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A CHANGE OF HEART
[20-25 minute drama, 5 characters: 2f, 2m, 1 any gender]
Is a second chance a lifeline when it doesn't feel like your life anymore? Donna is a heart transplant patient with strange cravings and desires, and seems a stranger to her fiance and herself. Zach, her donor, was a teenage boy who had barely even begun. A story about the struggle for self-acceptance and moving forward with the hand we're dealt.
A KNIPPLE FULL OF DREAMS
[10-minute play, 5 characters, period drama]
1911. Iase, Romania. As Gittel and Rubin’s feelings for each other grow, Gittel’s father arrives with news that threatens everyone’s future. Based on a true family story.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SLAM
[10-minute play, LGBTQ+, 3 characters]
Hermia and Helena, alone in the Athenian woods, stumble across a very unexpected visitor from a neighboring Greek island, who opens their eyes to what a constant heart really is.
ALL THAT PEZ
[5-minute play, LGBTQ+, 2 characters]
A search for Pez at a flea market far from home yields unexpected treasures for Jacee and Toni.
BLAME IT ON BARBIE
[4-minute play, 2 characters]
Terry, a college junior, has something important to tell her mother Marie.
CHAI, CHAI, VIKAYAM
[10-minute drama for three college aged students]
A homework session for Lacey and David puts their lives in danger when a college protest over the war in Gaza turns ugly.
DON’T PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD
[10-minute comedy for 5 actors]
Casey struggles to keep her New Years resolution to eat healthy and not succumb to food addictions. Her cupboard has other plans.
DO OVER
[30 minute play, 4 characters] When a disoriented Tyler stumbles into the U Drop Inn, he is distraught to find that his earthly life is over. His mother visits him in her dream state. Brae’s pain at her past life comes home to roost in Tyler’s story in a surprising manner. The road to redemption reveals itself if everyone can come to a place of forgiveness in this family drama.
FAMILY BY NUMBERS
[10-minute play, 5 characters]
Two people fall in love. They begin a family that expands to five. But what happens when the numbers change?
WINNER – BEST PLAY – 1st Place , 2019 Theatre Odyssey Ten-Minute Play Festival
WINNER – JUDGES’ CHOICE AWARD, 2023 Stillwater Short Play Festival, Stillwater OK
WINNER – AUDIENCE CHOICE , 2019 S. Baldwin Community Theatre New Play Festival
WINNER – THIRD PLACE AWARD , 2020 Tree City Playhouse 10-minute Play Competition
HONORABLE MENTION – New Plays of Merit 2019 Playwriting Award
GOING HOME
(8-minute play, 2 characters)
Jeene and Zannie are married. When Jeene ends up in the hospital following a second stroke, they both must confront the realities of the situation and what lies ahead. A story about the moments we wish we could take back.
I LOVE A PARADE
[10-minute play, 4 characters] Mary, L.B. and Eric are prisoners of the state. They are marching against their will towards their demise when they are accosted by a woman who has made the colorful masks they wear. Each character comes to terms with the masks they wear literally and figuratively.
IT’S ELEMENTAL
[10 min, 4 characters]
The gods of earth, air, water and fire gather to determine the earth’s fate. Everyone must confront their passions and prejudices as they get ready to vote.
Jonna/Jack
[20-minute drama, 3 to 7 actors portraying 9 characters (doubling/tripling)]
Jonna and Jack, both deceased, reconnect at the Akashic Hall of Records in heaven. Questioning their tumultuous lifetime together, they consult the records to view their past lives and what answers may lie there for them both. Their journey takes them to Renaissance Italy and late 1700s Ireland.
JOY RIDE
[10-minute play, 2 characters]
On April 20, 1933, while attending a formal White House dinner with her spouse, Amelia Earhart convinced First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and the other dinner guests to take a quick flight from D.C. to Maryland in-between courses. It is believed both Amelia and Eleanor briefly piloted the plane. JOY RIDE joins our heroines post-death, when they re-enact the events of that evening and take it to a place neither could have predicted.
LUNCH MONEY, Lumen Play Competition 2024 2nd Place Prize award Winner
[10-minute play, 4 characters]
The Tuffs give newcomer Cecil a tough time at Hemingway Elementary School. Sondra rises to the occasion in this anti-bullying comedy.
MAKE MULCH FROM IT
[15-minute play, 2 characters]
When Susan’s estranged boyfriend Gordon shows up suddenly and unexpectedly in her apartment, they are forced to confront why their relationship fell apart. More than one shocking revelation occurs as they struggle with how to accept what has happened and move forward. A story about the messes we leave and the cleanup that must occur through acknowledgement and forgiveness.
NOW YOU SEE IT…
[5-minute dark comedy, 2 characters]
Finley and Tatum try to make sense of a disappearing act.
RUMMAGE ROCK!
[10-minute comedy, 4 characters]
A rocking chair leads a brigade of seating that has seen better days. Will they get chosen for a renewed life, or consigned to the rubbish bin?
SEX, LIES & STYROFOAM
[10-minute play, 2 characters]
Talk about your dirty laundry! Lucy is the “Mature Madam”. Karen wants to spice up her sex life with her husband. When worlds collide at Launderland, they both get the help they need.
SHALL WE DANCE?
[5-minute movement drama for 3 actors]
Dani is filled with questions. Will they get the answers they seek?
In this non-linear theatre piece, movement plays a large part. It can be very simple, such as the “mirror” theatre game, or more choreographed such as a waltz or partner type dance, but there should be a constant flow of movement on the parts of Actors 1 and 2 and Dani.
[ 8-10 minute period drama for 1 m, 1 f]
A boy. A girl. A port. Siobhan and Sean’s courtship and marriage revolves around a bench and lamppost till the sea calls it debt. A period drama set in Cork, Ireland, in the 1800s.
SLOW OUR SHIP is a deeper dive into the romance of Siobhan and Sean, two characters also in my one-act play JONNA/JACK.
THE BEAT GOES ON
[10-minute play, 5 characters]
The various forms of music containment (L.P., Cassette, 8-track, CD, and Mp3) anxiously vie for the highly coveted “Current” display case at the Smithsonian Museum music exhibit.
Two versions exist:
[One-act (15-20 minute play for 5 women, optional additional non-verbal characters]; and
[Ten-minute version {5 women})
A widow, contemplating diving back into the dating pool, is confronted by her younger selves. Together they must sort out past romantic complications and mistakes before there can be any moving forward. Will they sink or swim?
The Other Man’s Grass is Mondegreen-er
[10-minute play, 3 characters]
Toni, a therapist, is meeting a date on the ferry. When they show up, they only speak in mondegreens (mis-heard lyrics), as does their spurned partner who has followed them. An absurdist physical comedy.
[10-minute and 20 minute versions of this comedy , 2 characters]
Will pregnancy elude them again? Amy tries to get Jeff on board with some unorthodox fertilization rituals.
THE SANITY CLAUSET
[10-minute play, 3 characters]
If every day is Christmas, how do you make it special? Holly Ivy rebels against her mother’s manic decorating scheme as they both struggle with a life change. Holly Ivy's friend Emerson is in awe at the sheer magnitude of what is essentially Santa's World in an apartment.
WATER MUSIC
[10-minute play, 2 characters]
A Ferry. A sloshing water bottle. A theft. For Meredith and Lada, a short trip turns strangers into something else entirely.
WE THREE
[10-minute play LGBTQ+, 3 characters]
Three good friends gather during the weekend of their high school reunion. During the course of reminiscing, hidden resentments rise to the surface, and a secret is revealed that forever changes their history and how they move forward.
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