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Trace's screenplay Dead (Re)Tired has received honors from 25 film festivals or competitions, including... 
Dead (Re)Tired...
"Absolutely phenomenal...Technically spot on... Perfectly paced... Genuinely gave me goosebumps... Masterful... An excellent screenplay!"
                                   - 13Horror.com

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Trace's book, Absolutely Everything** You Need to Know About Teaching and Performing Improv is out! 

You can get it in paperback or for kindle on Amazon.
"Exactly what I was looking for! It gives me structured lessons & activities for my advanced drama classes. Great resource!"
                                  - Shakespeare Fan


"This is the book I needed to help me put together fun classes for a variety of age groups."
                                  - B. Glim

Great book for theatre students and teachers.
                                  - A. Grimm

what they are saying...


The Watch...
"playwright Trace Crawford offers thoughtful riffs and wordplay on whether we're the master or prisoner of time and whether the force in charge might be wearing a suit or torn jeans and T-shirt... the play sports immensely quotable lines..."
                                  - Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News

"balanced on the edge of Godot's left eyelash... there's a cat and mouse quality to the script. Definitely worth attending."

                           - Alexandra Bonifield, criticalrant.com

And What a Damn Fine Morning It Is...
"a hilarious send-up of consumerism in a neighborhood where aspiration is gospel... playwright Trace Crawford has his mischievous hand on our mercantile pulse"
                                  - Lynn Miller, Talkin' Broadway


“a testosterone-fueled battle over who has the best lawn, car and manly possessions… wonderfully droll”
                                  - Margie Royal, Delaware County News


The Sum of Your Experience...
"… a mean-streets shakedown for something other than a character's money, a taut thrill ride…"
                                   - Byron Woods, Independent Weekly

"Part confession and part psychoanalysis..."
                                  - Cliff Bellamy, The Herald Sun

"Crawford's cyclical twist at the end of the piece was a nice moment of absurdist theatre."
                                   - Andrew Dodds, Melbourne Theatre Perspective


The Lady and 'The Tyger' (or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother')...
"A charming piece that negotiates all its potential pitfalls deftly via smart scripting…. I'm charmed out of my socks."

                                   - Lexie Matheson, theatreview.org.nz

​The Perfect Independent Film...
"Trace Crawford’s hilarious piece about two co-workers dogged by the attentions of wacky screenwriters, determined to turn their mundane existence into art…"

                                   - performing.artshub.com.au

“by leading US Playwright Trace Crawford… Delightful…”
                                   - Short+Sweet


An Unfamiliar Waltz...
"… an allegorical pseudo-romantic drama between a man, a woman, another man and a hand grenade.  I loved this one."
                                    - Russ Bickerstaff, Expressmilwaukee.com


"For those who desire something thought-provoking, “An Unfamiliar Waltz” will not disappoint… an intriguing and intricate dance."
                                    - Bob Abelman, The News-Herald


A Couple of Metal Gods Sitting Around Talking...
"... wonderfully written by Trace Crawford..."
                                    - Betty Lou Roselle,
Delaware County News

Trace was interviewed by David Ives along with three other playwrights for an article on ten minute comedies for The Dramatist Magazine. Read the article here!

Trace was interviewed on the podcast Slice of SciFi for their episode featuring Deathscribe 2016. You can hear the episode here!

Trace was interviewed for the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of The Dramatist magazine.  Read the article here!

Trace was featured in the June 7, 2011 edition of Theatre Talk, the theatre blog of Columbus Dispatch Theater Critic Michael Grossberg.

Trace was mentioned in the December 2010 issue of American Theatre in the piece they ran about Mildred's Umbrella's Museum of Dysfunction III.

Published Anthologies


The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2011 
"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'"

The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2012
"A Couple of Metal Gods Sitting Around Talking"

The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2014
"How to Succeed in Romance Without Really Connecting"


Pint Sized Plays - Volume 1
"The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother'" 


InterJACtions II
"The Last Firefly"

Longwood University "0 to 60" - Volume 1
"The Sum of Your Experience"


The Lady and 'The Tyger' or William Blake's 'How I Met Your Mother' was adapted into a short film directed by Aqsa Altaf in 2018. Full credits here.

The characters from And What a Damn Fine Morning It Is were adapted into the short film Damn Fine Dining, written by David McLean and directed by Alexander Transberg in 2014.

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