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Our short film, HENLEY, written by me and director Craig Macneill, based on the chapter “The Henley Road Motel” from my novel MISS CORPUS, is an official selection at the 2012 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL! Meet 9-year-old Ted Henley — budding motel manager and roadkill entrepreneur. Ted lives with his fa...

“Hostage Rock Musical Resonates Chillingly with Sutherlands,” Denver Post

Writer Clay McLeod Chapman, and only writer Clay McLeod Chapman, has the cojones to tell the story about “Stairway”, and have that story be about make out marathons. Link to original

Video World was tucked off into a topiary-barricaded alcove of the Stony Point Shopping Centre, a swift five-minute Schwinn sojourn from my front door. No bigger than a boutique, this early-80's video store was infinitesimal in comparison to the cancerous sprawl of the Blockbuster Video chain that h...

Meet 9-year-old Ted Henley—budding motel manager, and roadkill entrepreneur. Ted lives with his father in their run down motel on a desolate stretch of road. He earns his tiny allowance by collecting the roadkill that litters the highway. But when the motel cash register starts to run dry, Ted decid...

(2009) One actress plays three women drawn together in the grim aftermath of a high school shooting—the mother of the shooter (staph infection), one of the shooter's victims (early release), and the mother of that victim (keynote speaker). It is a deep exploration of the lives of three women that, ...

(2011) SCKBSTD is a new American musical featuring music & lyrics by Bruce Hornsby. Lyrics by Chip deMatteo. Book by Clay McLeod Chapman. Directed by John Rando. Coverage for SCKBSTD: “Beyond Whiskers and Kittens,” NY Times article

Dixon Place, New York City. 2010 to 2012. Everybody has a horror movie that scared the bejesus out of them as a kid. Every actor has one, too. Fear-Mongers: Fireside Chats about Horror Films enlists top-shelf artists to pay homage to their guiltiest pleasures: horror movies. Our guest lecturers will...

(2008) Two Americans are bound and blindfolded in a war-torn country. Facing an uncertain fate, they take refuge in music, memory and each other in this unconventional new indie-rock musical. Hostage Song is the new indie-rock musical developed by a powerhouse combo of downtown favorites: playwright...

(2006) In Junta High, Clay McLeod Chapman crafts a Sweet Valley-styled high school for terrorists where cheerleaders double as suicide bombers and guidance counselors are taken hostage by the A/V club. Holy causes worth dying for galvanize school spirits, blood is shed on the football field every Fr...

Official selection at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, “Late Bloomer” is a humorous short film about a 7th grade sexual education class gone horribly wrong. Loosely based on the dark tales of H.P. Lovecraft. Written by Clay McLeod Chapman. Directed by Craig Macneill. Selected festival highlights: Of...

(2005) The Pumpkin Pie Show in: the cardiac shadow Written by Clay McLeod Chapman Music by Joshua Camp and Michael Hearst (of One Ring Zero) Choreography by Blair Bodie Lighting design by: Sabrina Braswell Performed by: Hannah Bos, Hanna Cheek, Alexa Scott-Flaherty, Jordan Simmons, and Paul Thureen ...

(2005) The original text for Volume of Smoke is available online at Blackbird Journal: http://bit.ly/H2FB2s Volume of Smoke was an original commissioned work for The Firehouse Theater (Carol Piersol, Artistic Director) in Richmond, Virginia. Premiere: February 2005. Directed by Isaac Butler and Chap...

(1996-present) Celebrating its second decade of performances, the Pumpkin Pie Show is a literary fist in the face. Part storytelling session, part boxing match, part shamanistic ritual, the Pumpkin Pie Show has established itself as an all-points artistic hodgepodge of theatre and literature. We pic...