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NOMI ALTABEF Editor-in-Chief STEVE SPIEGEL Owner & CEOHello again!
Last year, we introduced TRW Plays with our inaugural catalog, and the response was phenomenal. Our plays are appearing on stages from coast to coast. Martyna Majok’s SANCTUARY CITY and Sylvia Khoury’s SELLING KABUL have enjoyed successful productions from Pasadena to Portland, Maine, from Chicago to Houston, garnering rave reviews. Kate Hamill is literally everywhere, with dozens of productions of DRACULA, EMMA, and MS. HOLMES & MS. WATSON – APT. 2B. Robert O’Hara’s powerful BARBECUE is being served up by colleges and professional companies, and Liz Duffy Adams’ BORN WITH TEETH, Mark St. Germain’s ELEANOR, Jacqueline Goldfinger’s BABEL, and Alvaro Saar Rio’s adaptation of CARMELA FULL OF WISHES are enthralling audiences everywhere. But wait, we’re not done yet!
Now, a year later, we’re proud to announce that we’ve acquired a parade of new plays––by established writers and new voices––with works by Keith Bunin, Joe Calarco, John Cariani, Matthew López, Mona Mansour, and Lloyd Suh, and by Ifa Bayeza, C. Julian Jiménez, Sophie MacIntosh, Tony Meneses, Ana Nogueira, Anna Ouyang Moench, and Abby Rosebrock. We could go on, but you’ll find them all within these pages.
This catalog has new works spanning the theatrical
spectrum. Inside, you’ll discover broad comedies, dark comedies, personal dramas, social issues, stories with LGBTQIA or BIPOC themes, family-friendly works, translations, adaptations of classics, historical dramas, absurdist and experimental works. It’s all here.
We also have new one-acts and collections, including three volumes of our anthology series, TRW Presents: Short Plays, featuring plays from David Ives, Ngozi Anyanwu, Rajiv Joseph, Yussef el Guindi, Arlene Hutton, Lisa D’Amour, MJ Kaufman, Deborah Zoe Laufer, Doug Wright and many more!
Keep turning the pages, and you’ll quickly identify the titles you want to include in your upcoming seasons here at TRW Plays.
Thank you,
lysna marzani , craig pospisil and robert vaughan
Table of Contents
Liz Duffy Adams
BORN WITH TEETH pg 10
BROKEN MACHINE pg 10 THE SALONNIÈRES pg 11
WET or, Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes pg 11
WITCH HUNT or, A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World pg 11
Ifa Bayeza
THE TILL TRILOGY pg 12 THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL
THAT SUMMER IN SUMNER BENEVOLENCE
Kate Benson
A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN NOVEMBER ON THE BANKS OF THE GREATEST OF THE GREAT LAKES pg 14 [PORTO] pg 14
Beaufield Berry IN THE UPPER ROOM pg 14
Douglas Carter Beane
FAIRYCAKES pg 16
Michelle Kholos Brooks H*TLER’S TASTERS pg 17
Keith Bunin
THE COAST STARLIGHT pg 18
Joe Calarco
A MEASURE OF CRUELTY pg 20
SEPARATE ROOMS pg 20
WELL MET BY MOONLIGHT pg 20
Audrey Cefaly
THE LAST WIDE OPEN pg 21 TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD pg 21
Angelica Chéri
BERTA, BERTA pg 21
Carla Ching
NOMAD MOTEL pg 22
THE TWO KIDS THAT BLOW SHIT UP pg 22
Inda Craig-Galván
BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA pg 23
THE GREAT JHERI CURL DEBATE pg 23
A HIT DOG WILL HOLLER pg 23
Carey Crim
DISTANCE LEARNING pg 24
MORNING AFTER GRACE pg 24
Adrienne Dawes
TEEN DAD pg 25
Gino Di Iorio
SCAB pg 25
William Missouri Downs ASKING STRANGERS THE MEANING OF LIFE pg 26
HOW TO STEAL A PICASSO pg 26
Tyler Dwiggins
THE BINDING pg 27
Mark Edelman
FOUR CHILDREN pg 27
Jeffrey Finn & Bob Walton
GAME SHOW pg 28
Dexter Flanders
FOXES pg 28
Mark-Eugene Garcia & Luis D’Elias
EIGHT TALES OF PEDRO pg 29
Jacqueline Goldfinger
BABEL pg 30
CLICK pg 30
David Grimm
CYRANO DE BERGERAC pg 31
IBSEN IN CHICAGO pg 31
TALES FROM RED VIENNA pg 31
Kate Hamill
DRACULA pg 32
EMMA pg 32
MS. HOLMES & MS. WATSONAPT. 2B pg 33
Reina Hardy
GLASSHEART pg 34
Gabriel Diego Hernández and Rachel Elmer
QUARTER RICAN pg 35
James Hindman
WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU pg 35
Donna Hoke
THE CROSSWORD PLAY (or, Ezmeranda’s Gift) pg 36
Arlene Hutton
ACCORDING TO THE CHORUS pg 36
THREE SISTERS BRONTË pg 36
Tor Hyams & Lisa St. Lou SENIOR LIVING pg 38
C. Julian Jiménez
ALLIGATOR MOUTH, TADPOLE ASS pg 38
BRUISE & THORN pg 38
JULIO AIN’T GOIN’ DOWN LIKE THAT pg 39
Lila Rose Kaplan
THE MAGICIAN’S DAUGHTER pg 40
SMALL ENCHANTMENTS pg 40
MJ Kaufman
SAGITTARIUS PONDEROSA pg 41
SENSITIVE GUYS pg 41
Sylvia Khoury
SELLING KABUL pg 43
Stacie Lents
COLLEGE COLORS pg 44
Ken Levine 4:05 A Nocturnal Comedy pg 44
AMERICA’S SEXIEST COUPLE pg 44
GUILTY PLEASURES— An Unapologetic Comedy pg 44 SMOKE GETS IN YOUR HOUSE pg 44
ON THE FARCE DAY OF CHRISTMAS pg 45 WHAT IS “MURDER?”—A Mystery/Comedy pg 45
Matthew López
REVERBERATION pg 46 SOMEWHERE pg 46
ZOEY’S PERFECT WEDDING pg 46
David MacGregor
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE ELUSIVE EAR pg 48
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE FALLEN SOUFFLÉ pg 48
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE GHOST MACHINE pg 49
Sophie MacIntosh macbitches pg 50
John Maclay & Joe Foust
THE REVOLTING TEENS OF SHERWOOD pg 51
ROMEO AND JULIET WALK INTO A BAR pg 51
Martyna Majok
SANCTUARY CITY pg 52
Mona Mansour
THE VAGRANT TRILOGY pg 53 HOUR OF FEELING THE VAGRANT URGE FOR GOING
Michael McKeever
DANIEL’S HUSBAND pg 54 MR. PARKER pg 54
Rob Melrose
A CHRISTMAS CAROL pg 54 THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS pg 55
Tony Meneses EL BORRACHO pg 56
THE HOMBRES pg 56 twenty50 pg 57
Anna Ouyang Moench BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA pg 59
MAN OF GOD pg 59
MOTHERS pg 59
SIN EATERS pg 59
Ana Nogueira WHICH WAY TO THE STAGE pg 60
Ronán Noone
THE SMUGGLER pg 61 THIRST pg 61
Robert O’Hara
ANTEBELLUM pg 62
BARBECUE pg 62
MANKIND pg 62
ZOMBIE: THE AMERICAN pg 62
Scott Organ 17 MINUTES pg 64
Rich Orloff BLESSINGS FROM THE PANDEMIC pg 64
Tira Palmquist
TWO DEGREES pg 64
John Pielmeier
HOOK’S TALE pg 65
Charles Edward Pogue
TARTUFFE pg 66
Douglas Post
HOWARDS END pg 67
Jessica Provenz
BOCA pg 67
Psalmayene 24
AN ELOQUENT FUGITIVE SLAVE FLEES TO IRELAND pg 68
LES DEUX NOIRS: Notes on Notes of a Native Son pg 68
Lia Romeo
THE FOREST pg 69
Eric Rosen
LOT’S WIFE pg 69
Bill Rosenfield
ANOTHER AMERICA pg 70
Abby Rosebrock
BLUE RIDGE pg 70
DIDO OF IDAHO pg 70
SINGLES IN AGRICULTURE pg 71
Mark St. Germain
ELEANOR pg 72
PUBLIC SPEAKING 101 pg 72
Matt Schatz
THE BURDENS pg 73
Paul Schmidt
THE CHERRY ORCHARD pg 75
THE SEAGULL pg 75
THREE SISTERS pg 75
UNCLE VANYA pg 75
Phaedra Michelle Scott
GOOD HAIR pg 76
PLANTATION BLACK pg 76
Randall Sharp
WASHINGTON SQUARE pg 76
Celine Song
ENDLINGS pg 77
Aoise Stratford
THE UNFORTUNATES pg 78
Lloyd Suh
THE FAR COUNTRY pg 78
FRANKLINLAND pg 78
THE HEART SELLERS pg 78
Caridad Svich
12 OPHELIAS pg 80
RED BIKE pg 80
Adam Szymkowicz
THE WOODEN HEART pg 80
Cori Thomas
LOCKDOWN pg 81
R. Eric Thomas
MRS. HARRISON pg 81
Robert Lewis Vaughan
FRANKENSTEIN; or, The Modern Prometheus. pg 82
INTERCEPTIONS: Life After the Tigers pg 82
Paul Webb
HOLD ON pg 82
WARSAW pg 82
Jason Odell Williams
AMERICA IN ONE ROOM pg 83
Elizabeth Williamson
JANE EYRE pg 84
Brenda Withers
THE DING DONGS (or, What is the Penalty in Portugal?) pg 85
OFF PEAK pg 85
John Yearley
8 MINUTES, 20 SECONDS pg 86
Stan Zimmerman
RIGHT BEFORE I GO. pg 86
SILVER FOXES pg 87
co-written with James Berg)
YES, VIRGINIA pg 87
co-written with Christian McLaughlin
Don Zolidis
A DARK SKY FULL OF STARS pg 87
Sarah Bierstock
GRACE’S LAND 2.0 pg 90
Amy Crider
FOURTEEN pg 90
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
SHOT: Caught A Soul pg 90
Michael Griffo
MATERIAL GIRLS pg 90
PROMAPOCALYPSE pg 90
VAMPIRE VALEDICTORIAN pg 90
Jon Jory and Michael Bigelow Dixon
THE CHRISTMAS CAROL FARCE pg 91
David Overton
MARY AND JOSEPH…AND COMPANY pg 91
SHAKESPEARE’S DEAD DAMES pg 91
SHAKESPEARE’S DEAD DUDES pg 91
THRICE UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR: A Triptych of Three-Actor Trysts pg 91
Jones Hope Wooten
BUDDY BRO BUBBA DUDE pg 92
HONEY SUGAR LADY DOLL pg 93
LICKETY SPLIT pg 93
pg 94
by Lynne Halliday, James Hindman, Arlene Hutton & Craig Pospisil
POINT OF INTERSECTION by James Hindman
HEDY LAMARR MAKES A MOVIE by Arlene Hutton
THE TRANSCENDENCE OF PI by Lynne Halliday
THE GRAND HOTEL by Craig Pospisil
SHRINKING THE NUMBERS by Lynne Halliday
THE FOUR COLOR PROBLEM by James Hindman
THE INCOMPLETENESS
THEOREM by Arlene Hutton
THE BIG SHELL: A Math Noir by Craig Pospisil
Jonathan Rand
LAW & ORDER: Rhymes and Misdemeanors pg 96
#HASHTAG pg 96
THE ACTS OF LIFE pg 96
Alvaro Saar Rios
MUSINGS OF A CRAZY
TEXICAN: Eight Short Plays pg 97
JULIANA
MENUDO POPS
BROWN ONLY
WHERE ARE YOU?
THE WANNA BE’S
THE HISTORY OF MEXICANS IN 10 MINUTES
THE PLAY ABOUT 2 MOTHERS
PSYCHO GRINGA
pg 98
DUMMY DIALOGUE by David Ives
GLENBURN 12 WP by Vickie Ramirez
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM
ABERNATHY by Lloyd Suh
A SENTIMENT by Elaine Romero
STEM by Arlene Hutton
THE SYSTEM by Lynne Halliday
THE TALK by France-Luce Benson
TASTING by Eric Reyes Loo
TWELVE by Vincent Terrell Durham
A WALRUS IN THE BODY OF A CROCODILE by MJ Kaufman
VOL. 2
pg 102
FAKE NEWS by Doug Wright
CLEAN SLATE by Rajiv Joseph
AS SLIMY AS YOUNG SNAILS by Arlene
HuttonCHRYSALIS by Craig Pospisil
DISNEY & FUJIKAWA by Lloyd
SuhLA TRAVIATA by Lisa D’Amour
LOCKED AND LOADED. CAN I HELP YOU? by David Ives
SWASTIKA by Elaine Romero
TWILIGHT VISIT by MJ
KaufmanTWO MUSES SLUMMING IT by Yussef
el Guindi
VOL. 3
pg 106
BATTING ZERO by James Hindman, Ray Roderick, & Cheryl Stern
G.O.A.T. by Ngozi Anyanwu
HER HEAD ON THE PILLOW by Craig Pospisil
A LIFE’S WORK by John Carosella
MEN ON MARS by Yussef el Guindi
THE RAIN IS FALLING by C. Quintana
TRISH TINKLER ON HOW TO BE EXCITING by Jacqueline Goldfinger
MenesesTHE CATERERS by Tony
EVERYBODY GETS A STICK by Deborah Zoe
LauferYOUNGER BATTLES THE POSSIBLE GHOST by Shannon Tyo
Rayven Craft, John Maclay, Austin Nelson and Emma Swain
CINDERELLA: THE REAL STORY pg 112
Patrick Flynn
THE VELVETEEN RABBIT: A Toy Story pg 113
Idris Goodwin
AMERICAN PROM pg 114
THE BOY WHO KISSED THE SKY pg 114
GHOST pg 115
JACKED! pg 115
Nambi E. Kelley
JABARI DREAMS OF FREEDOM pg 116
Carol Pugliano-Martin
SHAKESPEARE
YOUNG@PART ®: Some Comedies pg 117
Alvaro Saar Rios
CARMELA FULL OF WISHES pg 117
THE MOLE HILL STORIES pg 117
Lloyd Suh
BINA’S SIX APPLES pg 119
Cheryl L. West HOOPLA! pg 119
THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM –1963 pg 119
Don Zolidis
THE BRIGHTEST THING (or, The Squonk Play) pg 119
PLAYS BY CATEGORY pg 120
PLAYS BY MARKET pg 127
CARMELA FULL OF WISHES PG 117
These exciting plays have just been added to our catalog. Visit trwplays.com for full details on these titles and many more.
FORTUNE by Deborah Zoe Laufer
IDIO(MA)TIC by John Cariani, Tor Hyams, and Lisa St. Lou
MY GENERAL TUBMAN by Lorene Cary
PAPER DREAMS OF HARRY CHIN by Jessica Huang
—The New York Times
THE VAGRANT TRILOGY
“… captivating … like being engrossed in a novel, with that same luxuriant sense of immersion and transport.”
An aging ruler, an oppressive police state, a restless, polarized people seething with paranoia: it’s a dangerous time for poets. Two of them—the great Kit Marlowe and the up-and-comer Will Shakespeare— meet in the back room of a pub to collaborate on a history play cycle, navigate the perils of art under a totalitarian regime, and flirt like young men with everything to lose. One of them may well be the death of the other.
COMI-TRAGIC FANTASIA
2 WOMEN, 2 MEN, 1 NON BINARY OR GENDER FLUID
In this climate-chaos comic-tragedy, a burnt-out coder has become a hermit in the wilderness, nursing a broken arm and making lists from memory—of endangered species, moments of Lost Time, Incorrect States of Mind—in company with her only friend, a gray fox with a bad attitude. When wildfires approach, they flee through the wilderness to the sea, pursued by feckless would-be rescuers and threatened by a punk psychopomp.
COMEDY/HISTORICAL
4 WOMEN, 1 MAN
In pre-Revolutionary Paris, Madeleine, a girl fresh from the convent, is promised in marriage to an older nobleman to pay off her father’s debts. She flees to the literary salon of her late mother’s friends, aristocratic women who conceal radical politics within reinvented folk tales. When her promised husband shows up, the women must use their wits to save Madeleine. But in the end, the maid Françoise is revealed as the real hero of a story they didn’t realize they were in.
DRAMEDY
3 WOMEN, 4 MEN
Four survivors of a storm-sunken pirate ship—the legendary Isabella, Neptune’s bastard daughter; pirates Jenny (a runaway whore) and Sally (an electrified girl); and the Viscountess Marlene, a drag queen—seize a half-wrecked ship manned only by Captain Joppa and two sailors, Jack the cabin boy and ex-slave Horatio. Joppa is determined to get back to the war. Isabella has other plans. Amidst time lurches, shifting loyalties, storytelling and sudden violence, hearts lost and secrets revealed, the seven souls find themselves without wind or current on a slowly sinking ship—until an unexpected event offers either hope or doom.
DRAMA
3 WOMEN, 3 MEN
Ten years after Abigail Williams, instigator of the witch trials, disappeared from Salem, she turns up at the frontier tavern of fellow witch-hunter Mercy Lewis. About to leave the colonies forever, it’s her last chance to understand the madness that overtook them. But with war threatening northern New England yet again, Mercy and her fellow townspeople are in no mood for Abigail’s doubts, which suggest to them complicity with the devil. And just when everything is at its most dangerously tense—the devil himself shows up.
Liz Duffy Adams is the author of BORN WITH TEETH, which received the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award, and had its world premiere at the Alley Theater, before transferring to the Guthrie. Her other plays include DEAR ALIEN, DOG ACT, ONE BIG LIE and OR,. Her work has been seen at Seattle Rep, Magic Theatre, Contemporary American Theatre, Portland Center Stage, and Syracuse Stage. She has received the Lillian Hellman Award, the Women of Achievement Award, and the Will Glickman Award for Best New Play, among other honors.
WITCHHUNT OR, A
DISCOURSEON THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD
“A witty, somber and thought provoking play.”
—San Diego Theater Examiner
THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL THAT SUMMER IN SUMNER BENEVOLENCE
In three interconnected, yet independent plays, this trilogy explores the epic saga of Emmett Till and the birth of the modern Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of Till himself, in his final days of life, as a specter during the trial of his killers and into today, where his story still haunts the nation. An integrated cast of ten performs all three plays.
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WOMEN, 4 MENChicago pre-teen Emmett Till takes a fateful trip to Mississippi in the summer of 1955. Emmett’s pursuit of happiness, of liberty and ultimately of life changes the course of a nation. This magical drama, filled with laughter, love and song, reclaims Emmett Till’s life.
Edgar Award for Best Drama. Drama Desk Critics’ Circle Award for Best Production.
In a tiny Mississippi hamlet, where two white men are on trial for the murder of a black boy, a team of Chicago reporters scrambles to uncover the truth and to get justice for the victim. They get more than they bargained for. An edge-of-your-seat mystery that tears the mask off “systemic injustice,” to reveal the all-toohuman faces beneath.
In the wake of the gruesome murder of Emmett Till, two women—one, the wife of one of the boy’s killers and the other, her black neighbor—grapple with the haunting consequences of the crime. An intimate drama of desire and loss and the harrowing toll of terror on both perpetrators and victims.
“BENEVOLENCE—the most intriguing of the three—knits together stories that deepen and, in some ways, complicate our understanding of both Till’s murder and its context.”
—The Washington Post
Ifa Bayeza is an award-winning playwright, director, composer, novelist and educator. Plays include THE TILL TRILOGY, WELCOME TO WANDALAND and INFANTS OF THE SPRING. She has also written three musicals and a novel, Some Sing, Some Cry, co-authored with her sister Ntozake Shange. Bayeza was the inaugural Humanist-in-Residence at the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is the recipient of commissions from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a 2022 MacDowell fellow. THE TILL TRILOGY made its world premiere at Mosaic Theatre Company of DC.
THE TILL TRILOGY
“Unlike anything I’ve ever seen.”
—Broadway World
DARK COMEDY
UP TO 23 ACTORS
(GENDER-NEUTRAL CASTING ALLOWED)
A Thanksgiving play called by sports announcers. Every family holiday is full of tradition. Every family holiday is full of strife and joy. Where do our traditions come from? Why do we hold so tightly to them? Join the family at Wembley Stadium as they play the game called Thanksgiving Day: a day of gratitude in which we watch some people knock some other people down in order to get the ball over the line.
“Benson’s writing majorly impresses in its sheer tenacity. She expertly subverts our expectations of gender roles as she takes a world traditionally thought of as feminine (the cooking of a large holiday meal) and places it in a male-dominated idiom of sports.”
—Theatremania
by Kate Benson DRAMA2 WOMEN, 3 MEN, 1 GENDER-NEUTRAL
A woman walks into a bar. Her name is Porto. She’s a regular. She likes this bar: serious food, serious wine, serious bartender—a staple in a gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood (perhaps Bushwick?) Her friends, her wine, and her artisanal snacks are there; her doubts about being a Modern Woman are put on snooze. A handsome stranger walks in and orders something special. Disruption ensues: an upside-down romantic
comedy unfolds inside and outside her head. Desires of all kinds are awakened with a ferocious thump. A nice smile is a nice smile, but can we enjoy the sausage once we know how it’s made?
Kate Benson is a writer and actor living in Brooklyn. Plays include A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN NOVEMBER ON THE BANKS OF THE GREATEST OF THE GREAT LAKES (New Georges), [PORTO], and RADIUM NOW. She is a member of the Jam at New Georges, and a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA Playwriting program. Her work has been seen at Dixon Place, 13th St. Theater, and Jimmy’s No. 43, among others.
DRAMA
6 WOMEN, 2 MEN
The Berrys are a multi-generational Black family living under one roof in Omaha in 1974. At the center of the family is Rose, a controlling and mysterious matriarch, who instills fear in everyone. But the stories of her past don’t add up, and she’s hiding dark secrets. Rose’s gregarious son, John, and his wife, Janet, struggle to reclaim ownership in their own home, as Rose pits her teenage granddaughters, Yvette and Josephine, against each other, bringing issues of colorism and loyalty into the family dynamic. This is a play woven with storytelling, Black love, mysticism, family secrets, sisterhood and the ties that bind us all.
Beaufield Berry is a Midwest-based playwright, novelist, and arts education professional. Her work specifically takes on the drama, history and joy of the Black Diaspora, and has been seen at the Great Plains Theater Conference, Philadelphia Sparkfest, Manhattan Rep, Colorado New Play Summit and across the country. Berry’s plays include IN THE UPPER ROOM (Denver Center) BUFFALO WOMEN and RED SUMMER, and she is currently the Resident Playwright at Creighton University.
COMEDY
UP TO 19 ACTORS (GENDER-NEUTRAL CASTING ALLOWED)
What happens when those woodland fairies aren’t busy with the business of A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Why, it seems they all have jobs in some of our favorite fairy tales and have very sad love lives—that is, until Puck finds the famous flower touched by Cupid’s arrow. It’s all about love and kindness and accepting change. And it’s funny. Oh, and it rhymes.
FAIRYCAKES
—Vulture
Douglas Carter Beane is a five-time Tony Award nominated playwright and musical bookwriter. His plays include AS BEES IN HONEY DROWN, THE COUNTRY CLUB, THE NANCE, SHOWS FOR DAYS, MR. AND MRS. FITCH and THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED. Musicals include XANADU, LYSISTRATA JONES, SISTER ACT, and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA, each of which ran for two years on Broadway. His libretto for DIE FLEDERMAUS debuted at the Metropolitan Opera, and he wrote the film To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar, which starred Partrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, Robin Williams, and Stockard Channing. FAIRYCAKES
“FAIRYCAKES is part tribute to Charles Ludlam’s Theater of the Ridiculous, part collegiate goof-around entertainment … ”
DARK COMEDY
4 WOMEN
Three times a day, every day, a group of young women have the opportunity to die for their country. They are Adolph Hitler’s food tasters. And what do girls discuss as they wait to see if they will live through another meal? Like all girls, throughout time, they gossip and dream, they question and dance. They want to love, laugh, and above all, they want to survive.
Michelle Kholos Brooks won the Susan Glaspell Award for H*TLER’S TASTERS and the Riva Shiner Comedy Award for KALAMAZOO, co-written with Kelly Younger. Other plays include FAMILY PLANNING, WAR WORDS, and HOSTAGE. Her plays have been produced or developed at Centenary Stage, Bloomington Playwright’s Project, Florida Repertory, Boston Court, Road Theatre, Bay Street, Arena Stage, Syracuse Stage, and Actor’s Gang.
H*TLER’S TASTERS
“[A] dark comedy inspired by the real-life young women in Nazi Germany … Brooks’s sly and disturbing meditation on the seductiveness of evil …”
—Time Out
3 WOMEN, 3 MEN
TJ, a young man harboring a secret that threatens his future, boards the Coast Starlight, the train from Los Angeles to Seattle. With the help of his fellow travelers, all of whom are reckoning with their own choices, he has roughly one thousand miles to figure out a way forward. A smart, funny, and compassionate story about our capacity for invention and reinvention when life goes off the rails.
Keith Bunin is the author of THE BUSY WORLD IS HUSHED and THE CREDEAUX CANVAS, which were originally produced by Playwrights Horizons, as well as SAM BENDRIX AT THE BON SOIR, VERA LAUGHED and THE PRINCIPALITY OF SORROWS, among others. He was a writer for the HBO series In Treatment. He has written screenplays for Universal, Paramount, CBS, and Disney/Pixar, and he wrote the screenplay for Horns, starring Daniel Radcliffe, based on the novel by Joe Hill.
“A gentle, rueful play … the ride it offers is as smooth as it is wistful. Because Bunin knows that any trip involves leaving something or someone behind. [It] sends up sparks … So let it do what any train should, which is to move you.”
