The One Booth Joint: Finale
November 2005
The One Booth Joint was probably the crowning achievement of The Coop Theatre Company - a serial play that ran for four years, and played to sold out houses for most of its run.
I met the Coop Theatre Company just as the play was coming to the end of its cycle, and was invited to be a co-writer on the finale episode. I joined co-creators of the series COREY SHANE LOVE and LUIS REYES, along with the O'Neill semi-finalist - and brilliant playwright - JOHN FRANK, graphic novelist and TV writer CHRISTINE BOYLAN, and playwright DARREL A. HOLMES for a madcap group-write that involved not only trying to create an appropriate ending to a four year long story, but keeping a delicate balance between six writers' egos while doing it!
The show was loved more by the audience than by the critics - but I was damn pleased with what I wrote, and I learned a lot about collaborative writing in the process!
HBO's KRISTIN PROCTOR gives COREY SHANE LOVE a little attitude.
CAST
COREY SHANE LOVE
SUNIL BHARITKAR
JANET CHAMBERLAIN
CARMEN MITCHELL
CAMERON BASS-JACKSON
JASON D. AVALOS
SILVIA SPROSS
LUKE MICHAEL
SCOTT GERARD
JENI BARTIROMO
LUCY BUSH
MELANIE MILLER
KRISTIN PROCTOR
JOHN FRANK
MARIE BERGENHOLTZ
GAYLE DAY
CHRISTY BUCHHOLZ
Directed by
JEFFREY VANDERBYL
Written by
CHRISTINE BOYLAN
JOHN FRANK
DARREL A. HOLMES
ARTHUR M. JOLLY
LUIS REYES