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Carol Roper is an award-winning writer who has
written for, and worked with, Academy Award-winning actor, Robin Williams. She
received the Office for Advanced Drama Research Rockefeller Honorarium for her
full-length anti-war play, The Current
Rage, which had productions in
San Francisco
and
New York
.
In
Hollywood
, she wrote for Disney, United Artists, the Osmonds, NBC, ABC.
Carol taught screenwriting at the
University
of
Southern California
, and play and novel writing at the
University
of
California
,
San Diego
, Extension.
She is a lifetime member of The Writers Guild
of America and founder of Celebrationworks,
a theatre arts organization that provides a supportive environment for the
development and production of new plays,
and encouragement and space for writers and actors or all ages with
emphasis for those over 55, minorities, women and those with physical
challenges.
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Carol
recently moved back to California where she gave a writing workshop to a
packed house at the 3rd annual
Fallbrook Film Festival, and posed with honored guest George
Hamilton.
Photo
by Natalie Taylor.
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WRITER
CREDITS:
SHAKESPEARE’S
BROTHER,
the Lost Years.
(Comedy) The story of Will Shakespeare's missing teen years as told
by his younger better looking brother, Gil, weaves
together real life people from young Shakespeare’s life with fictional
characters from his plays. Produced.
Suggested/simple set, 15 characters, 7m/8f, varied ages. 70
minutes. Published, Heuer
Publishing. (Reviews enclosed)
SHAKESPEARE’S BROTHER In Love.
(Comedy) The young
Shakespeare brothers flee to a forest
sanctuary where they are
mistaken for werewolves and then ingest a potion that causes the
opposite brothers to switch personalities. (Suggested/simple set, 10
characters, (4M/5F) 45
Minutes.
HOLIDAY HOTEL,
(Comedy) Guests in the deteriorating dining room of a once famous Baja
hotel, experience an extra-terrestrial phenomenon on New Year’s Eve. (1
Set, 4M/2F, 30 minutes. ) Produced in 2008 as part of the HUMBUG
alternative to traditional holiday shows.
Mature audience.
LIAR’S POKER,
(Comedy) a young woman
encounters an older woman who is either her sister or mother. (1 set, 2F.)
13minutes. Staged reading at the Coal Creek Theatre in 2009..
ALLIGATORS, a 6 character, 2 act comedic play about a death in the family and whether
or not God exists. (1Set, 2 Acts. 6 Characters, 3M,3F. 1
set.) 100 minutes. In 2007, “Alligators” was a finalist in the Sonora
New Play Festival, and launched the Colorado Theatre Guild New Venture
series. Staged
Readings
.
THE FAVORITE SON, (comic-drama) a
4 character, 2 act play about a talented college student who joins the
Army, and his well-to-do family's attempts to dissuade him from the
commitment and the revelation of his mother's incestuous relationship with
him and his brother. (2 Acts.
4 characters, 3M/1F. 1 set. 90 minutes)
Staged
Readings
. Mature audience.
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| God’s Bread (Baked
Fresh Daily) was published by Emerson Press in 2000 to generally favorable
reviews. |
"God’s
Bread (Baked Fresh Daily), is a funny, fast-paced, mind expanding and
inspirational novel." Rev. Dr. Christian Sorensen, "Soar:
Spiritual Guidance for Overcoming Life's Turbulence."
"An
entertaining story of redemptive love and the nature of faith." Rev.
Gary Anderson, Methodist Campus Minister, University of California, San
Diego |
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