to Pakistan but now will be sent back to torture or death by Taliban if their approved visas and applications for visas are cancelled.

I try to do at least more than nothing every day to reach out to people in trouble. But unless you have studied ancient history of Earthlings, you probably have no idea why giving toys or writing emails might have any value. I'm also writing a satire about dictators to remind Americans how important our democracy is, with an interactive game-like version of the play for children.. and the next play will be an adventure story about two other Afghans I helped escape the Taliban. I'm trying to use my playwriting skills to make plays that can plunge audiences around the world and maybe even on the Moon into the stories of courageous, compassionate humans... and writing about democracy is my way to stay sane while our democracy's rule by elected leaders is under attack. But if you are in the future, you know how the global trends toward authoritarian rule in 2025 turned out.

• 3 full length plays

• 2 short plays

• a book of poems

• a writing resume

Travis Clark

I'm including 3 photos I'd love to be stationed on the moon. One is of my best friend Leroy. Leroy is our dog but he is also a huge part of our family and I love the guy to the moon and back. Speaking of that phrase... the other photo I am including is of my wife Brandi. She was a contestant on Wheel of Fortune in 2020 and not only did she win but she made a mention of the moon while talking to Pat Sajak. Quick side story: I am big time into the moon especially when it comes to moon conspiracies. I don't believe in them but I love the stories people tell about the moon. One of the best "moon-spiracies" is that the moon is actually hollow. To know me is to at some point hear me talk about a "moon-spiracy" so Brandi had heard me talk about the Hollow Moon Theory repeatedly so much so that we adopted it into a little thing we said to each other. "I love you to the hollow moon and back." So when Pat Sajak asked her say something about me she said, "My husband's name is Travis and I love him to the hollow moon and back." Apparently this caused quit a stir on Wheel of Fortune message boards where some people couldn't stop thinking about how she declared the moon was hollow ON NATIONAL TV. I'd like to think this has added to the lore of the Hollow Moon. Lastly I am including a photo of myself on the top of Mt. Whitney which is currently the hardest hike I've done. It took a lot of training and determination to make it to the top of the tallest peak in the 48 states. I also didn't sleep or eat enough so I started massively hallucinating but that's a story for another moon trip.

• A photo of my wife winning Wheel of Fortune

• A photo of my best boy Leroy

• And a photo of me on top of Mt. Whitney right as I started to hallucinate.

William Shakespeare

The greatest playwright in the English language. Aboard the MoonBox are his complete works.

Yellin Family

Our younger daughter Liora has been a little obsessed with space since she was quite young. I’ve included photos of us at the Air & Space Museum in 2022, watching the solar eclipse from the path of totality in 2024 (wearing her t-shirt from Air & Space), and the first day of school 2024, when she wore her current favorite space shirt.

• Family photos