events
Cool things are happening!
For more info, please email me: ed@edvalentine.com.
(Check back for updates)
June, 2025
We’re making a film of my short play By The Sea with director David Kronick and actors Jon L. Peacock, Logan Schmucker, and Chris Tipp! If you can chip in anything at all to make it possible, please see our Kickstarter, HERE. We’re grateful for your support!
Ongoing, 2024-2026
I was accepted into the Writers Room of Experiments In Opera, and together with 3 wonderful librettists and 4 wonderful composers… I wrote an opera! (How it works is each librettist wrote 1/4 of the book.) We workshop in 2025 for premiere in 2026. Check back for details!
Recently, 2025
I am now one of the co-Artistic Directors of New Circle Theatre Company in NYC, the descendant of the Circle Rep Lab! Sign up for our newsletter HERE to learn about playreadings and opportunities to get involved.
Selected Past Events:
June, 2023
I co-chaired Sheffield Pride in Massachusetts and hosted the variety show with my sock-puppet, Spike! Beekeepers Theater produced the second edition of Pride Playreadings at the Bushnell-Sage Library.
May, 2023
Produced Movie night at the Beekeepers Theater, including a showing of my film THE LATE MOTHER WOLF.
April, 2023
“Living Letters: Ms. Magazine” at the Beekeepers Theater.
March, 2023
“What I Know Now,” written and performed by Julia Motyka, at The Beekeepers Theater.
February, 2023
Reading of my new play, GREEN COMET, at The Beekeepers.
January, 2023
Launch party for The Beekeepers Theater, Sheffield, MA!
October, 2022
GHOST WRITERS Halloween Playreadings in Sheffield, MA, including one of my short plays.
June 2022
Hosted the variety show at Sheffield Pride in the Berkshires. Produced Pride Playreadings at the Bushnell-Sage Libray, including two of my short plays.
September, 2021
Season 1 of SHARKDOG, which I head wrote for Netflix / Nickelodeon, premieres.
2020
Head Writer Season 1 of SHARKDOG, which I head wrote for Netflix / Nickelodeon.
Running the Writers Group for New Circle Theater Company.
My play SHADOW OF A WAVE produced by NCTC online as a Zoom play.
April, 2019
My play BETSY ROSS LIES! has a workshop production at New Circle Theatre Company’s Michael Warren Powell Creative Center, directed by Melanie S. Armer.
February 28 – March 3, 2019
I’m acting again! I’ll be performing in a workshop of Peter Macklin’s deeply moving new play OLIVER AND ME at New Circle Theatre Company, directed by Eric Nightengale.
December, 2018
I wrote a 10-minute holiday-themed play called WALK WITH BRIGHT CANDLES for New Circle Theatre Company’s “7 Over 7” festival of shorts. The show was directed by Lisa Pelikan.
June, 2018
My short play CONSUMPTION, or: CHARLOTTE’S PARTY premiered at the Gene Frankel Theater, NYC, directed by Melanie S. Armer. It was produced by New Circle Theatre Company as part of the INFERNO Project, a cycle of plays inspired by the circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno. (This one was a “Gluttony” play.)
April, 2018
I had the chance to act again, after 17 years! I played a role in CLEARANCE, written by Cate Allen, directed by Eric Nightengale, and workshopped at New Circle Theatre Company’s Michael Warren Powell Creative Center.
June, 2017
My short play TOOTH OF WINTER premiered in NYC, directed by Melanie S. Armer. This, too, was produced by New Circle Theatre Company as part of the INFERNO Project, a cycle of plays inspired by the circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno. (This one was a “Limbo” play.)
June, 2017
Two of my short plays, STATE OF THE UNION and ST. CHRISTOPHER, premiered in NYC, directed by Rob Reese as part of an evening of three short political comedies called “States of Our Union.” Rob’s rollicking play 101 REASONS TO BE THANKFUL TO DONALD J. TRUMP, VLADIMIR J. PUTIN, AND MY DAD WHO’S A DICK. This evening was produced by Possible Players, and was presented as part of the Rise of the Phoenix Festival in NYC.
June, 2016
I co-produced and directed two plays for the Dublin International LGBT Theater Festival: my play EACH TO EACH, and a short play by Kathleen Warnock called JULIE ANDREWS IS THE DEVIL.
June, 2015
My short plays Honest Abe in His Underwear (historical romp) and Dancing On Mars (short sci-fi musical) premiered at the EATFEST, NYC.
Written by Ed Valentine
Directed by Melanie S. Armer** (**SSDC) and Jennifer O’Donnell
Musical Direction by Jorge H. Avila
Performed by Mikaal Bates, Elizabeth A. Bell* and Tyler Bunch* (*AEA)
Saturday, May 30 at 7 pm
Emerging Artists Theatre
New Work Series Spring 2015
October 2007 – Ongoing at Halloween
I wrote the script for this truly amazing (and free!) high-tech home haunt in Woodland Hills, CA. Spooky, not too scary – not a walk-thru – and there’s a spectacular new specter haunting the graveyard. Here’s some spooky video on YouTube… and an interview with show creator Matt Ford as well.
I’ll post dates of the 2015 Haunting as soon as they’re up, or check the HAHH website.
February 2014
I wrote a piece called “Book of the Sun and the Moon” for a project spearheaded by my friend Natalie George. Natalie and some of my cool Austin friends performed it at Frontera Fest in TX!