Short Plays

Lipstick and Wrenches
20 Minute Comedy
3 W, 3 M
After her favorite sitcom star dies unexpectedly, teenage loser Palmer Harris decides to save the world.
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The Midas Touch
5 Minute Monologue
1M
A failed comic book writer’s life changes when he gains the power to turn things into gold.
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Kisses and Other Natural Disasters
1 Minute Comedy
1 M, 1 W
A new couple deals with the consequences of a kiss with dark powers.
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America, or God Shed His Grace On Thee
10 Minute Comedy
1 W, 1 M (a 3rd actor would be nice)
A cyborg and American agent fight enemies and their growing attraction to rescue America’s stolen groove.
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The Blame Game, Part 2
15 Minute Musical Sketch
2 W, 2 M
An unhappily married couple overcomes their differences (cannibalism, sibling murder) through hip-hop and rhyming verse.
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Channeling
10 Minute Epic Farce
The Gods of Television and Internet war against each other through their precocious teen avatars.
2 W, 2M, 2 Gender Neutral
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Guidance
10 Minute Site-specific Horror Play
4 W, 3 M
A guidance counselor demonstrates how she cures children of what is wrong within them.
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Six Beers In
15 Minute Site-Specific Drama
1 W, 1 M
A sister tries to drink her way into her prodigal brother’s graces.
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19 Words
Half Hour Verse Drama
2 W, 2 M, 1 Gender Neutral
A wife tries to stop her husband’s cult from ending the world.
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The Far Away Daughter of Athens
10 Minute Verse Play
2 M
Demetrius and Egeus, captured by Amazons, remember Athens (and Hermia)
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The Green Show
1 Hour Farce
5W, 7M
An Elizabethan playwright rallies his rag-tag ensemble to impress a critic as increasingly absurd obstacles arise.
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The Refrigerator Hums
10 Minute Play
3 Gender Neutral
In a haunted hotel room, an exorcism is called for by unusual allies.
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Symbolic Gestures
10 Minute Play
2 W, 1 M
Three activists have their civil disobedience shaken by more intimate desires.
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Where It Comes and Where It Goes
10 Minute Play
1 W, 1 M
A British researcher believes she’s found the secret to the Holy Grail – in Aerosmith’s song, Dude Looks Like A Lady.
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Presents
10 Minute Monologue
1 W
An amateur astronomer has a a brush with Santa Claus and eternity.
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Amen Abandon
10 Minute Monologue
1 M
A biographical look at my love for Jolie Holland’s song, Amen

Rumplestiltskin
60 Minute Musical for Children
4 M, 2 W
A musical version of the classic that also incorporates string theory.
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Ghost Light
15 Minute Play
1 W, 1 M
A playwright with writer’s block is visited by a character ready to be written.
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No Business
10 Minute Monologue
1M
A biographical look at my relationship to show business.
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A Single Crumb Forever
10 Minute Scene Contribution To Dainty Candaver
4W, 7M
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It’s A Wonderful Opportunity
A 15 Minute Absurdity Written In Tribute To Nosedive’s Production Of Infectious Opportunity
2W, 7M
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Endless Song of Happiness
1 Minute Play
1 W, 1M
A knight reaches the tower to rescue an unknown prize from a fell sorcerer.
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Let Slip
10 Minute Play
When Renna, a dramaturg in the far away future, discovers that her company’s Passion Play of Bush, Saddam and Osama is based on a false history, she must decide if the show should go on.
3 W, 3 M
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The App of Paradise
10 Minute Play
Two friends decide whether or not to use a new technology to bring their dead friend back to (online) life.
1 W, 1M
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Do It Yourself
7 Minute Play
A group of artists is seduced into starting a theatre company by a Goddess of ambiguous intention.
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A Very Nosedive Future
10 Minute Farce written for Nosedive Productions’ 2012 Gala
2 W, 3 M
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All Good Ending
15 Minute Play written for The Brick’s Democracy Festival
1 W, 1 M
Two English settles deal with the consequences of the 1637 Mystic massacre.
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RabbitWolfBird
Short monologue written for CAPSLOCK’s PussyFest
1W
A woman tells us how a trauma transformed her into a shapeshifter.
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So We Beat On
Short monologue written for Retro Productions’ 20th Century Salon
1W, +maybe 1M
Rose pays her annual visit to Jake’s grave with important news.
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