>> DONOR
Written by Vincent Riverside, Bruce McBurney and Chili Bowles
Directed by Vincent Riverside
April-May 2001; Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Sonoma

“… The right to receive a healthy organ is the privilege of every person in the World Confederation” excerpt, Citizens Handbook, the Donor Lottery, Right and Responsibility.

Picture if you will, a different America, where organ donation is assured via a citizenry-wide lottery. For one night, 8 strangers will be locked up together, waiting for the morning. From varied walks of life and outlooks, one of them will be chosen. One of them will never leave this facility. One of them will be the donor.

>> SHOCK TALK IN A QUIET PLACE
A Two-Night Series of Six One-Acts, Performed on Consecutive nights.
Written by Robert Leroy, Naropa Sabine, Chili Bowles, Scott Bray and Bruce McBurney
Directed by Vincent Riverside
November 2002, Los Angeles

>> A NIGHT IN THE PARK NIGHT: Low and Outside, Michigan 49093, Shock Talk In A Quiet Place
Look through the fence. Look out the window. Do you see that man there? Like all of us, he’s trying to throw the heat…he’s alone on his mound…Or is he? See out the window. There are two men in the park. The streetlights are on, but all you see is dark. She stares through the window. It’s the lonely girl, who hears the birds singing…What do you hear, when she turns out the light?

A NIGHT AT THE APARTMENT: 3 AM, Indiana Mutual, The Water
Look in the window. It’s late at night; brother and sister, cold lonely night. Here’s another window, and there’s a battle at hand, or just two couples, who have had too much to drink. See in the window, the faucet is on…Is the water too hot, or just right?

>> SWIVEL
A Series of Comedy One-Acts: Blind Date, My What Big Teeth You Have, Swivel
Written by Vincent Riverside and Bruce McBurney and Matthew Light
Directed by Vincent Riverside and Bruce McBurney
September 2003, San Francisco and Los Angeles

Is the whole of our reality spinning?
Galaxies rotate planets revolve electrons dance in the tiniest of orbits and life seems to go by faster and faster every day. Stop, ask yourself this question; are you going anywhere, do you ever really get anywhere, or do you just seem to stay in one spot while you spin faster and faster?
…Do you swivel?

>> DEATH ISN’T FUNNY…SERIOUSLY
Written by McBurney/Riverside
Directed by McBurney/Riverside
June 2004, San Francisco

If “All theWorld” is truly a stage, then Death is our Final Act of fretting and strutting, and the Funeral is our Curtain Call. So go ahead, grab the roses, blow kisses to your adoring fans and sing ‘I Did It My Way’ one last time…Then again, are Funerals for the Dead or for the Living? Go ahead and laugh. You remember the last time that you stifled a laugh at a funeral, don’t you?

Besides, here at Gustav Craven’s we put the FUN back in Funeral!

>> BEFORE IT’S DONNE
Written by McBurney/Riverside
Directed by Vincent Riverside
June 2004, Los Angeles

Somewhere between the writer and the page…

A SLIP of the tongue or a slip of the mind; the act of creation can be a slippery slope. The art creates me as much as I create the art. Where is my ending and its beginning? Are we not the same? Or maybe we’re one? Either way, you’re the one who hears the voices, taking dictation in the dark. But She’s the one doing the talking. My Art is a harsh mistress…

>> DOCTOR, TAPE IS OUT
Written by McBurney/Riverside
Directed by Vincent Riverside
June 2005, San Francisco and Los Angeles

“Because you have to talk about something, Henry.”

What promises do you keep? Cards on the table, Honest-to-God TRUTH. What makes up a person? Is it your job, your family, friends, past, words, your deeds or your beliefs? Underneath the façade, the outer skin the shell you portray - somewhere deep inside within the molten core of being – crystallized beneath the weight of the world. Do you know who you are; what you stand for? Can someone else tell you, some Doctor with a degree? If you never stand up for something in a crumbling world, will you just fall for anything? What promises do you keep? To yourself…?

>> HER BENCH
Written by Jason DiLorenzo, Scott Bray and Vincent Riverside
Directed by Jason DiLorenzo and Scott Bray
January 2006, San Francisco

It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a wonderful day in the neighborhood, would you be mine, could you be…oh screw it. It’s just another muggy day on the wrong side of town. You can smell Jimmy’s famous rigatoni from up the street, James is late for another business meeting, and Curtis is walking the block like a lost white brother from the Wu Tang Clan. And although you never know what’s going to pop off in the neighborhood, you always know one thing…Doris will be there…watching it all…keeping the hustlers honest, the world safe from communism and most importantly to Rose…uh, I mean , Doris… getting paid.