Bradley Nies, Playwright

  I just submitted my play, Alcohol and Muscle, for possible publication.  This work is about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, and it's been a process getting this show together.  It had a staged reading in June of 2019 and a staged production canceled due to COVID-19 later that same year.  The play was recently produced this past March, and I finished tweaking it during this incredibly hot and dry Texas summer. Set in June of 1979, a young man who has just completed his Advanced Individual Training at Fort Sam Houston is meeting with a male prostitute at a cheap motel in Houston, Texas.  At first, both men discuss why they are there but as the story unfolds, the audience realizes that neither man is what he seems.  The recent army graduate, in fact, murdered someone a year ago this very night, and it is no coincidence that the escort he has brought back to his room resembles his first victim. CHARACTER BREAKDOWN: Jeffrey, 19, introverted, tense, flat personality, a loner, has a Midwe

  Today marks the 49th anniversary of the death of Houston serial killer Dean Corll.  Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of Corll's murder, as well as a time when so many Houstonians found out just what horrible fate befell the missing boys who crossed Dean Corrl's path.  My play, The Boys for Houston Heights, not only serves as a docudrama about Corll's early murders, it touches upon Houston's "lost boys" and what their parents were feeling during that time.  For those who are into true crime and what to learn more about this dark time in Houston's history, I have included a list of books, plays, and movies that tell the story of what people in 1973 referred to as The Houston Mass Murders: The Boys from Houston Heights  by Bradley Nies.  (Next Stage Press, 2018) The Candy Man:  The True Story of Serial Killer Dean Corll by Jessi Dilman.  (Trellis Publishing, 2021) The Clown and the Candy Man directed by Marcus Valentin.  (Cineflex Productions and