About

Phil Darg is the author of many plays and musicals, including dramatic works that have been produced on stage in New York City (Signature Theatre, American Theatre of Actors, etc.). He is also the composer and producer of more than 400 musical works (some broadcast on MTV and The History Channel). Many of his dramatic works have been published and licensed, and they have been performed across the United States. He has also performed as a guest artist at 54 Below in New York City, and is a music arranger, scorer, sound designer, and producer. He is also a co-executive producer of the 2025 feature film Westhampton (starring Finn Wittrock).

Film

The production team of Westhampton is very pleased to announce that our work has been accepted as a featured narrative film at the 2025 Tribeca Festival! I am honored to have served as a co-executive producer on this film.
Westhampton features Finn Wittrock, RJ Mitte, Jake Weary, Amy Forsyth, Tovah Feldshuh, and Dan Lauria.
More information about the premiere of Westhampton at:
https://tribecafilm.com/films/westhampton-2025

Works

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Musicals and Full Length Plays

Al Gore Rhythm (2 M, 2F) [drama]
In the future, AI will do everything for us . . . except make us happy.
Selection of the Herbert Berghof Studio Director's New Play Lab, New York, 2023).
The Melungeons (4 M, 4 F + ensemble) [musical, drama]
A mixed race Appalachian community faces a dilemma of loyalties at the outbreak of the Civil War.
The Diary of Anya Drozdova (5 F, 3 M) [drama; "a play with music"]
A dramatic depiction of women in the Soviet gulag on the eve of World War II.
Semi-finalist, O'Neill Playwrights Conference, 2023; finalist, Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting Award, 2022.
The ABC's of LGBT at the Rainbow Valley B 'n' B (3 M, 3 F) [comedy]
A quiet pastor and his uptight wife unintentionally spend a weekend at a gay B 'n' B.
Winner of the Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence, 2020.
AOC! Musical for the People (8 F, 8 M) [musical, drama/comedy]
The true story of the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her journey to winning the District 14 congressional primary election in June 2018.
Liberators (2 M, 3F) [drama]
An Iraq War veteran is encouraged by an empathetic VA counselor to overcome the struggles of his battlefield injuries and move on with his life.
Selection, Alternative Theatre Company, New York, Altered Minds Series, 2019.
Hyard Ed (4 M, 3 F, 1 N + ensemble) [musical, comedy]
College History lecturer Edward Hyard laments his powerless non-tenured position and heavy workload - until he encourages his students to actually make history by pursuing social change at the college.
Staged reading [Act I], Chameleon Theatre Circle, 2018.
The Pound: A Musical for the Dogs (6 F, 3 M, 3 N) [musical, comedy]
It's Laura's first day working at the animal shelter - and discovers that she can talk to the dogs! She then strives to find a way out of the shelter for all of them.
Selection, Sound Bites 4.0, Signature Theatre, New York, 2017.
Sasquatched! The Musical (8 M, 4 F + ensemble) [musical, comedy]
Available from Broadway Licensing Global
Bigfoot is real - but he's a lot different than you think! Arthur the Sasquatch is an intelligent, gentle, articulate, dignified creature. Chaos ensues when he attempts to elude a TV crew investigating Bigfoot as the stage erupts into hilarious high jinx.
NYMF [New York Musical Theatre Festival] Next Link selection, 2013.

All pieces are production-ready (complete scripts and scored music)
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One-Act, Short Plays, and monologues

A number of short [mostly ten-minute] and one-act plays authored by Phil Darg have been performed at a number of theatres across the United States. Many of these works have been published in one of two collections:
25 Ten-Minute Plays: A Collection of Comedies and Dramas for Performance and Study - this collection includes 25 short plays that were authored/performed in recent years, and includes such titles as: #OregonTrail, We Need to Talk, Cookie Monster, Habeas Non-Corpus, Drowning in Piles of Stuff, 'Til Death, The Quick Start Guide to Booting Your Man-Bot, Confessions of a Successful Playwright, Socially Distant, Sit Down!, The Ten Minutes After, and more.  Available here!
Four One-Act Plays:  A Collection of Contemporary Dramatic Pieces - this collection contains four extended one-act plays [with running times of about 45-55 minutes], and includes: Thespis, Facility, Evolution, and My Name is Jane. Available here!
Some specific productions of short and one-act works include:
My Name is Jane [one-act] performed by Hendersonville Theatre, 2024.
Thespis [one-act] first place, Vermont Regional Drama Festival, 2019.
Facility [one-act] performed at the Minnesota Fringe Festival, 2017.
Quarantined! Musical COVID-19 [a 15-minute musical] appears in: Drama in the Time of Covid: 50 Plays of Love, Loss and Hope (Flower Song Press, 2024). Available here!
Field of Screams [monologue] appears in: The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2023 (Smith and Kraus, 2023). Available here!
Hijab at First Sight [a ten-minute musical] performed by the Alternative Theatre Company (New York), 2020.
Liberators [monologue] appears in Best Women's Stage Monologues of 2022 (Smith and Kraus, 2022). Available here!
Hyard Ed [monologue] appears in Best Men's Monologues of 2019 (Smith and Kraus, 2019). Available here!

Music

"I Can't Hold On" from Hyard Ed [excerpt]
"Shores of Galway"[Irish instrumental]
"Love Ain't S'posed to Be Sorry" from The Melungeons
"Surface Up" ['60s surf instrumental]
"Dared to Hope" from AOC! Musical for the People
"Lost in the Woods" from Sasquatched! The Musical [excerpt]
"Deep in My Heart" from The Melungeons
"This is the Life (for a Dog)" from The Pound: A Musical for the Dogs
Incidental from The Diary of Anya Drozdova
Incidental: "Spooky Waltz"
Incidental from The Melungeons
"Bricks and Mortar" [sheet music sample; PDF] from Hyard Ed
"A Missing Child" [sheet music sample; PDF] from Sasquatched! The Musical

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