—New York Times
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MENIn the days after a horrifying act of bullying, Derek, one of the perpetrators, is hidden away by Buddy—a traumatized and recently discharged soldier—in his father Teddy’s bar. In a blistering 80 minutes all three men are forced to face each other, themselves, and the dangerous, antiquated, but still potent, definitions of masculinity they all inherited.
DARK COMEDY
4 WOMEN, 5 MEN
When a group of old college friends, lovers, and strangers gather for an impromptu party after the memorial service, attractions and resentments flare up until an astonishing crisis explodes leading the characters to ask themselves what makes a life worthwhile? And can happiness compensate for associated pain? Alternately hilarious and moving, the play is a Big Chill-like homage to that time of life when you wrestle with who you were and who you’ve become.
COMEDY/ADAPTATION
3 WOMEN, 4 MEN, 1 NB
This eight-person adaptation places us at Hermia’s wedding rehearsal dinner, trapped into marrying Demetrius, which will tear her away from her true love Lysander. When dressmaker Bottom fits her into her wedding gown, Hermia faints and awakens on a magical landscape, part frolic, part dream, part nightmare. In her Wizard of Oz-like hallucination her parents transform into Titania and Oberon and friends and lovers couple and uncouple until, at last, Hermia escapes to be with her true love.
Joe Calarco is a multi-award-winning director and playwright. He has served as Director of New Works at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, and as Resident Playwright at Expanded Arts, Inc. He was a Joseph Papp Artist in Residence at Second Stage, is one of New York Theatre Workshop’s “usual suspects,” is a Drama League directing fellow and an Associate Artist at Barrington Stage Company. Joe’s current works include THE CIRCUS IN WINTER (with composer/lyricist Ben Clark), and SPRING BREAK and WINTER BREAK.
COMEDY/DRAMA
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN
Lina and Roberto’s lives intersect and parallel as three alternate realities unfold. The play renders the near hits and near misses that are the realities of this worn-out waitress and immigrant dishwasher as well as the mystical ways the universe conspires to bring us all together.
“Playwright Audrey Cefaly tells the story of Lina and Roberto, coworkers who … find love, heartbreak, and companionship in this beautiful, hilarious, and creative take on serendipity. Easily one of the funniest and most heartwarming shows I’ve seen … THE LAST WIDE OPEN offers a beautiful glimpse of what it means to be human.”
—Broadway World
DRAMA
3 WOMEN, 1 GIRL, 5 MEN AND A CHORUS OF UP TO 16 ACTORS
Four tenderly crafted stories of ache and longing examine the most ordinary and disparate of characters in highstakes moments of self-doubt: some life-threatening, some bordering on life-ending, all life-affirming.
Audrey Cefaly’s plays include THE GULF, MAYTAG VIRGIN, and LOVE IS A BLUE TICK HOUND. She is the winner of the Lammy Award, Calicchio Prize, NNPN Goldman Prize, and an Edgerton recipient, and is an alumna of the Playwrights’ Arena cohort at Arena Stage. Her plays have been produced at Cincinnati Playhouse, Florida Studio, Penobscot, Signature, Barter, B Street, and Vermont Stage, among others. Her play ALABASTER received a 10-city Rolling World Premiere, the largest in NNPN history.
DRAMA
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN
After committing an unforgivable crime, Leroy is granted one final wish: a chance to make amends with his long-lost lover, Berta. Their reunion swells from a quarrelsome conjuring of the past to an impassioned plot to escape their impending fate.
“An enthralling story…mysticism, passion, and love, all over the backdrop of the early20th-century American South.”
—D.C. Metro Theatre Arts
Angelica Chéri is a playwright, musical theatre bookwriter/lyricist, screenwriter and poet. Plays include THE SEEDS OF ABRAHAM, CROWNDATION, SLOW GIN FITS and BERTA, BERTA, and her work has been seen at Signature Theatre, North Carolina Black Repertory Company, National Black Theatre Festival, Contemporary American Theatre Festival and others. Chéri and collaborator Ross Baum received the Richard Rodgers Award for their musical GUN & POWDER, which has been selected for the 30th annual NAMT Festival of New Musicals.
2 WOMEN, 3 MEN
On the not-so-sunny side of California, Alix bounces between motel rooms, taking care of her brothers for her MIA mother. Mason lives comfortably in a grand, empty house while his father runs jobs for the Hong Kong Triad. Until the day his father disappears and Mason has to figure out how to come up with grocery money and dodge Child Services and the INS. Mason and Alix develop a tentative friendship, and together they must learn to scrape by without giving up their dreams. Will they make it out or fall through the cracks?
DRAMA
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN
NOMAD HOTELDiana and Max meet at 9 years old, the day their parents start having an affair. In the ensuing decades, they see each other through highs and lows, trying not to make the same mistakes their parents did. A play about trying not to fall in love with your best friend so you end up hating them.
“Tracing three decades in the complicated relationship between two Asian American urbanites struggling to find their place in the world, Carla Ching’s play impresses most with its delicacy of feeling.”
—Los Angeles Times
Carla Ching is a native Angeleno, and her plays include REVENGE PORN OR THE STORY OF A BODY, NOMAD HOTEL, and THE TWO KIDS THAT BLOW SHIT UP. Her work has been seen at Atlantic Theater, South Coast Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Berkeley Rep, The Lark Playwrights Workshop, and The Women’s Project among others. She is a founding member of The Kilroys and co-recipient of the 2021 Horton Foote Playwriting Award. On television, Carla has written on Graceland, Fear the Walking Dead, Preacher, and the forthcoming Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
DRAMA
3 WOMEN, 5 MEN
Sabrina Jackson cannot cope with the death of her son at the hands of a White cop. Rather than herald the Black Lives Matter movement, Sabrina retreats inward, living out a comic book superhero fantasy. Will Sabrina stay in this dream world or return to reality and mourn her loss?
COMEDY
2 WOMEN, 3 MEN
Veralynn Jackson knows hair, she knows her neighborhood, and she also knows that the invention of the Jheri Curl marks the end of the world. When she takes a job in Mr. Kim’s Korean-owned Black beauty supply store and the posters start talking to her, Veralynn might finally come to know her true calling.
DARK COMEDY
2 WOMEN
A popular online political and social commentator is forced to examine her own legitimacy when agoraphobia prevents her from physically engaging in the very activism she boasts about on the internet. When a boots-on-the-ground community organizer invades her space, they must both deal with manifestations of fear arising from existing in America while Black. Is it just in their heads, or has racism come to their doorstep?
Inda Craig-Galván is a Chicagoan who lives in Los Angeles, where it’s warm. Plays include BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA (Geffen Playhouse), I GO SOMEWHERE ELSE (Playwrights’ Arena), and THE GREAT JHERI CURL DEBATE (East West Players). A HIT DOG WILL HOLLER premiered at Skylight Theatre Company in a co-production with Playwrights’ Arena. Her plays have received the Kesselring Prize, Blue Ink Prize, and the Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Award.
6 WOMEN, 5 MEN
A group of high school seniors face their final year learning online with a beloved teacher as a pandemic rages outside. Together they will face social isolation, missed milestones, the potential loss of friends and family, their places in the world and what the birth of a new social justice movement means for them.
COMEDY
1 WOMAN, 2 MEN
Hilarious and heart-warming, this unconventional comedy tackles love, loss, and coming to terms with growing old. Angus and Abigail wake up together one morning—after hooking up at a funeral. Strangers just
the day before, Abigail thinks she may finally be ready to take another chance on love, but Angus has a few issues to work through. Enter Ollie, a neighbor and a former baseball player for the Detroit Tigers, who now enjoys golf and yoga. Nothing is as it seems with this trio and every disclosure reveals a new perspective. This charming and big-hearted comedy takes us on an unexpected journey toward a new lease on life.
“A heart-breakingly beautiful story of love, loss, and acceptance.”
—Broadway World
Carey Crim is resident artist at the Purple Rose Theatre Company. Her play NEVER NOT ONCE (Purple Rose, Theatre Acquarius, Rubicon) won the 2017 Jane Chambers award and was a finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Her plays have been produced by Asolo Repertory Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Shakespeare and Company, Rubicon, Barter Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre and more.
DRAMATIC DARK COMEDY
3 WOMEN, 2 MEN
Abby, a precocious emo-goth teenager, orchestrates a surprise reunion for her mother Tanya and birth father Tom, with the help of her mom’s fiance/healer John. Hoping to provoke long-lasting reconciliation between her parents before her high school graduation, Abby’s plans completely derail when Tom arrives with his new girlfriend Alisha. Can this family confront their past traumas, “deal and heal?”
Adrienne Dawes is an Afro-Latina playwright, producer, and teaching artist. Her plays include HAIRY & SHERRI, DENIM DOVES, and others. TEEN DAD received a Max K. Lerner Playwriting Fellowship from Inkwell Theater, and her play AM I WHITE won the David Mark Cohen New Play Award and Outstanding Original Script by the B. Iden Payne Awards. Her plays have been produced by Sacred Fools, B Street, Stages Repertory, NC Black Repertory, Teatro Milagro, and Live Girls! Theater.
DRAMA
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN
Gilda, a middle-aged woman, must train Eduardo, a young Mexican man, to be a shop foreman when her factory plant moves to Mexico. Over the course of a week, they discover that their assumptions regarding personal expectations and cultural differences are not always correct.
Gino Di Iorio is a playwright and screenwriter, whose plays include SAM AND DEDE, OR MY DINNER WITH ANDRE THE GIANT, THE JAG and CRIB; and his screenplays include Fatboy and Morally Straight. His plays have been seen at Urban Stages, New Jersey Rep, Playhouse in the Square, Penguin Rep, Custom Made Theatre, around the country and internationally.
COMEDY
DRAMATIC COMEDY
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ACTORS (GENDER-NEUTRAL, FLEXIBLE CASTING)In the opening scene, a writer meets the ghost of Franz Kafka, which sets off an existential chain of events forcing the cast to confront the meaning of life. Through a series of hilarious random encounters, the play questions: can we understand our existence, or is life just one long Zoom meeting interrupted by Amazon and Doordash deliveries?
2 WOMEN, 3 MEN
The Smith family doesn’t agree on much, but when their son Johnny comes home for the first time in years, they reconvene to celebrate the father (a failed painter) winning the Yoko Ono Lifetime Achievement Award for Non-Objective Art. But, when a Picasso goes missing from the Detroit Institute for the Arts, the family is suspected and Johnny’s homecoming takes a dramatic turn. But the missing Picasso and the father’s
award could both be part of a hoax that forces the family to question the purpose of art in this modern, pixelated world where everything is copyrighted and art is a commodity.
“Hilarious … HOW TO STEAL A PICASSO has the audience chuckling by the end of the first several speeches.”—Broadway World
William Missouri Downs has had over 250 productions of his plays, including two rolling premieres from the National New Play Network. His plays have been seen at Orlando Shakes, InterAct Theatre, San Diego Rep, Berkeley Rep, The Kennedy Center, Salt Lake Acting Company, and Detroit Rep, and produced in Spain, South Africa, Switzerland, Austria, Israel, India, Australia, and South Korea.
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WOMEN, 2 MENSet in the Midwest, THE BINDING tells the story of Isaac, a deeply closeted, religious teen whose childhood imaginary friend, Poppy, returns on the eve of his sixteenth birthday. As Poppy begins to unravel Isaac’s tightly wound secrets, both must learn to escape the smothering identities they have chosen. THE BINDING is a play about the ecstasy and pain of believing in something that can’t be seen.
Tyler Dwiggins is a New York-based playwright and screenwriter. His play, BUMP, was showcased at Actors Theatre of Louisville, FSU/Asolo Conservatory, and received a nomination for the National Partners - American Theatre Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. His plays include ORANGE IS THE NEW GLASS and UNBREAKABLE TIMMY CRATCHIT. Tyler was a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettists Workshop and Project Y Playwrights Group. Tyler is the creator of the LGBTQ web series, Queen’s English.
DRAMA
4 ACTORS
Based on the diaries of teenagers sharing accounts of life during the Holocaust and genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, and Sarajevo, FOUR CHILDREN reminds us that, without vigilance, tragedies like the ones they experienced can happen again anywhere, anytime. Adapted from When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him (Cambodia), The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak (Poland), My Childhood Under Fire: A Sarajevo Diary by Nadja Halilbegovich (Sarajevo) and To the Desert: Pages from My Diary by Vahram Dadrian (Armenia).
Mark Edelman (curator and additional material) is founder and president of Theater League, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life with the thrill of live theater. He is a member of the Broadway League and a Tony Awards voter. Mark created and produced 12th Street Jump, a syndicated public radio show, from 2009 to 2020 and spearheaded the creation of the Graduate Certificate in Performing Arts Management at the University of Missouri Kansas City.
COMEDY
1 WOMAN, 7 MEN
Set during a “live broadcast” of a fictional, long-running TV game show, GAME SHOW places the theater audience in the role of the TV studio audience, in which members are picked as the contestants to play the trivia-based game and win actual prizes. In addition to watching and playing during the “broadcast”—where anything can and does happen—the audience also witnesses all the backstage, back-stabbing antics “behind the scenes” that go on during the “commercial breaks” of GAME SHOW.
Jeffrey Finn received the 2013 Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing. Broadway producing credits include: I’ll Eat You Last, American Idiot, A View From The Bridge, Oleanna, On Golden Pond and others. Off-Broadway: GAME SHOW. Regional Productions: Seminar (Ahmanson Theatre), Oleanna (Mark Taper Forum), and others. National Tours: On Golden Pond; The Who’s Tommy; Company; Chess; and numerous Broadway Songbooks concert tours.
Bob Walton, along with his brother, Jim Walton, has written MY BROTHER’S KEEPER (1997 Bistro Award, Best New Musical), MID-LIFE! (The Crisis Musical), and DOUBLE TROUBLE! As an actor in New York, Bob has appeared in The Drowsy Chaperone, Once Upon a Mattress, City of Angels, I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change, and Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back. TV: Law & Order: SVU, Newhart, Picket Fences.
Daniel, a young Black man, tries to keep up with his life, which is moving fast. When his relationship with best friend Leon undergoes an unexpected change it creates turmoil, bringing a taboo into his family home that has the power to tear the closest and most loving relationships apart. Shortlisted for the 2018 Alfred Fagon Award, Dexter Flanders’s debut play FOXES explores masculinity and identity within London’s Caribbean community and Black street culture.
“Funny, clever, and totally enjoyable! It will surprise and delight!”
“Through the story of one beautiful, fractured family, this debut play by Dexter Flanders shows how complex, and at times how devastating, the Black gay experience can be.”
The Guardian
Dexter Flanders trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts as an actor and now writes with a particular focus on stories of the unvoiced. FOXES was a finalist for the Alfred Fagon Award for Best New Play of the Year in 2018 and received its world premiere at London’s Theatre503 in 2021. In 2019, Dexter was chosen to participate in the Royal Court Theatre’s Introduction to Playwriting Group. Dexter is currently writing a feature film for Joi Productions and Netflix.
DRAMA WITH MUSIC
3 WOMEN, 4 MEN
In EIGHT TALES OF PEDRO, two sets of storytellers, some living now and some in 17th century Mexico, cross a country, risking everything for a new life. As they tell their tales, their lives and plots combine and intertwine into the same conclusion.
Mark-Eugene Garcia is a Mexican/ Honduran playwright. His work has won the Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Musical Theatre Winner, UnFringed Festival Best of Festival Award Winner, and Jacob Weiser Playwriting Award for a Fully Realized Drama. Productions include EIGHT TALES OF PEDRO (The Secret Theatre) STANDBY (New York International Fringe Festival), FACING EAST: A NEW MUSICAL (Jericho Arts Center) and (UN)MISSED CONNECTIONS (Planet Connections Theatre Festival).
Luis D’Elias was born in Caracas, Venezuela. After graduating from the Universidad Simón Bolívas he went on to pursue Film Composition and Electronic Production at Berklee College of Music. He has been nominated for the Independent Music, Venezuela Pepsi Music, and Hollywood Music in Media awards, among others. His music for EIGHT TALES OF PEDRO won the New York Innovative Theater Award for Best Score. He is currently co-writing the upcoming musical BACK HOME.
DARK COMEDY
3 WOMEN, 1 MAN
BABEL is a dark comedy set in the near future. Two couples are having trouble getting pregnant and the lengths they go to in order to have a baby raise the specter of eugenics, explore the societal value of a baby, and ask us what we are willing to risk for love.
by Jacqueline Goldfinger
DRAMA
3 WOMEN, 2 MEN (DOUBLING)
CLICK follows a hacktivist named Fresh who turns industrial espionage into high art. As this virtual Banksy takes over the global imagination, the man who stole her life develops a technology that sends the two of them on a collision course at the heart of the corporate empire, where innovation comes at any cost.
Jacqueline Goldfinger’s plays have won the Yale Drama Prize, Smith Prize, Generations Award, and Barrymore Award, and received a Special Citation from the McNally Award. Their work has been seen at the Kennedy Center, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Court Theatre (New Zealand), Perseverance Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Seattle Public Theatre, and others, and developed at the National Theater (UK), New Georges, La Mama, McCarter Theatre, and others.
BABEL
“Remarkable … BABEL is a fascinating, at times funny, and at times terrifying vision of a future.”
—Broadway World
by David Grimm
COMEDY/DRAMA
3 WOMEN, 3 MEN
A little known fact: the world premiere of Ibsen’s controversial play, Ghosts took place in Chicago, performed by a group of Scandinavian immigrants. Grimm’s play spins a yarn based on this “great reckoning in a little room,” and explores the immigrant experience and opportunities for self-reinvention against the backdrop of changing artistic and social mores.
DRAMA/HISTORICAL
3 WOMEN, 3 MEN
It’s 1920 in Vienna. Stefan was killed in the Great War, and his widow Heléna is bereft. A woman without means, Heléna is forced to do whatever she can to survive. Set as an enormous political tide is turning throughout Europe, TALES FROM RED VIENNA explores the effects of war on women, the circumstances that control their lives, and the dreams that set them free.
ADAPTATION
16 OR MORE ACTORS (DOUBLING, GENDERNEUTRAL CASTING ALLOWED)
A brand-new adaptation in verse of Edmond Rostand’s famous crowd-pleasing epic tale of love, honor, and panache, by way of a warrior-poet with a huge nose and a huge complex about it.
—Juneau Empire
David Grimm is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Plays include IBSEN IN CHICAGO (Seattle Rep), CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Perseverance), TALES FROM RED VIENNA (Manhattan Theatre Club), MEASURE FOR PLEASURE (Public Theatre), THE MIRACLE AT NAPLES (Huntington; Best New Play IRNE Award), and more. David has received commissions from Roundabout Theatre Company, and City Theatre Company, and has developed work at the Sundance Theater Lab, Old Vic New Voices, and NY Stage & Film.
Adapted from Bram Stoker’s novel
COMEDY
6 WOMEN, 3 MEN
Poor Jonathan Harker schleps all the way to Transylvania to make arrangements for a certain Count to travel to England. But Jonathan is locked up and Dracula plans to dine on Jonathan’s fiancée Mina and her best friend Lucy when he gets there. Fortunately for them, Dr. Van Helsing—a badass American woman—is on the hunt and vampires are her prey. This new adaptation confronts the sexism in Bram Stoker’s original work, turning it into a feminist revenge fantasy.
Adapted from Jane Austen’s novel
COMEDY
5 WOMEN, 3 MEN
Emma Woodhouse prides herself on being a matchmaker with an impeccable track record, much to the chagrin of her dear friend Mr. Knightley. Her latest scheme revolves around the sweet Harriet Smith, whom Emma advises to reject a perfectly good marriage proposal in favor of another eligible bachelor. However, her best-laid plans are turned upside down by unpredictable displays of affection, unexpected rivals, and Emma’s sudden realization that true love may have been under her nose all along. With screwball comedy and surprises aplenty, this fresh, fast-paced adaptation interprets the Jane Austen classic with delightfully unconventional flair.
“... delightfully satirical … playwright Hamill lets there be no mistake that this is a bold, new take on the classic tale.”—Arts-Louisville
by Kate Hamill
Adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels
COMEDY/MYSTERY
3 WOMEN, 1 MAN
This is an irreverent, darkly comic, completely modern take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth and sidekick—a fast-paced feminist farce, re-examining the classic adventure stories with a fresh lens. In this highly theatrical, small-cast romp, female roommates Sherlock (yes, it’s also a girl’s name—wait, is it a girl’s name? Is it even a name?) Holmes & Joan Watson join forces to become a deeply codependent, quasi-dysfunctional odd couple solving mysteries and kicking butts, until they come faceto-face with a villain who seems to have all the answers.
Kate Hamill is an award-winning actor and playwright. She is passionate about creating new feminist, female-centered classics. Her work celebrates theatricality, often features absurdity, and closely examines social and gender issues—as well as the timeless struggle to reconcile conscience/identity with social pressures. She was named 2017’s Playwright of the Year by The Wall Street Journal. Kate was one of the 10 most-produced playwrights in the country for three seasons running for her adaptations: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, LITTLE WOMEN and VANITY FAIR. Her plays have been produced Off-Broadway, at American Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare, the Guthrie, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Rep, PlayMaker, Dallas Theater, and around the country.
GLASSHEART
COMEDY/DRAMA
3 WOMEN, 1 MAN
Beauty never showed up. After centuries under the curse, the Beast and his remaining magical servant (a hopelessly optimistic lamp) move into a shabby Chicago apartment, hoping for a lower cost of living and better luck with girls. In the threatening, impossible, completely ordinary world of paying rent and taking public transportation, is a happy ending even possible?
A romantic tragicomedy about facing the witch in your head, and finding the wish in your heart.
“Glassheart is an offbeat, mature riff on the classic “Beauty and the Beast” … Reina Hardy’s updating of the fairy tale is a charming and thought-provoking success.”
—DC Theatre Scene
Reina Hardy’s plays, which usually contain magic and sometimes contain science, have been produced across the United States, the UK and Australia. They include CHANGELINGS, FANATICAL and ANNIE JUMP AND THE LIBRARY OF HEAVEN. Reina holds a Michener Fellowship in Playwriting and Screenwriting from UT Austin, has appeared on the Kilroy’s List, and is the winner of the Kennedy Center ACTF TYA Prize.
CAST 2M, 1F
A high-energy hip-hop play with music that explores the challenges of new parenting, mixed heritage, and the factors that shape a child’s Latinx identity. Thirtysomething Danny visits a charming local playground with his adorable baby. As he engages in witty banter and deep discussions on a park bench with another parent, the conversation becomes even more dynamic with the presence of Danny’s extraordinary musical alter egos, MC Plátano and the Beatboxer, who interject with wild asides.
Gabriel Diego Hernández is a hip hop artist, actor, poet, educator, and playwright. He is a member of Pregones Theater in the South Bronx. QUARTER RICAN is his first full-length play. It was developed through Pregones Theater’s Step-Up Artist Residency program and had its world premiere at Mile Square Theatre in Hoboken, where he originated the role of Danny. Gabriel lives in Jersey City with his wife and writing partner Rachel and their two children.
Rachel Elmer is an educator, songwriter, and recovered performer. As a singer, she has performed around the country and at more weddings than she can count; as a songwriter, she has written for everyone from up-and-coming hip hop artists needing a hook to middle schoolers performing in their school play. QUARTER RICAN is her professional writing debut in musical theatre.
A witty, contemporary comedy that follows one man’s journey through a heart attack, a gay marriage, an obsession with Cher, and a trip to a concentration camp. So, yes, it’s a comedy!
James Hindman is an actor and award-winning playwright, whose credits include: POPCORN FALLS, PETE ‘N’ KEELY, BEING AUDREY (Transport Group, NEA Grant recipient), THE GORGES MOTEL, and ONE CHRISTMAS EVE AT EVERGREEN MALL (NY Fringe Festival). His work has been developed and performed at The Lark, Vineyard Theatre, Second Stage, Long Wharf, Goodspeed, Denver Theatre Center, New Jersey Rep and Papermill Playhouse.
COMEDY/DRAMA
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ACTORThe Puzzlemaker is holding a workshop to teach you to make a crossword puzzle! As the Puzzlemaker embarks on their creation, they reveal the tricks of the trade, but also something unexpected: there is power in puzzles. Will the Puzzlemaker use their powers for good—or evil? And which choice means making a puzzle that will solve their life?
Donna Hoke is the author of BRILLIANT WORKS OF ART, ELEVATOR GIRL, SAFE and TEACH. Her plays have been seen in 47 states and on five continents, including at Barrington Stage, Barrow Group, Phoenix Theatre, Atlantic Stage, Purple Rose, New Jersey Rep, Hens and Chickens (London), Galway Fringe Festival, and Actors Repertory Theatre of Luxembourg. She is a three-time winner of the Emanuel Fried Award for Outstanding New Play.
COMEDY/DRAMA
8 WOMEN, 2 MEN
Life is full of angst in the basement quick change room of a long-running Broadway show that may be on its last legs, and the women of the chorus are at war with the wardrobe department. Will the new dresser, with her own sad past and uncertain future, be able to navigate this minefield? ACCORDING TO THE CHORUS is a funny, behind-the-scenes look at a pivotal period in the history of Broadway where women’s issues and the AIDS crisis play out through the everyday lives of Equity performers and union dressers.
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WOMEN, 6 MENOn the Yorkshire moors of the 1840s, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë struggle with the harsh realities of male-dominated society. The sisters live in the rich
worlds of their imaginations, dreaming of life in London, until they are forced to take their destinies into their own hands. As their brother descends into madness and their father grows blind, the sisters labor to get Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights published. Inspired by THREE SISTERS by Chekhov, who reportedly read The Life of Charlotte Brontë a few years before his play opened, THREE SISTERS BRONTË explores the parallels in the lives of the real life Brontës and the fictional Prozorovs.
Arlene Hutton is the author of LETTERS TO SALA, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN and LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC, which received a Drama League Best Play nomination and was a finalist for the Francesca Primus Prize. Her play GULF VIEW DRIVE received an Ovation Award for Best Production. Regional credits include B Street, Chester Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Florida Studio Theatre, Kitchen Theatre, Mad Cow, and Rubicon.
COMEDY
9 WOMEN, 9 MEN ( DOUBLING ALLOWED)
A play with music about people dying to live. At Riverdale Manor, a retirement community in the Bronx, seniors contemplate the possibility of dying from a broken heart, if divorce is even worth it at a certain age, and when is the right time to have sex again. A talent show, with the promise of cake for dessert, sets the scene for a series of life-changing vignettes that debate what to do with the time we have left.
“Hyams’ and St. Lou’s script revels in simplicity, sweetness, and a healthy dose of schtick, and it mostly keeps things broad and literal. But peppering that easy-listening theatrical style are a few choice lines of zing and poetry.”
—Portland PhoenixTor Hyams and Lisa St. Lou write big musical comedies, intimate dramatic plays, and teleplays. Original works include STEALING TIME, THE SKYLIGHT ROOM, and IDIO(MA)TIC co-written by John Cariani. They were commissioned by Center Stage Capital to write a musical adaptation of the sitcom Green Acres. Additional commissions include ENSEMBLE, a collection of previously unpublished letters by Tennessee Williams.
A twistedly queer memory play about a troubled man in 1986 looking for answers at Miss Chelley’s Fortune Shop in NYC. Instead of the answers he craves, he connects with a young man working there whose memory is constantly triggered by their incredibly intense connection. They cruise and dance their way through the past leading them to a dangerous night of improper role play.
1 WOMAN, 3 MEN, 1 GENDERQUEER, 4 ANY
Bruise and Thorn work at a busted up old laundromat in Jamaica, Queens. Bruise dreams of becoming a chef, and Thorn of changing the face of Hip Hop with his unabashed Queerness. When finances become strained, they get caught up in illegal activities sending them on a magical ride to make their dreams come true and get the hell out of Jamaica. BRUISE & THORN is an authentic look at a Nuyorican street family, not through bloodline, but rather the social and economic indicators that naturally selects them to one another.
“ ... fabulous, fascinating …” —TheatreManiaSENIOR LIVING
13 ACTORS ( DOUBLING, GENDER-NEUTRAL CASTING ALLOWED)
It is the morning after the brutal murder of Julio Rivera, a gay Puerto Rican man in Jackson Heights, Queens. The murder became the first gay hate crime tried in New York State during the 1990s. In JULIO
AIN’T GOIN’ DOWN LIKE THAT, the community reacts and is taken on a journey of self-discovery by a
fabulously unapologetic queen personifying the beauty and brutality of Jackson Heights.
C. Julian Jiménez is a Queer, Puerto Rican and Dominican playwright. Playwriting awards include: New Dramatist Residency, Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop Fellow, Pipeline Theatre Company PlayLab, and Public Theater Emerging Writers Group. Productions include: MAN BOOBS (Pride Films & Plays), ANIMALS COMMIT SUICIDE (First Floor Theater), LOCUSTS HAVE NO KING (INTAR), ALLIGATOR MOUTH, TADPOLE ASS (Theatre Rhinoceros),and RONALD REAGAN
MURDERED MY MENTORS (Fuse Theater Ensemble). He is a co-producer and co-writer of the hit web series, Bulk.
COMEDY/DRAMA
1
WOMAN, 1 MANThe Magician Prospero and his daughter Miranda dazzle their audiences until the day Miranda quits. This funny bittersweet play dives deep into the ups and downs of a father-daughter relationship. *Discretion for Viewers advised if you have a Father or a Daughter (or know anyone who does).
COMEDY/ DRAMA
12 WOMEN
Twelve princesses sneak out to a ball every night. Or so they say. You see, their father locks them in the palace. Some say he’s overprotective, others say he’s evil. Either way, twelve young women are trapped. And where is their mother, you might wonder? Oh, their mother is a dying tree and their aunt a moody river. But these are twelve most unusual young women, fierce princesses unlike any you’ve met before. Can they free themselves? What will it take?
Lila Rose Kaplan’s work has been produced by American Repertory Theatre, Second Stage, South Coast Rep, New Victory Theatre, The Old Vic, and Merrimack Repertory, among others, and developed at Huntington Theatre, Trinity Repertory, Arena Stage, Kennedy Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Center Theatre Group, and The Lark. Awards include: National Science Award in Playwriting, The International Women’s Playwriting Award, and the I.J. Kapstein Award in Playwriting.
THE MAGICIAN’S DAUGHTER
“At the heart [it’s] a metamorphosis: the arc of a parent-child relationship, and the shifting identities that come during that journey.”
—Rochester City News
When his father falls ill, Archer (still Angela to his family) doesn’t want to move back to his childhood home. But at night under the oldest Ponderosa Pine, he meets a stranger who knows the history of the forests and the sadness of losing endangered things. As Archer accepts big changes in his family he discovers the power of names and the histories they make and mask.
5 ACTORS, ALL WOMEN OR GENDER NON-CONFORMING
Will is a freshman at college. Jordan is a senior film major. Tyler is writing a novel for his thesis. They are members of the Men’s Peer Education group. At meetings they unpack questions like: “What is male privilege? And what can we do about it?” They love each other and the group. Until accusatory posters appear on campus suggesting a member of the group committed sexual assault. Could it be that even sensitive guys working on their privilege sometimes turn violent?
MJ Kaufman is a playwright and TV writer from Portland, OR. Their plays have been seen at the Public Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Colt Coeur, Williamstown Theater Festival, InterAct Theater and others, and developed by the Lark Play Development Center, the Playwrights Realm, Page73 and NYTW among others. Awards: Helen Merrill Emerging Writers Award, ASCAP Cole Porter Prize in Playwriting, and Jane Chambers Prize in Feminist Theatre.
SAGITTARIUS PONDEROSA
“MJ Kaufman’s play … is noteperfect in showing how often people talk past each other, speaking only of their own desires … without ever truly listening.”
—Chicago ReaderHENDRIX COLLEGE’S PRODUCTION OF SAGITTARIUS PONDEROSA. PHOTO BY KENDRA BALDWIN.
Taroon once served as an interpreter for the U.S. military in Afghanistan. Now it is 2013, and the Americans—and their promises of safety—have begun to withdraw. Taroon spends his days in hiding, a target of the increasingly powerful Taliban. On the eve of his son’s birth, he must remain in his sister’s apartment, or risk his life to see his child. With shattering precision, Sylvia Khoury’s tense drama traces the human cost of U.S. immigration policy and the legacy of our longest war. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize!
Sylvia Khoury is a New York-born writer of French and Lebanese descent. Her plays include SELLING KABUL (Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theater Festival), POWER STRIP (LCT3), and AGAINST THE HILLSIDE (Ensemble Studio Theater). She is currently under commission from Lincoln Center, Williamstown Theater Festival and Seattle Repertory Theater. Awards include the L. Arnold Weissberger Award and a Citation of Excellence from the Laurents/ Hatcher Awards. Her plays have been developed at Eugene O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference, Roundabout Theater, Lark, EST/Youngblood, and WP Theater.
SELLING KABUL
“ … a tense thriller … a play as tautly made as a military bed.”
—The New York Times
SELLING KABUL
DRAMA
2 WOMEN, 2 MEN
This four-character play follows a pair of Black and White male roommates entering college in the 1960s, juxtaposed with a pair of Black and White female roommates in 2016.
Stacie Lents’ COLLEGE COLORS
premiered at Crossroads Theater. Other plays include HENRY’S LAW, LAUGH OUT LOUD (cry quietly), FIRE EXIT, and HAG-SEED. Her plays have been seen in the US, Canada, the UK and Thailand, and produced by Jersey City Theater Center, Playwrights Theater of New Jersey, Mile Square, Luna Stage, and Horse Trade Theater Group.
COMEDY
7 WOMEN, 9 MEN (WITH DOUBLING 2W, 3M)
Multiple characters are all awake at 4:05 one morning for different reasons—insomnia, sex, crying baby, ominous phone call, at work, anxiety. Through the course of this comedy these stories intersect. Secrets are revealed, major decisions are made, and lives change all before the sun comes up.
1 WOMAN, 2 MEN
Two actors, who were “America’s Sexiest Couple” on a popular ‘90s sitcom, reunite for the first time in 25 years. They face a lifetime of unresolved issues, longings, resentments, and regrets. Plus, the network wants to reboot the show. Career and personal aspirations collide. Professionally and personally, where do they go from here?
COMEDY
2 WOMEN, 2 MEN
Married couple Larry and Jinx embark on a luxury cruise and encounter a glamorous celebrity couple. A frivolous agreement leads to sex, comic complications, and Larry and Jinx having to resort to infidelity to save their marriage. GUILTY PLEASURES is a modern version of a screwball comedy.
COMEDY
2 WOMEN, 2 MEN
The lives of two couples are thrown into upheaval when a brushfire threatens their upscale Southern California homes. They must confront what’s really important to them—material items? Careers? Relationships? SMOKE GETS IN YOUR HOUSE treats the natural disaster seriously while still finding enough absurdity to make this play a genuine dark comedy.
3 WOMEN, 2 MEN
To keep her religious mother from knowing she’s divorced, Wendy pays her ex to pose as her husband and go home for the holidays. Havoc ensues.
2 WOMEN, 3 MEN
Four former Jeopardy! champions meet for a weekend to prepare for the Tournament of Champions. When the front-runner is murdered, it becomes a game of cat-and-mouse between three brainiacs and a wily detective. Comedy, clues, and surprises await.
AMERICA’S SEXIEST COUPLE
Ken Levine is an Emmy-winning writer, director, playwright, and major league baseball announcer. His plays include AMERICA’S SEXIEST COUPLE, ON THE FARCE DAY OF CHRISTMAS, SMOKE GETS IN YOUR HOUSE, 4:05: A NOCTURNAL COMEDY and GUILTY PLEASURES. His work has been performed in New York, Los Angeles, and throughout the country. His many short plays have been produced around the world and have won numerous competitions. In his illustrious career, Ken has written over 200 episodes of television, served as head writer on M*A*S*H, producer of Cheers, consultant on Frasier, and writer and character voice on The Simpsons. His popular podcast is Hollywood and Levine.
“Romance and comedy are the main ingredients in Ken Levine’s AMERICA’S SEXIEST COUPLE—mixed with some very current issues to create a perfect night of theater.”
DRAMA
1 WOMAN, 2 MEN
After a personal tragedy, Jonathan has withdrawn from the world, with little social life beyond the men he meets online. When charming, flighty Claire moves into the apartment upstairs, she tries to coax him out of his shell. They forge a tenuous connection, but the past reverberates into the present, threatening what happiness they’ve found.
DRAMA
2 WOMEN, 3 MEN
It’s 1959 and the new musical West Side Story is a smash hit on Broadway. In their tiny family apartment in the San Juan Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, the young Candelaria siblings dream of glamorous careers in show business. When the opportunity arises for this talented Puerto Rican family to audition for roles in the film version of West Side Story itself, all their dreams seem poised to come true – until a neighborhood-wide eviction abruptly threatens everything they have worked for.
COMEDY
3 WOMEN, 3
MENA blushing bride, a touching toast, and a celebration of true love. That’s what Zoey’s been dreaming of … but her wedding at the Marriott Hotel in Downtown Brooklyn is turning into a disaster. From brutally honest and drunken speeches to an incompetent wedding planner, everything goes wrong, and her friends are too preoccupied with their own problems to help. This hilarious fiasco destroys her expectations with the realities of commitment, fidelity and growing up. This is a wildly funny play about love, relationships, and the courage it takes to find what truly makes us happy.
Matthew López is the author of THE WHIPPING MAN, THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA McBRIDE and THE INHERITANCE, which won the Tony, Olivier, London Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama League awards for Best Play. Other plays include THE SENTINELS, and co-writing the musical adaptation of the classic Billy Wilder film Some Like It Hot. López is set to make his directorial debut with the LGBTQ+ romantic comedy Red, White & Royal Blue, the screenplay of which he adapted from the novel by Casey McQuiston, and he’s also working on a reimagining of the film The Bodyguard.
“The comedy is nonstop with an extraordinary number of laugh-outloud moments…. López’s marvelous script demands a big and interesting emotional arc for every one of the characters.”
—Berkshire On StageZOEY’S
PERFECT WEDDINGTHEATERWORKS HARTFORD’S PRODUCTION OF ZOEY’S PERFECT WEDDING. PHOTO BY MIKE MARQUES. MATTHEW LÓPEZ PORTRAIT PHOTO BY EMIL COHEN.
MYSTERY/THRILLER
2 WOMEN, 4 MEN
The notorious and as-yet undiscovered genius, Vincent Van Gogh, presents Sherlock Holmes with a most unusual case. Aided by his partner Dr. Watson and his paramour Irene Adler, the trio embark on a rousing adventure and find themselves confronting the evil daughter of Professor Moriarty. With a helping hand from Oscar Wilde, the world’s greatest detective attempts to solve one of the most audacious crimes of the Victorian era and uncover a Post-Impressionist conspiracy.
by David MacGregor
MYSTERY/THRILLER
2 WOMEN, 4 MEN
It’s the day before Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee, and her son, the playboy Prince of Wales, arrives at 221B Baker Street pursued by anarchist assassins. The greatest chef in the world, Auguste Escoffier, also arrives, his career about to be shattered by blackmail and scandal. This action-filled tale of royal debauchery, priceless gems, and gourmet food will provide Dr. Watson with the material for Sherlock Holmes’ tastiest and most bizarre case.
MYSTERY/THRILLER
2 WOMEN, 4 MEN
London: November, 1905. England and the world are changing. As civilization edges towards the horrors of World War I, every day brings technological advances that make Victorian England feel like a distant dream. Into the rooms of Sherlock Holmes come Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison—with new inventions that will alter the course of human history—only both inventions have gone missing. Can Holmes, Watson, and Irene Adler
unravel the latest diabolical scheme of Marie Chartier—evil daughter of the late Professor Moriarty? Can world peace be achieved by the most powerful weapon ever created? Can death be overcome by a scientific genius? And can Sherlock Holmes survive the greatest personal loss of his career?
David MacGregor is a resident artist at The Purple Rose Theatre, where he has had eight productions, including VINO VERITAS, GRAVITY, CONSIDER THE OYSTER and his Sherlock Holmes trilogy. His holiday comedy SCROOGE MACBETH premiered at Theatre B in Fargo, and his dark comedy THE ANTICHRIST COMETH premiered at Chameleon Theatre Circle in Minnesota. He has had his writing publicly burned, has been hung in effigy, and once was ranked one of the top hundred Scrabble players on the planet.
MACBITCHES
When a freshman is unexpectedly given the coveted role of Lady Macbeth, a few upperclassmen actresses invite her over to “celebrate” her casting and reassert their positions at the top of the theatre department’s hierarchy. As the alcohol flows, the girls interrogate their own sense of ambition as well as the power structures that have shaped their theatrical education.
MACBITCHES
COMEDY
4-6 WOMEN, 9-11 MEN
A funny, frolicking look at the legendary tale of Robin Hood. When Robin, Little John and Friar Tuck are captured, it falls to Marian and the Merry Men-intraining to come to the rescue. With swashbuckling adventure and laughs aplenty, this new take on a classic is fun for the whole family.
COMEDY
9 WOMEN, 1 MAN, 1 NONBINARY, 4-9 FLEXIBLE
A small midwestern college decides to stage Romeo and Juliet, with an all-female cast. Add in a mysterious guest director with a dubious resume and a bizarre show concept, and anything might happen. Can the students rescue the Bard from being hijacked? A hilarious, thoroughly contemporary look at what Shakespeare means to us today.
John Maclay is a playwright/lyricist whose work has been produced throughout the US and Canada. He co-wrote THE LEGEND OF ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS, ANATOLE and GOOSEBUMPS THE MUSICAL: PHANTOM OF THE AUDITORIUM, among others. His play HOPPER received a reading at Pasadena Playhouse and his musical ARTHUR AND FRIENDS MAKE A MUSICAL, based on the PBS Kids series, premieres in the fall of 2022.
Joe Foust is a founding member of Defiant Theater; credits include directing and co-writing ACTION MOVIE: THE PLAY and UBU RAW. He has acted at the Goodman, Steppenwolf, TheaterWit, Chicago Shakespeare, Cleveland Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, New Victory, and Milwaukee Shakespeare among others.
“... very funny, well-observed … With a fantastic understanding of tone and genre, MACBITCHES juggles headier themes while remaining a lively college drama, [and] a riff on both Shakespeare and All About Eve...”
—New York Times
“For the undocumented immigrant teenagers in Martyna Majok’s unsparing, unsentimental new play, home is a heartbreaking lesson in betrayal.”
DRAMA
1 WOMAN, 2 MEN
DREAMers. Love(r)s. Life-long friends. Negotiating the promise of safety and the weight of responsibility, two young people fight like hell to establish a place for themselves and each other in America. A story that asks what we’re willing to sacrifice for someone we love. Winner of the Edgerton Foundation and Off-Broadway Alliance awards for Best New Play, and the OBIE Award for Playwriting.
Martyna Majok was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play COST OF LIVING. Other plays include SANCTUARY CITY, QUEENS and IRONBOUND, which have been produced across American and international stages. Awards include The Academy of Arts & Letters’ Benjamin Hadley Danks Award for Exceptional Playwriting, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Play, Greenfield Prize, Francesca Primus Prize, two Jane Chambers Playwriting Awards, Lanford Wilson Prize, Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play, Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award, and NNPN Smith Prize for Political Playwriting.
—The New York Times
This set of plays—HOUR OF FEELING, THE VAGRANT, and URGE FOR GOING—explores the Palestinian condition prior to, during, and after the infamous Six-Day War. In HOUR OF FEELING, we meet Adham in 1967, a hot young scholar back from university in Cairo, readying himself to go to London to give a talk. He marries a girl from the village, takes her with him, and when war breaks out at home, the two near-strangers must decide what to do. The second play, THE VAGRANT, set in 1982, finds Adham and Abir divorced, with him teaching at a humble college in London. Adham’s hopes for professorship are tested when both “homes”—England and Palestine—flare up
with political violence, and the compartmentalization he’s built around himself in order to survive starts to crumble. In the final play, URGE FOR GOING, we meet a completely different Adham and Abir, representing a different fork in the road taken back in 1967. They are in a modern-day refugee camp in Lebanon, with a daughter, Jamila, who is determined to break out of the endless stasis of her family’s life.
Mona Mansour is the author of THE WAY WEST, UNSEEN, and WE SWIM, WE TALK, WE GO TO WAR. THE VAGRANT TRILOGY premiered at Mosaic Theater. From the trilogy: THE HOUR
OF FEELING premiered at the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville; URGE FOR GOING had productions at Public LAB and Golden Thread; and THE VAGRANT was commissioned by the Public and workshopped at the Sundance Theater Institute. Her work has been seen at Labyrinth Theater, Steppenwolf, and Marin Theatre. Mona is a member of New Dramatists, and was a member of the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group.
SANCTUARY CITY
“The [VAGRANT TRILOGY] extends far beyond the timeline of devastating events, and instead shows us something greater: humanity.”—Broadway World
COMEDY/DRAMA
1 WOMAN, 4 MEN
Daniel and Mitchell are the perfect couple. Perfect house, perfect friends–even a mother who wants them married. They’d have the perfect wedding, too, except that Mitchell doesn’t believe in gay marriage. A turn of events puts their perfect life in jeopardy, and Mitchell is thrust into a future where even his love may not prove to be enough.
COMEDY/DRAMA
1 WOMAN, 2 MEN
At 54 years old, Terry Parker finds himself at a crossroads. After the loss of his partner of 30 years, he finds himself suddenly single and unable to adjust to a world that has moved on without him. After a night of heavy drinking, he wakes up with a 28-year-old bartender/Uber driver. These two very different people begin a tentative relationship, and what starts out as a one-night stand becomes a journey of self-discovery for a man trying to let go of the past and move forward, while dealing with the pressures of being middle-aged, gay and alone in the ever-changing landscape of today’s America.
Michael McKeever is the author of CLARK GABLE SLEPT HERE, 37 POSTCARDS and MELT, which have been produced at Florida Stage, Marin Theatre, Hudson Stage, Phoenix Theatre and Caldwell Theatre, among others. His comedies have played at many theaters in Europe. He has been honored with an NEA Residency Grant and he is the recipient of seven Carbonell Awards, four Silver Palm Awards, and three Florida Individual Artist Fellowships.
adapted from Charles Dickens’ novel by Rob
MelroseCOMEDY/DRAMA
4 WOMEN, 8 MEN, ENSEMBLE
Dickens’ A Christmas Carol tells the beloved story of Scrooge and his miraculous transformation. Melrose captures Dickens’ witty wording and evocative style to surprise audiences with parts of the famous story they didn’t know were there! This new adaptation of a holiday classic tradition is the perfect way to recapture the nostalgia of Christmases past and to create memories for many Christmases to come.
COMEDY/ADAPTATION
3 WOMEN, 8 MEN
Identities are mistaken, engagements are broken, and lovers are reunited in this adaptation of Goldoni’s commedia dell’arte masterpiece. Set in Venice, mayhem erupts when the wily—and chronically hungry—servant Truffaldino hatches a zany scheme to double his wages (and his meals) by serving two masters at once.
“The Alley Theatre now has A CHRISTMAS CAROL to be proud of. It is Broadway worthy … What a present this time of year, full of love, hope, charity, and best of all, chock to the brim with Charles Dickens.”
—Houston
PressRob Melrose is the Artistic Director of the Alley Theatre and he was formerly the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Cutting Ball Theater. He has directed at the Public, the Guthrie, Oregon Shakespeare, the Magic, Old Globe and PlayMakers Rep, among others. He has translated WOYZECK, UBU ROI, THE BALD SOPRANO, NO EXIT, and others. He has written a number of plays including: THE FLAT EARTH, DIVORSOSAURUS, WHEN HUMAN VOICES WAKE US, ASYLUM, and a rock musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s Ozma of Oz with the San Francisco electro-rock group Z.O.N.K.
THE HOMBRES
1 WOMAN, 2 MEN
Raul is sick. Raul has not been taking care of himself. Raul drinks because he always drinks. In his final months, he’s forced to move in with his ex-wife Alma who now has to care for the man she thought she’d never have to see again.
5 MEN
A look at the intimacy of male relationships told through the point of view of Machismo culture, THE HOMBRES follows Julián, a gay Latino yoga teacher, as he clashes with the Latino construction crew workers working outside his studio, particularly the older head of the crew, Héctor, who seeks from Julián something he never expected.
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by Tony Meneses DRAMA 3 WOMEN, 4 MENAndres Salazar is running for office. Latinx people have been assimilated into the (white) majority of the United States, but race issues are far from resolved. In this tricky political environment, Andres must decide whether identifying himself as a Mexican-American will help or hinder him on Election Day, and whether losing some of his identity is worth the potential benefits. When a mysterious stranger appears at Andres’ house, his family rallies around him to save his imperiled campaign.
Tony Meneses was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and raised in Albuquerque and Dallas. His plays include GUADALUPE IN THE GUEST ROOM and THE WOMEN OF PADILLA, among others. An alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Ars Nova, Sundance Institute, Playwrights Realm, Tony’s plays have been developed at the Lark, Berkeley Rep, Denver Center, Old Globe, and Pacific Playwrights Festival. He’s a two-time recipient of the Kennedy Center Latinx Playwriting Award, and has had commissions from Denver Center, Two River Theater, and Old Globe.
“… bittersweet, funny and moving …” —San Diego Union Tribune
“BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA reminds us that plays don’t have to light a match to the pyrotechnics of dysfunction to deliver a tale of strained, aching affection.”—Denver Post
DRAMA
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN
John and his daughter Caitlyn are birders. As they scan the skies over their backyard in suburban Maryland looking for elusive birds, years go by. Relationships begin and end. Children grow up and parents age. The climate and the world change in small and vast ways. The play takes a close look at the relationship of a father and daughter over the course of a decade as they struggle to understand the parts of one another that defy understanding.
DRAMA
5 WOMEN, 1 MAN
A Korean Christian girls’ youth group discovers that their revered pastor has hidden a camera in their hotel bathroom on their mission trip to Bangkok. MAN OF GOD is a funny feminist thriller about that moment when girls realize the male gaze has been watching all along—and decide they’re definitely gonna do something about it.
DARK COMEDY/DRAMA
4 WOMEN, 1 MAN
Three moms, a stay-at-home dad, and a nanny watch their kids play at Mommy-Baby Meetup. One mom is the queen bee and one is here to shake things up. The dad just wants to fit in, and the nanny doesn’t say a word. When catastrophe comes, the five of them have to figure out how to survive a war and each other. MOTHERS examines the primal heartache of raising children in a disintegrating world.
“Four Stars! ... tart and bristling satire.”
—Time Out
DRAMA
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN
Mary is a content moderator, one of the unseen people who scrub our social media feeds of violent, sexual, and otherwise disturbing imagery. As she goes deeper and deeper into the dark rabbit hole of unfiltered human depravity that is the internet, she finds a graphic video that makes her question her relationship, her sanity, and her own capacity for violence. By plunging us into a job where technology meets drudgery, SIN EATERS examines how our daily toil transforms us from the outside in.
Anna Ouyang Moench is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays have been produced at Williamstown Theatre Festival, NAATCO/The Public Theater, the Geffen Playhouse, the Playwrights Realm, East West Players, InterAct Theater, and many other theaters across the country and around the world. In television and film, Anna has worked with HBO, Netflix, and Universal. She is a Supervising Producer on Severance and a Co-Executive Producer on The White Darkness, both on Apple TV+.
MAN OF GOD
“funny, creepy and unflinchingly observed … Moench’s play darts from comedy to thriller without ever losing its sense of humor.”
