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Next Door Nativity

10-Minute Comedy
Sal and Zeb are staying at an inn in Bethlehem. They managed to get the last available room—unlike the couple in the stable next door.

CHARACTERS
SAL (Mary Salome)    an ambitious young mother of twin babies
ZEB (Zebedee)          Sal’s husband, an easy-going fisherman
SIMON                       a troubled teenage boy, working as an armed guard                                            

SETTING
An upper room in an inn, Bethlehem             

TIME
First day A.D.

​(online reading)
P.A.G.E.S.
New York, NY
​
December 21, 2021

​Cast: Lauren Proda (Sal), Wayne Joseph (Zeb), Daniel Strausman (Simon) 
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Wayne Joseph (Zeb), Lauren Proda (Sal) and Daniel Strausman (Simon)

(online reading)
Festive Times
​
Literary and Discourse Society
Exeter, UK
​December 19, 2021

​
​Cast: Coral Dickinson (Sal), Georgette Vale (Zeb), John Patrick Bray (Simon) 
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Georgette Vale (Zeb), Coral Dickinson (Sal) and John Patrick Bray (Simon)

(online reading)
Festivus
Playwrights on Zoom
Brick Township, New Jersey
December 17-18, 2021


​Cast: Nancy Fay (Sal), Fred Weintraub (Zeb), Ed Schilter (Simon) 

Directed by Jade Greene
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Fred Weintraub (Zeb), Nancy Fay (Sal) and Ed Schilter (Simon)

(online reading)
Tuesdays at 9 Chicago

Naked Angels
Chicago, Illinois
​December 14, 2021


​Cast: Meg Elliott (Sal), Tony Bozzuto (Zeb), Robbie Ellis (Simon) 
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Tony Bozzuto (Zeb), Meg Elliott (Sal) and Robbie Ellis (Simon)

(online reading)
Dunne's Downtime Players
Eldersburg, Maryland
December 12, 2021

​Cast:
Diane DiLillo Gutierrez (Sal), Harvey Newman (Zeb), Dennis Moran (Simon) 
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Dennis Moran (Simon) and Diane DiLillo Gutierrez (Sal)

(online reading)
Anything Goes! Theatre Lab
ANDTheatre Company
New York, NY
​
December 8, 2021 

Cast: Maggie Pitt (Sal), David Kubicka (Zeb), John Lampe (Simon) 
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David Kubicka (Zeb), Maggie Pitt (Sal) and John Lampe (Simon)

(online reading)
​Moving Parts
Paris, France
December 20, 2020

Cast: Emmanuelle Zagoria (Sal), Dario Costa (Zeb), Eliot Berger (Simon) 


​Directed by Stephanie Campion 
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Dario Costa (Zeb), Emmanuelle Zagoria (Sal) and Eliot Berger (Simon)

(online reading)
Writing Doesn't Have to Be Lonely
Northampton, UK
​December 10, 2020

​Cast: Katie Cooper (Sal), Aaron Mackenzie (Zeb), 
Siôn Rhys (Simon)
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Katie Cooper (Sal), SiƓn Rhys (Simon) and Aaron Mackenzie (Zeb)

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(Reading) 
The Leytonstone Itch
Gerry's, Theatre Royal Stratford East

London
December 9, 2017


The Night Before Christmas scratch night
Aberdeen Performing Arts
​The Lemon Tree Lounge
Aberdeen, Scotland
​December 13, 2016

Playwright interview about Next Door Nativity on Stage Explorations