![]() ![]() I have made it into a period piece, set in 2006, since it is of that moment – but there are parallels and connections between that moment and this one. I am delighted, ten years later, to see Country Fried Murder produced at last, here at the Shawnee Playhouse. During the pandemic, Judy got involved more with podcasts, Zoom plays and streaming platforms two of her short plays, A Different Kind of Strong and Tourists in Dystopia, are on The Shelter Plays platform: Judy is from NYC and New Jersey, and she now lives in Nashville (since, like the characters in this play, she does write country songs!) and she teaches at Vanderbilt University.Īuthor’s Note: I wrote this play with a mystery festival in mind, but that festival disappeared during the Recession, and mystery plays can be hard to place. Others have appeared in magazines and in anthologies like Seven Hills Review and The Art of the One-Act. Three of her short plays are published, each as a stand-alone script, by Brooklyn Publishers. Three will be produced in Canada in 2022. Thirty-six of her one-act plays have been produced onstage, many with multiple productions, all over the US, and a few have gone up in the UK and Ireland. Most of her plays are dramas and comedies. Another full-length murder mystery of hers, Cell, was in a mystery festival in Kentucky, got nominated for an Edgar and is published by Samuel French/Concord: Chambers as Kyle Kathy Kerns as Martha Sophia Sutton as Tiffany Judy Jackson as Denise Alyssa Borg as Liz Robert Beard as EdĮight of Judy’s full-length plays have been produced onstage, including Country Fried Murder. Campbell Producer Katy Blake, Director Clint Aphin as Brice Laurie Canaan as Roberta Lane Wright as Charlie Jack E. ![]() Snowed in, without internet or phone, the other characters size each other up and wonder whodunit. By the time Kyle turns up dead in Act Two, everyone has a motive for killing him. ![]() He humiliates some for their songwriting, personally offends some and clashes about politics with others. Their “mentor” is an abrasive, charismatic country singer/songwriter named Kyle Samperson. A group of people gathers for a songwriters’ retreat in the Rocky Mountains in the mid-2000s. ![]()
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