Jon Tuttle – författare

2m., 2f. / Full Length, Comedy / Interior George shoots a schnauzer and brings it triumphantly back to Zee, who stuffs his pillowcase with bloody fish parts. Fighting ensues, and the flood water outside is rising. For some reason, teenager daughter Annie dreams of escape from all this. Into their mountain cabin stumbles poor Frank, the perfect replacement for the son they lost. Now if only they can keep him without killing him, too. A Fish Story is a 'funny, engaging yarn' (Modesto Bee) about coming to terms with loss and the love that transcends the damage a family can do to itself. 'You won't want this one to get away,' wrote the Union (CA) Democrat. 'It's hilarious. I like poignancy laced with humor, and A Fish Story gave me more than my limit of laughs.' A Fish Story has four characters, one set, and exactly one twist more than you think.

The only book of its kind, South Carolina Onstage offers a collection of plays spanning two hundred years, all by South Carolina authors. It begins with a concise history of the theater in the Palmetto State, from the first dramatic production in Charleston in 1735 and the golden age of the Dock Street and Charleston Theaters, through the rise of opera houses and community theatres across the state, to the dynamic dramatic culture South Carolina today enjoys. Each of the seven plays in Jon W. Tuttle's curated volume illuminates a different moment in South Carolina's history and is prefaced by an introductory essay. The plays included are William Ioor's The Battle of The Eutaw Springs (1807), John Blake White's Modern Honor (1812), Sarah Pogson's Young Carolinians (1818), William Gilmore Simms's Michael Bonham (1855), Rebecca Dial's Sand (1920), Alice Childress's Wedding Band (1966), and Sarah Hammond's Kudzu (2003). Collectively, the plays trace the compelling history of South Carolina drama and capture the rich diversity of the state's playwrights.

The Trustus Plays collects three full-length, award-winning performance texts by American playwright Jon Tuttle. Each play was a winner of the national Trustus Playwrights Festival contest and was then produced by the Trustus Theatre in Columbia, South Carolina. The Hammerstone is a comedy about two professors aging gracelessly, Drift is a dark comedy about marriage and divorce, and Holy Ghost is the story of German POWs held in the camps in the American south. Jon Tuttle provides an introduction to the plays, and Trustus founder and artistic director, Jim Thigpen, offers a preface describing Tuttle’s work within the context of the Trustus theatre’s dedication to experimental, edgy social drama.