Plays for classroom and stage by Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin

Plays for the classroom and theater by award-winning playwright Wim Coleman. Wim's most recent award: 6th Place in the Stage Play category of the 80th Annual Writer’s Digest Competition. Meet the authors	Sequoyah and His Talking Leaves Wim and his daughter Monse read a snatch of dialogue from “Sequoyah and His Talking Leaves,” a classroom play about the brilliant Native American who invented a written form of the of the Cherokee language—a syllabary. See "Sequoyah and His Talking Leaves" A version of “Sequoyah and His Talking Leaves” appeared in the September 11, 2007, edition of READ magazine. High school students? Adult groups? Want short plays on big themes? See Plays on Ideas by Wim Coleman.
REPRODUCIBLE Classroom Plays by Wim Coleman Short Readers Theater plays, reproducible and royalty-free, with 105 reading comprehension questions. Buy from Amazon Free downloadable teacher guide, free plays, buy the book as a pdf file. Click here.
Nine Muses Nine of Wim's one-act plays based on Greek and Roman myths. Excellent for school and community theater groups. These plays are popular for competitions. Learn more and download an excerpt free. Buy Nine Muses
Stages of History This collection of one-acts written by Wim and Pat together presents a panorama of American history. Learn more and download an excerpt free. Buy Stages of History

.. Plays from our collections are also included in anthologies of works by well-known playwrights:
Wim and Pat's play “Eye in the Sky,” from Stages of History, appears in Drama for Reading and Performance: Collection 1, with plays by Anton Chekhov, David Mamet, Horton Foote, Wendy Wasserstein, Athol Fugard, Carlo Gozzi, Rod Serling, Paul Zindel, and Avi.		Wim's play “Phaeton and the Sun Chariot,” from Nine Muses,appears in Drama for Reading and Performance: Collection 2, with plays by Molière, David Mamet, David Ives, Christopher Durang, Stephen King, Woody Allen, August Wilson, Rabindranath Tagore, Athol Fugard, Neil Simon, Rod Serling, Shirley Jackson, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.