Abigail feels like an outsider, and for good reason – she claims she is from another galaxy, here only to study humans. After her unusual behavior intensifies, her parents place her in a psychiatric facility for adolescents. Despite her best efforts to isolate herself, Abigail forms a connection with another patient which leads her on a journey of self-discovery. As she begins to listen and share, Abigail gains powerful insights about belonging and the complexities of being human. “Abigail, For Now” is a poignant and surprising exploration of mental health, identity, and the search for connection in a world that often feels unfamiliar.

• Cast Size: 3M 5W 1Any
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Revenge is a dish best served… period. Cold, hot, or with those little puff pastry hors d’oeuvres everybody loves… Just as long as Cheaters regret it. People don’t typically get retribution after being cheated on… until now… Now, you can call Kat Clyne to carry out her own brand of justice on adulterers. And she confesses all her steps – and hilarious missteps – in a court-ordered therapy session with Dr. Akbar. As we peel back the layers of how she became THE CHEATER EATER, we meet Cheater Zero (Cave Maverick), a blast from her past. Her mother (Mrs. Clyne) not only pits them up against each other to compete for the reins of her company, but she also forces them to work together to break a story about a local politician and his wife (Mayor & Mrs. Bowen). While working together, Cave surprises Kat in more ways than one and is the only one who sees her for who she really is. But will forgiving a former cheater make her lose more than just her heart? The Cheater Eater eats away at the question: can cheaters really change?

• Cast Size: 4M 5W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Son of a slave and French aristocrat, Joseph Bologne has reached the top of his game – music teacher to Marie Antoinette and Europe’s fencer to beat. But when a bedridden Mozart is carried into his kitchen, he attracts the attention of a secret police force returning people of colour to slavery. As Paris hurtles toward Revolution, Bologne is forced to choose between his creative freedom and the crusade for equality. Can he sacrifice his bow for his sword? This is the true story of three immigrants – Marie Antoinette, Mozart, and the Chevalier – conflating the French Revolution with the resistance against authoritarianism unfolding today.

• Cast Size: 10M 5W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Communion centers around Jane, a professional Chicago actress, and her acting friends, sister, and mother.  The five women treat themselves to monthly wine and pairings parties to discuss the trials and adventures of their journeys through divorce, love, descent into middle age, and fears of the unknown future.  Jane’s recent diagnosis of stage four cancer forces the group to confront their fears of death and their beliefs in the afterlife.  A touching story of the way women sustain each other through bold criticism, bawdy laughter, and steadfast support … and the way friends, family, and even former lovers can help us live life with love and light.   

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

This Christmas, treat yourself to CONVERGENCE (A Different Christmas Story), a story that serves up a dollop of mystery with your figgy pudding. Expect the unexpected when Tilly York hosts her annual Christmas gathering, facing off with her memories of happier holidays. Family tensions simmer just below the surface until they reach the boiling point. Come to Cropton, UK, population 321, where a Christmas convergence of family, strangers and secrets cross paths with synchronicity, and changes everything. 

• Cast Size: 3M 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Retired (i.e., “failed”) actors Tim and Flora, a married couple, now find themselves caretakers of Tim’s demanding and cantankerous Aunt Rosamunde. An idle conversation one afternoon in which they jokingly talk about murdering the old woman gradually becomes an actual plan, one that might succeed if the aunt’s suspicious attorney Clarissa and a local grocery delivery boy Emory don’t prove to be game-changers.

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

Flight is freely adapted by Steven Haworth from the play by Mikhail Bulgakov that was banned in the USSR until 1957, and with this version received its United States premier in 2003. The play follows the last days of the Russian revolution. As our refugees flee St. Petersburg, and the last remnants of the White Army flee the Crimea, all are hounded by the Red Army to Istanbul. The abandoned wife of a government minister Serafina, professor Golubkov, White generals Charnota and Kludhov, Charnota’slover Lyuska are thrown together in poverty, haunted by nightmares, love, hallucinations, shame, and an agonizing longing for home and justice that drives them back to Russia, even if it guarantees some their death. 

• Cast Size: 8M 5W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Professor Greg Waverman and his love interest, doctoral candidate Annie Talon, spend the winter in an 1820s-era cabin in Gallows Falls, Vermont, for the purpose of debunking centuries-old ghost stories connected to the property. Their skepticism dissipates, however, as embodied spirits reenact scenes right before their eyes, pulling the couple into their narratives. The Marquis de Lafayette, hero of the American Revolution, attempts to repatriate buried gold, while a romantic tryst turns deadly, and the exoneration of an executed woman hangs in the balance. Historical events intertwine with supernatural mischief, as Greg and Annie learn the truth about the house.

