In spring 2019, Tucker Atwood and his brother packed their lives into backpacks, found their way down to a far-away lonely Georgia mountaintop, and began walking to Maine. Over the next four months, they traversed the entire Appalachian Trail and had the absolute time of their lives. They met lifelong friends. They climbed over a zillion mountains. They ate dozens of jars' worth of peanut butter. They even hitched a ride on a dump truck with five of their new best friends, all sore and dirty and happy like never before. Join along as Tucker recounts the zany, exhilarating, eye-opening, life-changing trek up the historic spine of America's rugged east coast.
Plays included in this collection: Waiting in the Wings, The Potluck Farce, Dance Again, Nobletiger, A Dolphin Disguise, and Triassic Park. For more information on all of these plays, please visit sites.google.com/view/tucker-atwood/home.
In the fall of 2021, Tucker Atwood hopped on a bicycle and took a little ride down the East Coast Greenway from Calais, Maine to Key West, Florida. Over the next eight weeks, he traveled through dense forests, busy highways, abandoned ghost towns, bustling beaches, crowded cities, quiet cow farms, and even Delaware. Along the way, he slept in parks, woods, couches, floors, and Civil War battlegrounds. He was chased by dogs, got pulled over on a highway, starred in a commercial, ruined a bag of onion rings, and became best friends with the stars. Come follow along as Tucker makes his chaotic, free-spirited, comedic, 3000-mile journey down the beautiful mess we call America.
This book is a memoir about theater, as well as a plea to the education system to fund theater departments. Here is a random excerpt:
Who wants to dress up as Flapper girls and do a little cameo in the show tomorrow?
All of us, absolutely.
There was no need to beg, ask twice, or honestly to even finish the question. The next morning, in front of a hundred parents, the three of us squeezed into fishnets, short skirts, and form-fitting tops, sweating in ridiculous wigs and dancing like fools in 10 AM bliss.