Welcome To Deansplays.com
Discover the passion behind deansplays.com! đ Dean Scott Schulman, a seasoned stage director, spent years crafting five unique plays. Facing formatting hurdles with traditional publishers, he chose to share them independently. Explore his compelling mix of comedy, drama, and true crime!
A Little Information About Me
Dean Scott Schulman
Author and Playwright
Thank you for taking a quiet moment out of your day to visit my website. I would like to share with you how this particular domain came to be. For most of my theatre career, I have been a stage director of musicals and traveled to different equity, regional, and community theatres around the country and been fortunate enough to direct many of the classic Broadway shows that my mother and father first introduced me to when I was a child back in the 1960s and 1970s. But through all my years of directing, I also always had these five ideas for plays that I thought would make for some very entertaining and compelling theatre (though the five plays are diverse and not all from the same genre).
My Plays - Written By Dean Scott Schulman
Who is Dean Scott Schulman
Dean is a graduate of the UCLA Dept. of Theatre, where as an undergraduate, he sang with the UCLA Men’s Glee Club and performed the roles of King Arthur in âCamelot,â Lt. Cable in âSouth Pacific,â Charlie in âYou’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown,â and The Boy in âThe Fantasticks.â Upon his graduation, he turned to theatre directing and became the Artistic Director of The Culver City Civic Light Opera and The Westside Music Theatre.
Dean has also directed at many theatres across the country such as The Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre, Theatre Palisades, and The Surflight Theatre- NJ.
He has directed such notable Broadway/film talents as Marion Bell, John Raitt, Kathryn Grayson, Carol Lawrence, and Ed Evanko among many others, in such shows as: âThe Music Man,â â The Sound of Music,â âFunny Girl,â âMame,â âCabaret,â âGypsy,â âAnnie Get Your Gun,â âBrigadoon,â and dozens more. With an extra major in secondary education, Dean was Head of Theatre at the prestigious preparatory school, Le Lycee Francais de Los Angeles, whose many illustrious former students (some of whom were in Dean’s classes) included Claire Danes, LeeLee Sobieski, Danica McKellar, & Jodie Foster. Dean lives in Rancho Mirage, California with his dog, Jonah.
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As I approached my senior years, I really wanted to put my ideas on paper, so I spent the last decade of my life writing these five different plays that are described on the following pages. I spent a great deal of time and resources getting them designed and structured in just the way I imagined them. Once this was done, I enthusiastically sent them out to different royalty houses for consideration (i.e Samuel French and Dramatists Guild etc.), and boy was I surprised at the replies! While I was most grateful for their encouraging responses, I was told that I must re-type ALL of them again in a different format before submission is even possible. I foolishly didn’t check with them first to see if the format requirements might have changed since I first starting reading scripts over fifty years ago. Back then, all the dialogue I saw listed the characters’ names on the far left of the page with their spoken words to the immediate right. But I was since informed that NOW the characters’ names have to be âcenteredâ in the middle of the page with the spoken dialogue below it starting on the far left.
While I respected their particular criterion, I had spent so much time (and even money) writing and re-writing (and re-writing again!) and formatting and designing my plays in just the way I wanted, that I simply couldn’t reconcile ALL the wasted time and funds I would have spent working on my plays only to be told I have to start all over from the beginning. It was then that I got the inspiration to try and become an independent contractor myself and market my own plays here on the web. I just felt I couldn’t leave the planet one day without at least first trying to see if other producers and theatregoers might also feel the same way about my plays as I did. I’ve happily come to discover that many have!
A synopsis and cast/set requirement for each of my five plays follows on the subsequent pages. If you are a producer or artistic director associated with any active, performing theatre company, I would be overjoyed to send you a perusal copy of one my plays, on my dime, for you to consider seeing if it is something you might like to offer in your season. While some of my plays have been performed, or at least had staged-readings, some have not, and YOUR company might just be the first one to offer a new world premiere! All my plays are copyrighted and vetted by an entertainment attorney. If a play of mine is selected for your theatre, I would release the performance rights to you through my lawyer or notary public for your designated performances. I did check with other royalty houses, and while I  respected that remuneration from royalties was a standard right for any playwright, I personally felt that the prospect of getting an original play âon the boardsâ was of more importance to me than the funds it could generate. And on that premise alone, I will decide, based on what your number of seats and admission prices might be, to set my own royalties a bit lower than what I was normally seeing out there. Having produced theatre myself over the years, I was sensitive to companies on a tighter budget.
    Please enjoy my descriptions of my plays on the following five pages, a mixture of comedy, farce, drama, and even two are actually âtrue-crimeâ plays. I have no idea how my liking Broadway musicals also translated one day to writing about serial murders, on two different occasions, but I followed my heart and went with my gut feeling that it could make for some very riveting theatre. I hope it might draw you in, too, and your company will eagerly want to explore production possibilities.
Here is a Sneak Peak of One of The Plays
A Streetcar Named Retire
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Buckle up for a delightfully uproarious ride into the golden years of Tennessee Williamsâ most iconic trio! A Streetcar Named Retire whisks audiences 50 years into the future, where Blanche DuBois, still fabulously delusional, escapes her mental institution and crashes into the tacky-but-charming retirement life of Stella and Stanley Kowalski in sunny Shady Pines, Florida! đ´â¨
Blanche spins a wild tale of mountain chalets, Italian villas, and phantom husbands (RIP, Shep Huntleigh!), while Stanleyâstill as brash as everâsniffs out her tall tales with hilarious suspicion. But wait! Enter Junior Kowalski, their very modern son, and his swoon-worthy boyfriend, who unwittingly becomes the target of Blancheâs undimmed flirtations. Cue chaos, revelations, and a heartwarming dash of generational clashing!
This laugh-out-loud comedy sparkles with wit, nostalgia, and a fresh twist on beloved characters. Imagine Golden Girls meets Williamsâ poetic chaos, complete with retirement-home shenanigans, secret warrants, and a dash of âWhoâs Afraid of Virginia Woolf?â energy. đđ
Why youâll love it:
Blancheâs encore! Her delusions are bigger, bolder, and funnier than ever.
Stanley unchained! Still roaring, still schemingâbut maybe, just maybe, softer around the edges?
Junior steals the show! A Gen-X gem challenging dadâs machismo with heart and humor.
Legal eagle note: Fear not, theater buffs! This parodyâs been crafted with love (and lawyers), honoring Williamsâ legacy while swinging open the retirement community gates. đď¸â¨
Come for the nostalgia, stay for the laughsâthis streetcarâs final stop is pure joy! đđŤ
Cast:Â 4M, 3F |Â Set:Â One vibrant Florida retirement oasis |Â Run time:Â 2 hours of rollicking fun (with intermission for cocktail refills!).
âA triumph of wit and whimsy! Proof that some storiesâand some divasâonly get better with age.â đ
