{"id":618599,"date":"2026-10-15T16:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.olympiajournal.com\/news\/story\/618599\/wisconsin-playwright-deb-meyer-launches-ink-to-stage-a-new-theatrical-resource.html"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:36:28","slug":"wisconsin-playwright-deb-meyer-launches-ink-to-stage-a-new-theatrical-resource","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.olympiajournal.com\/news\/story\/618599\/wisconsin-playwright-deb-meyer-launches-ink-to-stage-a-new-theatrical-resource.html","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Playwright Deb Meyer Launches Ink to Stage a New Theatrical Resource"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;width:250px;padding:8px 10px 10px 10px\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globalnewslines.com\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791561189.jpg\" style=\"border:none !important\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29\" title=\"Wisconsin Playwright Deb Meyer Launches Ink to Stage a New Theatrical Resource\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalnewslines.com\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791561189.jpg\" alt=\"Wisconsin Playwright Deb Meyer Launches Ink to Stage a New Theatrical Resource\" width=\"225\" height=\"252\" style=\"padding:0px 0px 10px 10px;border:0 solid !important\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"quotes\">\n<div>Family-friendly, produced plays, Competition-winning shorts, a thriller with festival credits and a children\u2019s show staged on the Scottish coast are now available at inktostage.com, where theatres can read reviews, cast sizes, run times and find links straight to licensing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"font-style:italic;padding:8px 0px\">Deb Meyer\u2019s children\u2019s play, Dastardly Devon, addresses the issue of bullying, and was performed at a theatre club in Scotland. Cobble Me This was performed in Beaver Dam, WI. Gurl Talk, won a Florida playwriting competition. Deb Meyer&#8217;s website inktostage.com now offers all her produced, performed and published plays.   Each play on inktostage.com offers a synopsis, run time and cast size. It also features a blog page where Meyer shares insight regarding her creative writing process.<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>COLUMBUS, Wis. &#8211; October 15, 2026 &#8211;<\/strong>&nbsp;Playwright Deb Meyer has launched <strong>Ink to Stage<\/strong> (inktostage.com), a new website offering a collection of published and produced plays that have carried her work from Wisconsin community theatre stages to a theatre club on the Scottish coast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The launch follows a robust publication season with three plays being published in the last two years. In addition, Meyer&rsquo;s comedic short <em>Gurl Talk<\/em> was featured in the <strong>2024 Florida Playwrights Competition<\/strong> and was performed at a women&rsquo;s event in <strong>Madison in 2025<\/strong>. Her children&rsquo;s comedy <em>Dastardly Devon<\/em>, a retelling of the big-bad-wolf story built around bullying and belonging, was <strong>performed in 2025 by the Carnoustie Theatre Club in Scotland<\/strong>. Her thriller <em>The Whole Shebang<\/em>, was a <strong>2021 Garry Marshall New Works Festival semi-finalist<\/strong>, and is published by Lazy Bee Scripts. Her family-friendly comedy, <em>Cobble Me This<\/em> was <strong>performed in 2025<\/strong> at the Beaver Dam Fine Arts Center and is published by Lazy Bee Scripts<strong>. <\/strong>Her lively children&rsquo;s play<strong>, <\/strong><em>Curses! A Fractured Fairies Tale <\/em>was<strong> performed in 2022<\/strong> at the Beaver Dam Area Fine Arts Center and is published by Big Dog Plays.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Ink to Stage is designed to take the guesswork out of production decisions. Each play is listed with its genre cast size and run time &mdash; a cast of two for <em>Gurl Talk<\/em>, four for <em>The Whole Shebang<\/em>, five for <em>Cobble Me This<\/em>, nine to twelve for <em>Curses! A Fractured Fairies&rsquo; Tale<\/em>, ten to fifteen for <em>Dastardly Devon<\/em> along with links directly to the publisher holding their license. Ink to Stage also carries production photos and a writer&rsquo;s blog, <em>From the Desk of Deb Meyer<\/em>, where she shares thoughts on creativity and her writing process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em> &ldquo;I&rsquo;m committed to writing engaging plays audiences will love and community theatre&rsquo;s can afford to produce. My stories are filled with laughter, tension, humor and heart.&rdquo;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Meyer has been writing for over 25 years, discovering playwriting after a career in graphic arts, copywriting and advertising. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, New Play Exchange and Playwrights Ink.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Her scripts are available through Lazy Bee Scripts, Big Dog Plays and New Play Exchange.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>About Deb Meyer \/ Ink to Stage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Deb Meyer is a playwright based in Columbus, Wisconsin, whose comedies, children&rsquo;s plays and thrillers have been staged from Wisconsin community theatres to Scotland. Published by Lazy Bee Scripts and Big Dog Plays, her work is written to be artistically rewarding, affordable to produce and unforgettable to perform. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, New Play Exchange and Playwrights Ink. Meyer believes great performances begin with great stories. <strong>inktostage.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Media contact<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Deb Meyer | djmeyer8350@gmail.com | inktostage.com<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Instagram: @djmeyer_inktostage | YouTube: @debmeyer.inktostage<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Notes to editors<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>Headshot and production photography available on request.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Whole Shebang<\/em> was a <strong>semi-finalist<\/strong> at the 2021 Garry Marshall New Works Festival, not a winner.<\/li>\n<li><em>Cobble Me This<\/em> was performed in Wisconsin in 2025. Published by Lazy Bee Scripts.<\/li>\n<li><em>Dastardly Devon <\/em>was performed in Scotland in 2025. Published by Lazy Bee Scripts.<\/li>\n<li><em>Curses! A Fractured Fairies&rsquo; <\/em>Tale was performed in Wisconsin in 2022. Published by Big Dog Plays.<\/li>\n<li>Review quotes on the site are peer reviews from New Play Exchange members, not press notices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caps\"><span style='font-size:18px !important'>Media Contact<\/span><br \/><strong>Company Name:<\/strong> Ink To Stage<br \/><strong>Contact Person:<\/strong> Deb Meyer<br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.universalpressrelease.com\/?pr=wisconsin-playwright-deb-meyer-launches-ink-to-stage-a-new-theatrical-resource'>Send Email<\/a><br \/><strong>Phone:<\/strong> 608-438-2261<br \/><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<br \/><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/inktostage.com\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/inktostage.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getnews.info\/press_stat.php?pr=wisconsin-playwright-deb-meyer-launches-ink-to-stage-a-new-theatrical-resource\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family-friendly, produced plays, Competition-winning shorts, a thriller with festival credits and a children\u2019s show staged on the Scottish coast are now available at inktostage.com, where theatres can read reviews, cast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olympiajournal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olympiajournal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olympiajournal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olympiajournal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olympiajournal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.olympiajournal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olympiajournal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olympiajournal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olympiajournal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}