Intellectuals

Psychologist Margo Welles is taking a “sabbatical” from her marriage to explore her “untapped feminine potential” by giving lesbianism a whirl. Hoping to make Margot jealous, her husband Phillip, a philosophy professor, starts dating the lovely Antonia... a much older woman. Margot and Philip both employ their best friend Brighton, a romantically disadvantaged film professor, to keep one another posted... but Brighton’s “gay best friend” duties are waylaid when his former student Nick begins to court him out of the blue. Mayhem ensues.

SCOTT C. SICKLES’ plays have been performed in New York City, his native Pittsburgh, across the United States, and internationally in Canada, Australia, the UK, Singapore, and Lebanon. He is a member and former artistic director of the award-winning WorkShop Theater Company. His acclaimed comedy Intellectuals is included in Smith & Kraus’ New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2007. He received the 1999 Beverly Hills Theater Guild/Julie Harris Playwriting Award for Lightning from Heaven, a biographical piece about Boris Pasternak, his muse Olga Ivinskaya, and the creation of Doctor Zhivago. Gulfshore Playhouse presented Shepherd’s Bush, depicting the private life of E.M. Forster, in its Second Annual New Works Festival. His intense romantic drama Moonlight & Love Songs was the inaugural production of GayFestNYC 2013, benefiting students of the Harvey Milk High School. His new play Composure received a Roundtable reading at the Lark Play Development Center. Sickles was named Outstanding Playwright of the 1995 Pittsburgh New Works Festival for his one-act drama The Harmonic Convergence. Published short plays include murmurs (Samuel French Festival Plays #21), and Beautiful Noises (S&K's 2009: Best 10-Minute Plays...). In February 2015, Reno Little Theater will present his evening of short plays, Demon Bitch Goddess, as part of its Off-Off-Wells fringe series. In addition to his theatrical work, Mr. Sickles received a Writers Guild of America Award as part of the writing team of the daytime serial General Hospital, as well as Emmy and WGA Award nominations for that series and One Life to Live. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild.