At a ritzy Hollywood party in 1947, Eric wants to advance from writer to producer, Ruth wants to leave Cliff for not coming to her defense when a gangster hit on her, a highly intelligent Iila is weary of being underestimated because of her bra size, Charlie wants to stop a movie from being made that parallels his connection with the mob & Hollywood unions, and all are thoroughly steam rolled by studio head/bully Frank Staerkel, the party’s host. There is only one person who can help them all – Eric’s wife Mary Ryan, the Angle of Mercy. Mary is highly logical, but while most people are on board the Twentieth Century Limited, Mary’s train of logic runs through Anaheim, Azusa and Cucamonga. 

• Cast Size: 4M 4W 
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In their attempt to survive living in a forced labor camp in Germany during WWII, five women cling to the remnants of their identities and the flickers of hope that keep them alive. Amid the bleakness of a dimly lit barn and the constant reminder of their reality, the women share stories of their once-vibrant lives. Despite carrying their own burdens and the realization that humanity seems lost, they find strength in one another. A play about hope and how the power of the human spirit can both crumble and triumph in adversity. 

• Cast Size: 1M 6W 1NB
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

As a series of grisly murders continue across the Lower East Side of New York City, Aaron, a lonely hairstylist, hires the services of a stranger for a night they will never forget. Slowly, they begin to connect in unexpected ways and it also becomes a night they may never survive.

• Cast Size: 2M 1W 1NB
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Eight short comedies that together create a full evening of absurd entertainment. They can also be performed separately, most especially Ichabod Crane Tells All, a comic monologue in which Ichabod, at the very old age of 72, gives a lecture concerning the events that led to his departure from the small town of Sleepy Hollow 50 years earlier. Other short comedies include Beethoven’s Last, The Straight Men’s Musical Theatre Project, The Guppy Ballet, The Mimes and Mummers Convention, Mr. Mann’s Head, Dimitri in Space, and The Death of Comedy.

• Cast Size: 4M+ 2W+

• Running Time: 90+ minutes

• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance 

Natalie and Sam Grayson are out for a quiet Sunday morning walk when they find themselves embroiled in an argument with a stranger who kidnaps their dog, Jackson. They report the incident to the police, and their case is assigned to a friendly but vaguely threatening sergeant who insinuates himself into the most hidden parts of their lives. The play examines the nature of irreparable loss, the consequences for our lives, and the slow disappearance from the world of the ancient touchstones we have always relied on for comfort and sustenance.

• Cast Size: 3M 1W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Passive Aggressive Cinderella is a rebellious teen, one that doesn’t take well to being treated like a second-class citizen.   When her stepmother finds out Ella has created false ball invitations, with the intent of having the stepsisters arrive one day later, she refuses to allow Ella to come along.    

Ella doesn’t cry; she gets even.

• Cast Size: Large Flexible Cast
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Phil Blakeny tries to come to grips with the impending closing of his family’s furniture store, something he has kept a secret from his wife and daughter. As things began to further unravel as Phil works long hours to keep things afloat, his reality is soon blurred when parts of his life leading up to the closing come to life, and Phil’s late father returns to find out what’s really happening beneath the surface of Phil’s failure. “You’re not only selling a piece of furniture. You’re selling life. You’re giving form to possibilities, shaping dreams made by young couples or the bachelor just starting out, the elderly man or woman starting their golden years in a new home. You’re filling in the void.” What happens when a father’s dreams for his family start slipping away? Captivating until the last moment, this beautiful family drama captures what the American dream means to small towns.

• Cast Size: 4M 4W 
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

At 35, Piper had decided to give up on love and procreation.  When a one-night-stand with a hot marketing twunk leaves him with a random pair of Andrew Christian underwear, Piper sews the abandoned briefs into a puppet. A fairy godmother drag queen brings this puppet to life, and Piper is left to raise his child Andrew alone. This queer, comedic take on Pinocchio is about parenthood, aging, and puppets.

• Cast Size: 4M 1W 1 Drag Queen
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Set in war-torn Sarajevo in 1993, Sarajevo Voices follows the tragic story of two young lovers separated by culture and war, weaving lines from Romeo and Juliet throughout. Underpinning this story is the hope and perseverance of people who will go on, no matter what. The play, written for Texas UIL, allows for flexible and expanded casting, creative staging, and a great deal of directorial discretion.

