The Official Site of Author Edward Bloor

My ten-minute play The Next Right Thing has been chosen to be part of Broward College’s “Take Ten!” play festival. Due to Covid, the plays will now be recorded and streamed online.

The Next Right Thing will stream on Saturday night, April 24, at or about 8 pm. Tickets are free, but they do ask you to register. Here is the link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/take-ten-broward-colleges-original-short-play-festival-tickets-135580469835?aff=ebdssbeac

I have a new book out that is a collaboration with my daughter Amanda and my grandniece Kristina. It is a rollicking time travel story with lots of illustrations, and it just might change the world. Check out the Mimi page on this website.

Thanks to the great cast and crew of Miami’s Fantasy Theatre Factory for their moving presentation of Centennial.

https://www.abc-7.com/story/41638981/fgcu-gives-children-free-books-at-literacy-festival

(Update: Looks like the video has expired.)

Good news from the University of Central Florida Theatre Department! Centennial has been chosen as a finalist in their Pegasus PlayLab Workshop competition for the 2020 season.

The Star in the East, my new Christmas story about love, the US Postal Service, and comets, is now available on demand from Chapbook Press.

See The Star in the East page!

Many Mansions, my first adult mystery, complete with bad language, is now available on demand from Chapbook Press.

See the Many Mansions page!

My two new plays, CENTENNIAL and FIRESIDE CHATS, are now available on demand, in book form. (They are not currently available in e-formats.) If you would like to order copies, please connect to this link:
http://www.schulerbooks.com/chapbook-press
Then click on the CENTENNIAL and FIRESIDE CHATS covers.
Here are the plays’ summaries:
CENTENNIAL—
Art teacher Betty Parsons is pulled from her classroom by the principal, Dr. Kammer, to organize Caledonia High’s annual Veterans Day assembly. Dr. Kammer orders her to “keep it simple,” but that proves to be impossible as students and a teacher from a century before materialize. They turn a rote Veterans Day assembly into something real, and disturbing, and not at all simple, showing a stunned assembly audience the true costs of the Great War.
FIRESIDE CHATS—
Annie rises from a wheelchair to lead us on an extraordinary walk through her life. A spirited, rambunctious girl, Annie is struck down in 1933 by the summer plague, polio. As compensation, she finds she has been given a remarkable gift: The ability to summon people to the in-between time. Annie uses this gift to summon the four most powerful men in the world—Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, and Joseph Stalin. They interact with Annie, her family, and each other with comic and then tragic consequences.