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A Bright New Day
The world has suffered a catastrophic flood of biblical proportions, stranding a brother, a sister, and her fiancee. The boat seems to be missing, and there is the matter of confessions and consequences. Who does Melinda love more, her boyfriend or her brother?
A Very Repo Christmas
Santa accidentally delivered a motorcycle to Susie, and now it’s elf Bixby’s job to try to get it back (and get her to take Barbie dolls instead).
All is Fair
Three old friends are engaged in a very strange, very nasty game of freeze tag. This is a play that can be done indoors or out, but was originally conceived as part of Theatre in the Wild, a series of site specific works set in a meadow.
Beatrix Potter Must Die
A desperate American farmer travels back in time for an unusual solution to his plague of rabbits.
Breakdown in Wakefield
A man trying to avoid his brother’s funeral and a woman desperate to get out of her claustrophobic small town meet in the middle of the night.
Christmas Breaks
A woman tries to deal with being dumped by her boyfriend and the replacement that he found for himself through the personal ads. A popular ten-minute Christmas comedy.
Confirmed Sighting
Fiona and Kelly have spotted an ivory-billed woodpecker, once thought extinct, in the swamps of Arkansas. Fiona is an ornithologist and this sighting will make her career, but Kelly owns the photographic evidence that Fiona desperately needs. A ten-minute backwoods birding comedy.
Couch Potato
Eric is the ultimate slacker, but his goal of remaining motionless in front of the TV is in serious jeopardy. His sister and fiance move out and leave him behind in the apartment, and the two newlyweds moving in aren’t keen to share their space with a complete stranger. A fast-paced comedy of inertia.
Counting Rita
Sarah plans to find out exactly how low her friend will go, as she tallies the results of lies and betrayal.
Crowded Heart (a.k.a. Frank’s Right Auricle)
A man confronts his ideal lover in a secret chamber of his heart. An intense battle of infatuation.
Curse the Darkness
The crew is trying to get the stage set for the next piece, but a battle ensues over the right placement of the furniture. And the stupid candle just won’t light. Curse the Darkness is a perfect stealth comedy for a festival of short plays.
David in Goliath
The soul of a dying young man tries desperately to communicate with his parents, who keep vigil by his body in a hospital room. It’s a script that uses a very theatrical soundscape of objects in action and Biblical language to create additional layers of emotion and meaning.
Deadly Perfection (a.k.a. Perfect Vision)
Diana discover her sister’s greatest treasure and greatest peril-a Pandora’s box that gives the viewer the most perfect, beautiful, fantastic sight imaginable. Once. A second glance means death. Can the sisters help each other resist this ultimate temptation?
Den of Iniquity
Gerald sneaks off from his wife and kids to a shady part of town where he meets Thalia, who, for the right price, will satisfy his needs–his creative needs. Gerald scrambles to hide his desires when his wife, Maggie, comes pounding on the door. A hilarious take on the writing life.
Dropping Off (co-written with Sam Lasman)
Zoey has brought Amy to this seaside B&B with the intention of re-invigorating their relationship, but Amy might not be able to stay awake long enough to change.
Eden in Chains
A white police officer arrives to enforce a new town ordinance against front yard vegetable gardens. Terry is a black gardener and homeowner who insists she has a right to grow food for herself on her own property and finds herself in handcuffs.
Escape to Wonderland
Jackie’s answer to her life falling apart is drastic and just the kind of thing to catch thrill-seeker Cassie’s attention. An intense standoff over a friendship that’s been ground to dust by hard times.
Flight (ten-minute version)
Sarah leads an odd existence–she sleeps at home, goes to work, and spends every other moment at the airport. But her high achiever, high strung big sister, Deedee, can’t understand, and is determined to drag Sarah back to “normal” life.
Flying the Friendly Skies
How would you feel if your best friend didn’t tell you she was in town? Lynne and Daphne find out when they become seatmates on what might be a very long flight.
How Does It Feel to be a Problem?
A white father lays out some new rules for his black son that are very different from the rules for his white friends. Max stumbles his way through a parental moment that is faced every day by parents of color everywhere.
It’s a Girl
Joseph and Mary are desperate to find a name for their daughter. After 21 years of failure to compromise, they finally agree on a strategy-they’ll open the dictionary to a page, and somewhere on that page will be the name. A loopy, linguistic comedy.
Lies for the Holidays
Sarah and Jeb are two highly successful professionals are their way home for the holidays. Or are they? What happens when your secret hidden life is shared by another? A ten-minute romantic comedy.
Lies, Lies, Lies
A man and woman meet at at cafe. She’s not interested, because all men lie. He agrees and promises to only tell her lies, if she’ll return the favor.
Lost Oasis
After a three-day hike to scatter his father’s ashes, Tom discovers that his remote, private spot is already occupied by Danny. Can Jill keep her husband from going off the deep end? Can he find the space and privacy that he needs for his special ceremony? Danny isn’t ready for one more ghost to be added to the meadow.
Measuring Matthew
Matthew is obsessed with two things: numbers and Jennifer. When Jennifer leaves him, he’s driven to the edge of desperation. His salvation rests in the hands of his neighbor, June, who understands Matthew more than he expects. A quirky comedy of neuroses.
Newton’s Call
Jasper hopes to use a tree and the power of gravity (and a few apples) to help shake up his relationship with Ariel.
