One Act & Short Plays

Disney And Fujikawa

by Lloyd Suh DRAMA

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 AMERICAN HWANGAP, THE CHINESE LADY, CHARLES FRANCIS CHAN JR.’S EXOTIC ORIENTAL MURDER 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.

G.O.A.T.

by Ngozi Anyanwu COMEDY

3 WOMEN

Three women, Jay, Bonita, and Row, have gathered on the rooftop 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 2020 Steinberg Playwright Award winner. Works include LAST OF THE LOVE LETTERS (Atlantic Theatre), GOOD GRIEF (Vineyard Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Humanitas Award) and THE HOMECOMING QUEEN (Atlantic Theatre). Her plays have been on the Kilroys List, and she has had commissions with NYU, Old Globe, Two Rivers Theatre, Atlantic Theatre, and Steppenwolf, and received residencies from LCT3, Djerassi Resident Artists, New Harmony, New York Stage & Film and others.

La Traviata

by Lisa D’Amour

DRAMA

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 theatres across the country, including Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Children’s Theatre Company, Wilma Theatre and Woolly Mammoth Theatre. Her play DETROIT premiered at Steppenwolf and was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. Lisa received the 2008 Herb Alpert Award for the Arts, the 2011 Steinberg Playwright Award and the 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award.

LOCKED AND LOADED. CAN I HELP YOU?

by David Ives

Wayne 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 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 SCHOOL FOR LIES (adapted from Molière’s THE MISANTHROPE); THE LIAR (adapted from Corneille); TIME FLIES; 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.

Swastika

by Elaine Romero

DRAMA

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.

Twilight Visit

by MJ Kaufman

DRAMA

1 WOMAN, 1 MAN

Jonah meets a ghost at a queer dance party the same night a cemetery is desecrated.

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.