Ric Averill was the artistic director for the Seem-To-Be Players professional children's theatre touring company, Lawrence, Kansas, for many years and currently serves as writer-in-residence and drama program director at the Lawrence Arts Center. His published plays include Reliable Junk; Frankenstein; Robin Hood: The Courtship of Allan A'Dale (with Jeanne Averill); The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor; Bird Woman: The Story of Sacagawea; The Princess and the Pea, No TV and Other Plays; Pixies, Kings and Magical Things: Four Tales by Hans Christian Andersen; Alex and the Shrink World; Rough Stock; T-Money & Wolf (with Kevin Willmott); Tom Sawyer and The Elves and the Shoemaker (large-cast version). Included among Averill's many commissions are the Kennedy Center's Alice in Wonderland; First Stage Milwaukee's Little Drummer Boy; the Coterie Theatre's Frankenstein; the Vital Theatre's The Elves and the Shoemaker (6-actor version); an opera for children, The Emperor's New Clothes, based on Hans Christian Andersen's story, commissioned by the Kennedy Center for a world premiere in November of 2001 which toured the nation during the 2003-2004 season; and, most recently, for the Children's Theatre of Sioux Falls, Dreams Carved from Stone, a play about Crazy Horse and Korczak Ziolkowski, the sculptor who spent the last 40 years of his life blasting and turning a mountain in the Black Hills into a monument for the great Lakota leader. This latter work premiered and opened the 2008 season for the Black Hills Playhouse near Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Memorial. Averill and his wife, Jeanne, travel extensively from their home base in the Kansas City area. He and son, Will Averill's, screenplay Riding the Pine is currently in pre-production with producers Solipsist Films and Kickstart Productions. Averill has co-written several other screenplays with his son, of Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom, and has partnered on several projects with writers Kasi Brown of Los Angeles and Jeff Tamblyn of Kansas City. Averill is an actor as well as writer, whose stage credits include Fagin in Oliver and screen credits include The C.S.A., director Kevin Willmott and Ride With the Devil, director Ang Lee.

Product Name	Code	Price	Type	Cast	Add to cart
Alex and the Shrink World	A75	$7.50	Full-Length	12
Bird Woman: The Story of Sacagawea	BA4	$7.50	Full-Length	22
Classroom Scenes and Monologues	CC2	$16.95	Textbook Anthology One-Act	0
The Elves and the Shoemaker	E52	$7.50	Full-Length	48
Frankenstein	F99	$7.50	Full-Length	6
I Will Sing Life: Voices From the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp	I67	$7.50	Full-Length	9
Old Jake's Skirts	O69	$7.50	Full-Length	4
Pixies, Kings and Magical Things: Four Tales by Hans...	PA1	$7.50	Collection Full-Length One-Act	6
The Princess and the Pea, No TV, and Other Plays	P90	$7.50	Collection Full-Length One-Act	0
Reliable Junk	R80	$7.50	Full-Length	6
Robin Hood The Courtship of Allan A'Dale	R08	$8.50	Musical	31
Scenes and Monologues for Young Actors	SE3	$14.95	Textbook Anthology	0
The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor	SE6	$8.50	Musical	0
Sitting With Bertie	SJ6	$0.00	One-Act	4
Somebody Catch My Homework	SH8	$5.50	One-Act	5
10 by 10	TE7	$7.50	Anthology Full-Length One-Act	4
T-Money & Wolf	T95	$7.50	Full-Length	20
Tom Sawyer	TH6	$7.50	Full-Length	43
The Ugly Duckling (touring version, manuscript)	U31	$20.00	One-Act	4