Night of the Living Dead

Based on the film by George A. Romero
Adapted & Directed By Billy Ray Brewton

October 14-31, 2010
Thursday-Sunday Nights at 8pm

Performed at 5th Avenue Antiques

A disparate group of individuals takes refuge in an abandoned house when corpses begin to leave the graveyard in search of fresh human bodies to devour. The pragmatic Ben does his best to control the situation, but when the re-animated bodies surround the house, the other survivors begin to panic. As any semblance of order within the group begins to dissipate, the zombies start to find ways inside. One by one, the living humans become the prey of the deceased ones. Based on the horror masterpiece from George A. Romero.

Featuring: Susan Cook, Sylvester Little, Jr., J.J. Marrs, Hannah Wilkerson, Stephen Wade, Flannery Whaley, Christoph Hooks, Michele Santiago, Bates Redwine, Todd Ponder, Kenny Morris, Jonathan Sweatt, and an assortment of zombies

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“Brewton shows us that adapting from film to stage provides not limitations but opportunities for creativity.”
— Jeremy Burgess

George A. Romero (1940–2017) was an American filmmaker renowned for co-creating the modern zombie film with Night of the Living Dead (1968) and directing the subsequent "Dead" series, including Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985). His career, which began with early work at Carnegie Mellon University and on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, extended beyond horror with films like Martin and Creepshow, and he often included social commentary in his work. Romero died on July 16, 2017, from lung cancer, leaving behind a significant legacy as a genre innovator. 

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.