All I Really Need

Could you happen to be looking for a funny one-act for your high school/middle school acting troupe? Well, this is a relatively new one that I wrote. It is a sequel to the popular All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Play. That play is easily one of my most popular plays.

Here is the synopsis:

Look out, our band of lovable yet impossibly inept thespians are onstage again in All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Murder Mystery. Last time, we saw our collection of bad actors and actresses in All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Play. In that comic disaster, they butchered Romeo and Juliet, performing the timeless classic by Shakespeare in a Starbucks while wearing potato sacks and bowler hats. This time, our terrible troupe takes on the genre that will not die—the murder mystery! Follow along—if you dare—as our misguided performers attempt to nail down those devilish British accents, understand what a red herring is, and figure out how to die onstage without looking all gross and stuff. Meanwhile, the director and stage manager, who really love dealing with the egomaniacs and lunatics in the cast, wouldn't really try to murder someone during the murder mystery. Would they?! Chaos rules the day as time is running out for cast and crew to sort out this mess. Safe to say, you will never look at a whodunit the same way again as All I Really Need to Know I Learned by Being in a Bad Murder Mystery brings up the curtain on bad accents, murder and laughs.

Here is the link should you be interested in buying a copy.

Fight the Power

My old blog has either been taken over by robots or I didn't pay somebody or something. But I don't have it anymore. So now I have this new one and hopefully I can wrestle control of it and make it behave. So here is a bio and photo of me just to stake a claim and start this whole process.

Originally from Hot Springs, Arkansas, Werner Trieschmann's numerous plays -- including Dog Star, Failing the Improv and Disfarmer -- have been staged by Moving Arts in Los Angeles, Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City, The New Theatre in Boston, Mobtown Players in Baltimore, and Red Octopus Productions in Little Rock, Arkansas. In addition to the United States, Werner's plays have been produced in England, Italy, and Romania. Werner was a resident at the Mount Sequoyah New Play Retreat in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and his play Lawn Dart won first prize in the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans New Play Competition.

His full-length comedy You Have to Serve Somebody is published by the Dramatic Publishing Company; several popular one-acts including The Absolute Most Cliched Elevator Play in the History of the Entire Universe are published by Playscripts, Inc.; his dark one-act comedy Killers is published through Original Works Publishing. His monologues have appeared in The Best Women's Stage Monologues 1999 and Audition Arsenal for Women in Their 20s, published by Smith & Kraus. He was the first playwright to receive the Porter Prize, an Arkansas literary award recognizing outstanding achievement by an Arkansas writer.

In addition to playwriting, Werner Trieschmann was an editor and columnist for the Little Rock Free Press and then Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for 18 years. He has written for multiple publications, including The Village Voice, Nashville Scene, Babble, the Boston Pheonix, and American Craft. Werner has an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University and he currently lives in Little Rock with his wife and two wild and crazy boys.