2025 ended with a bang — had a great reading of my new full-length play Community Christmas — which focuses on the challenging of aging for Mr. & Mrs. Santa Claus — hilarity ensues. Earlier in the year, my full-length play The Past is Present made the Finals (top 15) of the Pegassus Playlab… and my short play Salvation on Westwood Blvd. was part of my writers’ and actors’ group Fierce Backbone’s “Think and Imagine” series of plays. Pictured on the left, two of my fabulous actors from it, Jessica Rau and Paul Dateh. Then I had two more short fantastic theatrical adventures in 2025 — Alliance of L.A. Playwrights produced I’m Not There Yet in their July MADness event and my 10-minute comedy-as-a-gameshow Congressional Craziness went up to help raise funds for Democracy Action Network’s fundraiser. It was as zany as it sounds!
In 2022 the Alliance of LA Playwrights chose my short play Dyke-Doggie Patrol to be part of their Gay Pride Reading Festival in conjunction with the City of West Hollywood. Pictured top left, top-notch director Ann Ryerson, then below her is yours truly with a pen in my mouth. Our adorable doggie cast included Renee DeBevoise (top right), Starina Johnson, Holger Moncada Jr. (bottom left) and Frank Dooley.
More fun news about my plays!
Community made the finals (top 12) of the American Association of Community Theatres contest and the finals of Sacramento’s B Street Theatre’s New Comedies Play Festival.
Connectivity made the finals of the Garry Marshall New Works Festival.
Handcrafted Healing was selected for Athena Project’s Plays in Progress in Denver.
All are available for production…send inquiries to nancybeverly818 at gmail.com. Thanks!
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Handcrafted Healing
Build a new table to seat a family of ten? No problem. Navigate a life-threatening illness with the same precision and grace? The challenge of a lifetime. Master craftswoman Cam, and her partner Meredith, thread their way through bewildering treatments while grappling with the impact their choices have as they desperately hold on to their lives.
Community
Elliot is suffering the slings and arrows of an actor working in L.A. when he faces a critical choice: the lead in a community theatre play (and dealing with the wacky characters there) or a tiny part in a highly-respected Westside theatre (and dealing with the narcissistic nutjobs there). Set against the struggles of his personal life on the financial and the dating fronts, what Elliot really needs to do is knock off the complaining and learn to appreciate wherever he finds himself – even at a hair-raising and hilarious opening night.
Connectivity
On a remote South Pacific island, two strangers meet, I.T. tech / engineer Arnie and set decorator Annabelle. These two opposites don’t connect at all in their first chance encounter, but a serious accident forces them to deal with each other – and examine their history of relationships and how they want to connect going forward, whether it’s with each other or not. Added in to the mix: Nurse Penina at the island’s tiny hospital who offers insights to both but has her own connectivity issues as she finds that her marriage and life on this tiny island don’t offer all she dreams of.
