Chicago, 1903. A lavish new theatre is set to open to thunderous applause. Touted by city leaders as a marvel of modern design, The Iroquois is beautiful, state-of-the-art… and “absolutely fireproof.” But behind the velvet curtain lies a tangle of ambition, secrets, and warnings ignored. Performers, politicians, and the public collide in a world where art bows to industry and a single spark could set everything ablaze. Inspired by true events and the theater fire in American history, this gripping drama explores the cost of believing the impossible and ignoring the inevitable.

• Cast Size: 11M 5W
• Running Time: 40 minutes
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

When a lonely young girl named Atlantis Sinclair dreams of escaping her chaotic family, she’s whisked away by a talking pink balloon to a hidden world deep beneath the Earth—The Enchanted Lands. There she learns she’s the long-lost Princess of the realm, destined to save it from the wicked Spider King and Queen Lake. Joined by an eccentric band of magical friends—a fairy named Everyone, a pink unicorn, a tiny dragon, and a bumbling giant—Atlantis must confront her own Rage and Temper to restore the Sword of Light, rescue her true family, and discover the courage within.

• Cast Size: 8M 11W  8Any
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royaty Rate: $75 per performance

Ever had your heart ripped out? Know how it feels to be tethered by an unhealthy connection? Let’s just say it: breakups hurt. They can even be a little messy! Almost Maimed is a gruesomely relatable parody about love, loss, and the brutality of ghosting. It’s a series of vignettes centered around losing your heart (literally) in modern romance. Whether you’ve lost your mind over a lover or two, or you leave a trail of broken hearts in your wake — Almost Maimed will speak to the scars on your achy-breaky heart. You may even feel a splatter or two. (Poncho row: first-come, first-served!)

• Cast Size: 7W or NB
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Brother by Brother is the story of two estranged brothers meeting at the home of their deceased mother in search of her last will and testament and is inspired by true events.

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

Chicago. The year-1926. Famed pianist, Fats Waller, is kidnapped and brought to The Hawthorne Inn where he discovers that he is to be primary entertainment for the infamous and dreadfully psychopathic mob boss, Al Capone. What follows over the course of the next three days, is a darkly humorous and often tense look into the shocking true story of the man who could possibly be the only person capable of hurting Al Capone.  

• Cast Size: 7M 1W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A day in the life of a group of young Washington DC go-getter types, living in a shared house in a gentrifying neighborhood during the Obama Years. Frank interns on Capitol Hill; Dave is an unemployed Georgetown Law grad; Charity is a former Peace Corps volunteer who works for an indigenous rights NGO; and Maria is the Cuban-American Rhodes Scholar at the State Department. Professional and relationship drama ensue. The script is a glimpse into the various DC worlds the characters interact with, including the IMF, World Bank, McKinsey, spoken word poetry (e.g. Busboys and Poets), a cab driver’s quest for literary fame, and an absolutely absurd lobbying group called Saving the Dogs of Bucharest. Inspired by Ionesco and real-life stories, the playwright was asked by local filmmakers to write a script that truly captured the clueless ambition of the young people who descend on the District of Columbia. DISTRICTLAND sold out its extended run at the 2014 Capital Fringe Festival, received a rockstar review in the Washington Post, and was bought for TV development.

• Cast Size: 5M 6W  1Any
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

With everything from a barroom brawl to several shootouts and a Western picnic basket auction with accompanying wrestling match, THE FRIO KID gently spoofs what constitutes the myth of our American West. Based on “A High Chaparral Christmas” by O. Henry, THE FRIO KID follows two lifelong friends,  as they become sworn enemies, their fallout resulting from a tussle over a lovely schoolmarm. 

• Cast Size: 6M 2W PLUS ENSEMBLE
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Dead branches claw the attic roof, a solitary candle is lit, trembling hands crack open a long-forgotten trunk, and out pours an evening of blood, madness and murder. Have you heard? The widow Lincoln is free from the asylum!

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

The story of Tom Bass, a Missourian born into slavery who would go on to become the greatest horseman of his time, and contemporary teenager Natalia (“Nate”) Edmonds who is inspired by Bass’ legacy.

• Cast Size: 4M 3W
• Running Time: Under an Hour
•  Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Roach, a road trip vlogger suffering from pica documents his obsession with eating rocks from different natural landmarks across the American continent, and August, a run-of-the-mill (or maybe out of it) pathological arsonist who loves the smell of burning trees, reappears from Roach’s past to hijack the trip in order to rekindle their past romance. A wrong turn down a highway brings them to their childhood Midwestern town, where in the ashes of a burned down home a new spark threatens to derail their journey. “I’M GOING TO EAT YOU ALIVE” is a play about the ethics of incentivizing profiting off ofnature, male mental illness, and toxicity in queer spaces.

• CAST SIZE: 1M 2NB
• RUNNING TIME: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

LATE LEARNING is the story of Muriel, an illiterate woman who is trapped by her adult children in her own home. Determined to finally change her situation, she escapes to the library when hearing about a free program teaching reading and writing. With literacy threatening their status, her son and daughter continue to lock Muriel up, and threaten Shaina, the volunteer, who works educating Muriel.

