My husband and I are directors of a community theatre group and we love to put on shows that are a little out of the ordinary! While the rest do "Arsenic and Old Lace" over and over, we did "Cannibal! The Musical" and another show that's only ever been put on once. We were wondering if Mr. Gaiman has ever written a play or has ever considered it? I wish I'd thought to ask him that a couple of years ago when we got to meet him in Northern Kentucky University. Ah well. If our group gives us the green light, we could always do "The Night of the Living Dead".....

well, congratulations for keeping up such an original work

i dunno much of neil as a playwriter (but surely our footmod GMZoe will show up with detailed information), but if you need to ask anything to him you can do so through the FAQ page: http://www.neilgaiman.com/faq/faq.asp

Mr Punch has been turned into a piece of theatre. The adaptor did post here, though i don't know if they still do.

If you're looking for a play from an unusual source (and i think that night of the living dead sounds like an excellent idea) try Clive Barkers plays, collected in incarnations and Forms of Heaven. They're bloody (most senses of the word) good.

Your theatre company sounds fantastic! If you have a website, i'd love to visit it. I'm an actress in Columbus who loves to do out-of-the-norm work, and I happen to be a big fan of Cannibal! The Musical.


(If you're into wacky musicals and you can get the rights...Reefer Madness: The Musical was a blast to work on).

Have a schpedoinkle day!

Allo! Neil has not created any pieces for stage, however, many of his pieces have been adapted for the stage*. There is no resource listing everything that has been adapted or how to contact the various people for scripts.
Since Neil started blogging, he's mentioned a few in his blog, and often provided links. If you use the search function on his blog, you should be able to track a few adaptations down.

*Various facts!
-The first piece by Neil to be adaptated to stage was Violent Cases as a one man show back in 1987 or 1988
-Technically, there is an extremely obscure play that Neil may or may not have cowrote (I just don't have much info on it):
"Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock" (with Brian Smedley, Eugene Byrne & Kim Newman). Photo at the bottom of the page here, a little info here
-Neil has collaborated on an opera version of The Wolves IN The Walls, mentioned frequently in his blog, but he has yet to mention it opening

night of the living dead would adapt wonderfully to stage!!! You Minimal change of scenes, very few effects needed, lots of character interaction and development