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The Curtain’s Up on a New Website

tommyerb.com has been live for a while now, and I still want to make sure you know what’s actually here, so consider this your guided tour. The site brings together six decades of work, acting, directing, producing, playwriting, and storytelling, into one place. Whether you’re a theater company looking for a script, a producer researching […]

Inside the Play Catalog: A Few You Should Know

The Play Catalog page has 156 titles listed now, I know it can be a lot to sort through. So here’s a shortcut, a handful of scripts I think deserve a second look, across a few different categories. If you need a big cast: Hallam & Douglass the Musical (27 actors) and Building Paradise (22 […]

Everything Erbana Is Working On Right Now

People keep asking what’s actually in motion right now, so here’s the current status board, everything Erbana Productions has moving at once. Building Paradise is in active development, targeting the 2026 Venice Centennial. The script is production-ready, we’re raising production funds through GoFundMe, and casting is open now, alongside two other new shows, Wedding Secrets […]

Why Every Erbana Production Starts With the Registry

Here’s something worth being upfront about: going forward, casting and crewing for Erbana Productions projects, Building Paradise, staged readings, any future stage work, starts with the SW Florida Talent Registry. If you want to be considered, that’s the first step, every time. It’s a simple system, and it exists for a good reason. When a […]

Callboard (Concept Preview)

Callboard by SW Florida Talent Registry The Bill Walkthrough Roadmap Pricing Concept pitch, prepared for Tom Erb Callboard Every actor’s callboard in one place: who’s listed, what they’re up for, and everything they need to walk into the room ready. Built to grow out of the SW Florida Talent Registry into a platform actors anywhere […]

Secret Agent Man…or Boy!

Being a child of the fifties and sixties has always, in my opinion, been an advantage for my generation. I like to think of us as the “Media Generation.” Much like today’s generation that is tech-savvy, we flower children were pretty much the inventors who started the whole technology boom. Granted, the technology of our […]

Beneath the Allegheny Sky

Spring, 1894. Blacks Run, Pennsylvania. Three sisters, Bella, Sadie, and Nellie Remaley, are building lives of their own near the Acme Powder Works, the dangerous factory that keeps their small town running. When their parents arrive for a visit, it should be an ordinary, happy day. A family dinner. A little worry from a father […]

Directing Plays for Community Theatres: The Art, The Challenge, and The Reward

By Tom Erb — Erbana ProductionsPlaywright | Theatre/Film & Television Professional Directing for community theatre is one of the most uniquely challenging—and deeply rewarding—experiences a theatre professional can have. It’s a space where passion outweighs paychecks, where volunteers become artists, and where the director’s role expands far beyond staging scenes. After decades working in professional […]

The Somerset Partnership

It is 1923, and Prohibition has created strange bedfellows. Thomas Whitmore, a Boston banker with a respectable name to protect, proposes a business deal to Maria Santos, a Cuban American smuggler running her own operation out of Key West. What begins as a transaction becomes a partnership, and then something neither of them expected: a […]