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

The empire has been in turmoil since the late empress was tragically eaten by a bear. The emperor has gone mad. A mysterious bandit is on the loose, robbing the tax collectors and returning money to the poor. The emperor’s evil sister Jezebeth is scheming to take over the empire. The advisors fight all the time, and the guards are morons. But when a brother and sister team of con artists pose as tailors promising to sew an amazing outfit for the Emperor’s birthday, Princess Primrose’s troubles really begin. This fast moving retelling of The Emperor’s New Clothes is fun for any age group!

• Cast Size: 3M 7W 11NB
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

For our heroine, Joy, her story is a familiar one – a small town girl leaves home, and tries to make it in the big city.  Except Joy’s story begins at the end, where we find her standing at a ballet barre in a pool of blood – murdered.  NEW YORK CITY 523 is a whodunit hybrid play, which combines naturalism with impressionistic dialogue, choral work, fantasy, story theatre, and at the same time, incorporates movement elements and dance directly into the narrative.  So put on your red shoes and dance the blues!

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

PERMAFROST is the third in a Climate Change Cycle of Plays which opened with “Starlight” and went back in time to “1969”; we find The Scientist in a room overlooking the Atlantic in the company of a Cat, poring through research and documents going back to the mid-19th Century which may hold the solution to climate change and extinction.

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

Living in the Appalachian foothills in Northeast Georgia, Abetta Asbury has an unusual gift: the ability to enter the minds of others and remove their pain and suffering through a psychic process her family calls bleeding. After her sister-in-law, Bella, convinces her to ignore a generations-old warning about bleeding family members, Abetta begins to bleed her shut-in brother, Harlan, with disastrous results. Harlan’s greatly improved mood coincides with a series of mysterious murders. And as Harlan seems to get better, Ethan, Abetta’s patient and crush, begins to slide further and further into mental decline.  As Abetta tries to strike an impossible balance, she begins to learn about the unpredictable consequences of trying to mold the world into a happier place.

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

From a makeshift Army call center in Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn to the far away desert city of Fallujah, Iraq. Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, and Soldiers, their voices filled with loss, confusion, loneliness, hurt, anger and hope, try to make sense of the ever-changing landscape around them during a questionable time of an never ending war and a world where for some, home is nothing more than a disappearing distant memory they are desperately trying to hold on to in order to survive while for others on the front lines between life and death the idea of home and family is nothing more than a blur.

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

A play about philosophy, love, and saving the Universe: Set in a desolate post-apocalyptic land called “the Universe” characters Hannah (a young woman philosopher from “the Beyond”) and Vlad (an older male teacher from “the Beyond”) come together to “help” the people of the universe: the Citizens and the Givers. Six actors are required to play the Citizens and Givers, each role can be played by any gender. All roles can be played by any race or ethnicity. Centers female characters. Dystopian drama that is experimental, fantasy, and political. A distinctly original take on the legacy of totalitarianism. 

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

In this timely and provocative drama, Carmen, the wife of an entertainment legend, is interviewing a nurse, Lisa, to supervise the care of her husband, who is in the final stages of Alzheimer’s. In the process, the questioner becomes the questioned as Lisa confronts Carmen with sexual assault accusations against her husband and with her complicity in the alleged incidents. 

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

43 STAGES OF GRIEVING: A COMEDY tells the story of a pregnant, dying robot and a human who attempted to live forever. Like almost anyone who has grieved, they can both attest that the idea there are only five stages of grieving is hilarious. But with a presumably incoming infant on the way, they can’t sit around and eat cheese all day (there are of course stages of grief for both hard cheese and soft cheese). Together they try to make plans for an unknown motherhood, kind but complicated technology, and a future without them. 

This is a comedy for a grief saturated world.

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

Cash-strapped Al is working way too many hours and his health is on the line. Chronically unemployed wife Claire is harboring a debilitating secret. Disaffected daughter Ashley is failing to launch. Meanwhile Aunt Barb is besieged by Tea Party terrorists at the abortion clinic where she works and Uncle Art – confounded by an aggressive influx of Brooklyn hipsters – threatens to pack up his landscaping business and leave town. When Barb discovers Ashley’s got an illicit side hustle, Ashley makes a shattering revelation. From the shock waves of the 2008 financial crisis to the storm surge of Election Day 2016, an American family struggles to keep their heads above water. When did it get so hard just to get by?

• Cast Size: 2M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A romantic comedy about old friends, unrequited crushes and a Scandinavian sex curse. Charles’ third wife has just informed him she’s leaving. As he reels from the news and the reason she gives, he spends a weekend with his best friend Jack and their college friend Betsy, Betsy, who dabbled in witchcraft, reveals a secret from their college days that could be the reason for Charles’ failed relationships. Can Betsy help Charles win back his wife? Maybe, with the help of a Finnish coven.

• Cast Size: 2M 3W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance  

Organized and proficient in her professional life, Tara is messy and lonely in her personal one. So, she does what any good project manager would, and creates a detailed project plan to launch a stable relationship. When there’s a problem, she logs a bug. When there’s something missing, she creates a feature request. What could possibly go wrong?