—Los Angeles Times
The year is 2015 and Jeff and Judy are right where they’re supposed to be: waiting outside the stage door of the Broadway musical If/Then to get an autograph from the star. But the experience they have while they wait will change the course of their decades-long friendship forever. Warning: beware of tourists.
“Drag yourself to this stellar new comedy … [Nogueira] writes like Paul Rudnick as edited by Lypsinka … Nogueira knows her stuff and adds more than a few new wrinkles to camp idols and the wigs they wear.”—The Wrap
Ana Nogueira is a writer and actress. Her play WHICH WAY TO THE STAGE was chosen to be part of the Pacific Playwrights Festival at South Coast Rep, and her play EMPATHITRAX received its world premiere production with Colt Coeur. Her work has been developed at Second Stage, The New Group, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Barrington Stage and Ensemble Studio Theater. She is a recipient of a Sloan Grant for playwriting, and the Elizabeth George Emerging Playwright commission.
Tim Finnegan is an Irish immigrant trying to make it as a writer on Amity, an affluent summer colony in Massachusetts, where tensions flare between the migrant and local communities after a fatal car crash. When he loses his job as a bartender, Tim gets drawn into the dark underbelly of the island. The play examines how far one man will go to restore his self-respect and asks, “What does it mean to be an American citizen?” Winner of the Best Playwright Award at Origin Theatre’s 1st Irish Festival.
A witty Irish drama wrapped in humanity. Set during Eugene O’Neill’s classic Long Day’s Journey Into Night, failure, denial, and passion roil as two Irish servants and an American chauffeur pass the day in the kitchen of the Tyrone family’s residence in 1912. As tensions rise and the past rears its head, a search for love and belonging becomes the search for “home.”
“I am thrilled [by] this magnificent play by an extraordinary Irish-American writer, Ronán Noone. THIRST is beautiful, funny, heartbreaking. Unmissable.”
—Theresa Rebeck
Ronán Noone is the author of THE LEPERS OF BAILE BAISTE, THE BLOWIN OF BAILE GALL, COMPASS ROSE and SCENES FROM AN ADULTERY, among other plays. His work has been produced across America, as well as in the UK, Spain, Canada, the Philippines, and Ireland. He has received three Independent Reviewers of New England Awards for Best New Play, the Elliot Norton Outstanding Script Award, Kennedy Center National Playwriting Award, the Edgerton New American Play Award, and others. His 2014 live action short The Accident was shown at the Boston International and the Montclair film festivals.
DRAMA
3 WOMEN, 2 MEN
ANTEBELLUM focuses on themes of social injustice as it intercuts between two alternate stories: one which takes place in Atlanta in 1939, the other in Germany in 1936. In Atlanta, a young Jewish couple living in the South dress up in Civil War era attire to attend the premiere of Gone with the Wind. In Berlin, a Third Reich officer at a Nazi death camp is in love with his prisoner, a Black, male cabaret performer, yet still allows him to be tortured.
COMEDY/DRAMA
8 WOMEN, 2 MEN
The O’Mallerys gather in their local park to share some barbecue and straight talk with their sister Barbara, whose spiral of drugs and recklessness forces her siblings to stage an open-air intervention. But the event becomes raucous and unpredictable as familial stereotypes collide with hard realities. That, and there are two O’Mallery families, one White and one Black. Each appears in different yet similar scenes that create a dialogue about racial and family politics.
COMEDY
6 ACTORS (GENDER-NEUTRAL CASTING ALLOWED)
Mark and Jason were keeping things casual until Jason got pregnant. But, however unplanned the pregnancy was, nothing could be less expected than the chain of events it would set in motion. Robert O’Hara’s audacious, hilarious allegory envisions an uncannily familiar future—one long after women have gone extinct from centuries of mistreatment—where man’s capacity to eff everything up soars to new heights.
ZOMBIE: THE AMERICAN is a cross between Jacobean tragedy and Dr. Strangelove, a futuristic political satire set in the year 2063. Thom Valentine, the first openly-gay President of the United States, faces a host of problems: an imminent civil war, the threat of an African invasion, an adulterous First Gentleman, and zombies in the basement of the White House! With his power, his marriage, and the nation’s well-being at stake, he must decide what he cares most about saving … and at what cost.
Robert O’Hara is a playwright and director who has received the NAACP Best Play and Best Director Award, the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play, two Obies and the Herb Alpert Award. His plays ZOMBIE: THE AMERICAN and BARBECUE premiered at Woolly Mammoth Theater and The Public Theater, respectively. Other plays include MANKIND, BOOTYCANDY and INSURRECTION: HOLDING HISTORY.
3 WOMEN, 3 MEN
Seventeen minutes is the length of time Sheriff’s Deputy Andy Rubens stood outside of a school while an active shooter was inside. The play explores the communal and residual effects of a mass shooting through Andy, a man who struggles with his own complicity in the tragedy, and who seeks meaning in the wake of the shooting.
Scott Organ is a playwright and screenwriter whose work has been performed throughout the US, Europe and South America, and translated into Portuguese, Spanish and French. He’s been commissioned by Atlantic Theater and his plays have been developed at theaters at the New Group, South Coast Rep, and Gulfshore Playhouse among others. 17 MINUTES premiered Off-Broadway at The Barrow Group, and his play PHOENIX premiered at the Humana Festival of New American Plays.
2-60 ACTORS (GENDER-NEUTRAL CASTING ALLOWED)
BLESSINGS FROM THE PANDEMIC, a theater piece in five movements, is a mosaic of poetic reflections exploring our journeys in response to the events of the pandemic: the big, the small, the humorous, the challenging, and even the inspiring. The piece is designed for performance by an ensemble of variable size, either live on stage or virtual.
Rich Orloff is a prolific playwright who has received the Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence, Abeles Foundation Playwrights Award, and Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition. His work has been seen at Arkansas Rep, Detroit Rep, Florida Studio
Theatre, New Jersey Rep, West Coast Ensemble, as well as abroad at Vienna’s English Theatre, Jewish Theatre of Bulgaria, and others.
DRAMA
2 WOMEN, 2 MEN
Emma Phelps is a paleoclimatologist, focusing on ice in Greenland. In drilling and studying ice core samples, she sees firsthand the symptoms of our changing planet, which makes the need to act all the more crucial and urgent. In addition, Emma, as a recent widow, experiences grief that compounds itself with each passing month. Now she’s been asked to testify in Washington D.C. in a senate committee regarding climate change legislation, and in this intersection of science and politics, of politics and the personal, she finds more than just a little is breaking up under the strain of change.
Tira Palmquist is known for plays that merge the personal, the political and the poetic. Her most-produced play, TWO DEGREES, premiered at the Denver Center, and was subsequently produced by Tesseract Theater in St. Louis and Prime Productions at the Guthrie, among others. Her other plays include SAFE HARBOR, THE WAY NORTH, TEN MILE LAKE and THE WORTH OF WATER. Tira teaches creative writing at the Orange County School of the Arts.
ADVENTURE/COMEDY/FAMILY
2 MEN
Captain James Hook (née Cook), badly maligned by a certain play and despised by generations of Peter Pan fans, finally gets to clear his name. The good Captain, with the aid of his friend Smee, tells his life story in this family-friendly play, recounting his friendship with and ultimate betrayal by Peter Pan, his romance with Tiger Lily, his relationship with the Darling family, and his adoption of a lovable crocodile. In narrating his
tale, he uncovers the hidden treasure of Neverland, discovers the identity of his long-lost father, and learns the importance of growing up and growing old.
John Pielmeier’s plays include AGNES OF GOD (winner, Great American Play), VOICES IN THE DARK (Edgar Award), SLEIGHT OF HAND, an adaptation of William Peter Blatty’s THE EXORCIST, and many others. He has written over 25 movies for television, including Sins of the Father, new adaptations of Flowers for Algernon and Sybil, and the screenplay for Agnes of God. His TV movie Choices of the Heart, about slain American missionaries in El Salvador, received the Christopher Award and Humanitas Award.
“Highly entertaining and well-told …” San Francisco Book Review (5 stars)HOOK’S TALE
by Molière translated and adapted by Charles Edward Pogue
COMEDY
4 WOMEN, 7
MENThis free but faithful adaptation of Molière’s classic comedy follows the original plot of a theological flimflammer insinuating himself into a life of comfort and ease at the expense of his gullible benefactor’s family. It is both funny and resonant, addressing many of the issues of our day—religious, political, and human hypocrisy as well as the extremism in which our frequently fractured society can find itself entrenched and how we often willingly conspire in our own duping.
“… a first-rate adaptation … Pogue’s language sparkles with color and is ripe with clever crispness, making versatile leaps from theological discourse to the basest of juicy double-entendre … brilliant writing …”
—Lexington Herald-LeaderCharles Edward Pogue wrote the screenplays to The Fly, D.O.A., Psycho III and Dragonheart, which he also adapted into a novel, two award-winning Sherlock Holmes screen adaptations of The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles, and two Holmes plays, SHERLOCK HOLMES & THE CURSE OF THE EBONY APE and SHERLOCK HOLMES & BLACKMAIL IN BLOOD. Other plays include WHODUNNIT, DARLING? and a highly praised adaptation of A FLEA IN HER EAR.
DRAMA /ADAPTATION
5 WOMEN, 4 MEN
The Bohemian Schlegel sisters are two independent women negotiating the seemingly unbridgeable gulfs that class, money and gender throw in their paths at the dawn of the 20th century. As they chart their course through a rapidly changing London, they encounter the Wilcoxes, who are wealthy capitalists, and the Basts, who struggle to make ends meet. HOWARDS END is a play about three very different families whose lives intertwine in a world speeding towards cataclysm.
“Douglas Post’s new adaptation … resonates in our age of class unrest and digital disconnects”—Chicago Reader
Douglas Post’s plays include DROWNING SORROWS, EARTH AND SKY, and MURDER IN GREEN MEADOWS, and his musicals include GOD AND COUNTRY and THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS. His work has been produced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Canada, the UK, Germany, Austria, and China. He has received the Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Award, Midwestern Playwrights Festival Award, Cunningham Commission Award, Blue Ink Playwriting Award and three Playwriting Fellowship Awards from the Illinois Arts Council.
COMEDY
3 WOMEN, 2 MEN (DOUBLING)
Are you ready for some laughs? Come, soak up the good life in Boca Raton, a city that offers the fountain of youth. In this Garden of Eden, the sun always shines, the lawns are always manicured, and the weather holds steady at a perfect 75, just like Boca’s well-maintained seniors. BOCA is a series of short intertwining comedies that follow a group of retirees in a fictional retirement community, the Boca Oasis, who, between rounds of golf, bridge, and Botox, discover that the key to happiness lies within their very community.
Jessica Provenz’ play BOCA was produced at Barrington Stage Company and GableStage, both directed by Julianne Boyd. Other productions include A WAKE ON CHAPPAQUIDDICK (Irish Rep, New Georges), TRUE ART (Pioneer Theatre), and ANDROMEDA (Barrow Group). Jessica has received commissions from Araca Group and Killer Films, among others. and conducted research for the Spielberg/Hanks series, Masters of the Air. She is a two-time recipient of the Lecomte du Nuoy Award for Emerging Playwrights.
The play imagines Frederick Douglass’s meditations on freedom and bondage during his historic visit to Ireland. His encounters with white women are particularly complex as they compare how their two nations oppress or empower them.
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DRAMA
WOMAN, 3 MENSet in the legendary Parisian café Les Deux Magots in 1953, LES DEUX NOIRS reimagines the meeting between Native Son author Richard Wright and essayist/ activist James Baldwin. It explores the tension between Baldwin’s searing critiques of Native Son and Wright’s unbridled indignation in response—a confrontation between two mighty African-American artists, with echoes of a present-day rap battle.
Psalmayene 24 (Gregory Morrison) is an award-winning playwright, director, actor, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Mosaic Theater. He is the writer and lyricist of THE BLACKEST BATTLE and the writer, director, and lyricist of the film THE FREEWHEELIN’ INSURGENTS.
CINDERELLA: THE REMIX completed his acclaimed Hip-Hop Children’s Trilogy, exploring hip-hop culture. Psalm has received the Imagination Award from Imagination Stage, grants from the NEA, Walt Disney, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, and Boomerang Fund for Artists Inc.
DARK COMEDY/DRAMA
2 WOMEN, 2 MEN
Juliet is losing her marriage. Her mother Pam is losing her memory. And there’s a mysterious forest growing in and around their living room. Is it any wonder Juliet starts sleeping with one of her high school students? A play about weird love and what to do when there aren’t any right answers.
Lia Romeo was a 2021-2022 fellow in the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard. Her play THE FOREST was developed at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference and was scheduled to receive a National New Play Network rolling world premiere this season. SITTING AND TALKING premiered at Mile Square Theatre and was produced by Laguna Playhouse, New Jersey Rep, and others. Her works have been seen Off-Broadway at 59E59 and regionally around the country.
DARK COMEDY/MYSTERY
2 WOMEN, 2 MEN
When struggling actor Tom Braddle discovers that his former collaborator and romantic partner, Adam Mace, has written a new play with a part for him, his hopes for reuniting are dashed by a realization that the play is all too autobiographical. Did Adam have a hand in the tragic death of his wife and child? A dizzying constellation of competing stories and interests swirl around the company and then … Adam disappears on opening night. A thriller, a comedy, a drama—a meditation on the impulse to make sense of tragedy in our lives through the theater.
Eric Rosen has served as the Artistic Director of Kansas City Repertory Theatre and was the co-founder and Artistic Director of Chicago’s About Face Theatre. He is multiple Jeff Award-winning director and has directed plays across the country and internationally. As a playwright, his works include LOT’S WIFE, VENICE, DREAM BOY, (Jeff Award-Best Play) and WINESBURG, OHIO (Jeff Award-Best New Adaptation).
THE FOREST
“THE FOREST is a sorrowful, humorous play about life changes.”
—Out In Jersey
adapted from the documentary by Dan
COMEDY/DRAMA
3 MEN
AustinA cross-country pilgrimage on bicycles from Venice, CA to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA., ANOTHER AMERICA is a free-wheeling portrait of the country itself as well as a journey of self discovery for two brothers and their best friend.
Bill Rosenfield is a transplanted American now living permanently in the UK. His plays include 46 BEACON, SUNSHINE AND SHADOW, and LET ME. His acclaimed adaptation of Frank Loesser’s THE MOST HAPPY FELLA was produced as part of the City Center Encores! in New York. Prior to playwriting, Bill had a career in the recording industry as the executive producer of over 65 original cast recordings, film soundtracks and classical recordings. He has received two Drama Desk Awards, a SDC Foundation Governor’s Award and a Richard Rodgers Award.
Dan Austin is a co-founder of the 88bikes Foundation, which has endowed nearly 3,000 bikes to girls in 14 countries since 2007. Austin is also a multi-lingual explorer, director of seven documentaries and author of three books, including the recent The Road Trip Pilgrim’s Guide. His first documentary feature, True Fans, screened at Mountainfilm.
DRAMA
3 WOMEN, 3 MEN
ANOTHER AMERICA
At a church-sponsored halfway house in North Carolina, a high-school teacher with a rage problem attends to everyone’s recovery but her own.
COMEDY/DRAMA
4 WOMEN, 1 MAN
A hard-drinking musicologist competes with a former Miss Idaho for the love of a married English professor.
“A finely crafted life-affirming generously spirited play.”
—British Theatre.com
COMEDY/DRAMA
2 WOMEN, 1 MAN
A South Carolina army widow angles for romance with an Oklahoma fundamentalist at a dating convention for farmers.
Abby Rosebrock is a Brooklyn-based writer and actress from South Carolina. Her plays have been produced and developed throughout New York City and regionally in Los Angeles, South Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Idaho, Colorado, and Montana.
“... a big-hearted play with a darkly comic core … SINGLES IN AGRICULTURE is a triumph. Rosebrock and her collaborators achieve a sexy, startling, and ultimately uplifting piece of theater.”
—New York Theatre Review
ELEANOR
by Mark St. GermainBIOGRAPHICAL DRAMA
1 WOMAN
ELEANOR is an up-close-and-personal examination of the most important First Lady in history, the times in which she lived, and the personal cost of being the largely private wife of a public figure, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who loomed larger than life at a time when this nation, and the world at large, needed it most.
COMEDY
2 WOMEN,
3 MEN
A neurotic amateur actress leads her local community class of off-kilter, terrified adults to compete in their county’s First Annual Public Speaking Competition.
Mark St. Germain is the author of FREUD’S LAST SESSION (Off Broadway Alliance Award), CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM (Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel awards) and BECOMING DR. RUTH, the story of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, among other works. His adaptation of John Updike’s novel Gertrude and Claudius premiered in repertory with Hamlet at the Orlando Shakespeare Festival and will be presented at the Barrington Stage Company in the Berkshires, where he is an Associate Artist.
DARK COMEDY
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN
Mordy is a struggling musician in Los Angeles. His older sister Jane is a successful attorney and mother of three in New Jersey. But when their mother’s life becomes emotionally and financially taxed by her terrible, centenarian father, these adult siblings are drawn into an elaborate plot to relieve their mother’s burden and their own. Told almost entirely via text messages, this is a dark comedy about how technology keeps us close, while enabling us to keep our distance. It can be easier to type something than to say it face to face. But beware of auto-correct. It can be murder.
“THE BURDENS is a witty play about family, modern communication, and a bad grandpa.”
—Pittsburgh City Paper
Matt Schatz is a writer and composer. Upcoming musicals include A WICKED SOUL IN CHERRY HILL and AN UNTITLED NEW PLAY BY JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE. Other plays and musicals include THE DOOR YOU NEVER SAW BEFORE and THE TALLEST BUILDING IN THE WORLD. Awards include Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre, ASCAP Foundation Harold Arlen Musical Theater Award, Reva Shiner Comedy Award, and New York Musical Festival Outstanding Lyrics Award. Matt has received five Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation New Play Commissions.
Translated by Paul
DRAMA
6 WOMEN, 8 MEN
Liúbov Ranyévskaya returns to her Russian estate after five years in Paris, following her son’s death. But her family is ridden with debt, and their home and beautiful cherry orchard will be auctioned off at the end of the summer. Lopákhin grew up on the estate, the child of former serfs, and has become a wealthy merchant. He suggests they build vacation homes where the orchard sits. The income would save them, but Liúbov and her brother won’t even consider it. They—like the cherry orchard—are a relic from another time: beautiful, but now fruitless. Summer comes to a close, and the Ranyévskayas must leave—with the sound of axes coming from the orchard.
Translated by Paul
DRAMA
Schmidt5 WOMEN, 8 MEN
Irína Arkádina is a famous—but fading—actress in Russia at the turn of the last century. She and her lover Boris Trigórin, a well-known author, arrive at her brother Sórin’s country estate for the summer, just as her son Konstantín is staging an experimental new play he’s written and directed, starring his girlfriend, Nína. Konstantín wants to find “new forms of theater” but Arkádina is far more traditional—and not about to let anyone forget that she’s the star in the family. Her snide comments during the performance enrage Konstantín, who stops the show and storms off. In Konstantín’s absence, Nína comes out and is introduced to Trigórin. Nína is soon enthralled by the successful author, which starts a love affair—and the ensuing jealousies and anger—that will eventually ruin lives.
DRAMA
5 WOMEN, 9 MEN
Raised in Moscow, Ólga, Másha, and Irína are stuck in a rural town they hate. Ólga is a schoolteacher, Másha is in a loveless marriage, and today is Irína’s 22nd birthday and the first anniversary of their father’s death. Friends visit, including Colonel Vershínin, the new dashing army base commander. Soon, the married colonel and Másha begin a passionate affair. Irína, meanwhile, has two suitors, but loves neither. The situation is like a dry forest waiting for a spark. When the smoke clears, one of Irina’s suitors has killed the other, and Vershinin must leave Másha when the army closes the base. The siblings are left to wonder what their suffering means and if there’s any reason to still hope.
Translated by Paul Schmidt
DRAMA
4 WOMEN, 5 MEN
An elderly professor and his glamorous, younger second wife, Yeléna, return to the rural estate that supports their urban lifestyle. Ványa, brother of the professor’s late first wife, who manages the estate, and Ástrov, the local doctor, fall under Yeléna’s spell, while bemoaning their provincial existence. Sónya, the professor’s daughter by his first wife, who works with Ványa, suffers from unrequited feelings for Ástrov. Matters come to a crisis when the professor announces he plans to sell the estate, Ványa and Sónya’s home, to make more money for himself and his wife.
Paul Schmidt was an actor, librettist, poet, translator, professor, and Russian scholar. His translations of Chekhov’s plays have been praised as “the gold standard in Russian-English translation.” Schmidt worked in both academic and professional theatre, translating the complete works of poets Arthur Rimbaud and Velemir Khlebnikov as well as works by Gogol, Brecht, and Marivaux for production.
DRAMA
3 WOMEN
GOOD HAIR follows three women through three different time periods, exploring the science of Black hair. Florence is a high schooler in 2017 whose hair is being questioned for its “professionalism,” Sarah Breedlove is on the cusp of a major discovery that can change Black women’s lives forever at the turn of the 20th century, and Eliza is a slave to a wealthy family who craves mobility from her current station. Ultimately, they each question themselves asking the question: does the cost of perceived beauty outweigh the proof of science?
DRAMA
4 WOMEN, 2 MEN
PLANTATION BLACK is a compelling tale that unfolds through two distinct timelines, delving into the history of the Prioleau family. For nearly two centuries, since 1822, the Loch Dhu Plantation in South Carolina has remained under the ownership of the Prioleau family, comprising both White owners and the Black slaves they once possessed. In the year 2017, the White Prioleau descendants reach out to their Black counterparts in an attempt to resolve the ownership of the land and the distribution entitlements. They all have the same last name and share common biological ancestors. However, their bonds are as deep as the paper claiming half of the Prioleau tree as property.
Phaedra Michelle Scott is the author of GOOD HAIR (Commissioned by the Sloan Foundation and Ensemble Studio Theater); DIASPORA! (commissioned by SpeakEasy Stage, 2022 Great Plains Theater Conference); and PLANTATION BLACK (developed at SPACE on Ryder Farm). Other plays include THE PURITANS and UNITY. She is a member of Youngblood with Ensemble Studio Theater and has recently been staffed on an upcoming television show with CBS/Showtime.
Adapted from the novel by Henry James
DRAMA/ADAPTATION
2 WOMEN, 2 MEN
Catherine, a wealthy young woman, was raised by a father dead to love. Surrounded by a society and family who perceive her as plain and soft-spoken, Catherine remains optimistic. When a mysterious suitor makes a bid for her heart, she’s torn between her instincts and the warnings of her cruel father. Set in a fashionable New York of the late 19th century, Sharp’s interpretation strips away all of the excesses to focus on Catherine becoming her own person. This sparse, actor-focused design heightens the psychological underpinnings of the story, building tension as the play hurtles towards its inevitable conclusion.
Randall Sharp is Axis Theatre Company’s founder and Artistic Director. Her plays include WORLD’S FAIR INN, DEADEND,theDramaDeskAward-nominated LAST MAN CLUB, NOTHING ON EARTH, and SEVEN IN ONE BLOW. Sharp also co-wrote the musicals EVENING—1910 and SOLITARY LIGHT with Paul Carbonara, and directed Edgar Oliver’s Victor and New York Trilogy. She wrote and directed the film Henry May Long, winner of 13 international awards, and is the host of the YouTube cooking show Dinner Party Tonight.
On the Korean island of Man-Jae, three elderly haenyeos—sea women—spend their dying days diving into the ocean to harvest seafood. They have no heirs to their millennia-old way of life. Across the globe on the island of Manhattan, a Korean-Canadian playwright, twice an immigrant, spends her days wrestling with the expectation that she write “authentic” stories about her identity. But what, exactly, is her identity? And how can she write about it without selling her own skin?
“Song juggles a lot of ideas in ENDLINGS, bringing no small amount of wit and insight to the enterprise. This writer has a large talent, wedded to a poetic sensibility and an admirable fearlessness.”—The Boston Globe
Celine Song’s play ENDLINGS received its world premiere in 2019 at American Repertory Theater and had its New York premiere in 2020 at New York Theatre Workshop. She has been a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a semifinalist for the American Playwriting Foundation’s Relentless Award. Celine also wrote on the first season of Amazon’s Wheel of Time. Celine Song wrote and directed the feature film Past Lives.
DRAMA/THRILLER
1 WOMAN; OR 5-7 ACTORS (3W/2M OR 4W/3M)
Mary Jane Kelly is behind in her rent, her window is broken, and her boyfriend just moved out. And it’s 1888—not a good time to be poor and “unfortunate” on the streets of London. Somewhere in the foggy shadows, one of the world’s most notorious criminals is at work. Mary only has two ways to secure her own front door. One of them is prostitution. The other is selling something she shouldn’t have in the first place, something she’ll have to betray her friend and herself to give up.
Aoise Stratford’s plays have been translated and performed internationally and produced around the country at theaters including Looking Glass, City Theatre Miami, Lakeshore Players, The American Globe, Centenary Stage, Red Thread, Kitchen Theatre Company, and many others. She is the winner of a Pinter Review Silver Medal and the Yukon Pacific Playwriting Award. THE UNFORTUNATES was a Time Out NY Critics Pick and winner of The Susan Glaspell Award.
DRAMA
2 WOMEN, 5 MEN
An intimate epic that follows an unlikely family’s journey from rural Taishan to the wild west of California in the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize!
COMEDY
3 MEN
This modern, comic take on the American Revolution puts the spotlight on the relationship between the brilliant and domineering Ben Franklin and his son William. As Ben plants the seeds of a new republic, King George III appoints William as Royal Governor of New Jersey— a change in affairs that creates a revolutionary family rift.
