THE SEVENTH OF AUGUST
Story: Erica's relationship of ten years has ended without her knowing how or why. Lloyd's girlfriend has slept with all of his friends and two of his relatives. When Erica loses her parking ticket in the underground garage Lloyd is the new customer service manager of, their shattered lives and bruised hearts collide.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m; both characters are in their early 30's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
SHALLOW END
Story: Moments after she’s almost sexually assaulted by a classmate, high school student Vanessa Martin seeks solitude at the local swimming pool despite the late hour. There, a swim class instructor and fellow high school student named Zane Armstrong encourages Vanessa to face her fear of drowning but not before first sharing a scar and secrets of his own.
Highlight: Named a Top 15 finalist for the Billy Roche International Short Play Award
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m; both characters are in high school; contains content related to sexual assault
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
SHIMMER
Story: Questioning how happy she is with her life and marriage, suburban housewife Claudia Veramonte shares a flirtatious but meaningful conversation with Tito Benavides, the beautiful young man who cleans her swimming pool.
Highlight: Featured in The Best Women's Stage Monologues
Highlight: Featured in The Best Men's Stage Monologues
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
SKY LINES
Story: This award-winning stage play explores the lives of Venita, Maggie, and Sarah who live in a rundown apartment building in an unnamed American city. Venita is a black woman who has been ostracized from her family for marrying a white man named George. Maggie endures a loveless marriage and within ten years gives birth to five children. Sarah desires a life of picture-perfect glamour and excitement and has married her high school sweetheart Jimmy. After a few brushes with reality, Sarah becomes dismayed with her predictable life and slips into a crippling depression. Over the course of 34 years, Venita, Maggie, and Sarah confront social and political issues as they fight to assert their identity and protect their friendship.
Highlight: Off-Off Broadway Production, The Producer's Club
Highlight: Third Place, New Works for Young Women, The University of Tulsa
Highlight: Featured in Audition Arsenal for Women in Their 20s
Length: Full Length (90 Minutes)
Cast: 3f
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language; contains content related to death and grief
SLOE GIN FIZZ
Story: On a rainy night, two male co-workers, Marco and Christopher, are drawn together out of loneliness. Marco is married to a Korean woman whom he does not love. Christopher is suffering from a broken heart after another failed relationship. In the course of one night, the two men emotionally confront the expectations of a new relationship, the pressure of conforming to society, the traditional roles expected of men, and the powerful and consuming feelings of love.
Highlight: Official Selection, Fifth Annual Lavender Footlights Festival (Miami)
Highlight: Featured in The Best Men's Stage Monologues
Highlight: Featured in Audition Arsenal for Men in Their 20s
Length: Full Length (90 Minutes)
Cast: 2m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
THE SNACK QUEENS
Story: In this suburban comedy, a group of rival soccer moms take their sideline snacks way too seriously.
Highlight: Featured in CultureCult Magazine
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 5f
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
SOMEBODY'S BABY
Story: This teen drama takes place on a rainy Friday night in Chicago in 1997. Escaping a near date-rape situation, sixteen-year-old Tabitha stumbles into a coffee shop where she meets William, a young man who is dying of AIDS and has been abandoned by all of those he has known and loved. As a result of their chance meeting, Tabitha and William question their beliefs in God, themselves, and the world around them. Both young lives are deeply affected by a waitress named Milvia, who has a story and a dream of her own. Somebody’s Baby is a powerful drama for young actors that explores a very important timely subject.
Highlight: Winner of the Elly Award for Best Original Script
Length: Full Length (90 Minutes)
Cast: 2f, 1m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
A SORT OF MADNESS
Story: It’s 1967. Sharon Parker has just fled her life in America for a getaway to Madrid, Spain. Hoping to come to terms with a broken heart, Sharon is captivated by the still lingering legacy of film star Ava Gardner. In a hotel lobby, she meets a few fellow lost souls.
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 2f, 3M
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
THE STAR KILLER
Story: Jennifer Hawkins, an investigative journalist, is convinced television news reporter Marco Visconti murdered international film star Cristina Lucero in order to boost his failing career by being the first to break the story. Determine to get a taped confession, Jennifer accepts the help of undercover FBI agent Brooke Emerson to prove that Marco is Cristina's killer. Written in the style of film noir, this riveting stage play will keep audiences on the edge of their seats.
Length: Full Length (90 Minutes)
Cast: 2f, 3m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
STAY
Story: On the same day her boyfriend Jessie is released from a work camp, eighteen-year-old Alison Freeman receives a letter from her estranged mother who wants a second chance. Alison must decide whether to accept a marriage proposal from Jessie, continue living with her lonely Aunt Carla, or leave her small hometown to join her mother for a new life in New York.
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 4f, 2M
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
SYRUP
Story: To bring an end to their longstanding feud, the daughters of two former First Ladies convince their mothers to appear as special guests in a charity fashion show.
