Michael Clossin
Born and raised in Frankfort, Indiana, Michael Clossin graduated from Indiana University with a BA in English and a minor in Theatre & Drama. He worked many seasons of summer stock theatre as an actor, director and set designer. He directed high school theatre for ten years before drifting down to Texas. While living in Austin he worked various random jobs in the motion picture business including: getting shot in the back in The Alamo, driving Claire Danes to set every day and posing as a stand-in for Pierce Brosnan. Back home again in Indiana, Mike works part-time as the Outreach Coordinator at the Frankfort Community Public Library and recently he’s been spending the rest of his time writing plays.
Keep the Change New Release
Comedy by Michael Clossin
68 pages
3 m, 5 w, plus one offstage female voice
Meet the residents of Moonshadow Apartments: Irene and two of her favorite tenants—Henry and Shake. Henry is secretly in love with longtime friend and content creator Emma. When she invites Henry to accompany her to a distant tropical paradise, he must choose between his comfortable, controlled existence or the intimidating world outside his door. Advising Henry is his elderly, still-a-hippie landlady Irene. She’s at a crossroads in her life as her guardian niece Sloane and her lawyer Miss Penny are plotting to oust Irene and take control of the building. Ire...
Don’t Give Up Because New Release
Comedy by Michael Clossin
60 pages
7 m, 5 w
Inspired by the screwball movie comedies of the 1930s and ‘40s, Don’t Give Up Because tells the story of Faye Burntwhistle, a cocktail waitress who is determined to marry a wealthy man. Faye falls in love with the heir to an Italian family fortune, but because he fears that women only love him for his money, she concocts a fiction that she is also an heir to an enormous family fortune. She is surprised when she gets the news that he’s coming to visit her “mansion” in Indianapolis and meet her well-to-do “family.” So Faye recruits several members of t...