Blake Walton

THE BETTER MAN

was a selection of the Thespis Theater Festival at Roy Arias Stage II, W. 43rd St., NYC

Del and Paul are 30 year old former college lovers who are estranged when Paul leaves to find a "normal" life. Reunited when Paul invites Del to be the Best Man at his wedding to Julie, Del learns very quickly that no one in Paul's life is aware of his past relationship with Del, and that Paul has always regretted leaving him. 

Converting this play to a screenplay (MAN UP)

LEADING MEN  

An autobiographical solo play about manhood, fatherhood, and growing up in 50s-60s America. Published online at indietheaternow.com

(2013 United Solo "Best Premiere" Award,  2014 Curtain Call Award "Best Play,  Professional Theater"  nomination) 

The Bea Lillie Project

HEARD THERE WAS A PARTY. CAME.

Currently writing with Ann Morrison a play with music based on comedienne Beatrice Lillie, in which they will also act.

OUT OF MY MIND

Produced in one-act version at the Bailiwick Theater in Chicago

Converting the full-length play to a film with the same title.

Jake Burrows is a masculine TV Star who believes he's not a good actor and only has a career as long as he does action dramas with very little speaking and stays sexy in the eyes of his female audience.  He is also gay and way far back in the closet to a point that he is obsessed about keeping his secret for fear of losing everything. The women on his arm are a sham and he has never had a relationship with anyone.

All of this is in the mind of lonely writer Jack who is in the midst of writing his screenplay DEFLECTION, during which he challenges Jake by placing a smart, handsome photographer in front of him (inspired by the man on whom he develops a crush as he writes at Starbuck's). Jake and the other characters know they are being written and have some things to say about that to Jack's delight and discouragement. As Jake takes a journey toward love that is both funny and dark, that involves becoming a leader and model when he "comes out" on national TV, Jack begins to learn from him about honesty, strength and finding his own love in the real world.

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Eb & Flo

(Co-written with Amy Whitman)

Produced at Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, PA

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STREETWALK SERENADE

 In 1977 New York, John is approaching middle-age, a bit overweight, set in his ways and single after a long-term relationship became a friendship. He takes in "Jimmy" a young street hustler and never intends to have him stay longer than one night. But Jimmy keeps returning and though they have almost nothing in common except loneliness, a kind of love grows between them. John does not heed warnings from friends who do not  see that  Jimmy is making him happier than he has been in a long while and that John could help Jimmy "go straight". They walk a very short road together, through a disastrous Thanksgiving during which John's friends reject Jimmy and John doesn't come to his defense, to a reconciliation  for what looks to be a good Christmas.  Unbeknownst to John, Jimmy who by now has sworn off hustling, goes out on Christmas Eve to turn a trick one more time just to earn enough for an expensive gift for John and is killed.  When Jimmy doesn't return, John guesses the worst and after profound anger and sadness, decides even after his death is confirmed, to believe that Jimmy is still alive and followed a dream to go to Florida to be in the sun.

ALSO:

the TV pilot BUS & TRUCK plus 6 stories

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the web series THE misADVENTURES OF WENDELL BURKE

wrote 10 short "webisodes" for the web series he created and directed with Jim Coyle.

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 The Cairngorms Stone

A Romance Novel

Branford Barkley is a Plantation owner's son in Charleston in 1860. Just as he is coming of age at 20 and drawn to his father's prized possesion the slave "Cuff" and the wrong done to him, Bran is invited to the small estate of his cousin in Scotland. Civil War is  imminent so his mother feels this is a blessing. Bran travels to Scotland and finds unexpected love in the magic in the Cairngorm mountains of the Highlands and the special gems that are present there.