Highlight: Featured in The Best Women's Stage Monologues
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 5f
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
TAGGED
Story: After the homicide of her older brother, sixteen-year-old Cha’Relle is determined to keep his memory alive by creating a mural in his honor on a brick wall in their neighborhood, despite the possibility of being caught and charged with a crime. Knowing a police officer is sitting in a bakery across the street and watching their every move, classmate Jo Lee is determined to convince Cha’Relle not to paint. Fully aware of the consequences, Cha'Relle contemplates facing the challenge head on.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2f; both characters are in high school
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
TAKING OFF
Story: If the plane just went down and there are no survivors, why is Mrs. Whitmore so happy? When Mrs. Whitmore is informed by Miranda, an airline employee, that her husband's plane has crashed and there are no reported survivors, she suddenly realizes a new sense of liberty has been given to her with which she’ll be able to make many lifelong dreams come true.
Highlight: Off-Off Broadway Production, Zero to Sixty in One Page Theatre Festival
Length: 5 Minutes
Cast: 2f
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
THERE IS NO 'D' IN REVENGE
Story: Fed up with the cruel antics of a lip gloss-stealing mean girl named Brenda, fifteen-year-old Jenessa is faced with the opportunity to seek revenge by outing her nemesis to their entire school when she discovers Brenda has carefully hidden the truth that she's a lesbian.
Highlight: Featured in 222 More Comedy Monologues 2 Minutes & Under
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2f; both characters are in high school
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
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THRENODY
Story: Dana and Jake are a young couple who suffer from a horrible drug addiction and a volatile love affair. Threnody is an in-depth and frightening exploration of the disintegration of two people, grasping for any signs of hope or human compassion in a world where none exists.
Highlight: Featured in The Best Women's Stage Monologues
Highlight: Featured in The Best Men's Stage Monologues
Highlight: Featured in The Best Stage Scenes
Highlight: Featured in Audition Arsenal for Women in Their 20s
Highlight: Elly Award Nominee, Best Original Script
Highlight: Official Selection, Cracks Theatre Festival, University of Guam
Length: 20 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language; contains content related to drug addiction and sexual assault; contains depiction of on-stage drug use
TRIXIE'S LAST DATE WITH THE BOOGEYMAN
Story: A Southern belle named Trixie Howard is intent on surviving a date from Hell in a desperate attempt to no longer be single.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2f, 1m; all characters are in their mid to late 20's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
TROPHY
Story: Georgina, a self-admitted trophy wife, tries to murder someone’s husband at a dinner party she’s a guest at. With the police on the way, Georgina turns to Toby, a new trophy husband, to help determine her next move.
Highlight: Featured in The Best Men's Stage Monologues
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m both characters are in their late 20's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
THE TRUANTS
Story: When Marc, Sandi, Ethan, Jana, and Chad decide to cut school and spend the day together hanging out in Marc’s basement, many truths are revealed that threaten to change their friendship forever. Set in Sacramento in 1989, this award-winning dramatic play explores the lives of five young people living on the edge.
Highlight: Winner, Best Stage Script, Script and Storyboard Showcase (Los Angeles)
Highlight: Nominee, Best Stage Play, Woodbury Film Festival (Salt Lake City)
Highlight: Finalist, Storyline, DaVinci International Film Festival (Los Angeles)
Length: Full Length (90 Minutes)
Cast: 2f, 3m; all characters are in high school
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language; contains content related to suicide
TWO OF HEARTS
Story: Deciding to skip gym class together, high school students Donovan and James pass the time by playing a card game but end up revealing their true feelings for each other. Set in 1986, this nostalgic short play and homage to the iconic Stacey Q dance hit explores the complicated feelings connected to discovering your first love.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2m; both characters are in high school
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
VIXEN
Story: In the summer of 1947, eighteen-year-old John returns home after finishing his first year of college. At his father’s birthday party, John meets Melanie, a beautiful and mysterious chanteuse who has been hired for the occasion. When John quickly realizes there’s more to Melanie than meets the eye and discovers the real purpose she’s been invited, he’s forced to make the most important decision of his life: to kill or not to kill?
Highlight: Official Selection, Punk Monkey Productions, Play Noir (Los Angeles)
Highlight: Featured in Play Noir Anthology: A Collection of Film Noir Styled One-Act Play
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m both characters are in their late 20's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
WE NEVER MADE IT TO PARIS
Story: We Never Made it to Paris is a creative fusion of language, music, movement, dance, photography, and light. The story spans over the course of eighteen years in the lives of two men: Eros, a former model, and Bird, a former actor. Fearing real love doesn't exist, Bird sabotages their young affair, only to realize years later they are soul mates.
Highlight: Off-Off Broadway Production, The Producer's Club
Length: Full Length (60 Minutes)
Cast: 2m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT SUCH THINGS?
Story: Intrigued by Alexandra, a twelve-year-old girl who has a fascination with murder, a ghostwriter named Florence invites the young girl to her home for tea, with the intention of outwitting and killing her
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2f; one character is an adult; one character is twelve.
Audience: All ages
WHAT HAPPENED TO CINDY
Story: Four young women come to terms with the haunting guilt they share over the tragic death of their friend Cindy, who was killed on the night of the junior prom.
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 4f; all characters are in high school
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
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