Every writer has a story that starts out with “I’ve been writing since I was a child”, and I am the same. I grew up in the sticks of Alabama as a kid that eschewed hunting and fishing for reading and playing video games; writing came naturally to me.

I graduated from Belmont University with a B.A. in Theatre in 2018 after a college career lousy with bad decisions and three different majors. My writing style is influenced by leftist politics, magical realism, Christian liberation theology, and the LGBT experience. I thrive in theatrical genre writing. My portfolio shows this: Opus is a modern queer fairy tale, Tall Tales is a supernatural Southern horror story, This Is Just a Box is a sci-fi dystopia that examines the class issues that surround assisted suicide.

I write both ‘traditional’ stage plays as well as librettos and adaptation work for bigger, multi-media/multi-disciplinary shows. The first of these, The Naughty Tree, was an adaptation of The Garden of Eden story written through a queer lens which included drag performances, dance, poetry, and music. It was named Best Local Theater Performance in 2022 by The Nashville Scene.

I’m a writer and theater collaborator in Nashville, TN, where I work with Woven Theatre as their Resident Playwright and Head of New Works Development.

You will find that my plays are free to download on this site. That’s because I want everyone to be able to read my work, and not everyone has a New Play Exchange account (but they should!). Feel free to download and read at your leisure, and if you DO have an NPX account, consider dropping a recommendation on one of my plays.

If you have any business, rights, or production inquiries, reach me directly at adtimmswt@gmail.com.