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WOMENFunny and deeply moving, the play gives voice to the Asian immigrant experience in the 1970s when the landmark Hart-Celler Act granted thousands of professional workers a new path to citizenship. But for Jane and Luna, life in the USA with their workaholic husbands has left them feeling isolated and invisible. One Thanksgiving—over sips of wine and a questionable frozen turkey—they reminisce and dream of spreading their wings together in the land of opportunity: disco dancing, learning to drive and even a visit to Disneyland. With grace and dignity, this powerful play asks: “Would you give up your heart to make a new home?”
Lloyd Suh is the author of THE CHINESE LADY, DISNEY AND FUJIKAWA, CHARLES FRANCIS CHAN JR’S EXOTIC ORIENTAL MURDER MYSTERY, and HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM ABERNATHY among others. His plays have been produced by the Roundabout, Milwaukee Rep, Denver Center, EST, Ma-Yi, Magic Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre and many more around the US and internationally. He has received the Mimi Steinberg, Helen Merill and Herb Alpert awards and received support from the NEA, Arena Stage, Mellon Foundation and the Dramatists Guild.
DRAMA
3 WOMEN, 4 MEN OR ANY
In this play with broken songs, Shakespeare’s Ophelia rises out of the water dreaming of reclaiming her life. She finds herself in a neo-Elizabeth Appalachian setting where Gertrude runs a brothel, Hamlet is a Rude Boy and nothing is what it seems. In this mirrored world of word-scraps and cold sex, Ophelia cuts a new path for herself.
“... modern beautiful … Svich’s Ophelia gives the Shakespearean ingenue the destiny that modern women always wanted, a life of her own.”—Broadway World
DRAMA
1 OR 2 ACTORS OF ANY GENDER OR ETHNICITY
(NOTE: POSSIBLE TO DO THIS PLAY WITH 3 OR MORE ACTORS)
What kind of future will you have living in these here United States? Remember when you were eleven years old and you had a bike, one that made you dream about a world bigger than the one in which you live? This is that memory. Except it is now. A play for one performer (two, three or more). This is the first play in the AMERICAN PSALM seven-play cycle.
Caridad Svich is a playwright, songwriter, editor and translator living between many cultures. She was born in the US of Cuban-Argentine-Spanish-Croatian parents, and while growing up lived in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Florida, North Carolina, Utah, New York, and California. The nomadic strain instilled in her has become an inevitable part of her writing vision. As a playwright, songwriter, editor and translator living between many cultures, including inherited ones, the idea of departure has always been not only an actual or metaphorical basis for writing the work.
COMEDY
5 WOMEN, 3-4 MEN
Mitch wants to be a carpenter. Heather wants to be a woodcarver. The wolf wants to be an intellectual. Ruby wants to escape the wolf. The woodcutter wants to escape the narrator. A fable-inspired play about love and wood and finding your purpose.
Adam Szymkowicz’s plays have been produced throughout the US, and internationally in Australia, Germany, Mexico, South Korea, Sweden, Thailand, and elsewhere. His work has been presented or developed at Portland Center Stage, MCC Theater, Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, Rattlestick, Primary Stages and New Group, among others. Adam’s plays include FOOD FOR FISH, HEARTS LIKE FISTS, KODACHROME and many others. He has been commissioned by South Coast Rep, Majestic Rep, Chance Theater and Flux Theater Ensemble and others.
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WOMAN, 3 MENDaily work with an inmate at San Quentin State Prison granted playwright Cori Thomas unprecedented exposure, as a volunteer, to the day-to-day routines and struggles of incarcerated people. The inmates she got to know were so gracious and open in sharing their lives that the process led Thomas to put her own life experience into her writing as well. The resulting play, LOCKDOWN, tells the story of a writer who agrees to help an incarcerated man with his parole statement and embarks on an unexpected journey confronting her own grief.
Cori Thomas is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Produced plays: LOCKDOWN;WHENJANUARYFEELS LIKE SUMMER; CITIZENS MARKET; PA’S HAT and more. Produced and developed at: WP Theater, Rattlestick, Playwrights Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Goodman Theater, Mixed Blood, Horizon’s Theater, Mosaic Theatre, and others. She has won the American Theater Critics Osborn Award, Edgerton Foundation Prize, and Theodore Ward Prize. Cori is the Mellon Playwright in Residence at WP Theater and a New Dramatists Resident Playwright.
DARK COMEDY
2 WOMEN
MRS. HARRISON is about two women and one story. At their 10-year college reunion, Aisha and Holly meet by chance. Is this the first time or has it just been a long time? They can’t agree. Aisha is a Black, successful playwright; she’s on the cover of the alumni magazine. Holly is a White, struggling stand-up comedian; she’s here for the free drinks. Aisha’s most successful play bears a striking resemblance to a tragic event in Holly’s life. Is it a coincidence or is it theft? As a rainstorm interrupts the outdoor reunion, they find themselves
trapped inside, together. They both have a story that they’ve been telling themselves about what happened all those years ago and they’re both willing to fight for the truth in the present.
“MRS. HARRISON’s conversations about stories—their connection to reality, their ownership—take on the larger issue of cultural appropriation … Thomas isn’t telling us what to think, but challenging us to think.”
—Broad Street Review
R. Eric Thomas is a bestselling author of Here For It, or How to Save Your Soul in America, and Reclaiming Her Time, a biography of Rep. Maxine Waters, co-authored with Helena Andrews-Dyer. He also writes for AppleTV’s Dickinson and FX’s Better Things. His play TIME IS ON OUR SIDE was commissioned by Simpatico Theater Project and developed with PlayPenn. It won the Barrymore Award for Best New Play. Other plays include MRS. HARRISON, BACKING TRACK, CRYING ON TELEVISION and THE FOLKS AT HOME.
DRAMA/THRILLER
4 WOMEN, 7 MEN, 1 GIRL (NON-SPEAKING), (DOUBLING)
This faithful version of Mary Shelley’s classic proves that the novel was ahead of its time and more relevant in the 21st century than ever. Victor Frankenstein and Captain Robert Walton are stalked by the Creature while their ship is trapped in the Arctic ice. Victor’s story unfolds to reveal a tale of obsession and creation, but also of love and hate, devotion and abandonment, and revenge. As the Creature destroys Victor’s life, killing his family and friends one by one, we realize the monster had more humanity than Victor ever did.
DRAMA
2 WOMEN, 4 MEN
A vicious and ultimately tragic high school football hazing rocks a small Texas town and leaves three families devastated. Years later, a social media frenzy—prompted by news of a hazing in another town—rips open old wounds and deepens the rift between two brothers. A search for the truth forces everyone involved to confront the past, but is it too late, or can the healing finally begin?
Robert Lewis Vaughan was born in Amarillo, Texas. His family moved between Amarillo, other towns in the panhandle, and so many places in Colorado that he can’t remember how many schools he went to. At 18 Robert moved to New York City to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and he never looked back. His plays, including PRAYING FOR RAIN, THE REST OF THE NIGHT and WEIRD WATER, have been produced internationally. He is working on THE PANHANDLE PLAYS.
HISTORICAL DRAMA
3 WOMEN, 12 MEN
In 1965, the heart of the civil rights struggle in the US was the conflict between Dr. Martin Luther King and President Lyndon Johnson. Both brilliant leaders at the peak of their powers, their personal battle— like the one on the streets of Selma, Alabama—is ultimately decided by King’s greater moral courage. Also central is King’s relationship with his wife Coretta. Her fight for equality in their marriage runs parallel to the fight for civil rights. Both struggles merge in triumphant conclusion on the march from Selma to Montgomery.
72 year-old Krystyna fights for life in a hospital as four people wait—and reveal the reasons why her survival is vital to them. Rachel is a driven young doctor whose brother Jonathan died in the Trade Center; financier David is Rachel’s adoring ex-fiance, rejected in the fall-out from Jonathan’s death; Nicolas is the truck-driver who, distracted, wrecked Krystyna’s car; and Klaus is a hospital volunteer who believes Krystyna is someone he loved long ago in Poland. But even if she survives, is it too late for love? What purpose or meaning remains for any of them? Will Krystyna have their answers?
Paul Webb After a career in teaching, Paul Webb wrote his first play at age 50. FOUR NIGHTS IN KNARESBOROUGH was produced in London, had a national tour and drew the attention of the film industry. He was commissioned by Stephen Spielberg, Michael Mann and Ridley Scott, working closely with all three over a number of years. He wrote Selma, a film about the civil rights struggle in Alabama. Shortly after, Paul retired from screenwriting but then during the covid lockdowns wrote two plays. HOLD ON will be produced by St. Louis Black Rep. He is currently working on a new play, about the intimate history of the epoch-defining relationship between Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
COMEDY/DRAMA
5 WOMEN, 4 MEN
When eight strangers receive an invitation to the America in One Room event in 2019, promising robust discussions on a wide range of social and political topics, sparks fly, tempers flare, and comedy abounds. At a time when everyone thinks they’re right, it will take more than political debate to find common ground. Inspired by the real-life convention of the same name, the play tackles our nation’s past, present and future (and even employs a little audience participation) to answer the question: is there hope for our country?
“Williams wisely focuses on the personal relationships [and] the play gains its strength during breaks when the characters … connect over everyday things like parenting challenges or work. Williams doesn’t set out to change attitudes, but he does want you to think a little differently about people and what they may stand for.”—Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Jason Odell Williams has been nominated for an Emmy Award, an Off-Broadway Alliance Best New Play Award and an LA Ovation Best Original Play Award. His plays CHURCH & STATE and HANDLE WITH CARE won a Henry Award and a Theatre Bay Area Award for Best Play, respectively. AMERICA IN ONE ROOM was commissioned by Florida Studio Theatre, where it had its premiere.
Adapted from the novel by Charlotte Brontë
DRAMA
4 WOMEN, 3 MEN, 1 CHILD (DOUBLING)
A Gothic story of resilience, in which a penniless orphan is determined to craft a fulfilling life for herself, against all odds. When Jane is hired as a governess at Thornfield Hall, she falls passionately in love with her brooding employer, only to discover that he—and his home—are surrounded by dark secrets. When the secrets are revealed, how will Jane preserve her chances for happiness?
Elizabeth Williamson is an Obie Award-winning director, producer, adaptor, and the artistic director of the Geva Theatre. She is known for her work developing and premiering new plays and musicals, which have won awards including the Olivier Award for Best Play, the Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Play. She has worked on Broadway, in London’s West End, Off-Broadway, regionally and internationally. She also has extensive experience working on Shakespeare and the classics, including her own translations and adaptations of Charlotte Brontë and Marivaux.
COMEDY/DRAMA
1 WOMAN, 2 MEN
When a sweet-faced couple shows up on a suburban doorstep, an unsuspecting homeowner finds himself the victim of a surreal home invasion. Using wit and wordplay to mask a more sinister threat, the couple wages a battle over indigenous rights from the living room, and we are asked to examine the brutality that fuels our system of private property.
“THE DING DONGS delves into the complexities of human relationships. It bends reality with wit and mystery as we are asked to examine who has the right to stand on the land they inhabit.”—Broadway World
COMEDY/DRAMA
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN
When two old flames run into each other on the evening commute, different views of the same past threaten to derail their connection. A new play about forgiving, forgetting, and the healing power of a good delay.
Brenda Withers is a writer, actor, and founding member of the Harbor Stage Company. Her plays have been developed and produced at places like Northern Stage, Urbanite Theatre, Two River Theatre, Portland Stage, and Amphibian Stage Productions. Brenda is a member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, and was a playwright-producer with The Pool. She has enjoyed playwriting residencies with New Georges, the Camargo Foundation, and the Huntington.
Late one night, a small disagreement erupts into a fight that threatens to end a decade-long marriage. In this 90 minute play, we watch in real time as Ruth and Bo try to get past their disappointments, in life and each other, to answer the question: can you ever really begin again?
John Yearley is the author of THE UNREPEATABLE MOMENT, LEAP, EPHEMERA, ANOTHER GIRL and BRUNO HAUMPTMAN KISSED MY FOREHEAD. His plays have won the Mickey Kaplan New American Play Prize and John Gassner Award. Works for young audiences include THE LAST WISH (Macy’s New Play Prize for Young Audiences) and an adaptation of Sophocles’ ANTIGONE. He has written for the children’s TV program Treasure Trekkers and PBS Kids’ Arthur.
2 WOMEN, 2 MEN, 1
GENDER-NEUTRALStan Zimmerman brings to life the last words written in letters by individuals lost to suicide—including celebrities, veterans, kids that were bullied, LGBTQ, and the clinically depressed—and those who have survived suicide attempts. The play has traveled across the country, raising awareness and offering hope for suicide prevention.
Stan Zimmerman’s entertainment career has included appearances on Broadway, in films, producing, and extensive directing credits. He has written for many television series, including The Golden Girls, Fame, Something Wilder, Roseanne, and The Gilmore Girls. His plays include YES VIRGINIA, (co-written with Christian McLaughlin), SILVER FOXES (co-written with James Berg), and RIGHT BEFORE I GO., which won a Hollywood Fringe Festival Encore Producers’ Award.
COMEDY
1 WOMAN, 5 MEN
Inspired by Gen Silent, a 2010 documentary about LGBT seniors, SILVER FOXES is described as a gay version of The Golden Girls. Benny and Chuck, two older gay men, rescue their dear friend Cecil from a homophobic senior living facility and bring him to live with them in Palm Springs.
James Berg is an American television producer and writer. He has written for many television series including The Golden Girls, Roseanne and Gilmore Girls and the 1996 feature film A Very Brady Sequel. He has frequently collaborated with fellow producer and writer Stan Zimmerman. Berg and Zimmerman received two WGA nominations—one for The Golden Girls’ “Rose’s Mother” and for Roseanne’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
2 WOMEN
Virginia was a longtime housekeeper for Denise, even helping Denise raise her children during a difficult divorce. But Denise is confused when Virginia shows
up for work one day, because she let Virginia go several months earlier. When an accident keeps Virginia from being able to walk, Denise offers to care for her until she heals. Their roles reversed, the two women share memories of their lives over the course of Christmas Eve, learning secrets and bonding in a way they hadn’t been able to in the past.
Christian McLaughlin is an Emmy award-winning writer-producer, who has worked on an extensive array of comedies and dramas including Married … With Children, Clueless, and Desperate Housewives. He co-wrote, with Stan Zimmerman, the award-winning satirical MEET & GREET and YES, VIRGINIA. He’s also the author of two bestselling 90s novels, the Lambda Literary Award-nominated Glamourpuss and Sex Toys of the Gods.
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WOMENA play about a young man, Brandon, who is always in and out of trouble. Until he is shot in the back by a member of his community. Through the perspectives of his family, friends, and girlfriend we learn the circumstances of a young American man’s life and how seemingly unrelated events culminate in cutting it short.
Don Zolidis is one of the most-produced playwrights in American schools. His more than 125 published plays have been performed over 30,000 times, appearing in every state, every Canadian province, and 67 different countries. His first novel, The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig (A Love Story) was published in 2018 by Disney-Hyperion. His second book, War and Speech, was published in 2020 by Little Brown.
“A DARK SKY FULL OF STARS … delves not only into how gender is constructed and enforced … but also how it is performed.”
—The Oregonian
4 WOMEN
Grace is a teenage Spoken Word champion, but can’t seem to complete a simple poetry assignment. Joined by her piano playing, hip-hop dancing and visual artist girlfriends, she designs Grace’s Land 2.0, a virtual land free of fixed identities, of the pandemic, of micromanaging parents, and the need to fit into the boxes assigned by others.
Sarah Bierstock has been nominated for the Blackburn Prize and Primus Prize and is a member of the Playwrights Collective at Florida Studio Theater, and Dorset Theatre Festival’s Women Artists Writing group. She has received commissions from Center Stage, Neo-Political Cowgirls, and FST. Her work has been seen at Boise Contemporary Theater, John Drew Theater Lab, Athena Project, and Cherry Lane Theatre.
4 WOMEN
In the near future, three high school freshman girls befriend the robot who has joined their class and try to get her elected class president. Winner of the Tennessee Williams One Act Play Contest.
Amy Crider earned a BA in theater, then didn’t return to theater until 2008, with the writing program at Second City. She has been a semifinalist for the Princess Grace Award and the O’Neill, and studied with
Chicago Dramatists from 2010 to 2020. Her work has been performed in Chicago, New York, Minneapolis, and St. Louis among other cities.
1 WOMEN, 2 MEN
Kareem, a Black teen, waits for the bus, at night, in a suburban White neighborhood. He is approached by O’Donald, a White police officer. They struggle. A shot rings out. Kareem is dead. O’Donald says he feared for his life. The Police Union’s representative defends the shooting as self-defense. Kareem’s Aunt Janice protests her nephew’s death as racial profiling. There are no witnesses, but the truth will not die. Kareem’s spirit haunts Officer O’Donald, demanding to know why he was killed.
Gloria J. BrowneMarshall is a Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), taught in the Africana Studies Program at Vassar, and is a civil rights attorney who litigated cases for Southern Poverty Law Center and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Plays include SHOT: Caught a Soul and DREAMS OF EMMETT TILL.
12 WOMEN, 4 MEN (DOUBLING)
Some girls got it and some don’t. Materialism, that is. They’re fashionistas, influencers who think they have all they need to succeed in life, but do they? As Tiffany and
her material girl, and guy, friends get ready to graduate high school, they start to realize there might be more to life than eyeshadow. Is it too late to change? Penny doesn’t think so. With her help, Tiffany and her fashion-victim friends might discover they have other options to succeed in the material world.
5 WOMEN, 5 MEN (DOUBLING)
Ask any high school senior and they’ll tell you prom is the most important night of their lives. But Julian, an evil alien warlord posing as an ordinary high school student, has turned the night into a disaster. And it’s all thanks to Becca, who made the colossally bad decision to ask Julian to the prom. Now Julian and his henchmen plan to bring the senior class back to his planet to be his servants. It’s a fight to the finish as Becca and her friends try to save themselves from a horrible existence and—more importantly, save the prom!
7 WOMEN, 5 MEN (DOUBLING)
It’s vampires versus teenagers in this epic battle to stop graduation from becoming a bloodbath. Caitlin is class valedictorian, but she’s acting really weird. So weird that Carly thinks she’s a vampire. And not a friendly high school vampire who likes to sleep in, but the kind that wants to turn her classmates into an army of undead minions. Can Carly and her friends stop Caitlin before graduation? Or will they be doomed to live for eternity without a diploma?
Michael Griffo has written 11 novels and over 25 plays and screenplays. His debut novel, Between Boyfriends, was published by Kensington Books under the pseudonym Michael Salvatore. Under his given name, Griffo has published two young-adult supernatural trilogies: The Archangel Academy and The Darkborn Legacy. His latest novel, Murder on Memory Lake, is written under the pseudonym J.D. Griffo and is the first entry in a new cozy mystery series.
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17 WOMEN, 8 MEN
Charles Dickens’ ghost arranges for a high school production of A Christmas Carol to be broadcast on TV. The cast is ecstatic, until they learn their performance must be cut to one hour. At the TV studio, they discover it must be cut to 40 minutes for commercials. Just before they go on-air, an overtime football game forces them to cut again. When all that’s left is five minutes, they perform a hilariously fast holiday classic.
Jon Jory was the Producing Director at Actors Theatre of Louisville for 32 years, where he directed over 125 plays, produced over 1,000, and conceived the acclaimed Humana Festival of New American Plays. He was also the Artistic Founding Director of Long Wharf Theatre, and has been inducted into New York’s Theatre Hall of Fame. For his commitment
to new plays, he has received the Margo Jones Award, Carnegie Mellon’s Commitment to Playwriting Award, and the Special Tony Award for Achievement in Regional Theatre.
Michael Bigelow Dixon taught theater at Transylvania University,and Goucher, Carleton, and Wofford colleges, was Resident Director at The Playwrights’ Center, Literary Director at The Guthrie Theater, and Literary Manager and then Associate Artistic Director at Actors Theatre of Louisville. He has co-edited 38 volumes of plays, criticism, and social history, and written two books for young readers: Once Upon a Pig, A Tell-It-Yourself Photo Storybook and Alice in Winter Wonderland with Janet Allard and illustrations by Michael O. Sanders.
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After their in-performance deaths, six Shakespearean characters–DAMES in one and DUDES in the other–find themselves in a holding area until the play they are a character in gets revived by another Shakespeare company so that they can (re)live their tragedy over (and over) again. It’s a comic romp that evokes Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit meets Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author meets Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
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MARY AND JOSEPH … AND COMPANY tells the story of Mary and Joseph as they journey toward Bethlehem to be counted in the census, and their surprising encounters with characters the whole family will recognize. This fresh reimagining of Mary and Joseph draws on the comedic styles of Don Knotts, Steve Carell, John Cleese, and Kristen Wiig and provides warmth and joy during the holiday season!
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3-9 ACTORS (GENDERNEUTRAL CASTING ALLOWED) THRICE UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR gives audiences a peek into the unlikely—but hilarious—conversations of The Three Wise Men, The Three Wise Women, and The Three Not-So-Wise Shepherds in this traveling triptych as they follow the Star of Bethlehem contemplating its wonder, its mystery … and a good game of golf!
David Overton is the founder and artistic director of Long Island Classics Stage Company in Centerport, New York, where he primarily works with young actors on performing the works of Shakespeare and developing their transferable life skills for stellar social interaction.
Three fast-paced and raucous collections of hilarious short comedies by America’s most popular comedy writing trio! There’s a bodacious group for the women, twisted ones for the men, and then a mix of outrageous shorts for both!
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Men in twisted shorts! This rollercoaster ride of hilarious short plays is all about, and starring only, men! In these absurdly funny tales, you’ll meet men who are confident, men who are brave, and men who are as useless as the “g” in “lasagna.” There’s Wade, who, after badgering his widowed father to start dating again, scrambles to stop his dad from a rendezvous with the last woman he should ever romance. Bubba is a radio show personality who spills a small town’s juiciest secrets during an on-air meltdown. And then, you’ll meet two good ol’
Texas boys struggling to achieve the impossible—an honest conversation about the meaning of life…and sports. And these are just a few of the colorful eccentrics in these rowdy and rollicking short plays.
4 WOMEN (DOUBLING)
Women in bodacious shorts! This sparkling and raucous comedy offers fast-paced tales about—and starring—strong and sassy females. Women who are intelligent, eccentric, mysterious, baffling, bullheaded and brilliant. As these short plays unfold, you’ll meet Vivacia, a South-
ern social media star, on a quest to elevate the mediocre standard of American funeral foods. Drop by a Christmas shop where the overworked proprietress unravels as she attempts to train a new crew of “elves” for the holiday tsunami. Spend an afternoon with theatre royalty on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where three theatre legends vie for “best friend” status in the hospital room of their lifelong colleague … and rival. And these are just a few of the unforgettable women you’ll meet in these joyous short plays.
3 WOMEN, 3 MEN (DOUBLING)
Women and men in outrageous shorts! This fast-paced, rollicking collection of short plays combines some of the best scenes from BUDDY BRO BUBBA DUDE and HONEY SUGAR LADY DOLL into a laugh-out-loud adventure for all. You’ll encounter women who are brilliant, baffling and know a conscience is what hurts when other parts feel sooo good. And you’ll find men who are confident, strong and who are so brave they dare to drink water … just to surprise their livers. These delightful short plays build to a rip-roaring climax. In short, you’ll experience the story of all our lives, which boils down to “we knew better, but we did it anyway!”
Jones Hope
Wooten is the team of Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, who enjoy the reputation of being three of the most widely-produced playwrights in the US. Between them, they’ve written classic television, hit movies and Off-Broadway comedy. Thousands of productions of their comedies—including THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY, DEARLY BELOVED, CHRISTMAS BELLES, THE RED VELVET CAKE WAR, ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID and more—have entertained theatre-goers across America, as well as in Japan, Netherlands, Australia, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the UK, Taiwan, France, South Africa, Belgium, New Zealand, Bulgaria, Ecuador, Kenya and elsewhere.
“Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten are juggernauts of Southern-style comedy.”
—Richmond Times Dispatch
“Set a spell and let the comedy wash over you like ice-cold Dr. Pepper on a hot day.”
—Contra Costa Times
This fun, inventive collection explores the intersection between art and math: positive and negative, comedy and drama, rational and irrational, love and logic, sine and cosine. (Okay, not that last one.) No math is required to enjoy these plays!
by Lynne Halliday, James Hindman, Arlene Hutton and Craig Pospisil
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN
A watchmaker and a romantic find common ground, but can Sidney and Sydney synchronize their hearts?
2 WOMEN, 2 MEN
As Hedy Lamarr films a scene with an inexperienced young actor, the Hollywood star figures out the radio guidance systems and frequency-hopping technology that led to Bluetooth and GPS.
2 WOMEN
Jane’s blind date is a matter of life and death for Rosie—literally. In the future, the E-Life Pheromone Connector is never supposed to be wrong. But if Jane strikes out on one more date then Rosie, Jane’s android life coach, will be repurposed.
2 WOMEN, 2
Shirley doesn’t understand how Hilbert, the unflappable concierge
“Pospisil draws out neat surprises from his characters.”—NYTheatre.com
“Ms. Hutton ... has a fine ear for the fits and starts of conversation.”—New York Times
“Hindman’s script has stylishness and charm.”—New York Magazine
“Lynne Halliday’s writing is quirky, smart, and heartfelt.”—NJ Rep
of the Grand Hotel, keeps finding rooms for guests when the hotel is already full. But if a hotel has an infinite number of rooms and an infinite number of guests, is it booked or not? And how do you feed them all?
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN
Grace is a doctoral candidate in mathematics with a problem: She’s developed a math anxiety. Can her therapist Dr. Zamboni cure her? Maybe, but which one of them needs psychiatric help more is up for grabs.
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GENDER-NEUTRALIs it worth invoking the Wrath of God to create a perfect world?
Designers Tippy and Buzzy dare to color outside the lines.
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN
During a birthday picnic, an artist and her mathematician ex-boyfriend connect with nature and learn new ways to communicate.
