The 13th Friday:
Ready, Set, Die!

Story By Billy Ray Brewton & J.J. Marrs
Written & Directed By Billy Ray Brewton

October 9-25, 2008
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm
Midnight Performance October 18th

Performed at Playhouse Costume Cooperative

When characters from the musical “Rent” find themselves spending the summer at a summer camp plagued by a supernatural killer, everyone’s favorite bohemians must rely on one another to survive. Featuring song and dance numbers, gratuitous bloodshed, and all the leg warmers you can handle!


Featuring: Stephen Wade, Franklin Slaton, Sylvester Little, Jr., Rush Brunson, Amanda Maddox, Ashley Culpepper, Gillian Puffer, Michele Santiago, Chuck Duck, Charla Cochran, Bert R. Payne, Edward Gurney, Christoph Hooks, and Lee J. Green

  • Franklin Slaton

    MARK

  • Stephen Wade

    ROGER

  • Sylvester Little, Jr.

    TOM

  • Rush Brunson

    BENNY

  • Gillian Puffer

    MAUREEN

  • Amanda Maddox

    JOANNE

  • Ashley Culpepper

    MIMI

  • Michele Santiago

    ANGEL

  • Bert R. Payne

    COOK

  • Debbie Smith

    RHONDA THE BOTANIST

  • Edward Gurney

    JANITOR

  • Lee J. Green

    ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR

  • Christoph Hooks

    ROBBIE LYNN BULLARD

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.