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

Matt Locke lives a great life. He has a funny, beautiful wife – ABBY – and two smart, rambunctious kids – Jimmy and Samantha. He’s trying to run his own bed and breakfast, a lifelong dream of his. He even puts up with the well-meaning but annoying next door neighbor Toby whenever he barges in. However, all is not as it seems, as we learn the secret behind Matt Locke’s life and what might bring the Locke Inn crashing down around him.

• Cast Size: 3M 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: 90+ minutes  

While riding a New York City bus for the first time, Maxene, from Texas, meets Angus. Through his unique perspectives, Maxene finds herself empowered to capitalize on a surprise visit from her sister, Katherine. In a single night, Maxine confronts the family secrets she thought she left behind, and with Angus’s help, shapes their new future.

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

When the old King of Argos (King Arcisius) pays a visit to the Oracle of Delphi (Pythia) he makes a haunting decision to imprison his daughter (Danae), but the gods intervene. Invaded by Zeus in a storm of gold, Danae gives birth to a son (Perseus), a child of both divinity and defiance. Cast into the sea, mother and son survive to find refuge on the island of Seriphos. As Perseus grows, their lives intertwine with the fishermen (Dictys), as well as kings, and monsters—including the Gorgon Medusa herself. ORACLE reimagines a mythic tale of fathers and daughters, gods and mortals, and the cost of seeking to know one’s fate. 

• Cast Size: 4M 7W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Sophie and her brother Hans grew up just as any child should during Hitler’s rise in Germany. They were a part of “Hitler Youth.” As they got older, they realized the truth about Hitler and the direction Germany was headed. Now in college,  along with other classmates from the University of Munich, the White Rose starts distributing leaflets speaking out against the war, Hitler and all the secret things Germany is hiding. A very brave act, that would cost them everything. “Someone had to make a start, after all.” – Sophie Scholl.

• Cast Size: 11M 4W 
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When Jerry’s mother, Elaine, passes away, unresolved emotions rise to the surface.  His wife, Angela, helps him face his sister, who is more interested in sharing an estate that does not exist.  Elaine gets a chance to review her closest relationships before she moves on, yet something is keeping her stuck one place.

• Cast Size: 1M 4W
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Tyke Dreams of Plumeria Stars draws from the haunting true story of Tyke, the circus elephant who in 1994 killed her trainer and ran through the streets of Honolulu, and filters that trauma through a lens of memory, myth, and cultural dislocation. Fractured and poetic, the play follows a Brother and Sister who were witnesses to the rampage and who remember the trauma like children remembering a monster. Now grown, the Brother cares for a Bound Man who is kept alive by machines and hate; the Sister, a soldier who has recently returned home, tries to reconcile love and loyalty with the echoes of war. Their world is punctuated by ghostly memories and inherited violence, mirrored in a narrative structure that splinters like a dream. Tyke Dreams of Plumeria Stars resists conventional storytelling, offering instead a theatrical elegy for broken families and histories that refuse to stay buried. The play is an exploration of violence, identity, and the ghosts we feel like we carry in our blood.

• Cast Size: 2M 2W 2-5 Any
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Riffing on several generations of both popular and literary critique of The Great Gatsby as the great American novel, Variations explores Nick Carraway’s status as an “unreliable narrator” through a revisionist lens, asking: What if Gatsby and Nick were more than acquaintances during World War I? What if Jordan Baker had been in love with Daisy since they were children? And what if both of thesehypotheticals coalesced to ensure that Gatsby did not, in fact, wind up dead in his swimming pool? Through these central complicating questions, Variations aims to provoke thought about the often cis-favoring, heteronormative educational environment in which characters like these in novels like Gatsby are simply taken to be straight at face value.

• Cast Size: 7M 3W 1NB
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Six strangers meet by chance, unaware of how much they share. As the chance meetings keep coupling them in the wrong pairs, they wonder what it is they actually deserve—and sometimes hope they aren’t already living it. Part One follows them finding each other in pairings that provide them with a sense of what they think they’re looking for. Part Two looks at why they need something they have difficulty finding. Part Three places them in their final pairings for the show, hopefully pointing them toward something that they deserve more than what they started with.                   

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

Frustrated young playwright, Miranda Iverson, has just inherited a terribly rundown brownstone apartment in Manhattan from her Bohemian great Aunt Isabelle. She’s not thrilled with the idea, especially since her extremely pushy and thrice-married mother expects so much more from her and she is finding it impossible to please Mama!

Three apparitions present themselves to Miranda: A flamboyant gay song-and-dance man of the 1920’s era; a 1940’s-era cranky German nanny with a bad attitude; and, a ditzy 1950’s’ Marilyn Monroe understudy. Can Miranda, regularly afflicted by writers’ block, find solace in some very sound advice that just might usher her towards The Great White Way?

• Cast Size: 2M 4W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance