Richard
Byrne
We're bringing the true American story of Davy Crockett's political career to audiences in 2026. Hop on our musical bandwagon!
Coming Soon:
Beauty Doesn't Reach Me
The tragedy and buried scandals behind antifascist playwright Ernst Toller's death mask.
Read about our discovery about a work of public art at a toxic intersection between secrecy and commodity.
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NOW AVAILABLE! A bilingual (English/German) edition of the play from Moloko Print.
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Three lives intersected in a Manhattan hotel in 1939 - a landscape of political refugees, growing fascism, and attempts to rewrite history.
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Semifinalist, 2019 Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference.​
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A once-famous starlet of Nazi film is condemned to haunt the waters of a tortured afterlife. In folklore, such water spirits often reemerge in human form to lure us back into the depths with them.
Can the famous “drowned girl” of the Third Reich cinema find redemption by retelling her tale of complicity with evil – or remain banished in her watery oblivion?
Love. Lies. Riots. Revolution. Spend the night with a firebrand. The dancer who brought down a king in 1848 tells her picaresque tale of celebrity and scandal.
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"One of the most fascinating Fringe shows I've seen..." -- Broadway World
"[A] bona-fide hit musical, from the pen of Richard Byrne." - Broadway World
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"... a fun romp that effortlessly links ancient themes of imperial deification & the 20th century cult of rock and roll." - MD Theatre Guide
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World Premiere: May 2014 at WSC/Avant Bard
Six monologues, filmed in 2020 by Pandora Machine and Mind the Gap, explore how COVID-19 rippled through our lives.​​​ Featured in the Vancouver and Prague Fringe Festivals​​​
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"[A] series of short monologues for YouTube that have captured a world wide following." -- DC Theatre Scene
Recent Writing
The amazing story of how two American women
became war correspondents in 1897 Greece.
Secrets. Power. NDAs. Harassment. My journey to tthe dark heart of Kryptos K4 auction.
How the Velvet Revolution - and an American grad student - inspired Bohumil Hrabal.
Was Lola Montez a revolutionary figure? An opportunistic reactionary? Both?
Ivan Sviták, the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968 -- and free thought in a post-truth age.
How did the streets of Hong Kong become a teeming laboratory for protest in a surveillance state?
(C) 2026 by Richard Byrne