From Courtroom Battles to Captivating Stories: Vincent Scarsella’s Unexpected Journey Revealed
Ashley
So at what point in this process is you start to think about turning some of this into plays or writing plays and turning some of this into screenplays?
Vincent Scarsella
Okay, back in 2010, I was living up in Buffalo. Back then I had not retired yet and I joined a playwriting, not contest, but it was a group. And I was called out of something called the Rowless Travel Theater. Buffalo has a great community theater and theater background. They just have a lot of good little theaters going. And so, I joined this group in the theater district in downtown Buffalo and there was like 10 of us. And I just tried to write a play and it was horrible. It was bad. And it didn’t get rave reviews from the group, but I’m the type of guy that I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the process and the idea of not only having somebody read your short story or novel, but act it and see it on a stage just thrilled me. And so I started reading a place and got the idea of how to do it and read a couple of how-to books, although I’m not a big fan about how-to, about how-to books, how to write books. I think you have to read the plays to get better at it. And I rewrote the play I submitted and that play ended up five years later becoming performed, or many years later, in fact, nine years later, being performed at a theater in Lakeland, Florida, and then performed at the event center where I used to live down in Florida, a community I lived at called Island Block, and 200 people were there and it was performed. So it was-
