SHORT PLAYS
When We Get Her Home
Drama. 15 minutes. 1W, 1M.
Lynd returns to her hotel room in Changsha, China, to learn from her husband that the toddler they are adopting has disappeared.
Winner: Best Play, Audience Favorite, and Best Actor at The Turnip Festival at The American Globe.
Productions: The Drilling Company's Happiness Festival; Turnip Festival at American Globe, Parish Players, Thetford, Vermont.
The Edge of the Forest
Comic Drama. 30 minutes. 3W.
When Zina decides that it’s a good last day for her dotty mother, she packs a basket. Her sister just wants some of the poppy seed cake.
Productions: Woodstock Theatre Festival, Chip DeFaa Theatre Festival, Manhattan TheatreSource.
Are You Drowning?
Comic Drama. 30 minutes. 1W, 1M.
Laurie and Greg have been married five years, a second marriage for each. At their vacation condo, they bicker and feud and play tricks on each other. The games escalate. And who knows the rules?
After the Bows
Drama. 25 minutes. 2W, 1M.
It’s closing night for two actors who have just ended a successful run in a production of Miss Julie. Jules believes Jon is the love of her life, but for Jon their affair was just a showmance. A third character, Kristine, spins the evening in a different direction.
Winner: Audience Favorite, St. Croix Falls Theatre Festival, St. Croix Falls, WI.
The Unravelling: After She Died
Drama. 10 minutes. 3W.
A mother searches for an explanation in the death of her adult daughter, a dancer.
Wedding March
Drama. 10 minutes. 2W.
A short take on the long trek to the altar and beyond.
Film Adaptation: Wedding March (Director: Nadia Talel). An Official Selection of the Catskill International Film Festival, September, 2018.
Semi-Finalist: Shorts of all Sorts, NYC, September, 2018
Winner: Best Comedy-Dramedy, Hollwood International Motion Picture Festival, July, 2018
A Couple of Brownies
Comedy. 10 minutes. 1W, 2M.
Finalist: The Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville.
The Right Number
Contemporary Romantic Comedy. 10 minutes. 1W, 2M.
Hooking up, telling the truth, and pizza. A comedy that answers the question: What is the real difference between men and women?
Publication: Best Short Plays, Smith & Kraus.
Productions: Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC; American Globe Theatre, NYC.
Dim Sum
Black Comedy. 10 minutes. 2W, 2M.
Publication: Playscripts.
Production: New World Stages.
Playing the Winner
The fifty-first shade of gray. 20 minutes. 1W, 2M.
A young man comes to call for Gwen, who costumes herself for a fairy-tale romance. They plan to escape for an idyllic holiday. Unexpectedly, her husband appears, erratic and menacing. Gwen playfully demands that photographs be taken. The young man urges a quick departure. The play takes a dark turn.
Playing the Winner was developed at Playwrights Gallery.
Reading: Pittsburgh New Works Festival
The Favor
Drama. 15 minutes. 2W, no longer young.
It seems like a glorious day at the beach to Suze, but Daisy’s plan will change that.
The Favor was developed with the guidance of Austin Pendleton.
Productions: DFAP, Dubuque, Iowa; American Globe, NYC; Parish Theatre, Thetford, VT.
Finalist: The Turnip Festival at American Globe Theatre.
Mood Indigo
An Unromantic Comedy. 10 minutes. 2M, 2W.
A trio of musicians await the arrival of the singer. She has a surprise.
Reading: The Drilling Company.
Finalist: The Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Production: Whiskey Radio Hour, Chicago, August, 2018.
The Grapes Business
Backstage Comedy. 10 minutes. 1W, 1M.
The leading lady demands that her co-star promise never to do that thing with the grapes during the key, pivotal scene of the play, ever again.
Productions: Delaware Water Gap Jazz Festival, Woodstock Theatre Company Benefit Byrdcliffe, Woodstock, NY.
Not Really
Comic Drama. 7 minutes. 2W, teenagers.
Publication: Best Short Plays for Teenagers, Smith & Kraus.
After Words
A Black-Tie Comedy. 10 minutes. 1M, 1W.
Reading: The Astaire Awards Benefit.
Production: The Old Church Theatre, Branford, VT.
The Other Part
Drama. 10 minutes. 1W, 1M.
The Other Part was developed at Playwrights Gallery and with the guidance of Austin Pendleton.
Production: Parish Theatre, Thetford, VT (Starring: Faith Catlin).
Rise Up
Political Comedy. 10 minutes. 1W, 1M.
A couple discovers that Donald Trump is president and urges the audience to Rise Up.
Rise Up was developed at Schoolhouse in the City.
Production: Irondale Theatre Festival, Brooklyn, NY (Starring: Ginger Grace, James Prendergast)
For Old Times' Sake
An Unromantic Comedy. 1M, 2W.
For Old Times' Sake was developed at Playwrights Gallery.
Production: American Globe Fifteen-minute Play Festival, a Semi-Finalist, the Turnip Festival. Directed by Chuck Blasius. (Cast: Nicole Kontolefa, Jed Peterson and Bethany B. Williams.)
OTHER SHORT PLAYS
After the Lights Are Out
Airport
Applaud Our Sport
Aren’t You Dying to Get Out of Here?
At First We Were Friends
At the Window
Best Offer
A Break in the Rehearsal
Breakfast to Madness
Couple of Geckos Covid Hits the Hamptons
The Fall
Hot Milk
In the Game
Jiggity Jig
Just Desserts
Kate and El
Objects in Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear
PTA Mums
Quintin and Charlean
The Robot and the Scientist
Same Difference
Suffize It to Say
Three Women at the Doma
Touch My Neck
What Am I Saying?
What You Wish
Why Do You Always Bring That Up?
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Middlemarch
An adaptation of the classic novel by Mary Ann Evans (AKA George Eliot).
And Then I Lost It
A collection of monologues.