Douglas Taurel’s The American Soldier is a play based on letters from veterans and their families that span from the Revolution to recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The script has been created through a combination of exhaustive research, wording from actual letters sent from soldiers to their loved ones, and verbatim language lifted from interviews conducted with veterans and their family members.

“The American Soldier is a beautiful, truthful, important one-man show that celebrates Americans of every class, ethnicity and race. It unites us around a core notion of sacrifice no matter how any of us might feel about the political purposes behind the wars they were asked to wage for all the rest of us.”

— Craig Lucas (Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Award^® nominee for The Light in the Piazza, Prelude to a Kiss)