3 WOMEN, 3 MEN
Private detective Philip Fibonacci is hired by a femme fatale to recover a priceless stolen nautilus. But the case takes an odd tangent and the variables multiply. Will Fibonacci’s theory add up?
Lynne Halliday is a performer and playwright. She has appeared at the York Theatre, 54 Below, and the Guggenheim Museum, and sung with ABT. She co-authored THE GORGES MOTEL and ONE CHRISTMAS EVE AT EVERGREEN MALL. Her play SOMETHING ABOUT EVE appeared in NJ Rep’s Theatre Brut Festival.
James Hindman is an actor and award-winning playwright. Credits include: POPCORN FALLS, PETE ‘N’ KEELY, BEING AUDREY (Transport Group, NEA Grant recipient), THE GORGES MOTEL,andONECHRISTMAS EVE AT EVERGREEN MALL (NY Fringe Festival). His work has been developed and performed at The Lark, Vineyard Theatre, Second Stage, Long Wharf, Goodspeed, Denver Theatre Center, New Jersey Rep and Papermill Playhouse.
Arlene Hutton is the author of LETTERS TO SALA, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN and THE LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC, which received a Drama League Best Play nomination and was a finalist for the Francesca Primus Prize. Her play GULF VIEW DRIVE received an Ovation Award for Best Production. Regional credits: B Street, Chester Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Florida Studio Theatre, Kitchen Theatre, Mad Cow, and Washington Stage Guild.
Craig Pospisil is an award-winning playwright and author of MONTHS ON END, SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN, and JOURNEY TO THE POLES OF INACCESSIBILITY, among others, and co-author of ONE CHRISTMAS EVE AT EVERGREEN MALL. His work has been seen at New World Stages, Bay Street, New York Musical Festival, Barrington Stage, Purple Rose, and Stage West, performed on six continents, and translated into eight languages.
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In the nursery rhyme criminal justice system, citizens are represented by two separate yet equally ridiculous groups: the nursery
LAW & ORDER: RHYMES AND MISDEMEANORS
rhyme police who investigate nursery rhyme crime, and the nursery rhyme district attorneys who prosecute the nursery rhyme offenders. These are their stories.
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Through a series of metaphorical and literal comedic vignettes, THE ACTS OF LIFE follows one family across multiple generations as they grapple with those big stages: dating, marriage, childbirth, school, parenthood, and beyond.
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#Your #parents #definitely #know #everything #about #social #media.
Jonathan Rand is among the most popular playwrights writing today, his stage plays having been performed over 24,000 times in theaters across 65 countries. His one-act comedy CHECK PLEASE was the #1 most-produced short play every season for the last 16 years. His work is published by Random House, Smith & Kraus, Dramatics Magazine, and Macmilllan.
This “crazy” collection of comedic short plays contains works that have entertained, inspired and sometimes offended. To be enjoyed by Texicans & nonTexicans across the country.
by Alvaro Saar Rios
1 WOMAN, 2 MEN
While rehearsing Romeo & Juliet, a Latina actress refuses to kill herself. She then discusses her reasons for wanting to change the ending of the play for the actual performance.
1 WOMAN, 2 GENDER-NEUTRAL
In an effort to help Latinx families maintain their culture, a company makes a commercial for menudo-flavored popsicles.
1 MAN, 4 GENDER-NEUTRAL
When the director of Pancho Villa— The Musical refuses to let a Caucasian actor audition for the lead role, the actor pleads by sharing the historical tradition of white people portraying iconic Mexicans.
2 WOMEN
As the Covid pandemic rages on, a worried daughter makes a FaceTime call begging her joy-riding mother to return home and be safe. Mom has her own reasons for leaving the casa.
3 WOMEN, 3 MEN
Six college students post hopes and dreams on Facebook while also revealing concerns about what will happen once they graduate.
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A fast-paced attempt to briefly tell 500+ years of Mexican history that includes human sacrifices, Aztec gods, smallpox, lisping Spaniards, and Mexicans with bad hair.
2 WOMEN
A young woman settles into her new apartment. A stranger appears with a key to the same apartment. They both discover a connection to their own mothers.
1 MAN, 1 GENDER-NEUTRAL
After years apart, two friends reconnect. One recounts a disturbing tale that caused him to change his name, lighten his skin and disappear from his hometown.
Alvaro Saar Rios plays have been performed in New York, Mexico City, Chicago, Hawaii and all over Texas. He has received commissions from Kennedy Center, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, Alley Theatre, and Zoological Society of Milwaukee. He is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, and Playwright-in-Residence at First Stage.
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TRW is pleased to publish this sparkling new collection of ten short plays—comedies and dramas, absurdist and naturalistic—from a wide-ranging group of exciting playwrights.
Edited by Craig PospisilDUMMY DIALOGUE
by David IvesGLENBURN 12 WP
by Vickie RamirezHAPPY BIRTHDAY
WILLIAM ABERNATHY
by Lloyd SuhA SENTIMENT
by Elaine Romero STEM by Arlene HuttonTHE SYSTEM
by Lynne HallidayTHE TALK
by France-Luce BensonTASTING
by Eric Reyes LooTWELVE
by Vincent Terrell DurhamA WALRUS IN THE BODY OF A CROCODILE
by MJ KaufmanMax and Norman are ventriloquists’ dummies who’ve been on the road for years. Now they’re backstage before a show venting their frustrations to each other—like the stupid jokes they have to mouth every night. Then Norman starts to have some very large ideas. Maybe a Dummy Revolution is at hand.
David Ives is perhaps best known for his evening of oneact plays, ALL IN THE TIMING, and for his drama VENUS IN FUR, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. His plays include NEW JERUSALEM: THE INTERROGATION OF BARUCH DE SPINOZA; THE LIAR (adapted from Corneille); and IS HE DEAD? (adapted from Mark Twain). He has also translated Feydeau’s A FLEA IN HER EAR and Yasmina Reza’s A SPANISH PLAY.
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN
Roberta, an Indigenous woman, and Troy, a Black man, wander into a deserted pub near Grand Central Station. While the bartender’s away, the liquor flows, as do some rough truths. But where is the bartender?
Vickie Ramirez (Tuscarora) is an alumna of the Public Theater’s Emerging Writer’s Group, and a founding member of Chukalokoli Native Theater Ensemble and Amerinda Theater. Her work has been seen at Labyrinth Theater, Thunderbird Theatre, New Native Theatre, The Flea, Roundabout Theater’s Different Voices Program and 52nd Street Project. Plays include PURE NATIVE and STANDOFF AT HWY #37.
On his 100th birthday, William Abernathy has a confession to make. His Korean American great-grandson Albert is the only one available to receive it.
Lloyd Suh is the author of the plays THE FAR COUNTRY, THE CHINESE LADY, FRANKLINLAND, and THE HEART SELLERS, among others. His plays have been produced by Ma-Yi, Magic Theatre, Denver Center, Milwaukee Rep, and others around the country and internationally. He has received support from the NEA, Arena Stage, Mellon Foundation, Dramatists Guild, as well as the Helen Merrill Award and the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts.
A SENTIMENT
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN
Lucretia Mott arrives home late one night in 1848 to find her husband John waiting by the fire. An astonishingly frank conversation ensues as the 55-year-old wife and mother boldly and lovingly explains her co-creation of the Declaration of Sentiments, and her work to create a new future of possibilities for her daughters, their daughters, and all women.
Elaine Romero finds grist for her plays in an uncharted life. She saw Disneyland with the King of Zululand when he stayed with her family during his honeymoon. She learned Transcendental Meditation from a guru who imparted mantras from an altar fashioned from the family toilet. As a grad student in Paris, Elaine found herself with Mother Teresa, handing out ham sandwiches.
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2 WOMEN, 2 MEN
At a surprise 50th birthday/financial intervention for Bob, we learn that assumptions make an ass of you and me.
Lynne Halliday is a performer and playwright. She has appeared at the York Theatre, 54 Below, and sung with ABT. She is a co-author of BY THE NUMBERS and ONE CHRISTMAS EVE AT EVERGREEN MALL. Her short play SOMETHING ABOUT EVE appeared in NJ Rep’s Theatre Brut Festival.
DRAMA
3 WOMEN, 1 MAN
When their daughter was paralyzed after falling off a pony, Margaret and Frank gave birth to a second child in hopes of using her stem cells for an experimental treatment to help her older sister. STEM examines the horrendous cost to a family after a child makes the ultimate sacrifice for her sibling.
Arlene Hutton is the author of LETTERS TO SALA, ACCORDINGTOTHE CHORUS and THE LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC, which received a Drama League Best Play nomination and was a finalist for the Francesca Primus Prize. Regional credits include B Street, Chester Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Florida Studio, Kitchen Theatre, and Washington Stage Guild.
2 WOMEN
Manu, a recently widowed, immigrant woman, awakens her estranged daughter, Claire, in the middle of the night to ask a wildly inappropriate question. But what begins as a confrontation between mother and daughter transcends into an honest and open dialogue about intimacy and identity between two women—one who never had the freedom to explore her own sexuality, and the other who, after many long years of ambiguity, has finally embraced her own.
“Benson does an admirable job ... compelling dialogue and honest storytelling.”
Delen Arts
France-Luce Benson’s plays have been produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre, City Theatre, and Billie Holiday Theatre, among others. Awards and honors include NEA Grant recipient, Dramatists
Guild Fellow, National New Play Network Award for Short Playwriting, Alfred P. Sloan New Play commission and Alfred P. Sloan Screenplay Award.
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Malcolm’s presentation of a new tasting menu leads to a personal— and very public—debate about cultural appropriation and stolen family recipes when his ex, Paul, shows up to call him out.
Eric Reyes Loo is a playwright and TV writer. His work has been seen at Pacific Resident Theatre, Moving Arts, the Lark, George Street, and Rattlestick. He is the Artistic Producing Director of Chalk Repertory Theatre, where he also oversees new play development. Eric wrote for Guidance on Hulu and was an Executive Story Editor on A.J. and the Queen on Netflix.
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Five mothers recount the loss of their Black sons over the course of several centuries.
Vincent Terrell Durham is an award-winning playwright, poet, and author. His plays include MASKING OUR BLACKNESS, BLACK BOYS & PRAIRIE FRINGED ORCHIDS, 61 UNUSED PAGES, and the short play collection VOL. 1—A POST-RACIAL AMERICA. He has developed new work at Utah Shakespeare Festival and received commissions from Playground San Francisco/ Planet Earth Arts and City Lights.
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A support group for things inside of things. A class for women writers. A raucous frat party. An absurd exploration of language and gender.
MJ Kaufman is a playwright and TV writer. Their plays have been seen at the Public Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Colt Coeur, Williamstown Theater Festival, InterAct and others, and developed by the Lark, the Playwrights Realm, Page73 and NYTW among others. Awards: Helen Merrill Emerging Writers Award, ASCAP Cole Porter Prize, and Jane Chambers Prize.
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TRW presents a second collection of ten outstanding short plays—comedies and dramas, personal and political—from a diverse and engaging lineup of authors.
Edited by Craig PospisilFAKE NEWS
by Doug WrightCLEAN SLATE
by Rajiv JosephAS SLIMY AS YOUNG SNAILS
by Arlene HuttonCHRYSALIS
by Craig PospisilDISNEY & FUJIKAWA
by Lloyd SuhLA TRAVIATA
by Lisa D’AmourLOCKED AND LOADED. CAN I HELP YOU?
by David IvesSWASTIKA
by Elaine RomeroTWILIGHT VISIT
by MJ KaufmanTWO MUSES SLUMMING IT
by Yussef El Guindi3 WOMEN, 3 MEN (DOUBLING/ FLEXIBLE CASTING)
Reporting the news today can be dangerous, as anchors Bob Tunley and Fran Mercer discover in the middle of the KLWP News Hour. Their live broadcast is interrupted by bizarre and menacing clips and soon the studio crew fears they’re under attack.
Doug Wright is a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His Broadway credits include HANDS ON A HARD BODY, GREY GARDENS and I AM MY OWN WIFE. Off-Broadway credits include POSTERITY and QUILLS. Films include Quills and the upcoming The Burial starring Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones.
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2 WOMEN, 2 MEN
Special agents Angie Mallinson and Vince Lazar want to assure you that nothing horrible has happened at the KLWP News Hour. There have been rumors about a group of killers in Kabuki masks. You may have heard whispers about a mysterious vigilante group. Ignore them—no matter what you think you saw.
Rajiv Joseph’s play BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and awarded a grant for Outstanding New American Play by the
NEA. He won the Obie Award for Best New American Play for his plays GUARDS AT THE TAJ and DESCRIBE THE NIGHT. Other plays include GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES and ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER.
After years apart, Christy shows up unexpectedly at the home of her older sister Sharon, now married to Christy’s old high school friend Kimberly. A knock at the door forces Christy to reveal that she’s running from an abusive marriage. The dangerous situation causes the formerly estranged sisters to heal their past wounds and address the situation at hand.
Arlene Hutton is the author of LETTERS TO SALA, ACCORDING TO THE CHORUS and LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC, which received a Drama League Best Play nomination and was a finalist for the Francesca Primus Prize. Regional credits include B Street, Chester Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Florida Studio, Kitchen Theatre, and Washington Stage Guild.
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN
The caterpillar in Mark’s school science project is not moving. Whether the creature is alive or dead takes on outsized importance to his mother Kathy, which causes a clash with her husband, Peter.
Craig Pospisil is the author of the plays MONTHS ON END, SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN, and JOURNEY TO THE POLES OF INACCESSIBILITY, among others, and a co-author of ONE CHRISTMAS EVE AT EVERGREEN MALL. His work has been seen at New World Stages, Bay Street, Barrington Stage, Purple Rose, and Stage West, performed on six continents, and translated into eight languages.
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN
A meeting in 1942 between illustrator Gyo Fujikawa and animator Walt Disney, as they navigate power, personal responsibility, and the art of cartoons in a time of war.
Lloyd Suh is the author of the plays THE FAR COUNTRY, THE CHINESE LADY, FRANKLINLAND, and THE HEART SELLERS, among others. His plays have been produced by
Ma-Yi, Magic Theatre, Denver Center, Milwaukee Rep, and others. He has received support from the NEA, Arena Stage, Mellon Foundation, Dramatists Guild, the Helen Merrill Award and the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts.
“Lloyd Suh’s plays about the past speak directly to our present.”
—NY Times
3 WOMEN, 1 MAN
Three sisters gather on the porch of the family home outside New Orleans to celebrate Mother’s Day and to lament the scandalous fate of their wayward nephew. But, running under their breezy gossip, family secrets of operatic proportions yearn to be uncovered.
Lisa D’Amour is a playwright and half of the OBIE Award-winning duo PearlDamour. Her work has been produced by theaters across the country, including Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, Wilma Theater and Woolly Mammoth. Her play DETROIT premiered at Steppenwolf and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Lisa has received the Herb Alpert Award for the Arts, Steinberg Playwright Award and the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award.
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MENWayne is having a busy morning at his gun shop. Then Jesus walks in to ask about buying a gun. Jesus doesn’t know a lot about weapons, but Wayne is happy to assist. In the end Wayne finds that Jesus knows a lot more than he seems to. This play is a taut, funny, rich interchange circling one of the largest questions in America today.
David Ives is perhaps best known for his evening of one-act plays, ALL IN THE TIMING and his drama VENUS IN FUR, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. His plays include NEW JERUSALEM: THE INTERROGATION OF BARUCH DE SPINOZA; THE LIAR (adapted from Corneille); and IS HE DEAD? (adapted from Mark Twain). He has also translated Feydeau’s A FLEA IN HER EAR and Yasmina Reza’s A SPANISH PLAY.
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN
When Miranda’s son is arrested in a graffiti incident at the chapel on campus at a prestigious university, she goes to the jail cell to remind him of who he is.
Elaine Romero finds grist for her plays in an uncharted life. She saw Disneyland with the King of Zululand when he stayed with her family during his honeymoon. She learned Transcendental Meditation from a guru who imparted mantras from an altar fashioned from the family toilet. As a grad student in Paris, Elaine found herself with Mother Teresa, handing out ham sandwiches.
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN
Jonah meets Josephine, when he slips out of a queer dance party
in West Philadelphia to pee in the bushes. As they talk over cigarettes, Josephine is revealed as a ghost from a nearby cemetery that’s just been desecrated. The same cemetery where Jonah’s grandparents rest.
MJ Kaufman is a playwright and TV writer. Their plays have been seen at the Public Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Colt Coeur, Williamstown Theater Festival, InterAct and others, and developed by the Lark, the Playwrights Realm, Page73 and NYTW among others. Awards: Helen Merrill Emerging Writers Award, ASCAP Cole Porter Prize, and Jane Chambers Prize.
3 WOMEN, 1 MAN
A couple of Muses, Comedy (Thalia) and Tragedy (Melpomene), reluctantly make a house call to try and inspire a struggling actor questioning his career choices.
Yussef El Guindi’s recent productions include HOTTER THAN EGYPT at Marin Theatre, ACT in Seattle, and Denver Center for the Performing Arts; and PEOPLE OF THE BOOK at ACT. He won the American Blues Theater’s “Blue Ink Playwriting Award” for REFUGEE RHAPSODY in 2021. Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama recently published The Selected Works of Yussef El Guindi.
COMEDY
2 WOMEN
A math professor turns from Jekyll to Hyde while watching her son compete in a little league playoff game.
James Hindman is an actor and award-winning playwright, whose work includes: POPCORN FALLS, PETE ‘N’ KEELY, and ONE CHRISTMAS EVE AT EVERGREEN MALL. His plays have been seen at Vineyard Theatre, Second Stage, Long Wharf, Goodspeed, Denver Theatre Center, New Jersey Rep and Papermill Playhouse.
Edited by Craig Pospisil
BATTING ZERO
by James Hindman, Ray Roderick, & Cheryl SternTHE CATERERS by
Tony MenesesEVERYBODY GETS A STICK by
Deborah Zoe LauferG.O.A.T.
by Ngozi AnyanwuHER HEAD ON THE PILLOW
by Craig PospisilA LIFE’S WORK by
John CarosellaMEN ON MARS by
Yussef El GuindiTHE RAIN IS FALLING by C.
QuintantaTRISH TINKLER ON HOW TO BE EXCITING
by Jacqueline GoldfingerYOUNGER BATTLES THE POSSIBLE GHOST by
Shannon TyoRay Roderick is a writer, director, and choreographer. He is directing LA BAMBA, A NEW DANCE MUSICAL opening London’s West End. He wrote and directed ‘S WONDERFUL! THE NEW GERSHWIN MUSICAL, and he has co-written many shows, including THE BIKINIS and A CHRISTMAS SURVIVAL GUIDE.
Cheryl Stern is a lyricist and veteran Broadway actress. She wrote lyrics for the Jonathan Larson Award winning musical NOR’MAL, with Yvonne Adrian (book) and Tom Kochan (music). She also wrote and performed the hit solo musical SHOES AND BAGGAGE, with music by Tom Kochan, which ran Off -Broadway.
TRW presents ten compelling short works—heroes and villains, from earthly issues to supernatural ones—by established and emerging playwrights in this third volume of our popular series.
3 WOMEN, 2 MEN, 1 NONSPECIFIED
A group of caterers grab quick cigarettes and make snarky remarks about the engagement party they’re working, which seems to be going off the rails. Garcia is taken with Josephine, who says she’s a last minute replacement … or is she the bride-to-be that’s missing from this very party?
Tony Meneses was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and raised in Albuquerque and Dallas. His plays include THE HOMBRES, twenty50, and THE WOMEN OF PADILLA, among others. His plays have been developed at Berkeley Rep, Denver Center, Old Globe, and Pacific Playwrights Festival. He’s a recipient of the Kennedy Center Latinx Playwriting Award.
DARK COMEDY
2 WOMEN, 1 MAN
The gun control issue goes to kindergarten. Mikey Smith’s mother is very upset because Ms. Jonas took away his stick and gave him detention for hitting the other children with it. Mrs. Smith says she gave her son that stick and no one can take it from him. The principal’s solution? Everybody gets a stick.
DeborahZoeLaufer’s plays have been produced at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Geva Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Portland Stage, and the Humana Festival. Her plays include END DAYS, LEVELING UP and OUT OF STERNO, among others. She is a recipient of the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, the Lilly Award, and grants and commissions from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Edgerton Foundation, National New Play Network, and the NEA.
3 WOMEN
Three women, Jay, Bonita, and Row, have gathered on the roof-
top to burn the sage and drink the sacred Gatorade. To pray to the goddess Nike, and the power of Billie Jean King and Arthur Ashe. To summon victory for their beloved champion: Serena Williams, the Greatest Of All Time.
Ngozi Anyanwu is a playwright, storyteller, and a Steinberg Playwright Award winner. Works include LAST OF THE LOVE LETTERS, GOOD GRIEF and THE HOMECOMING QUEEN. She’s had commissions with Old Globe, Two Rivers Theatre, Atlantic Theatre, and Steppenwolf, and received residencies from LCT3, New Harmony, New York Stage & Film and others.
DARK COMEDY
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN OR 2 WOMEN
Inspired by Tennessee Williams’ poem of the same name, HER HEAD ON THE PILLOW imagines a surprisingly redemptive “morning after” for an unlikely couple following a one-night stand.
Craig Pospisil is the author of the plays MONTHS ON END, SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN, and JOURNEY TO THE POLES OF INACCESSIBILITY, among others, and a co-author of ONE CHRISTMAS EVE AT EVERGREEN MALL.
His work has been seen at New World Stages, Bay Street, Barrington Stage, Purple Rose, and Stage West,
performed on six continents, and translated into eight languages.
DRAMA
1 WOMAN, 2 MEN
The Conroys are being evicted from their home of 36 years of marriage. The house will be razed to make way for a new park, the centerpiece of Pittsburgh’s transformation into a cleaner, more liveable city. While waiting for a taxi to take them to their new apartment, Micky and Eileen struggle with the pain of leaving so many memories behind.
John Carosella’s plays reflect his varied life experiences: seminarian for the priesthood, Benedictine novice, retail worker, high school
English teacher, community theatre actor and director. Along the way he co-founded three theatre companies: Saint Vincent Summer Theatre, Cabaret Theatre, and American Performing Arts Theatre Company.
1 WOMAN, 3 MEN
In the first ever manned mission to Mars, the astronauts encounter a problem they’d hoped to avoid: themselves.
Yussef El Guindi’s recent productions include HOTTER THAN EGYPT at Marin Theatre, ACT in Seattle, and Denver Center for the Performing Arts; and PEOPLE OF THE BOOK at ACT. He won the American Blues Theater’s “Blue Ink Playwriting Award” for REFUGEE RHAPSODY in 2021. Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama recently published The Selected Works of Yussef El Guindi.
2 WOMEN, 1 NOT SPECIFIED
Rain and Eliot hook up at their small New Mexico college. Rain is unsure where her life is going, but Eliot is passionate about journalism and finding “the story.” The news of the sudden closing of their college provides Eliot with her story, but their relationship and futures are thrown into question.
C. Quintana is a queer writer with Cuban and New Orleans roots. CQ tells stories that mine the misconception of dissimilarity & proclaim, “You are not alone.” Her plays and musicals have been developed and produced across the country with Diversionary Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, INTAR, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and more.
Trish goes to an AA meeting to confess her secret. It’s not alcohol.
Yes, she had a couple of shots of Goldschlager Peppermint Schnapps when it happened, but she was just trying to be the life of the party for once.
Jacqueline Goldfinger is a writer, educator, and arts advocate. Their plays have won the Yale Drama Prize, Smith Prize, Generations Award, and Barrymore Award, and received a Special Citation from the McNally Award. Their work has been seen at the Kennedy Center, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Perseverance, Hangar, Seattle Public, and others.
DARK COMEDY
2 WOMEN
There is almost certainly a ghost in Younger’s bedroom. What to do, what to do…
Shannon Tyo is an actor who occasionally writes and directs. New York theater credits include The Public, Atlantic Theater Co, Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theater, and Playwrights Horizons. Select regional: Berkeley Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Barrington Stage, The Old Globe, Pioneer Theatre.
“THE MOLE HILL
STORIES introduces children to theater with its magical world.”
—Wisconsin State Journal
ONE-ACT, COMEDY
5 WOMEN, 5 MEN, A GENDER-NEUTRAL
CHORUSA new take on an old classic, this play tells the forgotten stories hid-
den in the fairy tale we all know so well. Hilarious, imaginative and surprisingly sensitive to social issues, this play is specifically designed to be performed by young performers and may be adapted to a virtual or in-person performance venue.
Rayven Craft makes her professional playwriting debut with the publication of CINDERELLA: The Real Story, and its premiere at the Orlando Repertory Theater. Apart from playwriting, Rayven works as an actor, music producer, and songwriter.
John Maclay is a playwright and lyricist whose works have been produced throughout the US and Canada. He is the co-author of GOOSEBUMPS THE MUSICAL: PHANTOM OF THE AUDITORIUM, ANATOLE, and ARTHUR AND FRIENDS
Austin Nelson Jr. is dedicated to bringing new stories to the world, especially those that highlight the Black experience. CINDERELLA is his first published work.
Emma Swain’ s work has appeared at New Match Collective and Orlando Repertory Theater. She won the John Cauble Short Play Award for WIRE TAPS. Other plays include THE PAPIER-BLUMEN MEADOW and TWO WRENS.
Flynn
Based on the book by Margery Williams
ADAPTATION
4-20 ACTORS (GENDER-NEUTRAL CASTING ALLOWED)
Margery Williams’ classic toy story gets a vibrant retelling in this brandnew adaptation. When the child gets the rabbit for Christmas, she is at first disappointed in her gift. But as the two quest and adventure through her storybooks, both rabbit and child grow to care for each other. They discover that love is the greatest force in the universe and can make impossible things real.
Patrick Flynn is a playwright and filmmaker based in Washington, D.C.