• Cast Size: 7M 5W 3-8ANY
• Running Time: 40 minutes
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

In March of 1978, Gantscho Ganev and Roman Wardas, two Polish refugees living in Switzerland, exhumed the mortal remains of a certain silent film star in order to hold them for ransom. This story is as true as it is unbelievable. And while the Who, What, When, Where and How are all matters of fact, the question of Why is…up for question. In an unlikely yet romantic blend of comedic farce and dramatic realism, both satirical and lyrical, this revisionist account explores why these two desperate men would commit such an absurd crime on that strange and surreal night. NOW IN A ONE ACT VERSION!!!!!

• Cast Size: 2M
• Running Time: 60+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $50 per performance

A fight fantasy for 3 bad/ass women. Mona Lisa Times left home, changed her name, and became a Hollywood movie star and bad girl in the press. Venus her identical twin sister, stayed in the Bay area and continued the same abusive relationship with “Junky/drunk”, the name they dubbed their mother with. On this fateful day the sister’s rendezvous on the roof of the doublewide mobile home they grew up in. They are surrounded by a literal mountain of garbage that’s patrolled by the Gala Damy, a demon that lurks in its bowels. They soon find their only means of getting off the roof has snapped, and they are forced to play out the brutal ancient rituals of their past in hopes of finding a safe way down. 

• Cast Size: 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In 1880 Bertha Pappenheim, a young Jewish woman, develops a ‘nervous cough’ while caring for her father. She is treated by Josef Breuer, a preeminent Viennese physician. Her symptoms soon progress to include severe visual, motor, speech, and mood problems. When she refuses removal to a sanitarium she and Dr. Breuer embark on an unorthodox protocol, involving sessions of discussion, storytelling, and hypnosis – essentially creating the techniques of ‘talk therapy’ and psychoanalysis. Breuer consults with Richard von Krafft-Ebing, a psychiatrist and psychosexual researcher, whose studies on homosexuality will ultimately result in its decriminalization. The play also includes an homage to Edward Lear. Fraulein Pappenheim subsequently becomes a fierce champion of women’s and children’s rights, until she and her work come under the deadly scrutiny of the Nazis, evocative of modern trends towards fascism. Anna O. depicts an intelligent, passionate, and sensitive woman in a protective but repressive society; a world in upheaval; and the importance of imagination and creativity in overcoming trauma.

• Cast Size: 3W – 8M (2W – 4M with suggested doubling)
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

As sisters Harmony and Destiny hike in the woods, they fall upon a building that does not seem to belong there, nor can they find it on the trail map. Destiny is convinced that the landscape is shapeshifting. Harmony is skeptical but also elusive about where she got the map. An ominous shadow cast by the sole window does not seem to move, no matter from what angle you look at it. Nor is there sunlight coming through the trees that would create it. Destiny is convinced that they have entered a time warp. But why? Can a trail map, an old news article and a displaced building hold the key to unlocking a family tragedy? 

• Cast Size: 2W
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance 

Five people (re)live their everyday lives during the year nine-year-old Liz died. We are invited to summon memories of our own since we were also there even if memory has faded or has yet come to pass. Childhood games propel the action making it apparent that the characters are eager to discover unconditional love. Mark and Chastity experiment with intimacy. Mark’s parents work to rediscovery their diminished passion while guarding against the discomforting realities of life. And Liz gives her unencumbered love to Mark which leads to accusation and to the coming of age and loss of innocence for all.

• Cast Size: 2-4M 3-5W (Gender Flexible)
• Running Time: 90+ Minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When former binge-eater Daphne notices she’s gained weight, her internal panic deepens when she lands a lucrative acting role as a character described as “fat.” Meanwhile, her best friend Jess, battling anorexia, faces her own casting dilemma: she’s been chosen for a major print ad, but only because of her dangerously thin appearance. As both women grapple with the harsh realities of an industry obsessed with body image, they’re forced to confront a defining choice—embrace the roles that exploit their insecurities for the sake of their careers or reject the commercial machine altogether. 

