Matthew Ethan Davis
Playwright.Screenwriter.Actor
Full Length Plays
An Envelope In the Wind - a Haunted House Ghost Story
A woman with amnesia about her whole life finds herself in a house with a woman claiming to be her long lost sister. Is she? Is this the house the two have inherited? Is it haunted? Why are footprints appearing and disappearing? Is there a murderer in the woods, on the roof? What is that crying she keeps hearing? And why is she the only one who hears and sees these things.
Truth Be Told?
With romantic love when is it challenging and when does it cross that line to abuse? With domestic violence, it isn’t always clear who is actually being battered. The first half of the play two men act out the testimony of the man accusing his mate of domestic abuse. In the second half, the same two actors present the contrasting man’s version of the abuse that he experienced. Who was truly battered in this relationship?
Husbands
Do you know the one about three men who walk into a coffee bar? One is married with 11 kids. One has not had sex with his husband for years. The third is homophobic and married to someone transitioning to be a man. Meeting regularly, Over the course of a year, these three very different husbands turn their lives upside down and inside out and find a closeness that none of them could ever have imagined.
Vagabond is set in 1853 America, the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution, as well as the end of the traditional shoemaker, a gay vagabond who claims to have a direct access to Jesus and falls in love with a small-town male shoemaker. Their romance turns his life and the lives of the other shoemakers upside down.
An Abnormality of the Mind explores not only the intricacies and lifelong effects of sexual child abuse from the perspectives of predators and victims but also the absurdity of our court system. If a sex offender who has served time in prison can be released back into society. But where is the crystal ball?
Loving Diamond is a gay romantic comedy is about, Aiden, a newly sober one-time chef returning to the lover he abandoned, Diamond, a man who believes he has a direct line to God inside him. Aiden brings with him Star, a homeless girl he wants them both to adopt and become a family. Due to the abandonment, they clash until they finally come together to make love, just as Chester, Diamond’s fiancé walks in.
Lost Ticket Stubs On the Carnival Grounds is an absurdist comedy about four vagabonds who run a crumbling traveling amusement park, struggling to survive the park’s financial demise, unreasonable love and deal with Reality which is often absurd at best.
Walker is an absurdist comedy about Walker, a banker who steals fake cash to uplift his low-self-esteem, Ryan, his lover, who wrangles with contradictory memories of how they met and Paige, a cabaret singer who only knows one song, as the three stumble along in their struggle to find meaning in this absurd universe.
Riptide is about a play about a gay sex addict who relapses threatening his long-term relationship, as well as his life. His struggle to find the root cause of his addiction takes him down a path too dark for him the handle.
One-Act Plays
Sleep With Me at Your Own Risk is a comedy about a man who has a life and death sleepwalking problem and tries to solve it by sharing it all with an audience. While talking he relives all the experiences as if they were happening in the moment and range from the absurd, walking out of his apartment naked to the dangerous, attacking his lover in his sleep.
Super Romantic!
A young woman sits at a bus stop, dreaming of her Prince Charming coming along, until he does. Halfway into a whirlwind romance, she realizes the whole love affair was just a daydream—that is, until the Prince Charming from her dream shows up in real life with a romantic proposal.
Hedda Gabler – Part Two A comedy about Hedda Gabler raging against Nora getting a sequel.
The Three Minute Hamlet
A comedy about Hamlet going to group therapy because he keeps seeing his dead father.
A Midlife’s Dream
A young couple, watching A Midsummer’s Night Dream, swear eternal love. Ten years later, on the verge of divorce, they return to watch the same play until the younger couple and the older couple become one.
Prometheus All Bound
A comedy about Prometheus being tied to a rock as his eternal punishment. Lucky for Prometheus, his imprisonment is his biggest turn-on.
Salty Tears
Christopher Columbus, on the night before he sailed, discovers a new world when his mapmaker gives him an erotic back rub.
Garden Street
Adam and Eve live happily in the Garden of Eden until the Devil, not a snake, but a businessman, comes to buy the property so he can use it as a launching pad for bombing what will eventually become all of humanity.
A Reflection From the Moon
A drama about a 63-year-old mother trying to prevent her 42-year-old mentally ill daughter from killing herself.
The Train Goes Round ‘n Round
A drama about a guilt-ridden middle-aged man who has put his helpless father in a nursing home which now threatens to evict him because the father is too sick, even for them.
Property
A drama about a woman struggling to leave her mentally ill husband as she is pulled by his pleading, as well as her own need for him.
Tracking
A drama about a teenage brother and sister who escape to an abandoned railroad track after the sister has murdered their father to avoid him raping her, once again.
Looking Back – A Dance
A comedy/drama about a homeless person struggling to get their best friend to leave the abandoned building they are living in, before it gets demolished with them inside.
A Dark Suit in Honolulu
A gay journalism graduate student finds and confronts his gay professor, a self-proclaimed leader of Marxism with whom he had an affair. His confrontation ends up putting his own life-long relationship at risk.
A Little Class
A journalism graduate student finds and confronts his professor, a self-proclaimed leader of Marxism with whom he had an affair, threatening his own lifetime relationship.
Hinderance
A mother confronts a principal, who is also a mother, about her son being bullied in the school only to find out they have common ground.
Highway 5.9
A tacky singer in a diner on Highway 59, the middle-of-nowhere America, on Christmas Eve, relives to the three customers, scenes from her marriage destroyed by debt.
Andreas
A comedy about a man who leaves his job to live in the mountains and get away from it all. This becomes very literal when he is befriended by an alien who takes him to his planet.
The Funeral Home
A comedy about a daughter bringing her mother to a funeral home, to help her mom look at her husband in his coffin, while the mother thinks she’s there to pick up men.
Crash
A family drama about two drunk parents fighting about their marriage while risking the life of their son in the backseat.
Down the Hall
A drama about two siblings, speaking in a coded language only they understand, with one trying to give the other the courage to have their first shock treatment.
Mountain
A man tries to convince a friend to join him on a trek to the top of a freezing mountain without clothes or food because God told him to. He keeps trying until he realizes he’s alone and talking to himself.
Needle in Your Life
A young man goes to his estranged father to overdose and die. Is it love or revenge?
The Window
A young woman tracks down her birth mother who abandoned her only to find out she’s a sex worker.
Wooden Planks Beneath the Rottin’ River Bar
A comedy/drama about two skid-row alcoholics trying to figure out if they are brothers and how to live through the sunrise.
Through the Floor
A comedy about a young man who is so bashful about asking his date for a kiss, he falls through the earth and hangs onto a star, billions of miles away.
Sinking
A comedy about a happily married couple who one day find a sink has appeared in their kitchen, resulting in a terrible drama.
Sitting Cross-Legged on Leaves Floating Down a Wild River
A comedy about two people taking a yoga class who wake up to find themselves a mere two inches tall, floating on leaves down a wild river.