One Act & Short Plays

The System

by Lynne Halliday

COMEDY

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, the Guggenheim Museum and sung with ABT. She is a co-author of THE GORGES MOTEL and ONE CHRISTMAS EVE AT EVERGREEN

MALL. Her short play SOMETHING ABOUT EVE appeared in NJ Rep’s Theatre Brut Festival.

Stem

by Arlene Hutton

DRAMA

3 WOMEN, 1 MAN

When their daughter was paralysed 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, 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 a 2018 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 Washington Stage Guild.

The Talk

by France-Luce Benson COMEDY/DRAMA

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.

Tasting

by Eric Reyes Loo

DRAMA

2 MEN play collection VOL. 1—A POST-RACIAL AMERICA.

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.

Vincent has developed new work at Utah Shakespeare Festival and received commissions from Playground San Francisco/Planet Earth Arts and City Lights Theatre.

France-Luce Benson’s plays have been produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre, City Theatre, Crossroads Theatre, and Billie Holiday Theatre, among others. Awards and honours include NEA Grant recipient, Dramatists Guild Fellow, Winner of the 41st annual Samuel French OOB Festival, Winner of the National New Play Network Award for Short Playwriting, Alfred P. Sloan New Play Commission (THE DEVIL’S SALE), Alfred P. Sloan Screenplay Award (Healing Roots).

Eric Reyes Loo is a playwright and TV writer. His work has been seen at Pacific Resident Theatre, Moving Arts, Lark Play Development Center, George Street Playhouse and Rattlestick. He is the Artistic Producing Director of Chalk Repertory Theatre where he also oversees the new play development initiatives. Eric wrote for the teen melodrama Guidance which can be found on Hulu and was an Executive Story Editor on the series A.J. and the Queen on Netflix.

Twelve

by Vincent Terrell Durham

DRAMA

5 WOMEN

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 (Winner, Samuel French Short Play Festival, BLACK BOYS & PRAIRIE FRINGED ORCHIDS (Semi-finalist, O’Neill), 61 UNUSED PAGES, TWELVE, and the short

A Walrus In The Body Of A Crocodile

by MJ Kaufman

COMEDY/DRAMA

4 GENDER-NEUTRAL

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 from Portland, OR. Their plays have been seen at the Public Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Colt Coeur, Williamstown Theatre Festival, InterAct Theatre 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.