Welcome to my website! - just below you can read my diary for free, chronicling my playwriting efforts these past many years - below the diary are the full scripts of all the plays referenced in the diary, which you can also read for free - some have already been produced, and some are not yet produced - if you are interested in producing one of my plays you can reach me at edballou@icloud.com and I will respond - Ed

What the Hell With the Hat by Ed Ballou on Scribd

My latest one-act play about a couple forced to confront their relationship during shelter-in-place - she shelters with her books and he shelters in his old Mercedes diesel..

Pocket-Pocketa by Ed Ballou

My one-act play about a battling alcoholic couple whose lives are intersected by a young man unlucky in love and suicidally bent - produced this past summer in Greenwich Village - recently produced as a Zoom play, and available now for free viewing on YouTube - just type Pocketa-Pocketa into the search bar, or click on this link:

https://youtu.be/_h3fBIHxXV4

the Glimmer PDF by Ed Ballou on Scribd

My one-act about an American couple who lived too close to a nuclear power plant and mutated - produced in Vancouver, British Columbia in 2008..

Nuclear Fall-In by Ed Ballou on Scribd

My full-length comedy about a dishwasher who moonlights as a jazz DJ - self-produced in San Francisco in 2010..

Another Depression by Ed Ballou on Scribd

My one-act about a man whose job describes him as a number - produced in San Jose in 1972 and in New York City in 2019..

On the Celebration of Being... by Ed Ballou on Scribd

My one-act comedy about a couple who have a Mars Viking Lander mistakenly land in their dining room overnight - produced in Berkeley in 1982..

Is There Life on Mars? by Ed Ballou on Scribd

Not yet produced..

Crest of the Waves by Ed Ballou on Scribd

Not yet produced..

Tapestry of a Conquest by Ed Ballou on Scribd

Not yet produced..

The Glimmer Full-length by Ed Ballou on Scribd

Romantic writers in 1816 challenge each other to write a ghost story on a rainy night in a villa in Switzerland, resulting in the appearance of an ancient Persian mystic, doppelgängers, and the birth of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ - not yet produced..

Lake Gothic by Ed Ballou on Scribd

Not yet produced..

Lake Brimstone - a Gothic play by Ed Ballou on Scribd

Not yet produced..

Last Teller by Ed Ballou on Scribd

My one-act whodunnit about a the theft of a bar in a safe overnight - produced in New York City in 2019..

Push the Lever by Ed Ballou on Scribd

My one-act about a family living on the edge of a freeway, waiting for redemption - produced in Berkeley, California, in 1970..

The Flophouse by Ed Ballou on Scribd

Not yet produced..

Operation Sea Dog by Ed Ballou on Scribd

Not yet produced..