Four plays · One message

Stage Plays

Real situations, put on a stage, with an alternative to the ending. Written for churches, campuses and community theatres — and always with something for the audience to walk out holding.

In rep

Angel's Palace
The Gift of Giving
The Gift of Purpose
Women Shoptalk While Real Men Wait

The playbills

Prevention, healing, awareness

In her own words, her theatrical works are a tool to help others see how abuse can destroy a life — and then to see what healing looks like. Each production below carries its own artwork and its own printed credits.

Angel’s Palace stageplay poster — “I was taught to obey… not to live,” by executive producer Carolyn Jones.

Also from this production

The Angel’s Palace poster reading “a true sex trafficking story” and describing Robert “Angel” Walker.

Angel’s Palace poster with the line “I’ve never wanted to work like this.”

Angel’s Palace live show flyer, Macon, Georgia — written, produced and directed by Carolyn Jones.

Angel’s Palace stageplay flyer for the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

From the night

A short clip she made from the show posters — pressed play, not autoplayed.

Angel's Palace

A true sex trafficking story

“I was taught to obey… not to live.”

A sixteen-year-old girl is trafficked by her own mother. Robert “Angel” Walker runs the house she is sold into, and the life he has built for himself is about to be met by the secrets buried in his own past.

From the playwright

I wrote Angel’s Palace in 2018 because awareness that never reaches prevention saves nobody. Every actor in it is an abolitionist, trained by Sabrina Kirkland of the Seedlife Foundation, so the cast carries this story off the stage with them. It has played church halls and theatres across five cities, and my prayer is the same in every one of them: that somebody in the room gets help, heals, and hears that there is life after abuse.

Written by: Carolyn Jones, 2018
Executive producer: Carolyn Jones
Produced by: Dynasty Mindset Theatre & Production Company
Featuring: Gene “Poo Poo Man” Anderson · P-Funk of Parliament
The message: A movement to save lives

The Gift of Giving

A 1970s inspirational Christmas stageplay

“Come out and enjoy the show — family and friends.”

A Christmas play set in the 1970s, staged for a house full of family and friends at New Testament Gospel Worldwide Ministries in Rex, Georgia, with a cast that includes Gene “Poo Poo Man” Anderson of George Clinton’s Parliament.

From the playwright

I set this one in the 1970s on purpose. That is the music I came up in and the fashion I still love, and a Christmas play should feel like a house full of people who belong to each other. Carolyn Moore is credited as director and playwright, and the cast filled the room. The flyer also carried a registration for free Christmas toys for children in the community, because a gift nobody can afford to receive is not much of a gift.

Director & playwright: Carolyn Moore
Staged at: New Testament Gospel Worldwide Ministries, Rex, Georgia
Featuring: Gene “Poo Poo Man” Anderson · All-Star P-Funk of George Clinton Parliament
Also starring: Lisa Battise · Garrett Patterson · Frankeelu · Peter Sweet · Earnest Charles Jr. · Alexis Bratton · Dana Durham · Rebecca King · Brandon Holman · Jessica Love · Princess Star Jones

The Gift of Purpose

A Carolyn Jones production · December 2024

“She has until midnight Christmas Eve to find her purpose.”

Presented by Purpose Community Church, The Gift of Purpose follows a woman with one night left to find what she was made for — a Christmas story about purpose, first staged in Fayetteville, Georgia.

From the playwright

Purpose Community Church asked me for a Christmas play, and this is what came: a woman with a deadline on her own life and a clock that will not stop for her. I wrote and directed it, Britney Flanning carried it, and Ramus Ankh designed the world around her. If you have ever needed a reason for the season you were born in, this one is for you.

Written & directed by: Carolyn Jones
Presented by: Purpose Community Church
Starring: Britney Flanning
Scenic design: Ramus Ankh
First staged: December 14, 2024 · Fayetteville, Georgia

Women Shop Talk poster — a discussion on domestic violence and human trafficking.

Also from this production

Women Shoptalk poster noting it was nominated by the National Emerald Awards.

American Emerald Awards nominees flyer listing C. Jones for Women Shop Talk While Men Wait.

Women Shoptalk While Real Men Wait

A discussion on domestic violence and human trafficking

What women tell each other when no man is in the room — and what happens when the men are finally made to listen. A frank, funny, unsparing play about the conversation women have been having without the men in their lives, and the healing that starts once it is said out loud.

From the playwright

Women Shoptalk While Real Men Wait began as a conversation I needed to have out loud. It has been nominated by the National Emerald Awards, named a nominee of the year for playwright and filmmaker at the American Emerald Awards, and played church halls and theatres from Duluth and Macon to the Cicely Tyson Music Theatre in Philadelphia. It is the title I am asked about most, and the one that starts the longest conversations afterwards.

Written & directed by: Carolyn Moore
Executive producer: Clarice Carolyn Herring Jones
Featuring: Lillie McCloud, of The X Factor
Nominations: Nominated by the National Emerald Awards · Nominee of the Year for Playwright & Filmmaker, 5th Annual American Emerald Awards
Staged at: Cicely Tyson Music Theatre, Philadelphia

Why these plays exist

“My theatrical works are used as a tool to help others visually see how abuse can destroy your life — but my hope is that you will receive healing.”

Clarice Carolyn Herring Jones

Bringing a play to your venue

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