Academy Grimm

Full-Lengths

By: Dean L. Dyer
Cast: 8 M, 17 F
Performance Time: Approximately 90-120 minutes, 89 pgs

COMEDY. A group of students on their way to a drama festival get lost in an enchanted forest where they encounter some fairytale characters who escort the students to Academy Grimm. At Academy Grimm, the students meet Miss Muffet, the staff psychologist who suffers from arachnophobia; Generic Queen 4455, who has delusions of grandeur; a stepmother with anger-management issues; a prince who is tired of kissing princesses with morning breath and bed head; a woodcutter suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after killing too many wolves; and Dummerly, who thinks he’s “Hans,” a dragon slayer. The characters tell the students Academy Grimm is a fairytale training academy, but the students soon discover that Academy Grimm is more like fairytale rehab!

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Dean L. Dyer is the author of several published plays and has been involved with high school theatre programs for more than 30 years. Mr. Dyer works as a play director and teacher at Western High School in Parma, MI. He lives with his wife, Jeanette, on a farm in Springport, MI.