9/11: Undying Love by Ed 'Tiger' Verdin 9/11: Undying Love is a new dramatic play about a couple whose lives become interwined with the attacks on America on September 11, 2001. Alexandra & Ethan anticipate a romantic evening together to celebrate their tenth anniversary. Ethan preempts the night's festivities with a surprise morning visit to his wife's office located on the 85th floor of Tower 2 of the World Trade Center. Alexandra and Ethan travel on an extraordinarily emotional journey as their peaceful and playful world collides with the violence of the September 11th attacks. 9/11:Undying Love is a work of historical fiction that aims to explore the real and powerful ways that families were effected by the September 11th attacks on America.  

The Forgotten Healer by Ed "Tiger" Verdin The Forgotten Healer rewrites and corrects Louisiana history with Dr. Emma Wakefield finally receiving proper recognition through the State of Louisiana in November 2018 after her history was erased and almost forgotten.  Thanks to the works of Dr. Phebe Hayes and the Iberia African American Historical Society her story came to life.  As Louisiana's First African American Female Doctor, Dr. Emma Wakefield, was born to a prominent family in New Iberia, Louisiana which was a hot bed of racial injustice in the mid to late 1800's which was being documented in newspapers throughout the country.   Her father, Samuel Wakefield, Sr. would become one of Louisiana's first African American Senators and brother A.J. Wakefield would be Iberia Parishes first African American Clerk of Court (still in dispute).   After her father's alleged suicide (2 shots) the family would be thrust into a world of chaos as her 19 year old brother Sammie Jr. would be lynched by mass shooting after defending himself from the evilness of a white man named James Trainor.   The family was banished from New Iberia by "Whites" as signed by a post nailed to the Wakefield home.   Finding their way to New Orleans, Louisiana her love of Louisiana with determination and faith on her side would have her enroll in Straight College (now Dillard University) and then graduating New Orleans University with honors in 1897.

The Quarters Musical won 10 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards from Best New Musical/Play, Best Direction, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Set Design, Best Lighting Design, Best Ensemble, Best Costume Design, Best Choreography.

The Quarters focuses a real, true and powerful spotlight on slavery in the Deep South from the seize and selling of Africans from the African Coast through the Caribbean to Congo Square by following a mother “Ifoma”/mixed son slave “Chike” that is sold away from their "home" plantation and sent to "live" at Oaklawn Plantation.  As we follow their and their new “family’s” plight, struggle and unimaginable sacrifices we will also celebrate, honor, remember and worship through food, song, and dance.   The struggle of acceptance, the rise of a leader, a forbidden romance, the yearning for independence and the sounds of a divided nation and the merging of the past and the present will be told with minimal creative license to remain as true to tell the whole history as accurately as possible. 

Unlike romanticized versions we will tell the stories of the people, the culture, the foods that were influential in building the South and this country as we know it. With the musical’s setting happening after the Emancipation Proclamation is signed; however, St. Mary Parish and the other sugar producing parishes and counties had an exemption due to economic reasons to keep their slaves as to not suffer economic suffering.  Slavery became loosely regulated in requirements of clothing, food, etc.  When people speak of “he treated his slaves well”  However, Freedom was still not to come until 1864 when the State of Louisiana “banned” slavery as adopted in the state constitution.  Now enter the Black Codes and later Jim Crow….

Jubile is the story of an unrecognized World War II operation that involved the first US troops in August 1942.  The United States Military sought to have a fighting expeditionary force similar to the British Commandos.  The U.S. Rangers were formed in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland and trained for the ready of helping Allied troops to liberate Europe from the Nazi regime.  During the raid 2nd Lt. Edward V. Loustalot, Army Ranger 1st Battailion assumed command of a company of British Commandos and US Rangers after their watercraft took mortar fire killing the British Captain aboard.  With troops shaken and some injuries 2nd Lt. Loustalot rallied his troops while landing and as every US Ranger call: RLTW Rangers Lead the Way and led troops up the steep white chalk cliffs at Berneval Le Grand France before taking across the hill using bayonettes to keep themselves afoot. With the largest aerial dog fight in WWII history happening overhead Allied forces were unable to clear out fox holes and gun positions prior to their beach landfall.  2nd Lt. Loustalot was killed in the line of duty along with 2 other Americans and many allied troops that day in an effort to liberate France.  The story continues through the eyes of the people of Berneval Le Grand and the 6 other beaches of the Dieppe Region of France.  This operation led to the success of D-Day operations.

BroadwayCon:  Ed "Tiger" Verdin & Producer Leonard Marshall (2x Superbowl Champion with the New York Giants) spoke at BroadwayCon in Summer 2024 to highlight the move of Undying Love to Broadway.