Organic Seed
Conflict (and romance and comedy) erupts at the farmer’s market between a young woman farmer and an older conventional farmer as they battle for customers. Beware the Brandywines.
Out of Time
The fast pace of life and motherhood engulf Mary in a surrealistic whirlwind as she comes unstuck from time. She struggles to connect with her daughter, Jenna, before it’s too late.
Peace of Mind
Earl brings his buddy Roy to a bizarre, secret club for overstressed executives–all they have to do is relax. Roy’s not good at calming down, but once he sinks into a state of nirvana, he won’t give it up. Can Earl and Elaine pull him back to reality? Should they? (Or will he end up like Jenkins?)
Phoenix Funeral Draft 3
A time-pressed mother has written a script for a competition. The producer is a friend but has some suggestions. As the play proceeds, we realize that what we’re watching isn’t just the play; it’s the results of the suggestions as they’re being made.
Plumb Desire
Darius has finally found the plumber that he's been looking for, and he's not about to let him go easily. The perfect comedy for anyone who's ever found and lost (and maybe stalked) a contractor.
Pumpkin Patch
A battle over pumpkins brings out simmering racial and class conflicts in a newly gentrified neighborhood. How far will Sasha go to keep LaToya from taking fruit from the community garden? A short play that raises some very complicated questions.
Quiet (a.k.a. Silent Battle)
Friction between a landlord and tenant over noise transforms into an intense competition for silence. Zelda and Elisa are two strong women who will go to any lengths to achieve their goals. An intense, unusual play.
Reassembling Sasha
Professor Sasha Marlowe has created a machine that can split a person into their constituent parts, but maybe she shouldn’t have tested it on herself. The seven different elements that make up Sasha are running loose and aren’t all eager to go back to being part of a single workaholic person.
Recognition
A chance encounter between an adoptive mother, Allison, and the birth mother of her child reopens old wounds. How far will Allison push Tanya for information?
Santa Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Jeffrey is 30 and still believes in Santa. This Christmas, Mom and Dad reveal all kinds of truths. A hilarious poke at the secrets we keep. Winner of the 2017 InspiraTO Festival Competition, and ACME’s “Charlie Award.”
Schedule-Meisters
Schedule-Meisters promises to help ease any mother’s busy schedule, but Mary might be their most challenging customer yet. A very fun look at motherhood, with a mom who has very much reached her limit.
Second Look
A chance encounter between two old friends, one of whom is now begging for spare change on the sidewalk, raises some tough and awkward questions.
Ship of Fools
Two women stranded on a lifeboat have found a unique way to keep themselves sane–pretending to be a whole boatload of other people. An excellent acting challenge, as the stakes and water continue to rise.
Stick Up for Mars
Fiona and Kelly are halfway to Mars, but after a year in space their personalities are wearing on each other. One little Post-It note might be the last straw. A zero-gravity comedy.
Stop, Rain
Birthmother Rain desperately wants to see the son she placed for adoption, but adoptive mom Marla feels she needs to protect her son from Rain’s screw-ups and chaotic life. Can the two mothers learn to understand each other?
Tearing Down The Walls
A young couple accidentally seal themselves into a room. Nothing like being confined in a tight space to learn about your spouse.
The Bernoulli Effect
When a family’s schedule gets out of control, sometimes one person needs to take drastic action. But can Nikki get Davis to go along with her plan, even using handcuffs?
The Discovery (a.k.a. The Spot)
A man finds a good spot to stand, a comfortable place to call his own. But the rest of the world is intent on making him move. People try bribery, threats, prayer, politics, even murder to get what he’s got.
The Elevator
Two people in an elevator learn the consequences (and rewards) of acting on impulse.
The Invisible Husband
Iris wants to love every aspect of her husband, but he comes from a tribe of invisible men who can’t be seen until they die. Her overpowering desire to see his face twists her mind and emotions.
The Next Big Thing
Together with their assistant Kelsey, venture capitalists Beckman and Mortimer search for a device to be the heart of their next business, and the result is a parade of oddball inventors, each certain they’ve discovered the next big thing.
The Prisoner of St. Pierre
When Mt. Pelee erupts in a cloud of steam and ash and destroys the city of St. Pierre, Auguste Ciparis is saved from death by the thick walls of his prison cell and waits for rescue. An intense, lyrical play about courage in the face of despair. (Based on a true story.)
The Retriever
Mr. Lenox is sent to retrieve one of his students who has run off prom, but her price for returning presses against some difficult secrets.
The Sky is Falling
Samantha is informed by her guru that the rapture will arrive tomorrow, and she and the elect will be taken from the earth in space ships. Samantha’s sister Ricki and Grandmother go along for a wild night of farewells and a surprising visitation. A fast-paced, heartfelt comedy.
The Three Great Loves of Christopher J. Tomaski
Chris returns to his boyhood home to probe into his sister’s suicide and finds himself caught in an intense tug-of-war between his mother, his girlfriend, and his sister’s ghost. A drama centered on secrets, love, ghosts, small towns, and suicide.
The Whittling Place
Bitter old man Talcum has a score to settle, one that’s been festering for a long, long time. He’s got a knife and a sharp stick. Revenge in an unusual sanctuary.
will/did/is
Mindy meets the time traveler for whom she’s spent years obsessively waiting, on the subway. He's shocked by what he's found so far, and she's about to completely chang her plans.
A time-crossed encounter of hearts and minds.