Betty Jo's Bullpit

Betty Jo's Bull Pit

Not For The Faint-Hearted

This is the home page of playwright, actor & director Steven Dawson.
If you are offended by four-letter words then
*/#% OFF NOW!!

My latest Searching For David is now on the website

ABOUT ME

Actor, director of over 65 productions and writer of 40 performed plays. Artistic Director of Out Cast Theatre, the gay and lesbian theatre company of Melbourne, Australia. Graduated from the NIDA Director's Course in 1985, was a member of the NIDA Playwrights Studio and holds a Diploma in Performance from the University Of Western Sydney. His performed plays include Dead Queen, The Boy On The Beach, The Adventures Of Butt Boy & Tigger, Jane Austen's Guide To Pornography, Men In Lycra Rowing Shorts [And Other Fantasies], Naked, Four Queens In Hawaiian Shirts, Behind You Behind You!, Filthy Pervert Seeks Same, Love In A Cubicle, Brad Pitt Why Haven't You Called? & Gorgeous Bastard, Big Dicks On Stage [Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Chicago, New York], The Night My Boyfriend Turned Into An Idiot [Sydney, Melbourne] The Art Of Being Still [Sydney, Melbourne], The White Rose [Melbourne, Sydney] The Realm Of Wasps [NIDA, Crossroads], The Ladies Choice [The Performance Space], Sometimes My Friend [Browns Lane Theatre Company], The Gathering Of Vampires [Stables Theatre, Guild Theatre] The Wild Wild West Show [Arts Council of NSW], his one man show Greetings From A Small Planet [Crossroads Theatre], Betty Jo Bullthwaite's Country Calamity [Stables Theatre Sydney and Melbourne Midsumma Festival] and it's sequel Rust In The Dust at the Tilbury. He has worked with the State Opera Of South Australia, Interplay, Griffin, The Marionette Theatre, Sydney Theatreworks, Warehouse Theatre Company and with several community groups as guest director for the Arts Council Of NSW. Plays he has directed include Bent, Gertrude Stein & A Companion, The Man From Mukinupin, The Realm Of Wasps, Miss Julie, Black Comedy, The Elephant Man, Three Sisters and numerous productions of his own work. As an actor his appearances include Once A Catholic, Hamlet, The Glass Menagerie, See How They Run, The Club, Julius Caesar, Easter, A Hard God, The Hired Man. He has worked as a freelance drama tutor/director. His published work includes Amongst Dark Gods - Pink Ink [Blackwattle Press] and the play scripts The White Rose, Ménage A Trois [Three One Act Plays] and The Art Of Being Still [Wingandaprayer Publications].

Some of my Plays
Please note: All these plays are under copyright. You can read 'em...you just can't do 'em.
[Unless you ask me, that is.]

Searching For David
"I saw the angel inthe marble and carved until I set him free" - The tragic story of Michelangelo and the beautiful doomed youth who was the inspiration for his greatest creation.

Dead Queen
A piss-elegant show queen gets it in the back in this glorious revenge fantasy.

Four Queens 3: Who's A Pretty Boy Then?
The latest and last uncalled sequel in the Four Queens trilogy. Gay adoption gets a royal serve.

The Boy On The Beach
Lust, lust and a lack of fidelity. There are worse things than getting sand in your cracks!

Jane Austen's Guide To Pornography
Jane Austen is on her last lungs and looking for a hit. In the meantime another more modern writer is having issues of his own.

The Adventures Of Butt Boy & Tigger
Two boys leap from one pornographic adventure after another. Lonely hearts online and looking for a different way to connect.

Men In Lycra Rowing Shorts [and other fantasies]
Love, Death & Other Fantasies. Falling in love with straight men, Drag Queens of Death and other tales of outrage, lust and redemption.

Naked
Tales of lust, desire, revenge and death set in a male sauna. Foreplays of a different kind.

Four Queens In Hawaiian Shirts [Second Edition]
It's Survivor meets Baby Jane as four boys head north for fun in the sun only to find their gay holiday destination has had a change of management. Broken hearts in the tropics.

4Q2 Four Queens : Fully Committed
The filthy sequel to Four Queens In Hawaiian Shirts. Tom & Kyle and getting hitched and no one is happy. A piss-take on gay marriage.

Filthy Pervert Seeks Same
Monologues and scenes connected by a theme of lust, love and desire.

Brad Pitt, Why Haven't You Called?
Looking for love in all the wrong places. A man's search for Mr Right and how his big mouth and his best friends and keep getting in the way.

Betty Jo Bullthwaite's Country Calamity
A bad taste country & western cabaret for two.

Big Dicks On Stage
Selling out just to sell out. A comedy about a playwright having trouble getting it up.

Gorgeous Bastard!
A gay wedding table at a straight wedding and it seems everyone knows the groom...intimately.

Behind You Behind You!
Half Panto, half comedy, Half Cocked! A very bent panto with kings, queens, ogres and pussy!

Rust in The Dust
Sicko country & western singer Betty Jo and friends return for a wake. Some of the vilest numbers you'll even sing along with.

Sometimes My Friend
A theatre in education play about young people and HIV/AIDS.

The Art Of Being Still
A serious comedy. Seven friends living and loving in the time of AIDS.

The Gathering Of Vampires
The sequel to The Art Of Being Still. A story of friendship, love and moving on.

The Ladies Choice
Three women from different parts of this century, each with her own story to tell. A play with songs.

The Night My Boyfriend Turned Into An Idiot
Sometimes love means shutting the hell up! Two men fall in love and build a relationship then do battle to keep it going.

The Realm Of Wasps
Based on the life of playwright Joe Orton and his relationship with Ken Halliwell.

The White Rose
A gay Greek farce. Getting married just for some whitegoods with a little bit of Nana Mouskouri thrown in.

Greetings From A Small Planet
Monologues. A one man show about hope, love, desire, passion and memory.

Love In A Cubicle
First love, lust and looking for a happy ending. Ah, me.