Plays include THE BERBERIZING OF CORAL (winner, Samuel French Off-OffBroadway Short Play Festival), TINKER BELL, and GIANT BOX OF PORN (“Best of Fringe,” D.C. Metro Theatre Arts). He is a veteran of the 48 Hour Film Project and has received multiple awards, including Best Film for his short For Whom the Whistle Blows.
DRAMA/YOUNG ADULT
2 WOMEN, 3 MEN, DOUBLING
Set in a small-town middle American town called Principal, this is the story of teenage best friends Jimmy T. and Kia B. Jimmy wants to take Kia to prom, but it’s complicated. Jimmy is white and Kia is black, and Principal has been holding racially segregated proms for decades. In this contemporary coming of age story, filled with music and magic, rhymes and beats, Jimmy and Kia work to hold fast to their friendship. With a little help from a musical superstar, they both fight to envision a different future for themselves and their town.
Lyrics by Idris Goodwin, Divinity Roxx and Eugene H. Russell IV Music by Divinity Roxx and Eugene H. Russell
IVBIOGRAPHICAL DRAMA
3 WOMEN, 4 MEN
Inspired by the early life and influences of Seattle native and musical icon Jimi Hendrix. The early era of rock ‘n’ roll music sets the stage as a young Black boy conjures his creativity as a budding guitarist. Guided by the spirit of music itself, the boy learns to find harmony inside the challenging noises of his life. Told with vibrant music and daring
imagination, this play inspires us to dream big when it matters most.
Divinity Roxx is a Grammy-nominated recording artist, composer, and musician, who has released solo albums, including Ain’t No Other Way and Impossible. In addition, she is known for touring with Beyoncé Knowles as her bassist and Musical Director. Divinity has appeared on such television shows as the Grammys, SNL, and Good Morning America. Her family music album Ready Set Go! received critical acclaim, and Scholastic Inc. published two songs from the album as full-color picture books. She is currently performing, teaching, and writing multiple projects.
Eugene H. Russell IV is a musician and composer whose single “Brand New Day” can be found on all streaming platforms. He wrote music for the Alliance Theatre’s animated films Sit-In and Curious Cardinal, as well as their stage production of BEAUTIFUL BLACKBIRD. He recently composed music for TURN-UP, a play co-written with his wife for St. Louis Black Rep. As a performer in countless bands, Eugene has opened for the likes of George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Boyz II Men, and KC & The Sunshine Band.
Based on the book by Jason Reynolds
2 WOMEN, 5 MEN
Running is all that Castle Cranshaw, a.k.a. “Ghost,” has ever known, but he runs for all the wrong reasons until he meets Coach, who sees something in him: raw talent. The story follows Castle as he tries to stay on track, literally and figuratively, harnessing his aptitude for speed on an elite local track team while battling the difficult realities of his past and present. As his teammates become friends and Coach stands in as a father figure, Castle finds a place where he belongs.
“Ghost is an important story ... that kids (and adults) in any community need to see—not just for its nonpreachy and relatable lessons on tolerance, empathy, and privilege, but also for a model of possibility of what the rewards of pushing through barriers and comfort zones can bring.”
—Broadway World
ADVENTURE
2-10 ACTORS (GENDERNEUTRAL CASTING ALLOWED)
Inspired by Jack and the Beanstalk and designed and devel oped for children, JACKED! fuses storytelling and poetry with hiphop and break beat music to encourage a dialogue about substance abuse and the overwhelming effects the opioid epidemic is having in our communities.
Idris Goodwin is a multiple award-winning playwright, breakbeat poet, director, educator, and currently serves as Artistic Director of Seattle Children’s Theater. Idris is the author of over 60 plays rang- ing from his hip-hop-inspired breakbeat series to historical dramas to works for young audiences. Works include AND IN THIS CORNER, HOW WE GOT ON, HYPE MAN and FREE PLAY: OPEN SOURCE SCRIPTS FOR AN ANTIRACIST TOMORROW. Goodwin has created original content for and/or appeared on Nickelodeon, Def Poetry, Sesame Street, NPR, and the Discovery Channel.
1 WOMAN, 1 MAN, 1 BOY
Using rap, freedom songs, hip hop dance, history, and humor, this 45 minute dream tells the story of Jabari, a ten year-old Black boy from the South Side of Chicago, who loves to paint, but is afraid to leave the house. He escapes the
violent reality of an encounter with the police through his paintings and with the help of his Forever President Barack Obama, and learns to dream of freedom.
Nambi E. Kelley is a playwright and TV writer/producer. She has adapted Toni Morrison’s JAZZ, which premiered at Baltimore Center Stage, and Richard Wright’s
NATIVE SON, which premiered at Chicago’s Court Theatre. Her production company, First Woman, produced a national tour of JABARI DREAMS OF FREEDOM, premiering at the New Victory Theatre. A digital version was selected for the National Black Theatre Film Festival, Golden Bee International Children’s Film Festival, and ARFF Paris International Awards. TV credits include Bel Air, Lady in the Lake and The Chi.
COMEDY/ADAPTATION
FLEXIBLE CASTING
SHAKESPEARE YOUNG@
PART ®: Some Comedies introduces the audience to six of Shakespeare’s comedies. The shortened comedies that are included are Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, and The Taming of the Shrew.
Carol PuglianoMartin has been writing, directing, and performing in plays since she was putting on productions in her childhood home’s basement. Carol has written numerous plays and stories for Scholastic, Children’s Television Workshop, and many other publishers. She is currently an elementary humanities teacher in Greenwich, CT.
Based on the book by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
COMEDY/ADAPTATION
2 WOMEN, 2 MEN
It’s Carmela’s birthday, and her wish has already come true—she’s finally old enough to join her big brother as he does the family errands. On their way to the laundromat, Carmela finds a lone dandelion growing in the pavement. But before she can blow on it, her brother asks, “Did
you even make a wish?” If only she can think of just the right wish to make. Based on the Newbery Medal and Caldecott Honor-winning book, and winner of AATE’s Distinguished Play Award.
“CARMELA FULL OF WISHES is a charming tale about the importance of imagination.”
—Times Square Chronicles
by Alvaro Saar Rios
adapted from Lois Ehlert’s Mole’s Hill, Moon Rope & Cuckoo
9+ ACTORS, ANY GENDER
Based on the work of award-winning children’s author Lois Ehlert, THE MOLE HILL STORIES
takes you on a journey with Mole as she discovers, with the help of her friends, that there is more to life than one can see at first glance and that our dreams are within reach if we believe.
Alvaro Saar Rios is a playwright and educator living in Chicago. His plays have been performed in New York, Mexico City, Hawaii, Chicago, and all over Texas. He has received commissions from Kennedy Center, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Alley Theatre, Purple Rose Theatre, Talento Bilingüe de Houston, and Zoological Society of Milwaukee. He is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists and Playwright-In-Residence at Milwaukee’s First Stage.
CARMELA FULL OF WISHES
3 WOMEN, 3 MEN
It’s 1950 and Korea is being torn apart by war. Bina’s family is forced to flee their orchard and journey to safety in Busan on foot, carrying anything they want to keep on their backs. Bina wants to help, but she’s only ten, so her father gives her six apples from their orchard to carry. But almost immediately, Bina is separated from her family by a bomb blast, and now she must make the 70-mile trip alone, trying to find her family.
“Suh has taken this family story and turned it into a deeply engaging play. It’s brimming with heart and vivid characters, an adventure packed with enough travails and quandaries to raise the anxieties of audiences of all ages.”—Star Tribune
Lloyd Suh is the author of THE CHINESE LADY, CHARLES FRANCIS CHAN JR.’S EXOTICORIENTALMURDER MYSTERY, and others. His plays have been produced with Ma-Yi, Magic Theatre, EST, NAATCO, Denver Center, Milwaukee Rep, Children’s Theatre Co, and others around the country and internationally. He has received support from the NEA, Arena Stage, Mellon Foundation, Dramatists Guild, and residencies including NYS&F and Ojai. He received the 2016 Helen Merrill Award and the 2019 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts.
Based on Christopher Paul Curtis’s book “The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963”
DRAMA /TYA
2 WOMEN, 1 MAN,
1 GIRL, 2 BOYS
The play focuses on a buoyant, loving Michigan family of five who travels to Alabama during the turbulent summer of 1963, a time of racially motivated upheaval and civil unrest. Ten-year-old Kenny is conflicted about this family vacation to grandma’s because he tends to get anxious about changes to his routine. But he’ll soon learn—after a horrific event that will rock the town as well as the country—that he’s more courageous than he ever thought himself capable.
3 WOMEN, 1 MAN
The fifth-grade talent show is approaching, and everyone at Baldwin Elementary is abuzz. Winston wants to win the show with his cheerleading routine and prove he’s more than the awful nickname everyone calls him: Fishboy. Introverted artist Gina wants nothing to do with the show, and she knows the overzealous (and unpleasant) twins, Randy, and Brandy, will probably win anyway. But with the persistence of Elliott, the school’s new kid and resident rebel, these unlikely friends form “Hoopla,” a dazzling hula hooping trio and help each other navigate the pressures of being a kid.
Cheryl L. West is a playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include
AKEELAH AND THE BEE, FANNIE and SHOUT
SISTER SHOUT. Her work has been seen at theaters around the country, including Arena Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Seattle Children’s Theatre, St. Louis Black Rep, South Coast Rep, and Manhattan Theatre Club. She has written projects for Disney, Paramount, Showtime, HBO, CBS, BET and others. Ms. West is currently preparing a Broadway-bound revival of her play JAR THE FLOOR, and working on commissions for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Minneapolis Children’s Theater, Goodman Theatre and Seattle Rep.
DRAMATIC COMEDY
15-30+ ACTORS (GENDERNEUTRAL CASTING ALLOWED)
An American fable that’s tinged with sadness about a girl’s imaginary journey in a hot air balloon to rescue her mother.
Don Zolidis is one of the most-produced playwrights in American schools. His more than 125 published plays have been performed over 30,000 times, appearing in every state, every Canadian province, and 67 different countries. His first novel, The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig (A Love Story) was published in 2018 by Disney-Hyperion. His second book, War and Speech, was published in 2020 by Little Brown.
#HASHTAG pg 96
4:05 pg 44
ACCORDING TO THE CHORUS pg 36
ACTS OF LIFE, THE pg 96
AMERICA’S SEXIEST COUPLE pg 44
ANOTHER AMERICA pg 70
ASKING STRANGERS THE MEANING OF LIFE pg 26
BABEL pg 30
BATTING ZERO pg 106
BIG SHELL, THE pg 95
BOCA pg 67
BORN WITH TEETH pg 10
BRIGHTEST THING, THE pg 119
BROKEN MACHINE, THE pg 10
BUDDY BRO BUBBA DUDE pg 92
BURDENS, THE pg 73
BY THE NUMBERS pg 94
CATERERS, THE pg 107
CHRISTMAS CAROL FARCE, THE pg 91
CINDERELLA: THE REAL STORY pg 112
CROSSWORD PLAY, THE pg 36
DANIEL’S HUSBAND pg 54
DIDO OF IDAHO pg 70
DING DONGS, THE pg 85
DRACULA pg 32
DUMMY DIALOGUE pg 98
EMMA pg 32
ENDLINGS pg 77
EVERYBODY GETS A STICK pg 107
FAIRYCAKES pg 16
FOUR COLOR PROBLEM, THE pg 95
FOURTEEN pg 90
FRANKLINLAND pg 78
GAME SHOW pg 28
GLASSHEART pg 34
G.O.A.T. pg 107
GRAND HOTEL, THE pg 94
GREAT JHERI CURL DEBATE, THE pg 23
GUILTY PLEASURES pg 44
HEDY LAMARR MAKES A MOVIE pg 94
HEART SELLERS, THE pg 78
HER HEAD ON THE PILLOW pg 108
H*TLER’S TASTERS pg 17
HONEY SUGAR LADY DOLL pg 93
HOOK’S TALE pg 65
HOW TO STEAL A PICASSO pg 26
IBSEN IN CHICAGO pg 31
LA TRAVIATA pg 105
LAST WIDE OPEN, THE pg 21 LAW & ORDER pg 96
LICKETY SPLIT pg 93
LOCKED AND LOADED. CAN I HELP YOU? pg 105
LOT’S WIFE pg 69
MACBITCHES pg 50
MAGICIAN’S DAUGHTER, THE pg 40
MANKIND pg 62
MARY AND JOSEPH AND COMPANY pg 91
MATERIAL GIRLS pg 90
MEN ON MARS pg 108
MORNING AFTER GRACE pg 24
MOTHERS pg 59
MR. PARKER pg 54
MS. HOLMES AND MS. WATSON –APT. 2B pg 33
MUSINGS OF A CRAZY TEXICAN pg 97
OFF PEAK pg 85
ON THE FARCE DAY OF CHRISTMAS pg 45
POINT OF INTERSECTION pg 94
PROMAPOCALYPSE pg 90
PUBLIC SPEAKING 101 pg 72
REVOLTING TEENS OF SHERWOOD, THE pg 51
THE
ROMEO AND JULIET WALK INTO A BAR pg 51
SALONNIÈRES, THE pg 11
SENIOR LIVING pg 38
SENSITIVE GUYS pg 41
SEPARATE ROOMS pg 20
SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS, THE pg 55
SHAKESPEARE
YOUNG@PART® pg 117
SHAKESPEARE’S DEAD DAMES pg 91
SHAKESPEARE’S DEAD DUDES pg 91
SHRINKING THE NUMBERS pg 95
SILVER FOXES pg 87
SINGLES IN AGRICULTURE pg 71
SMALL ENCHANTMENTS pg 40
SMOKE GETS IN YOUR HOUSE pg 44
SMUGGLER, THE pg 61
SYSTEM, THE pg 100
TALK, THE pg 101
TARTUFFE pg 66
TEEN DAD pg 25
THRICE UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR pg 91
TRANSCENDENCE OF PI, THE pg 94
TRISH TINKLER ON HOW TO BE EXCITING pg 109
TWENTY50 pg 57
TWO MUSES SLUMMING IT pg 105
VAMPIRE VALEDICTORIAN pg 90
WELL MET BY MOONLIGHT pg 20
WET pg 11
WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU pg 35
WHAT IS “MURDER?” pg 45
WHICH WAY TO THE STAGE pg 60
WITCH HUNT pg 11
WOODEN HEART, THE pg 80
YES, VIRGINIA pg 87
ZOEY’S PERFECT WEDDING pg 46
8 MINUTES, 20 SECONDS pg 86
12 OPHELIAS pg 80
17 MINUTES pg 64
ACCORDING TO THE CHORUS pg 36
ALLIGATOR MOUTH, TADPOLE ASS pg 38
AMERICA IN ONE ROOM pg 83
AMERICAN PROM pg 114
ANOTHER AMERICA pg 70
ANTEBELLUM pg 62
AS SLIMY AS YOUNG SNAILS pg 103
BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL, THE pg 12
BARBECUE pg 62
BEAUTIFUL DAY IN NOVEMBER... pg 14
HOWARDS END PG 67
BERTA, BERTA pg 21
BINA’S SIX APPLES pg 119
BINDING, THE pg 27
BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA pg 59
BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA pg 23
BLESSINGS FROM THE PANDEMIC pg 64
BLUE RIDGE pg 70
BORN WITH TEETH pg 10
BRIGHTEST THING, THE pg 119
BROKEN MACHINE, THE pg 10
BRUISE & THORN pg 38
CATERERS, THE pg 107
CHERRY ORCHARD, THE pg 75
CHRISTMAS CAROL, A pg 54
CHRYSALIS pg 104
CLEAN SLATE pg 102
CLICK pg 30
COAST STARLIGHT, THE pg 18
COLLEGE COLORS pg 44
CROSSWORD PLAY, THE pg 36
CYRANO DE BERGERAC pg 31
DANIEL’S HUSBAND pg 54
DARK SKY FULL OF STARS, A pg 87
DIDO OF IDAHO pg 70
DISTANCE LEARNING pg 24
DISNEY & FUJIKAWA pg 104
EIGHT TALES OF PEDRO pg 29
EL BORRACHO pg 56
ELEANOR pg 72
ELOQUENT FUGITIVE SLAVE
FLEES TO IRELAND, AN pg 68
ENDLINGS pg 77
FAKE NEWS pg 102
FAR COUNTRY, THE pg 78
FOREST, THE pg 69
FOUR CHILDREN pg 27
FOXES pg 28
GLASSHEART pg 34
GLENBURN 12 WP pg 98
G.O.A.T. pg 107
GOOD HAIR pg 76
GRACE’S LAND 2.0 pg 90
GREAT JHERI CURL DEBATE, THE pg 23
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM
ABERNATHY pg 99
HEART SELLERS, THE pg 78
HIT DOG WILL HOLLER, A pg 23
H*TLER’S TASTERS pg 17
HOLD ON pg 82
HOMBRES, THE pg 56
HOOK’S TALE pg 65
HOWARDS END pg 67
IN THE UPPER ROOM pg 14
INCOMPLETENESS THEOREM, THE pg 95
INTERCEPTIONS pg 82
JANE EYRE pg 84
JULIO AIN’T GOIN’ DOWN LIKE THAT pg 39
LA TRAVIATA pg 105
LES DEUX NOIRS pg 68
LIFE’S WORK, A pg 108
LOCKDOWN pg 81
LOT’S WIFE pg 69
MACBITCHES pg 50
MAGICIAN’S DAUGHTER, THE pg 40
MAN OF GOD pg 59
MEASURE OF CRUELTY, A pg 20
MOTHERS pg 59
MR. PARKER pg 54
MRS. HARRISON pg 81
NOMAD MOTEL pg 22
OFF PEAK pg 85
PLANTATION BLACK pg 76
[PORTO] pg 14
QUARTER RICAN pg 35
RED BIKE pg 80
REVERBERATION pg 46
RIGHT BEFORE I GO. pg 86
SAGITTARIUS PONDEROSA pg 41
SANCTUARY CITY pg 52
SCAB pg 25
SEAGULL, THE pg 75
SELLING KABUL pg 43
SENSITIVE GUYS pg 41
SENTIMENT, A pg 100
SEPARATE ROOMS pg 20
SHOT pg 90
SIN EATERS pg 59
SINGLES IN AGRICULTURE pg 71
SMUGGLER, THE pg 61
SOMEWHERE pg 46
STEM pg 100
SWASTIKA pg 105
TALES FROM RED VIENNA pg 31
TASTING pg 101
TELL ME SOMETHING
GOOD pg 21
THIRST pg 61
THREE SISTERS pg 75
THREE SISTERS BRONTË pg 36
TILL TRILOGY, THE pg 12 BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL, THE THAT SUMMER IN SUMNER BENEVOLENCE
TWELVE pg 101
TWENTY50 pg 57
TWILIGHT VISIT pg 105
TWO DEGREES pg 64
EMMA PG 32
TWO KIDS THAT BLOW SHIT UP, THE pg 22
UNCLE VANYA pg 75
UNFORTUNATES, THE pg 78
VAGRANT TRILOGY, THE pg 53
HOUR OF FEELING
URGE FOR GOING
VAGRANT, THE
WALRUS IN THE BODY OF A CROCODILE, A pg 101
WARSAW pg 82
WASHINGTON SQUARE pg 76
WET pg 11
WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU pg 35
WHICH WAY TO THE STAGE pg 60
WITCH HUNT pg 11
WOODEN HEART, THE pg 80
YES, VIRGINIA pg 87
YOUNGER BATTLES THE POSSIBLE GHOST pg 109
ZOMBIE: THE AMERICAN pg 62
ANOTHER AMERICA pg 70
BORN WITH TEETH pg 10
CHERRY ORCHARD, THE pg 75
CHRISTMAS CAROL, A pg 54
CHRISTMAS CAROL FARCE, THE pg 91
CINDERELLA: THE REAL STORY pg 112
CYRANO DE BERGERAC pg 31
DRACULA pg 32
ELEANOR pg 72
EMMA pg 32
FAIRYCAKES pg 16
FOUR CHILDREN pg 27
FRANKENSTEIN pg 82
GHOST pg 115
H*TLER’S TASTERS pg 17
HOOK’S TALE pg 65
HOWARDS END pg 67
IBSEN IN CHICAGO pg 31
JACKED! pg 115
JANE EYRE pg 84
MOLE HILL STORIES, THE pg 117
MS. HOLMES AND MS. WATSONAPT. 2B pg 33
ROMEO AND JULIET WALK INTO A BAR pg 51
SALONNIERES, THE pg 11
SEAGULL, THE pg 75
SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS, THE pg 55
SHAKESPEARE
YOUNG@PART® pg 117
SHAKESPEARE’S DEAD DAMES pg 91
SHAKESPEARE’S DEAD DUDES pg 91
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE ELUSIVE EAR pg 48
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE FALLEN SOUFFLÉ pg 48
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE GHOST MACHINE pg 49
TALES FROM RED VIENNA pg 31
TARTUFFE pg 66
THREE SISTERS pg 75
THREE SISTERS BRONTË pg 36
THIRST pg 61
UNCLE VANYA pg 75
VELVETEEN RABBIT, THE pg 113
WASHINGTON SQUARE pg 76
WELL MET BY MOONLIGHT pg 20
WITCH HUNT pg 11
12 OPHELIAS pg 80
AMERICAN PROM pg 114
ANTEBELLUM pg 62
BARBECUE pg 62
BERTA, BERTA pg 21
BINA’S SIX APPLES pg 119
BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA pg 59
BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA pg 23
BOY WHO KISSED THE SKY, THE pg 114
BRUISE & THORN pg 38
CARMELA FULL OF WISHES pg 117
COLLEGE COLORS pg 44
DARK SKY FULL OF STARS, A pg 87
DING DONGS, THE pg 85
DISNEY & FUJIKAWA pg 104
EIGHT TALES OF PEDRO pg 29
EL BORRACHO pg 56
ELOQUENT FUGITIVE SLAVE
FLEES TO IRELAND, AN pg 68
ENDLINGS pg 77
FAR COUNTRY, THE pg 78
FOREST, THE pg 69
FOXES pg 28
FRANKLINLAND pg 78
GHOST pg 115
GLENBURN 12 WP pg 98
G.O.A.T. pg 107
GOOD HAIR pg 76
GREAT JHERI CURL DEBATE, THE pg 23
