R.G. Rader: Playwright and Screenwriter

Editor, Dramatic Writing & Poetry Clockhouse Review 2011-2013

Playwright in Residence/Bradford Little Theatre 2000

Original Works: Producing and Promoting Original Plays by Chris Mackowski

Chapter 10 on 'Writers in Residence' where my work with the Bradford Little Theatre in Pennsylvania is discussed as a primary example of how playwrights can work with community theaters as a means to prepare and have actors perform their work in preparation for larger venues. My play Heart-Beat had its first reading and two years later the world premiere performance in the context of the initial visit as Playwright in Residence at the Bradford Little Theatre.

William Carlos Williams Center for the Performing Arts 1990-1994

Playwright in Residence 1990-91

Writer/Poet in Residence 1992-94

Meadowlands Theatre Company Board of Trustees

Board Member 1992-1995

SCREENPLAYS

2019 The Suit (Nocking Point Productions, Ltd)

2017 Click (Nocking Point Productions, Ltd)

2015 Spit (Nocking Point Productions, Ltd)

STAGE PLAYS

Full Lengths/One Acts

2011 Flow (Updated version)
2009 Women

2005   Truck Stop (Wrote all monologues)
2002    Heart-Beat (University of Pittsburgh: Bradford) (See Above)
1999    Flow (Version One)
1996   Perfect Joy (Tour)

1995 The Gift of The Magi (a stage adaptation of O’Henry’s short story)

William Carlos Williams Center for the Performing Arts

1993 Al's Wager William Carlos Williams Center for the Performing Arts

1991 The Stream William Carlos Williams Center for the Perfoing Arts

Shorts (5-20 minutes) (Performed)

2022 For the Love of Rosa

Accepted into the New York Theater Festival Fall/Winterfest
and performed at Teatro Latea Theater in New York City

2016 CLICK

Accepted into the Midtown International Theatre Festival Short Play Lab and performed in New York City

2015 For the Love of Rosa

Accepted into the Midtown International Theatre Festival Short Play Lab and performed at The Davenport Theater in New York City

2013 Piano

2010 Older Women
2008 Lunch (Spanish/English Version)
2007 Stop The Fighting (A contemporary rendering of a scene

from the play “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes)

2007 The Suitcase
2006 Lunch

2005 A Shapely End
1999 Fishbowl
1993 Judas: A Short Meditation (1993) (Off-off Broadway production)

Published or Performed Monologues:

2008    Jackie       (Published 2011 The Clockhouse Review, Vermont)
2008    The Way She Sits (Published 2011 The Clockhouse Review, Vermont)
2006    The Fireman

Published or Performed Dialogues (5 minutes or less):

2000 The Logical Thing    (Published/Performed 2002, California)
1999   Music
1999     Godlike

AUDIO PLAYS

Mirror (2005)

Spit A 2004 Script Grand Prize Winner,

The National Audio Theatre Festivals

The Wind at Our Back A 2002 Script Grand Prize Winner

The National Audio Theatre Festivals
The Wind at Our Back was produced by the National Audio Theatre Festivals Summer Workshops 2003 (directed by Jeffrey Hedquist and Elaine Bankston Speer with Assistant Director T.C. West)

Broadcast on radio stations throughout the United States
To Listen, click on link: https://beta.prx.org/stories/1218

2006	"The Wind At Our Back" by R.G. Rader, included in the "The Best of Radio Works"-- produced by the National Audio Theatre Festivals; Sue Zizza, Executive Director.