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
FRACTURED
Story: In 1965, a young college student named Anthony befriends a classmate out of sympathy because she's struggling to fit in at their school. In an attempt to deny his homosexuality, Anthony spends a night with Wendy, causing her to become frighteningly obsessed with him. After Anthony reveals to Wendy that he's transferring to another school in the morning, Wendy reaches her breaking point.
Highlight: Featured in The Best Women's Stage Monologues
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m; both characters are in their late teens to early 20's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language; contains content related to suicide
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
FROM HERE I CAN SEE HEAVEN
Story: Kimberly Isleton has come home to her family's farm in rural Georgia to attend her father's funeral. Now a successful businesswoman, Kimberly has never recovered from the heartbreak she suffered twenty years ago when she was forbidden to no longer see Carlos Esperanza, her first love. Clashing with her strong-willed older sister, Beatrice, over past sibling rivalries and the future of the farm, Kimberly seeks comfort in Carlos when he suddenly reappears in her life..
Length: Full Length (60 Minutes)
Cast: 3f, 3m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
FROZEN STARS
Story: This Latin-flavored coming-of-age stage drama explores the lives of several young people as they struggle with personal and religious beliefs, peer pressure, family relationships, and the overwhelming power of love and friendship.
Highlight: Featured in The Best Women's Stage Monologues
Highlight: Adapted into a feature film
Length: Full Length (90 Minutes)
Cast: 8f, 8m; most of the characters are teenagers
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language; depiction of violence on stage
HELL WITH THE LID OFF
Story: On the hottest day of the year, five people suffering from different types of addiction each reach their breaking point while attending a healing retreat in the middle of nowhere.
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 3f, 3m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
HOT RATES TO OMAHA
Story: After his estranged father dies as a result of a drug addiction, Cooper is determined to carry out his father’s final wishes by embarking on a road trip to Omaha. Along for the ride is Shelley, who is aware that Cooper has been unfaithful and plans to end their relationship before they get home.
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
HOUR GLASS
Story: Hayden and Persephone Caulwell have been married for twenty-two years. Constantly referred to as “the perfect couple,” they have found themselves hiding the discord in their marriage from their family and friends. After a dinner party, they engage in a volatile confrontation and years of affairs, secrets, and emotions begin to surface. Realizing their marriage has ended, husband and wife lash out at each other until the dining room – and their lives – are left in shards. This one-act play was inspired equally by the short story 'Bliss' by Katherine Mansfield and the Greek myth of Persephone.
Highlight: Official Selection, Cracks Theatre Festival, University of Guam
Highlight: South Africa Premiere, Franklin Players One Act Festival (Johannesburg)
Highlight: Canada Premiere, Highwood Memorial Center, High River (Alberta)
Highlight: New York Premiere, Where Theater Starts, Hudson Exploited Theater Company
Length: 20 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
I ATE LUNCH ALONE TODAY
Story: A modern-day adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. Margaret has convinced everyone, including herself, that her relationship with Anthony is perfect. But when Margaret's childhood friend - a fun-loving flight attendant named Bridgette - comes to town for a quick visit, Margaret confesses that for the first time in two years she ate lunch alone, a moment that prompts the sudden realization that her life and her relationship are more damaged than she wants to admit.
Highlight: Official Selection, Chicago Director's Festival
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 2f, 2m
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.
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 4f
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE SAD
Story: Sixteen-year-old Cathy is haunted by images of the Watts Riots, an event she watched from her bedroom window two years ago. Her boyfriend Dawson feels responsible for Cathy’s happiness while trying to understand the bizarre behavior of her wealthy parents as his own family struggles with poverty. Set in 1967, this dramatic short play for teenagers features roles for one woman and one man.
Cast: 1f, 1m; both characters are teenagers
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
JOHNNY RAMIREZ REALLY WANTS TO KISS ME
Story: When star student Johnny Ramirez is selected to be the math tutor for the always-misunderstood Alex Wilde, the two young men discover love for the first time.
Highlight: Official Selection, DC Queer Theatre Festival (Washington, D.C.)
Highlight: Off-Off Broadway Production, Short Play Lab, Roy Arias Studio Theatre
Highlight: Winner, Slam Boston Award, Boston Center for the Arts, Best Stage Play
Highlight: Official Selection, Stage This, Too! (New York City)
Highlight: Official Selection, Queer Shorts, Stage Q (Madison, Wisconsin)
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2m; both characters are teenagers
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
JUST BEFORE THE DROP
Story: Moments after her husband of 24 years leaps to his death from a 12 story building, a woman comes face-to-face with a man who claims to have been her husband's lover of five years. On the rooftop, sorrow, regret, and anger culminate in a second tragedy in this chilling short play.
Highlight: Official Selection, Short Plays & Contemporary Dance, Firehouse Theatre (Virginia)
Highlight: Featured in 105 Five-Minute Plays for Study and Performance
Highlight: New York Premiere, Short Stories 8: Urban View, Native Aliens Theatre Collective
Highlight: Adapted into an award-winning short film
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
LAST DANCE
Story: While attending their senior prom, Spencer and Camden seek a quiet moment together, away from the crowd and away from their dates. Sitting on a bench outside of the ballroom, the two young men reveal why the night has been such a miserable experience - because they really just want to dance with each other.
Highlight: World Premiere, Spectrum: LGBT New Play Festival, Funky Little Theater Company
Highlight: Featured in The Best 10-Minute Plays
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2m; both characters are teenagers
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
LET'S NOT CONFUSE THE SITUATION
Story: Having been burned by bad relationships in the past, Janessa Martin battles over her decision to give her new boyfriend, Colby Varner, a key to her apartment. As past issues begin to surface for both, Janessa and Colby are forced to address the fact they don't fully trust each other and why.
Highlight: World Premiere, The Makor Theatre 10-Minute Play Festival (New York City)
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
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
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