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM
ABERNATHY pg 99
HEART SELLERS, THE pg 78
HIT DOG WILL HOLLER, A pg 23
HOLD ON pg 82
HOMBRES, THE pg 56
HOOPLA! pg 119
IN THE UPPER ROOM pg 14
JABARI DREAMS OF FREEDOM pg 116
JACKED! pg 115
JULIO AIN’T GOIN’ DOWN LIKE THAT pg 39
LES DEUX NOIRS pg 68
LOCKDOWN pg 81
MAN OF GOD pg 59
MANKIND pg 62
MOTHERS pg 59
MRS. HARRISON pg 81
MUSINGS OF A CRAZY
TEXICAN pg 97
NOMAD MOTEL pg 22
PLANTATION BLACK pg 76
QUARTER RICAN pg 35
RAIN IS FALLING, THE pg 108
RED BIKE pg 80
REVERBERATION pg 46
SANCTUARY CITY pg 52
SELLING KABUL pg 43
SHOT pg 90
SIN EATERS pg 59
SOMEWHERE pg 46
SWASTIKA pg 105
TALK, THE pg 101
TASTING pg 101
TEEN DAD pg 25
TILL TRILOGY, THE pg 12
BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL, THE THAT SUMMER IN SUMNER
BENEVOLENCE
TWELVE pg 101
TWENTY50 pg 57
TWO KIDS THAT BLOW SHIT UP, THE pg 22
VAGRANT TRILOGY, THE pg 53
HOUR OF FEELING
URGE FOR GOING
VAGRANT, THE
WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM, THE pg 119
WHICH WAY TO THE STAGE pg 60
YOUNGER BATTLES THE POSSIBLE GHOST pg 109
ZOMBIE: THE AMERICAN pg 62
ALLIGATOR MOUTH, TADPOLE ASS pg 38
ANTEBELLUM pg 62
BABEL pg 30
BINDING, THE pg 27
BORN WITH TEETH pg 10 CLICK pg 30
DANIEL’S HUSBAND pg 54
FAIRYCAKES pg 16
FOXES pg 28
HOMBRES, THE pg 56
JULIO AIN’T GOIN’ DOWN LIKE THAT pg 39
LES DEUX NOIRS pg 68
LOT’S WIFE pg 69
MANKIND pg 62
MR. PARKER pg 54
MS. HOLMES & MS. WATSON –APT. 2B pg 33
RAIN IS FALLING, THE pg 108 REVERBERATION pg 46 RIGHT BEFORE I GO. pg 86
SAGITTARIUS PONDEROSA pg 41
SANCTUARY CITY pg 52
SENSITIVE GUYS pg 41
SEPARATE ROOMS pg 20
SILVER FOXES pg 87
TALK, THE pg 101
TASTING pg 101
TWILIGHT VISIT pg 105
WALRUS IN THE BODY OF A CROCODILE, A pg 101
WELL MET BY MOONLIGHT pg 20 WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU pg 35
WHICH WAY TO THE STAGE pg 60
ZOEY’S PERFECT WEDDING pg 46
BIG SHELL, THE pg 95
BROKEN MACHINE, THE pg 10
CYRANO DE BERGERAC pg 31
DRACULA pg 32
EIGHT TALES OF PEDRO pg 29
FRANKENSTEIN pg 82
HOOK’S TALE pg 65
MAGICIAN’S DAUGHTER, THE pg 40
MS. HOLMES AND MS. WATSON – APT. 2B pg 33
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE ELUSIVE EAR pg 48
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE FALLEN SOUFFLÉ PG 48
SHAKESPEARE’S DEAD
DAMES pg 91
SHAKESPEARE’S DEAD
DUDES pg 91
SHOT pg 90
SHRINKING THE NUMBERS pg 95
STEM pg 100
SWASTIKA pg 105
SYSTEM, THE pg 100
TALK, THE pg 101
TASTING pg 101
THRICE UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR pg 91
TRANSCENDENCE OF PI, THE pg 94
TRISH TINKLER ON HOW TO BE EXCITING pg 109
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE FALLEN SOUFFLÉ pg 48
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE GHOST MACHINE pg 49
SILVER FOXES pg 87
UNFORTUNATES, THE pg 78
WELL MET BY MOONLIGHT pg 20
WET pg 11
WHAT IS “MURDER?” pg 45
YOUNGER BATTLES THE POSSIBLE GHOST pg 109
#HASHTAG pg 96
ACTS OF LIFE pg 96
AS SLIMY AS YOUNG
SNAILS pg 103
BATTING ZERO pg 106
BIG SHELL, THE pg 95
BUDDY BRO BUBBA DUDE pg 92
BY THE NUMBERS pg 94
CATERERS, THE pg 107
CHRISTMAS CAROL FARCE, THE pg 91
CHRYSALIS pg 104
CINDERELLA: THE REAL STORY pg 112
CLEAN SLATE pg 102
DISNEY & FUJIKAWA pg 104
DUMMY DIALOGUE pg 98
EVERYBODY GETS A STICK pg 107
FAKE NEWS pg 102
FOUR COLOR PROBLEM, THE pg 95
FOURTEEN pg 90
GLENBURN 12 WP pg 98
G.O.A.T. pg 107
GRACE’S LAND 2.0 pg 90
GRAND HOTEL, THE pg 94
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM ABERNATHY pg 99
HEDY LAMARR MAKES A MOVIE pg 94
HER HEAD ON THE PILLOW pg 108
HONEY SUGAR LADY DOLL pg 93
INCOMPLETENESS THEOREM, THE pg 95
LA TRAVIATA pg 105
LAW & ORDER pg 96
LICKETY SPLIT pg 93
LIFE’S WORK, A pg 108 LOCKED AND LOADED. CAN I HELP YOU? pg 105
MARY AND JOSEPH AND COMPANY pg 91
MATERIAL GIRLS pg 90
MEN ON MARS pg 108
MORNING AFTER GRACE pg 24
MUSINGS OF A CRAZY
TEXICAN pg 97
POINT OF INTERSECTION pg 94
PROMAPOCALYPSE pg 90
RAIN IS FALLING, THE pg 108
SENTIMENT, A pg 100
TRW PRESENTS: SHORT PLAYS, VOL. 1 pg 98
TRW PRESENTS: SHORT PLAYS, VOL. 2 pg 102
TRW PRESENTS: SHORT PLAYS, VOL. 3 pg 106
TWELVE pg 101
TWILIGHT VISIT pg 105
TWO MUSES SLUMMING IT pg 105
VAMPIRE VALEDICTORIAN pg 90
WALRUS IN THE BODY OF A CROCODILE, A pg 101
YOUNGER BATTLES THE POSSIBLE GHOST pg 109
AMERICAN PROM pg 114
BINA’S SIX APPLES pg 119
BOY WHO KISSED THE SKY, THE pg 114
CARMELA FULL OF WISHES pg 117
CINDERELLA: THE REAL STORY pg 112
GHOST pg 115
HOOPLA! pg 119
JABARI DREAMS OF FREEDOM pg 116
JACKED! pg 115
MOLE HILL STORIES, THE pg 117
SHAKESPEARE
YOUNG@PART® pg 117
VELVETEEN RABBIT, THE pg 113
WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM, THE pg 119
#HASHTAG pg 96
12 OPHELIAS pg 80
ACCORDING TO THE CHORUS pg 36
ACTS OF LIFE, THE pg 96
AMERICAN PROM pg 114
BATTING ZERO pg 106
BIG SHELL, THE pg 95
BINA’S SIX APPLES pg 119
BLESSINGS FROM THE PANDEMIC pg 64
BRIGHTEST THING, THE pg 119
BY THE NUMBERS pg 94
CHERRY ORCHARD, THE pg 75
CHRISTMAS CAROL, A pg 54
CHRISTMAS CAROL FARCE, THE pg 91
CHRYSALIS pg 104
CINDERELLA: THE REAL STORY pg 112
CYRANO DE BERGERAC pg 31
DISTANCE LEARNING pg 24
DRACULA pg 32
DUMMY DIALOGUE pg 98
ELOQUENT FUGITIVE SLAVE
FLEES TO IRELAND, AN pg 68
EMMA pg 32
EVERYBODY GETS A STICK pg 107
FAIRYCAKES pg 16
FOUR CHILDREN pg 27
FOUR COLOR PROBLEM, THE pg 95
FOURTEEN pg 90
FRANKLINLAND pg 78
GHOST pg 115
G.O.A.T. pg 107
GOOD HAIR pg 76
GRACE’S LAND 2.0 pg 90
GRAND HOTEL, THE pg 94
GREAT JHERI CURL DEBATE, THE pg 23
HEDY LAMARR MAKES A MOVIE pg 94
H*TLER’S TASTERS pg 17
HOWARDS END pg 67
IBSEN IN CHICAGO pg 31
INCOMPLETENESS THEOREM, THE pg 95
JACKED! pg 115
JANE EYRE pg 84
LAW & ORDER pg 96
MAGICIAN’S DAUGHTER, THE pg 40
MARY AND JOSEPH AND COMPANY pg 91
MATERIAL GIRLS pg 90
MS. HOLMES & MS. WATSON –APT. 2B pg 33
PLANTATION BLACK pg 76
POINT OF INTERSECTION pg 94
PROMAPOCALYPSE pg 90
REVOLTING TEENS OF SHERWOOD, THE pg 51
RIGHT BEFORE I GO. (SCHOOL EDITION) pg 86
ROMEO AND JULIET WALK INTO A BAR pg 51
SEAGULL, THE pg 75
SENTIMENT, A pg 100
SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS, THE pg 55
SHAKESPEARE
YOUNG@PART® pg 117
SHAKESPEARE’S DEAD DAMES pg 91
SHAKESPEARE’S DEAD DUDES pg 91
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE ELUSIVE EAR pg 48
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE FALLEN SOUFFLÉ pg 48
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE GHOST
MACHINE pg 49
SHRINKING THE NUMBERS pg 95
SMALL ENCHANTMENTS pg 40
STEM pg 100
SWASTIKA pg 105
SYSTEM, THE pg 100
TARTUFFE pg 66
THREE SISTERS pg 75
THREE SISTERS BRONTË pg 36
THRICE UPON A MIDNIGHT
CLEAR pg 91
TILL TRILOGY, THE pg 12
BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL, THE
THAT SUMMER IN SUMNER
BENEVOLENCE
TRANSCENDENCE OF PI, THE pg 94
TWELVE pg 101
TWO MUSES SLUMMING IT pg 105
UNCLE VANYA pg 75
UNFORTUNATES, THE pg 78
VAMPIRE VALEDICTORIAN pg 90
VELVETEEN RABBIT, THE pg 113
WASHINGTON SQUARE pg 76
WELL MET BY MOONLIGHT pg 20
WOODEN HEART, THE pg 80
12 OPHELIAS pg 80
17 MINUTES pg 64
ACCORDING TO THE CHORUS pg 36
ACTS OF LIFE, THE pg 96
ALLIGATOR MOUTH, TADPOLE ASS pg 38
AMERICA IN ONE ROOM pg 83
AMERICAN PROM pg 114
ANOTHER AMERICA pg 70
ANTEBELLUM pg 62
AS SLIMY AS YOUNG SNAILS pg 103
BABEL pg 30
BARBECUE pg 62
BEAUTIFUL DAY IN NOVEMBER... pg 14
BERTA, BERTA pg 21
BINA’S SIX APPLES pg 119
BINDING, THE pg 27
BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA pg 23
BLESSINGS FROM THE PANDEMIC pg 64
BLUE RIDGE pg 70
BOY WHO KISSED THE SKY, THE pg 114
BROKEN MACHINE, THE pg 10
BRUISE & THORN pg 38
BURDENS, THE pg 73
BY THE NUMBERS pg 94
CATERERS, THE pg 107
CHERRY ORCHARD, THE pg 75
CHRYSALIS pg 104
CINDERELLA: THE REAL STORY pg 112
CLEAN SLATE pg 102
CLICK pg 30
COAST STARLIGHT, THE pg 18
COLLEGE COLORS pg 44
CYRANO DE BERGERAC pg 31
DARK SKY FULL OF STARS, A pg 87
DIDO OF IDAHO pg 70
DING DONGS, THE pg 85
DISTANCE LEARNING pg 24
DISNEY & FUJIKAWA pg 104
DRACULA pg 32
DUMMY DIALOGUE pg 98
EIGHT TALES OF PEDRO pg 29
EL BORRACHO pg 56
ELEANOR pg 72
ELOQUENT FUGITIVE SLAVE
FLEES TO IRELAND, AN pg 68
EMMA pg 32
ENDLINGS pg 77
EVERYBODY GETS A STICK pg 107
FAIRYCAKES pg 16
FAKE NEWS pg 102
FAR COUNTRY, THE pg 78
FOREST, THE pg 69
FOUR CHILDREN pg 27
FOUR COLOR PROBLEM, THE pg 95
FOURTEEN pg 90
FOXES pg 28
FRANKENSTEIN pg 82
FRANKLINLAND pg 78
GHOST pg 115
GLASSHEART pg 34
GLENBURN 12 WP pg 98
G.O.A.T. pg 107
GOOD HAIR pg 76
GRACE’S LAND 2.0 pg 90
GRAND HOTEL, THE pg 94
GREAT JHERI CURL DEBATE, THE pg 23
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM
ABERNATHY pg 99
HEART SELLERS, THE pg 78
HEDY LAMARR MAKES A MOVIE pg 94
HER HEAD ON THE PILLOW pg 108
HIT DOG WILL HOLLER, A pg 23
H*TLER’S TASTERS pg 17
HOLD ON pg 82
HOMBRES, THE pg 56
HOOK’S TALE pg 65
HOWARDS END pg 67
IBSEN IN CHICAGO pg 31
IN THE UPPER ROOM pg 14
INCOMPLETENESS THEOREM, THE pg 95
INTERCEPTIONS pg 82
JABARI DREAMS OF FREEDOM pg 116
JANE EYRE pg 84
JULIO AIN’T GOIN’ DOWN LIKE THAT pg 39
LA TRAVIATA pg 105
LAST WIDE OPEN, THE pg 21
LES DEUX NOIRS pg 68
LOCKDOWN pg 81
LOCKED AND LOADED. CAN I HELP YOU? pg 105
MACBITCHES pg 50
MAGICIAN’S DAUGHTER, THE pg 40
MAN OF GOD pg 59
MANKIND pg 62
MATERIAL GIRLS pg 90
MEASURE OF CRUELTY, A pg 20
MEN ON MARS pg 108
MORNING AFTER GRACE pg 24
MOTHERS pg 59
MS. HOLMES & MS. WATSON –APT. 2B pg 33
MUSINGS OF A CRAZY TEXICAN pg 97
NOMAD MOTEL pg 22
PLANTATION BLACK pg 76
[PORTO] pg 14
QUARTER RICAN pg 35
RED BIKE pg 80
REVERBERATION pg 46
RIGHT BEFORE I GO. pg 86
ROMEO AND JULIET WALK INTO A BAR pg 51
SAGITTARIUS PONDEROSA pg 41
SALONNIÈRES, THE pg 11
SANCTUARY CITY pg 52
SCAB pg 25
SEAGULL, THE pg 75
SELLING KABUL pg 43
SENSITIVE GUYS pg 41
SENTIMENT, A pg 100
SEPARATE ROOMS pg 20
SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS, THE pg 55
SHAKESPEARE’S DEAD DAMES pg 91
SHAKESPEARE’S DEAD DUDES pg 91
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE ELUSIVE EAR pg 48
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE FALLEN SOUFFLÉ pg 48
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE GHOST MACHINE pg 49
SHOT pg 90
SHRINKING THE NUMBERS pg 95
SIN EATERS pg 59
SINGLES IN AGRICULTURE pg 71
SMALL ENCHANTMENTS pg 40
SMUGGLER, THE pg 61
SOMEWHERE pg 46
STEM pg 100
SWASTIKA pg 105
SYSTEM, THE pg 100
TALES FROM RED VIENNA pg 31
TALK, THE pg 101
TARTUFFE pg 66
TASTING pg 101
TEEN DAD pg 25
TELL ME SOMETHING
GOOD pg 21
THIRST pg 61
THREE SISTERS pg 75
THREE SISTERS BRONTË pg 36
TILL TRILOGY, THE pg 12
BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL, THE THAT SUMMER IN SUMNER
BENEVOLENCE
TRANSCENDENCE OF PI,
THE pg 94
TRISH TINKLER ON HOW TO BE EXCITING pg 109
TWELVE pg 101
TWENTY50 pg 57
TWILIGHT VISIT pg 105
TWO DEGREES pg 64
TWO KIDS THAT BLOW SHIT UP, THE pg 22
TWO MUSES SLUMMING IT pg 105
UNCLE VANYA pg 75
THE UNFORTUNATES pg 78
VAGRANT TRILOGY, THE pg 53
HOUR OF FEELING
URGE FOR GOING
VAGRANT, THE
WALRUS IN THE BODY OF A
CROCODILE, A pg 101
WARSAW pg 82
WASHINGTON SQUARE pg 76
WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM, THE pg 119
WELL MET BY MOONLIGHT pg 20
WET pg 11
WHICH WAY TO THE STAGE pg 60
WITCH HUNT pg 11
WOODEN HEART pg 80
YOUNGER BATTLES THE POSSIBLE GHOST pg 109
ZOEY’S PERFECT WEDDING pg 46
ZOMBIE: THE AMERICAN pg 62
4:05 pg 44
8 MINUTES, 20 SECONDS pg 86
12 OPHELIAS pg 80
17 MINUTES pg 64
ACCORDING TO THE CHORUS pg 36
AMERICA IN ONE ROOM pg 83
AMERICA’S SEXIEST COUPLE pg 44
ANOTHER AMERICA pg 70
AS SLIMY AS YOUNG
SNAILS pg 103
ASKING STRANGERS THE MEANING OF LIFE pg 26
BABEL pg 30
BARBECUE pg 62
BATTING ZERO pg 106
BIG SHELL, THE pg 95
BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA pg 59
BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA pg 23
BLESSINGS FROM THE PANDEMIC pg 64
BLUE RIDGE pg 70
BOCA pg 67
BRIGHTEST THING, THE pg 119
BUDDY BRO BUBBA DUDE pg 92
BURDENS, THE pg 73
BY THE NUMBERS pg 94
CARMELA FULL OF WISHES pg 117
CATERERS, THE pg 107
CHERRY ORCHARD, THE pg 75
CHRISTMAS CAROL, A pg 54
CHRISTMAS CAROL FARCE, THE pg 91
CHRYSALIS pg 104
COAST STARLIGHT, THE pg 18
CROSSWORD PLAY, THE pg 36
CYRANO DE BERGERAC pg 31
DANIEL’S HUSBAND pg 54
DIDO OF IDAHO pg 70
DING DONGS, THE pg 85
DRACULA pg 32
DUMMY DIALOGUE pg 98
EIGHT TALES OF PEDRO pg 29
ELEANOR pg 72
EMMA pg 32
ENDLINGS pg 77
EVERYBODY GETS A STICK pg 107
FAIRYCAKES pg 16
FOREST, THE pg 69
FOUR COLOR PROBLEM, THE pg 95
FRANKENSTEIN pg 82
GAME SHOW pg 28
G.O.A.T. pg 107
GRAND HOTEL, THE pg 94
GUILTY PLEASURES pg 44
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM
ABERNATHY pg 99
HEDY LAMARR MAKES A
MOVIE pg 94
HER HEAD ON THE PILLOW pg 108
HIT DOG WILL HOLLER, A pg 23
H*TLER’S TASTERS pg 17
HOMBRES, THE pg 56
HONEY SUGAR LADY DOLL pg 93
HOOK’S TALE pg 65
HOOPLA! pg 119
HOW TO STEAL A PICASSO pg 26
HOWARDS END pg 67
IBSEN IN CHICAGO pg 31
IN THE UPPER ROOM pg 14
JACKED! pg 115
LA TRAVIATA pg 105
LAST WIDE OPEN, THE pg 21
LES DEUX NOIRS pg 68
LICKETY SPLIT pg 93
LIFE’S WORK, A pg 108
LOCKED AND LOADED. CAN I HELP YOU? pg 105
LOT’S WIFE pg 69
MAN OF GOD pg 59
MANKIND pg 62
MARY AND JOSEPH AND COMPANY pg 91
MOLE HILL STORIES, THE pg 117
MORNING AFTER GRACE pg 24
MR. PARKER pg 54
MRS. HARRISON pg 81
MS. HOLMES & MS. WATSON –APT. 2B pg 33
MUSINGS OF A CRAZY
TEXICAN pg 97
NOMAD MOTEL pg 22
OFF PEAK pg 85
ON THE FARCE DAY OF CHRISTMAS pg 45
PUBLIC SPEAKING 101 pg 72
RED BIKE pg 80
RIGHT BEFORE I GO. pg 86
ROMEO AND JULIET WALK INTO A BAR pg 51
SALONNIÈRES, THE pg 11
SANCTUARY CITY pg 52
SCAB pg 25
SEAGULL, THE pg 75
SELLING KABUL pg 43
SENIOR LIVING pg 38
SENTIMENT, A pg 100
SEPARATE ROOMS pg 20
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE ELUSIVE EAR pg 48
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE FALLEN SOUFFLÉ pg 48
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE GHOST
MACHINE pg 49
SILVER FOXES pg 87
SINGLES IN AGRICULTURE pg 71
SMOKE GETS IN YOUR HOUSE pg 44
STEM pg 100
SYSTEM, THE pg 100
TALK, THE pg 101
TARTUFFE pg 66
TASTING pg 101
THIRST pg 61
THREE SISTERS pg 75
THREE SISTERS BRONTË pg 36
THRICE UPON A MIDNIGHT
CLEAR pg 91
TILL TRILOGY, THE pg 12
BALLAD OF EMMET TILL, THE THAT SUMMER IN SUMNER
BENEVOLENCE
TWELVE pg 101
TWENTY50 pg 57
TWILIGHT VISIT pg 105
TWO DEGREES pg 64
UNCLE VANYA pg 75
UNFORTUNATES, THE pg 78
VAGRANT TRILOGY, THE pg 53
HOUR OF FEELING
URGE FOR GOING
VAGRANT, THE VELVETEEN RABBIT, THE pg 113
WELL MET BY MOONLIGHT pg 20
WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU pg 35
WHAT IS “MURDER?” pg 45
WHICH WAY TO THE STAGE pg 60
WITCH HUNT pg 11
YES, VIRGINIA pg 87
YOUNGER BATTLES THE POSSIBLE GHOST pg 109
ZOEY’S PERFECT WEDDING pg 46
8 MINUTES, 20 SECONDS pg 86
12 OPHELIAS pg 80
17 MINUTES pg 64
ACCORDING TO THE CHORUS pg 36
ALLIGATOR MOUTH, TADPOLE ASS pg 38
AMERICA IN ONE ROOM pg 83
AMERICAN PROM pg 114
AMERICA’S SEXIEST COUPLE pg 44
ANOTHER AMERICA pg 70
ANTEBELLUM pg 62
ASKING STRANGERS THE MEANING OF LIFE pg 26
BABEL pg 30
BARBECUE pg 62
BEAUTIFUL DAY IN NOVEMBER... pg 14
BERTA, BERTA pg 21
BINA’S SIX APPLES pg 119
BINDING, THE pg 27
BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA pg 59
BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA pg 23
BLUE RIDGE pg 70
BOCA pg 67
BORN WITH TEETH pg 10
BOY WHO KISSED THE SKY, THE pg 114
BRIGHTEST THING, THE pg 119
BROKEN MACHINE, THE pg 10
BRUISE & THORN pg 38
BUDDY BRO BUBBA DUDE pg 92
BURDENS, THE pg 73
CARMELA FULL OF WISHES pg 117
CATERERS, THE pg 107
CHERRY ORCHARD, THE pg 75
CHRISTMAS CAROL, A pg 54
CHRYSALIS pg 104
CLEAN SLATE pg 102
CLICK pg 30
COAST STARLIGHT, THE pg 18
COLLEGE COLORS pg 44
CROSSWORD PLAY, THE pg 36
CYRANO DE BERGERAC pg 31
DANIEL’S HUSBAND pg 54
DARK SKY FULL OF STARS, A pg 87
DIDO OF IDAHO pg 70
DING DONGS, THE pg 85
DISNEY & FUJIKAWA pg 104
DRACULA pg 32
DUMMY DIALOGUE pg 98
EIGHT TALES OF PEDRO pg 29
EL BORRACHO pg 56
ELEANOR pg 72
ELOQUENT FUGITIVE SLAVE
FLEES TO IRELAND, AN pg 68
EMMA pg 32
ENDLINGS pg 77
EVERYBODY GETS A STICK pg 107
FAIRYCAKES pg 16
FAKE NEWS pg 102
FAR COUNTRY, THE pg 78
FOREST, THE pg 69
FOUR CHILDREN pg 27
FOXES pg 28
FRANKENSTEIN pg 82
FRANKLINLAND pg 78
GAME SHOW pg 28
GHOST pg 115
GLASSHEART pg 34
GLENBURN 12 WP pg 98
G.O.A.T. pg 107
GOOD HAIR pg 76
GREAT JHERI CURL DEBATE, THE pg 23
GUILTY PLEASURES pg 44
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIAM ABERNATHY pg 99
HEART SELLERS pg 78
HER HEAD ON THE PILLOW pg 108
HIT DOG WILL HOLLER, A pg 23
H*TLER’S TASTERS pg 17
HOLD ON pg 82
HOMBRES, THE pg 56
HONEY SUGAR LADY DOLL pg 93
HOOK’S TALE pg 65
HOOPLA! pg 119
HOW TO STEAL A PICASSO pg 26
HOWARDS END pg 67
IBSEN IN CHICAGO pg 31
IN THE UPPER ROOM pg 14
INTERCEPTIONS pg 82
STEM pg 100
SWASTIKA pg 105
TALES FROM RED VIENNA pg 31
TALK, THE pg 101
TARTUFFE pg 66
TASTING pg 101
TEEN DAD pg 25
TELL ME SOMETHING
GOOD pg 21
THIRST pg 61
THREE SISTERS pg 75
THREE SISTERS BRONTË pg 36
TILL TRILOGY, THE pg 12
BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL, THE THAT SUMMER IN SUMNER
JABARI DREAMS OF FREEDOM pg 116
JACKED! pg 115
JANE EYRE pg 84
JULIO AIN’T GOIN’ DOWN LIKE THAT pg 39
LA TRAVIATA pg 105
LAST WIDE OPEN, THE pg 21
LES DEUX NOIRS pg 68
LICKETY SPLIT pg 93
LIFE’S WORK, A pg 108
LOCKDOWN pg 81
LOCKED AND LOADED. CAN I HELP YOU? pg 105
LOT’S WIFE pg 69
MACBITCHES pg 50
MAGICIAN’S DAUGHTER, THE pg 40
MAN OF GOD pg 59
MANKIND pg 62
MEASURE OF CRUELTY, A pg 20
MEN ON MARS pg 108
MOLE HILL STORIES, THE pg 117
MORNING AFTER GRACE pg 24
MOTHERS pg 59
MR. PARKER pg 54
MRS. HARRISON pg 81
MS. HOLMES & MS. WATSON –APT. 2B pg 33
MUSINGS OF A CRAZY TEXICAN pg 97
NOMAD MOTEL pg 22
OFF PEAK pg 85
ON THE FARCE DAY OF CHRISTMAS pg 45
PLANTATION BLACK pg 76
[PORTO] pg 14
PUBLIC SPEAKING 101 pg 72
QUARTER RICAN pg 35
RED BIKE pg 80
REVERBERATION pg 46
SAGITTARIUS PONDEROSA pg 41
SALONNIÈRES, THE pg 11
SANCTUARY CITY pg 52
SCAB pg 25
SEAGULL, THE pg 75
SELLING KABUL pg 43
SENIOR LIVING pg 38
SENSITIVE GUYS pg 41
SENTIMENT, A pg 100
SEPARATE ROOMS pg 20
SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS, THE pg 55
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE ELUSIVE EAR pg 48
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE FALLEN SOUFFLÉ pg 48
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE GHOST MACHINE pg 49
SHOT pg 90
SILVER FOXES pg 87
SIN EATERS pg 59
SINGLES IN AGRICULTURE pg 71
SMOKE GETS IN YOUR HOUSE pg 44
SMUGGLER, THE pg 61
SOMEWHERE pg 46
BENEVOLENCE
TWELVE pg 101
TWENTY50 pg 57
TWILIGHT VISIT pg 105
TWO DEGREES pg 64
TWO KIDS THAT BLOW SHIT UP, THE pg 22
TWO MUSES SLUMMING IT pg 105
UNCLE VANYA pg 75
UNFORTUNATES, THE pg 78
VAGRANT TRILOGY, THE pg 53
HOUR OF FEELING
URGE FOR GOING VAGRANT, THE VELVETEEN RABBIT, THE pg 113
WALRUS IN THE BODY OF A CROCODILE, A pg 101
WARSAW pg 82
WASHINGTON SQUARE pg 76
WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM, THE pg 119
WELL MET BY MOONLIGHT pg 20
WET pg 11
WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU pg 35
WHAT IS “MURDER?” pg 45
WHICH WAY TO THE STAGE pg 60
WITCH HUNT pg 11
WOODEN HEART, THE pg 80
YES, VIRGINIA pg 87
YOUNGER BATTLES THE POSSIBLE GHOST pg 109
ZOEY’S PERFECT WEDDING pg 46
ZOMBIE: THE AMERICAN pg 62
