Tom Davenport

An American version of ‘Snow White’ where Willa joins a traveling medicine show to escape her evil step-mother.

Tom Davenport’s realistic adaptation of an old Appalachian story. With nothing more than her plucky spirit and her pocket knife, a mountain ...

A re-telling of Cinderella set in the rural south during World War II

Adapted from an Appalachian Jack Tale set in the late 1940s, this tale follows a World War II veteran named Jack who, in return for an act of ...

In this comic variant of the Grimm’s story, The Master Thief, a poor laborer’s son wants to marry the dentist’s daughter.

A soldier can not return home after he leaves the army, and can not find a job. Desperation drives him to make a deal with the Devil, who makes a ...

A girl acts spoiled and doesn’t want to marry any of the suitors that come for her hand. One guy, who she nick-names ...

An upper-class, late 19th-century dining room where a wealthy industrialist presides as “king” sets the stage for this version of ...