Luke Herzog
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From the Top

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FULL-LENGTH - A stage play composed of six vignettes, each featuring two characters, all peripheral figures in the Lincoln assassination, all with their own riveting perspectives, each revealing another golden nugget of forgotten history.
To glue these vignettes together, my play features one recurring scene: An officer from the War Department forces the shaken cast to re-stage their play, Our American Cousin, in order to work out a timeline of who was where when during the shooting. This bizarre event actually took place mere days after the assassination. An encore under duress. 
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We Open on a Red Desert...

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FULL-LENGTH - In the year 2037, on the eve of an historic landing, NASA secretly hires six Hollywood writers to brainstorm the first words on Mars.
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Human Beings (& Parts Thereof)

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FULL-LENGTH - A superhero courtroom drama based on a real court case from the early 2000s: Toy Biz, Inc. v. United States. Because of a quirk of trade law, Marvel Comics realized they could potentially save hundreds of thousands of dollars in action figure tariffs if they argued that the beloved X-Men were not human beings.
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Going Up

MUSICAL, FULL-LENGTH - Six flawed strangers find themselves trapped in an elevator and evaluating their existence. When a cord snaps and the elevator plummets several stories, they are forced to come to terms with the fact that they are the recently deceased. Facing the prospect of death, they wonder: Are we going up... or down?
A musical tragicomedy with 10 original songs. Composition by Max Afifi. Music on Spotify & iTunes.
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Post Mortem: A Mailman Musical

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MUSICAL, FULL-LENGTH - A musical comedy celebrating the U.S. Postal Service and its battle to remain relevant as the internet upends the status quo of a small town. ​

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  • Home
  • Bio
  • Humor Writing
  • Plays
    • Full-Length >
      • From the Top
      • We Open on a Red Desert
      • HUMAN BEINGS (& Parts Thereof)
      • Going Up
    • One-Acts >
      • Pulling the Switch
      • Meteoric
    • Ten-Minute >
      • The 7th Inversion
      • Intermission
      • Last Laugh
    • Screenplays
  • Books
  • Honors
  • Press
  • Contact