The Golden Screw was an Off-Off-Broadway folk rock musical written and performed by Tom Sankey which premiered at the Theatre Genesis in September 1966.

[1] It ran again from January 30, 1967 to March 5, 1967 at the Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village.

[2] The play follows a Bob Dylanesque singer figure from folk music roots to commercialization.

Directed by Sankey, the cast included Elan Ross Gibson, Francois Regis-Klanfer and Yank Azman with music by Larry Wells (piano) and Fergus Hambleton, (guitar.)

The play was directed by David Eliscu, produced by Paul Stoudt, and the cast included: Tom Sankey, Janet Day, Patrick Sullivan and Murray Paskin.