There’s something powerful about stories told entirely about women and at Blue Dasher Press, we’re proud to showcase a curated collection of stage plays featuring all-female casts. Whether you're in search of a short 15-minute piece or a full-length production that puts women front and center, we have something for every stage and every audience. Each script is available as a printable PDF in our digital store, and best of all, every play can be produced royalty-free. There’s never a cost to produce one of our scripts, because we believe theatre should be accessible, inclusive, and boldly empowering.
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BRACELETS AND BOYFRIENDS
Story: Best friends since childhood, Judy and Olivia decide to return to a quaint seaside town that they once visited on family vacations during their early teen years. Reminded of love's lost, choices made, and the fading of their youth, Judy and Olivia reaffirm their friendship; a play about two women who must look back before they can move forward.
Highlight: Winner of the Carrie McCray Memorial Literary Award for Best Stage Play.
Highlight: Adapted into the award-winning short film Bracelets.
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 2f; both characters are in their early 50's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
THE BRAY OF THE BELLES
Story: Five Southern women who have known each other since childhood reunite in the ballroom of an upscale hotel to plan a wedding. Over the course of the evening, the women realize they are anything but friends.
Length: 30 Minutes
Cast: 5f; all characters are in their late 30's to early 40's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
CLEAN
Story: A former movie star named Victoria is suffering from the beginning stages of Alzheimer's. Struggling to maintain her independence, Victoria resists a friendship with her equally stubborn housekeeper and must face the sudden arrival of her estranged daughter.
Highlight: Official Selection, Kentuck Arts Ten-Minute Play Festival.
Highlight: Official Selection for the Alabama Conference of Theatre’s Ten-Minute Play Festival
Length: 30 Minutes
Cast: 3f
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
DON'T MENTION IT
Story: When seventy-year-old New York native Stella discovers that her grandson has been diagnosed with AIDS, she turns to her best friend Madeline for comfort and strength.
Highlight: Winner, World AIDS Day Writing Contest, Stage Play
Highlight: World Premiere, Moments of Play, Salem Theatre Company
Highlight: Featured in A&U: America's AIDS Magazine
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2f; both characters are in their 70's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
FALSE HOPES
Story: Set in the employee break room of an American company, three female co-workers experience considerable personal and professional changes over the span of a year. Amy, an ambitious temp who will do whatever it takes to get promoted, chooses to have an abortion after discovering she’s pregnant with the child of her married boss. Lovelorn and lonely Claudia is told she’ll never be able to have children of her own. Young bride Nicole is pregnant with her first child but realizes she’s not in love with her successful husband.
Highlight: Featured in The Best Women's Stage Monologues
Length: 30 Minutes
Cast: 3f
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language; contains content related to abortion
FREE DRY ON THURSDAYS
Story: On a late Thursday night in Chicago, two seemingly different women meet in a laundromat, only to realize they are co-workers at a successful advertising firm. Mary, a white woman, is the founding president. Tameka, a black woman, works in the mail room and has come up with a lucrative marketing campaign.
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 2f
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
HOMECOMINGS
Story: In a small-town laundromat, two former high school rivals come face-to-face for the first time in over forty years.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2f
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
I BET SHE HAS A PARTY TO GO TO
Story: After watching a beautiful, free-spirited woman roller skate through a city park, three women respond to the resentment they feel about her assumed carefree life.
Highlight: Featured in The Best 10-Minute Plays
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 4f
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
LIMELIGHT
Story: Moments before she's supposed to make a keynote speech to a sold-out crowd, a successful author makes the decision to stop writing and walk away from her career forever.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2f
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
PLEASE MEET YOUR MOTHER AT THE SERVICE DESK
Story: When high school student Abigail has a chance meeting with a stranger at a superstore, her feelings change about the difficult relationship she has with her mother.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 3f; one character is in high school
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
RELOCATIONS
Story: Inspired by Alix Smith's photograph States of Union #3, this short play is about two women who - as mothers and partners - realize how important geography is in America.
Highlight: World Premiere, Rough Writers Festival, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2f; both characters are in their mid to late 30's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
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A RUM CAKE FOR RITA
Story: The year is 1965. Rita has been suddenly widowed as her husband, John, has been killed in Vietnam. Since his death, Rita has been ostracized by John's family simply because Rita is white and her husband was black. Loneliness has left Rita emotionally crippled and suffering from a deep depression. When John's older sister, Marla, shows up unexpectedly on Christmas Eve brandishing a rum cake, the two women finally come to terms with their shared grief and sorrow. Through their tears and conversation, they come to the realization they will always be family, despite the color of their skin.
Highlight: Featured in The Best Women's Stage Monologues
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2f; both characters are in their late 20's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
Printable PDF
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
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
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
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
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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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