Looking for Billy Haines

Looking for Billy Haines

a romantic comedy in two acts, with dance

First performed Off-Broadway: March 25, 2010

First published: November, 2018


Jamie Hollis, a struggling New York actor, scores an audition for a feature film about Billy Haines, a real life movie star of the 1920s and 30s who gave up his career to stay in an out relationship with his partner. Billy’s story, along with Jamie’s rather vibrant imagination and his three colorful roommates, helps him realize that he needs to make some decisions about his own unsatisfying relationship with a closeted man...


Looking for Billy Haines, a play in two acts with dance, opened Off-Broadway in New York on March 25, 2010, at Theatre Row’s Lion Theatre on 42nd Street. It was produced by small or LARGE Productions, and directed by Suzanne Brockmann, with assistance from Ed Gaffney. 


The script is available in ebook and print from Suzanne Brockmann Books. (26,000 words or 120 pages)