After School Special

Written & Directed By Billy Ray Brewton
Original Songs By Flannery Whaley

August 5-21, 2010
Thursday-Saturday Nights at 8pm

Performed at 5th Avenue Antiques

One year in the lives of the students and faculty of William Jefferson Clinton High School in the mid-90s. Can the students survive a drug-addicted vice principal, a principal who doesn’t speak a word of English, and a magical vampire janitor with a penchant for homemade ice cream? Can the faculty brave a turf war between coaches and an idealistic new teacher? The answer to all is ‘of course not’.

Featuring: Nick Crawford, Saxon Murrell, Kelsey Crawford, Bert R. Payne, J.J. Marrs, Jack Williamson, Christoph Hooks, Amanda Maddox, Shawn Castle, Douglas O’Neil, Jr., Lee J. Green, Marcus Lane, Penny Thomas, Flannery Whaley, Ashley Renfroe, Daniel Martin, Mary Anne Garrett, and Kevin Van Hyning

AL.COM REVIEW
“You’ll wince at the needless sex scenes, cringe at the language that would make Mel Gibson blush and search in vain for a plot thread that makes even the tiniest bit of sense. Then, almost despite yourself, you’ll laugh.”
— Alec Harvey

Billy Ray Brewton is an award-winning playwright and filmmaker. His plays include: A Beast/A Burden (Hollywood Fringe Festival; Off-Broadway So-Ho Playhouse); The Xmascist, Must Come Down, After School Special, and The 13th Friday: Ready, Set, Die! Musicals include: Country Roses: The Musical, Dragula: The Musical, Skanks in a One Horse Town, and We Three Queens. He has written stage adaptations of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, and John Dryden’s Marriage-a-la-Mode. Most recently he directed Red Light Winter for Los Angeles’s Catharsis Theatre Collective and Son-of-a-Bitch, an award-winner at the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival. As a filmmaker, he wrote and directed the horror film, Show Yourself (available on Tubi) and produced the 2025 documentary, Coroner to the Stars. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, and is the co-founder of Birmingham’s Theatre Downtown.