The McLean Drama Company, a 501(c) 3 non-profit Organization, stages theatrical productions and dramatic readings emphasizing its mission – to present and inspire dramatic writing and new plays by area playwrights. That primary focus has been concentrated in McLean and Fairfax County, Virginia, but it also includes Montgomery County, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

The McLean Drama Company was founded to fill the
fundamental need for original scripts and dramatic works
in McLean and the greater Washington, D.C. area.
Rachael Bail, the founder and president of the McLean
Drama Company is a playwright, producer and journalist. She
is also a former Voice of America editor and Supreme Court correspondent. She was married to Hal Prince’s concertmaster, having spent years within the Broadway community and as
an author in New York City.
During several years living and working in Rome, Italy, she
wrote a column for the Rome Daily American.


Coming up…

"Immoral Combat", a new play by Rachael Bail, will be presented at the Alden Theatre in McLean, Va. June 12-14. Performances will be at 8pm, June 12 and 13, and
2:00pm, June 14.

"Immoral Combat" satirizes the news media, including the
way reporters and editors covered the recent presidential campaign. The play also takes aim at the reporting about
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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The winning play in the McLean Drama Company's
play contest for adults will be presented on Sunday
afternoon following "Immoral Combat".

The winning play is "Seeds" by Shane Gardner.
The runner-up was "Holler" by George Purefoy Tilson.

 

Allison Plourde playing Octavia in
Rachael Bail's "Thousands of Year Rome"
at the Alden Theatre in McLean, Virginia

 

Alex Bastani as Marius and Allison Plourde playing
Octavia in Rachael Bail's "Thousands of Year Rome"
at the Alden Theatre in McLean, Virginia

 

Maureen Kerrigan, Director of the Alden Theatre
Production, "Thousands of Years -- Rome" and
Rachael Bail, Playwright, President and Founder
of the McLean Drama Company

Above Photo Credits: Inbal More Photography, Inc.

 

“Thousands of Years -- Rome”, a new play by Rachael
Bail, was presented by the McLean Drama Company at the
Alden Theatre June 27-29, 2008.

“Thousands of Years -- Rome” takes a young Roman couple from their parting in the Roman Forum in the 1st Century AD through various vicissitudes to their reunion and marriage in the Forum in the 21st Century. It covers the Roman battles in Britain, the Roman conquest of Spain, the Renaissance, the unification of Italy, the Nazi occupation of Rome, and the Iraq war. Following the performance June 29, the McLean Drama Company will also present the winner of its 10-minute play contest, "Open Communication" a comedy by Katie and Alex Lewis.
Robert Griffin won second and third prizes for
"Irish-American Misunderstanding" and "You Can Bank On It".

“Thousands of Years -- Rome” was also presented at the
Capital Fringe Festival at Flashpoint's Mead Theatre in
Washington, D. C.'s theatre district. Jamie Roberts
directed the Capital Fringe Festival's presentation
on July 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 2008.

Earlier original works staged in full productions by the McLean
Drama Company at the Alden Theatre include: “Tales of the Decameron”, a dramatization of famed Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece; “Lady MacBeth Revealed”, a new look at Shakespeare’s famous character where she is portrayed not as the villainess he presented, but as a loyal Scotswoman; and “Return to Vietnam”, a look at that war through the eyes and heart of a Vietnamese woman and an American serviceman.

For a video clip from "Return to Vietnam"

The McLean Drama Company has also produced "Emily and I”, which explores domestic violence in the context of a CIA officer and his wife in McLean, and staged dramatic readings of winners of the high school students’ 10-Minute Play Contest.

Professionally staged dramatic readings of those productions, and others, have been presented for over a decade at the
National Press Club in Washington, D.C.