Ben Green has been seen on the Garage Door Theater stage since he was a teenager.
On Friday, it will be his creation, instead, that he will be sharing with the audience at the Starbright Center for the Arts's David Blackbox Theatre.
'I realized after being part of a very chaotic production that you want to start small with your directorial debut, so I decided to do this show instead,' Ben said.
He crafted the script for 'The Last Person on Earth' with the help of his brother, Joe Green.
'It started out as a solo project, but along the way I realized I needed a collaborator, so one day I asked my brother if he had any ideas, and next thing you know, we're just bouncing ideas back and forth, and he's got a writing credit,' Ben said.
Joe, like Ben, loves that the process helped them become closer.
'I mainly helped with the character President Gibson in the second half of the play,' he said. '... I never saw myself writing anything let alone a play.'
He encouraged others to try their hand at something creative.
' Any form of art is worth doing,' Joe said. The story focuses on Reginald Bottom, a British horologist who believes he is the last person on Earth, no matter how often he is proven wrong.
The style of show on Friday is a bit different than Garage Door Theater enthusiasts, and its mainstay actors, are accustomed to.
As a dramatic reading, it will be like inviting people into the 'dirtiest part of putting on a show,' as Basil Gist described it.
Gist is portraying Angry Al, one of five visitors who make their way into Bottom's world to disrupt his musings to the audience about being so happy to be the last person on Earth.
Other familiar faces include Anthony Caranna, who will serve as the narrator explaining the stage directions for the dramatic reading, Joe Hjelmgren as Bottom, Rodney Dobbs as Rick the Butler, Holly McClelland as Dallas Clampton, Jeff Neyman as President John Gibson and Justine Scott as Judi Smith.
One new face, Patrick Matous, volunteered to play Pastor Tom Kendrick because of his ties to the main playwright.
'It's just an amazing opportunity,' he said. 'I'd do anything for Ben.'
Caranna's goal is to paint the picture of what would be playing out through action in a more traditional staging of the play.
'These guys have put together a pretty funny piece,' he said.
Dobbs, who has been working on productions with Ben for years, said he was happy to be part of this one-night run.
'I was one of the first people to read Ben's script, ... one of the first drafts of it,' he said. '... I gave him some suggestions, and some of those are now in our script, and so it's exciting now to come back and read a part in it and see some of it become realized.'
Justine Scott, who is also a local playwright, loves helping the Green brothers refine their production.
'What we're doing here with this workshopping of this play is [taking] what they've written and their ideas through the motions and play with these words, and it's quite a privilege,' she said.
Ben and Joe hope for feedback on how the show works.
'I want to get the feel for how all this plays with an audience, because my hope and dream is that this can eventually be a main stage production with a Rodney Dobbs set and with costumes and all that,' Ben said. 'I want to hear what people think. I hope that this play will make people laugh, I hope it will make them think, and I hope they will walk away with their own individual take on the experience.'
Limited tickets were still available on Wednesday evening at starbrightmpa.com.