•  Cast Size: 2F, 2M, 1 F or NB
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Roger, a struggling writer, finds his life in a tailspin. He’s dead broke. His best friend’s wife has an out-of-control libido and keeps attempting to seduce him. His friend, oblivious to his wife’s flirting, tries to set Roger up with an inconceivable companion. And worst of all, he’s got no inspiration to write. Will Roger stave off his love-starved neighbor? Will he fall head-over-heels for an unlikely paramour? Will he leave his beloved Florida to endure five frickin winters in Minnesota? Or maybe, just maybe, this wild and wacky scenario will provide Roger with the very inspiration he craves.

• Cast Size: 2M 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Set in the eerie Elsinore Center for Restorative Care, a 1950s asylum, Hamlet: A Horatio Storyreimagines Shakespeare’s tragedy through Horatio’s fractured mind. As Hamlet descends into vengeance, Horatio struggles to bear witness, torn between loyalty and a truth distorted by grief. The asylum’s sterile halls mirror Denmark’s decay, where love, betrayal, and madness blur reality. Through Horatio’s eyes, memory and trauma intertwine—are events as they were, or as his mind has reshaped them? This adaptation invites audiences into a world where ghosts linger not just in shadows, but in the depths of the human soul.

• Cast Size: 20M 10W VARIOUS
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Lineage challenges stereotypes as it confronts issues of race, adoption, religion, heredity and the often mistaken or disappointed expectations we have of one another. Jess and Greg want to adopt La Tonya’s baby. La Tonya wants to be a good Christian.  La Tonya’s estranged son wants a second chance after his three strikes and Greg’s teen daughter wants everyone to leave her the fuck alone.  After a drunken brawl, car accident, failed adoption and possible death, coupled with fantastical sequences involving luminaries such as Victor Frankl, Joan Crawford, L’il Abner and Jesus himself, Jess and the others begin to bury old wounds and redefine their concept of ‘family.’  With strong roles for women and POC, Lineage is a sharply insightful play that is both tender and surprisingly funny.  

• Cast Size: 3M 4W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 Per perfmance

Monster Girl is obsessed with monsters. Her nocturnal pals help to keep her safe from the real monsters of this world -predatory cousins, vicious brothers and uncaring parents. She is alone in this world until she meets another “weird kid” – Anna – at a party circa 1982.

• Cast Size: 2M 4W
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

This play is an episodic, comedic reimagining of the familiar Biblical story of Noah and his ark in light of the demands of modern bureaucratic red tape (accordingly, much of the dialog is comically anachronistic). The arc of the play runs from Noah’s initial encounter with Yahweh in the desert to their final encounter following the global flood. It is written as 2 acts of 5 scenes each, with each scene having a title suggesting location and action. (There is an intermission, but the play could be presented without it, if desired.)

• Cast Size: 8M 4W + EXTRAS
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A live radio theater troupe attempts to put on its most challenging show: a hard-boiled steampunk thriller about aliens trying to take over the world! In this tribute to Ed Wood, Dashell Hammett and dysfunctional community theaters everywhere, the story-within-a-story of Detective Bunny Omega’s desperate struggle to save the planet from bizarre space beings weaves in and out with the AbletownLive Radio Players’ struggle to put on a good performance with a script they’ve never seen before. The result is a comedy about hubris, derring-do, and the importance of having a good live foley team.

• Cast Size: 9-10 actors, any gender
• Running Time: 90+ Minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

An adventurous father, Steve, and his conversely risk-averse son, Henry, embark upon one last road trip to visit the Grand Canyon. Along the way, they pick up a witty hitchhiker, Dabria, who encourages them to rediscover their childlike spirits. Set against the backdrop of desolate highways and vast landscapes, their journey is muddled with trials and tribulations. The found family shoulders the burden of grief together through humor and heart, and even in the face of adversity, their momentum and persistence is unstoppable. Together, they find themselves having the experience of a lifetime. 

• Cast Size: 7M, 2W, 2ANY
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Lucia Beltran, a Mexican immigrant with no political experience, dares to run for City Council in her adopted city. She’s driven by a conviction that the poor deserve better—but her campaign puts everything at risk: her government-funded job, her safety from an obsessive ex, and her place in a country that doesn’t make space for outsiders. With forces pressing in, two voices battle for her soul—Star Spangle, the relentless champion of assimilation, and Santa Lucia, the patron saint of integrity and self-definition. Caught between survival and belief, Lucia must navigate treacherous terrain where identity, justice, and resilience collide. Will she find the strength to stand her ground, or will the system silence her before she’s even heard?

