Janet Schlapkohl

Work

Full Length

That Tiger Show

  • Production at The Country Theater, November 2022
  • Workshop at Theatre Resources Unlimited, July 2016

The Beggar’s Musical

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, October 2022

Invisible but Dangerous (A One-Woman Show)

  • Production at Quad Cities Theatre Workshop, December 2019

Chore Boots (A One-Woman Show)

  • Production at Simpson College, October 2018
  • Production at Quad Cities Theatre Workshop, 2017
  • Production at Iowa Theatre Artists Company, November 2016
  • Production at West Union Performing Arts Center, May 2016
  • Production at Grinnell College Center for Prairie Studies, February 2016
  • Production at Riverside Theatre, November-December 2015
  • Production at Riverside Theatre, November-December 2013

Children of the Moors (Radio Play)

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, August 2019

Shell Shocked

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, December 2017

Rattlesnake Gulch

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, July 2016

My Sister

  • Production at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, January-March 2016
  • Hollywood Fringe Festival, June 2015
  • Production at Quad City Theatre Workshop, January 2014
  • Production at Riverside Theatre, October 2013
  • Production at University of Iowa Theatre Workshop, September 2013

The Lollipop Files

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, November 2015

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – an adaptation

  • Production at Giving Tree Theatre, July 2016
  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, July 2015

Troll Music

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, March 2015

Camo! the Musical

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre and Iowa City Community Theatre, December 2014

Trubblesume Tymes at the Faire

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, July 2014

Collective Amnesia: A Study of Episodic Memory

  • Reading at The Road Theatre, September 2013
  • Production at the University of Iowa New Play Festival, May 2012

Vaudeville Dreams

  • Winner of Tallgrass Theatre Company’s 2013-2014 Iowa Playwrights Workshop
  • O’Neill Semi-Finalist, 2013
  • Production at the University of Iowa Gallery Series, December 2011
  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, December 2011

Summer Magic at the County Fair

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, July 2013

K-Dopt: An Adoption Story

  • Staged Reading at Uptown Bill’s, directed by Maggie Conroy, April 2013
  • Workshop at the University of Iowa, Spring 2012

What’s Happenin’ at the County Fair?

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, July 2012

ISO-ORBITING from GALAXY TENAJ.55

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, December 2012

Finding Asylum

  • Workshop at the University of Iowa, Fall 2011

Mystery at the County Fair

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, August 2011

Rogue’s Dance

  • Production at the University of Iowa New Play Festival, May 2011
  • Staged Reading at the University of Iowa Louis Shulman Hillel Foundation, December 2010

Triangle

  • Production at the University of Iowa Gallery Series, April 2011
  • Selected as a Labor and Working-Class History Association Event to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, March 2011
  • Featured by the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, March 2011
  • Production for the Labor Center Conference, October 2011
  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, October 2011
  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, 2004

The Plague Show

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, December 2010

Divergence

  • Runner-Up, Dreamwell Theatre’s Writers Joust, 2010
  • Staged Reading at Dreamwell Theatre, November 2010 (Iowa City, IA)
  • Finalist, New Voices Iowa Playwrights Competition, 2001
  • Staged Reading at Unexpected Company Theatre, 2001 (Des Moines, IA)

Love at the County Fair

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, August 2010

Folk Musikk

  • Production at the University of Iowa Gallery Series, May 2010

A Carol for our Times

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, December 2009

Zombie Hotel

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, July 2009

Mr. Moriani’s All-Female Circus and Western Side-Show Extravaganza

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, 2008

San Patricios

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, 2006

Pugilist

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, 2005

Jazz Funeral

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, 2003

Goldrush

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, 2003

A Christmas Carol

  • Production with Combined Efforts Theatre, 2002

Ten Minute / One Act

Working for a Laugh (co-written with Paul David Story)

  • Production at Coralville Center for the Performing Arts, 2021

Chore Boots

  • Production at Stage Left Studio in New York City, October 2014
  • Selected for Sola Voce at the EstroGenius Festival, 2014

Helen Niederhausen takes the Greyhound

  • Published in Great Lakes Review, Volume 1, Issue 2 (May 2013)
  • Presented at the 2010 Theatre Masters National MFA Playwriting Competition (Aspen, CO and New York, NY)
  • Voted “Audience Favorite” at the 2007 Six Women Playwriting Festival (Colorado Springs, CO)
  • Production at Six Women Playwriting Festival, 2007

Monologues

Valentine Bunnies

  • Performed at Riverside Theatre, Walking the Wire 2015-2016 season

P.S. I Merged

  • Performed at Riverside Theatre, Walking the Wire 2014-2015 season

Sex Education

  • Performed at Riverside Theatre, Walking the Wire 2012-2013 season

Tonkin the Bat Girl

  • Performed at Iowa Women Archive’s Women’s History Month, March 2013
  • Performed at Working Group Theatre’s Was the Word, February 2013

Pigeon in a Dress

  • Performed at Riverside Theatre, Walking the Wire 2011-2012 season

Childbirth Methods

  • Performed at Looby Theatre, May 2012 (Nashville, TN)
  • Production at Riverside Theatre, Walking the Wire 2010-2011 season

Holiday Transformation

  • Peformed at Riverside Theatre, Walking the Wire 2009-2010 season

Sacrificial Turkey

  • Performed at Riverside Theatre, Walking the Wire 2008-2009 season

Parental Requests

  • Performed at Riverside Theatre, Walking the Wire

Koko Communicates

  • Performed at Riverside Theatre, Wakling the Wire

Screenplays

Children of the Moor

  • Production with Osage Studios, 2015

Stage Fright

  • Production with Osage Studios, 2014

ISO-ORBITING The Movie

  • Production with Osage Studios, 2013

Fishing for Diamonds

  • Production with Osage Studios, 2012

Nobody Knows TV

  • Production with Osage Studios, 2011

Hulta Woods 2010

  • Production with Osage Studios, 2010

Lollipop

  • Production with Osage Studios, 2009

Rattlesnake Gulch

  • Production with Osage Studios, 2008

Mound Report

  • Production with Osage Studios, 2008

Weedums

  • Production with Osage Studios, 2007

Scream in G Minor

  • Production with Osage Studios, 2007

Ring of Suspicion

  • Production with Osage Studios, 2006

Middleville

  • Production with Osage Studios, 2005

True Love for the Headmaster of Diddlesmere

  • Production with Osage Studios, 2004

Captured by Fear

  • Production with Osage Studios, 2003