Michael Wanzie Returns To The Stage With A DELORIS SCRUD CHRISTMAS At Savoy Orlando

Playwright, producer, and actor Michael Wanzie will return to the stage for the first time in more than three years in A Deloris Scrud Christmas, opening Saturday, December 6, 2025, in the Starlite Room at SAVOY Orlando.

Wanzie reprises his role as Deloris Scrud, first introduced to Orlando audiences in Wanzie’s A Carolina Moon: A Campy Trailer Trash Tragedy (2003) and its holiday prequel A Trailer Trash Christmas (2004), both long-running productions at the Parliament House Footlight Theatre.

Directed by Kenny Howard, who helmed both earlier Deloris plays, the new work incorporates moments from those productions into a new story addressing current events and political culture. Howard, a Tony Award-winning producer, most recently directed Fosgate Ferret, winner of the Critics’ Choice Award for Best Family Show at Orlando Fringe 2025.

In A Deloris Scrud Christmas, the former truck stop waitress and Carolina Moon Trailer Court resident invites her neighbors (the audience) to witness a live interview celebrating her new book, How Serving Up Biscuits & Gravy Helped Me To Overcome a Lifetime of Racism & Bigotry. During the broadcast, she crafts Christmas decorations for a fundraiser supporting her new trans-affirming charity, sharing unfiltered thoughts on politics, culture, and community life along the way.

“This hi-camp comedy spares no one, and names will be named,” says Wanzie. “I have written A Deloris Scrud Christmas to give democracy-loving and diversity-embracing individuals an opportunity to come together in the spirit of the holiday season and share a few hearty laughs during these otherwise troubling times.”

Costumes are by Douglas White.