From Courtroom Battles to Captivating Stories: Vincent Scarsella’s Unexpected Journey Revealed
He knew kind of a troop of actors in the Lakeland, Florida area who performed it. And I was writing for Black Box Theater. Black Box Theater is a small little theater. It’s on Broadway, the sets are minimal and you have to keep the number of characters down as well and because the stages are small and so forth. So, it was performed in January of 2019 in Lakeland, a little theater called the Stage Room and then we took it to my community. They have a big event center with a nice stage and so forth and I pitched it to the activities coordinator and they usually have comedians and bands and this was something different that they were looking for, some theater and so we were able to perform it there. But prior to that I had written a play called Hate Crime about a young rising black lawyer representing a white supremacist in a murder case and there was a director in Buffalo by the name of Phil Davis Senior who I just sent it to with Facebook friends and just, hey, you want to look at this play? Sure, send it to me and usually you don’t hear back but he liked it and so he was actually, that was my first play performed in stage with about 200 people in a community theater up in Buffalo in 2015 and that play has since gone on to be performed in colleges, a couple of colleges and also it was an, it was a finalist in the Tampa Bay Theater Festival in 2024 but it was just a stage reading at that level. So, I mean, I’ve got several others, I do these kind of jukebox musicals from time to time that I whisper, I violate copyright law. Because I’m not making a lot of money doing it.