• Cast Size: 4W 4GN
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When Romaine and Jeff stumble into a quirky late-night coffeehouse run by eccentric bohemians, they don’t realize they’ve entered a den of vampires, with a taste for poetry, politics, and strong coffee.  Elvis, the flamboyant head vampire, is moody, dramatic, and maybe a little too into Jeff. But it’s Romaine’s no-nonsense charm and sharp tongue that catch his eye, he’s tired of ruling with out-of-touch bloodsuckers and wants a partner with brains, backbone, and zero patience for bullshit.  As tensions rise and loyalties shift, Romaine must decide whether to try to outwit the undead or become their reluctant queen. A sharp-witted, blood-soaked satire, Suckers gleefully skewers both human and vampire egos in a comically caffeine-fueled battle for power.  

• Cast Size: 5M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Just how well do you know all your “friends” on social media? In this fast-moving “light comedy about dark people leading private lives in public places,” when the grieving Charlie Windsor meets the gregarious Diana Black-White in a New York Theater District bar they become instant BFFs. Much to the consternation of his closest friend since childhood, Broadway actor Ed McGrath, Charlie is almost immediately hurled into an overwhelming whirl of dark secrets, questionable loyalties, and highly dysfunctional family dynamics; a world for which Charlie is completely unprepared. Goddess Of The Hunt is a gleefully silly homage to those romantic comedy thrillers of the 1960s via Roman mythology, updated to the creepy, contemporary world of social media and – perhaps too much – information sharing.

• Cast Size: 4M 1W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Mandy Gladstone is struggling to write a play about her father Clark, an inventor. She relives her adolescent fascination with Clark’s secretive nature, his manic episodes, his trips to California, and how, at the end of his life, he received a series of mysterious and threatening postcards from Sadie Hurtz, a giant doll shackled to a chair in an abandoned amusement park trailer. When Mandy herself receives similarly threatening postcards from Sadie, she decides to investigate. Her pursuit of the truth reveals carefully guarded secrets about her family, about her father, and about the haunted nature of creativity.

• Cast Size: 3M 3W
• Running Time: 90+. minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

This contemporary re-imagining of the Joan of Arc story takes place over the course of one night in Oakland in May of 2020, as five teenagers shelter in a candle factory following a George Floyd protest. Stories and timelines combine as moments from the past reverberate into the present, illuminating the revolutionary vision of Joan of Arc, exploring solidarity in the face of oppression, and revealing the way this classic heroine’s spirit continues to permeate our world today. At once humorous and harrowing, this 60-minute chamber piece unravels at a break-neck speed, alternating between realism and an avant-garde theatrical style as the past and present collide, turning the Saint Joan myth on its head and revealing the ways in which each of us is both the savior and destroyer of a world that is burning. 

• Cast Size: 4W 1NB
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Grace, a young teenager, and her sister escape their abusive stepfather after a very scary evening. They are each placed in different foster homes. The home Grace is placed in at first seems to be the perfect place. The truth quickly emerges when she finds herself in a Cinderella-type situation. Grace longs to be loved and supported. She keeps her treatment a secret in hopes of finding what she wants, a family.

• Cast Size: 1M 7W 6GN
• Running Time: 40 minutes
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Shiloh struggles with anxiety as he navigates a day filled with challenges. Desperate for a change, he goes to a wishing well outside of town and makes a wish for a better day. The wishing well’s spirit awakens to grant his wish but warns him of the consequences. Sending Shiloh back in time to relive the day. Initially, everything seems to go right for him, but soon he realizes that his friends and teachers are facing escalating troubles as a result. In a moment of panic, Shiloh calls on the well spirit for help to wish for another chance to make things right, learning that true change comes from facing challenges. Be careful what you wish for.

• Cast Size: 10+ Any
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The paths of six intriguing characters intersect as they navigate the unpredictable and challenging twists  and turns of aging. On the slide into seniorhood, they encounter relationships and experiences, some painful, some sensual, and some just downright silly. When all is said and done, will they  find that life has  left them with anything more than simple memories?

• Cast Size: 3M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance