Norman Blackwood
Playwright & Fiction Writer
Norman Blackwood is an American playwright and fiction writer based in Los Angeles. Born in 1978, his work combines dark comedy, historical fiction, and elements of the fantastic. His writing explores storytelling, self-deception, artistic vanity, and the unstable boundary between fiction and reality.
The Crisis of Creation
Stage Play
Dark Comedy / Historical Grotesque / Metafiction
The Crisis of Creation is a darkly comic stage work about authorship, storytelling, artistic ambition, and the unstable boundary between fiction and reality.
The play combines historical fiction, grotesque comedy, and elements of the fantastic to examine what happens when writers begin to lose control of the stories they believe belong to them.
The play is currently being developed for wider international presentation. Stage, touring, and screen adaptation opportunities are open for discussion.
Rights and production inquiries: contact@normanblackwood.net
Untitled AI Farce
In Development
A contemporary farce about work, obsolescence, and the increasingly unstable division of labour between humans and artificial intelligence. What begins as a workplace comedy gradually becomes a battle over a more uncomfortable question: what happens when competence itself stops making a person necessary?
Writing
On Stories That Refuse to Behave — Medium
About the Author
Blackwood's work is interested in the distance between the stories people tell about themselves and the less flattering realities underneath them. His characters rarely realize they are inside a comedy.