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

The year is 1957 in Camden, Arkansas and Maud Crawford has vanished without a trace. She was a formidable woman, the first female lawyer in Arkansas and no one can figure out what happened to her. A chorus of townspeople speculates on what could have happened. There is no shortage of suspects in the sleepy town, but the mystery remains unsolved. This play is very loosely based on true events and small-town gossip. Production History: Tyler Civic Theatre (Winner of 2017 new play festival Leon Junior High (1st place winner Middle School UIL One Act Play) Highland Park, Amarillo (Middle School UIL One Act Play Entry) Byron P. Steele High School (Alternate to Area, UIL High School One Act Play 2023) Note: Casting is very flexible

• Cast Size: 5M 5W 5NB
• Running Time: 40 Minutes
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Conrad sleeps under a bridge because it’s raining and takes pills because bad dreams keep them up at night. Is that young busker, Whalen, a ghost or a real flesh and blood fiddle player? While Whalen plays a lullaby Conrad shares more than a meal and more than intended. Sunny and Winter are young lovers. Love is an other-worldly presence. Winter struggles with trauma disorder. Sunny struggles with Winter. Love conquers all. But what does Neil Diamond and a “top 40 sing-along from the days of bell-bottoms and LSD” have to do with it all? An anthology of seven short plays about belonging, kindness and surviving trauma.

• Min 6 with doubling. 18 individual roles. 9 Any Gender
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Norman Miller is an unemployed fiction writer who fills his literary work with passages so sexually explicit that no one will publish them. He puts so much emotional energy into the writing that he fails to satisfy his wife, Mixie. Long-suffering, sexually desperate, and concerned for her sanity, Mixie begins an affair with Ted, who may have deeper feelings for her than she wants. An argument leads to murder, and murder leads to disposal problems…just as an unexpected guest shows up with earth-shaking news in this new dark comedy.

• Cast Size: 2M 2W 
• Running Time: Over an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

This play is intended for middle school or high school performers. Con-artist drifter Curley stows away on the early 1900s Mississippi River Paddlewheeler “The Mississippi Belle,” where her brother serves as a steward. The Belle may be cursed by the mummy brought aboard by Professor Julius T. Mayberry and his students. Shortly in their cruise to St. Louis, another professor – PJ Ricketts – is murdered, and his body and the killer are missing! Famed Detective Eloise Stout, a passenger aboard the Belle, declares her intent not to investigate the murder. She is on vacation, after all. Wealthy Socialite passenger Melinda Coates-Robertson decides to give away a million-dollar prize to the passenger who can solve the murder, so as toavoid any embarrassing police entanglement that might threaten her social status. And this is where Curley comes up with a devious plan: a master of disguise who can copy anyone’s handwriting if she sees it once, decides to adopt the alias of “Abel Underwood,” a southern gentleman. Curley will plant evidence framing “Mister Underwood” for the murder so that Curley can turn him in and win the prize! What threatens to undo Curley’s plan? That Melinda’s teenage daughter Violet falls in love with Mister Underwood… …and and Detective Stout believes this whole thing may not be a murder mystery at all

• Cast Size: 4-14M 1-12F 10NB
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

2020 Chernobyl. Jim arrives at the infamously contaminated site of the dilapidated nuclear reactor to take part in a secret new life-changing treatment that promises to help him attain his “best self.” But what he thinks is a self-help retreat turns out to be less of a day at the spa and more of a mind-bending quantum physics experiment, one that will reveal the shocking truths of what the future actually holds for him. Could his “best self” be the key to mankind’s salvation?

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

Snowball is a fantasy comedy set in the present day in a suburban home. It’s about a middle-aged couple who run a business together but whose marriage is in trouble. But then their recently deceased cat Snowball returns, reincarnated as a young woman.  Unfortunately, she still has the habits and characteristics of a cat.  They try their best to teach her how to behave like a human being, but without much luck.  She winds up turning their lives upside down, which in the end is just what they needed to save their marriage.

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

A comedy about two lonely New Yorkers on a high stakes blind date. Stella, a chatty, lovable dog trainer is no stranger to the world of J-Date, a label she longs to shed. Even with her intense baggage and deep-dark secrets, she has a hopeful shot tonight with Isaac, an affable, jazz-loving, alcoholic schoolteacher with his own skeletons in tow. Adding to the tension of the night is a third character, Don, a bully, a “Force” — born from Stella’s own neurosis — out once again to destroy her last chance at love, sanity, and happiness.

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

In 13th century Mali, Sundiata, a physically handicapped young survivor of violent political intrigue, has been prophesized to become Mali’s greatest king.  It is a tale of good overcoming evil.  The story of his recovery, his exile, and his evolution as a great leader is presented through dueling griots, traditional African storytellers and preservers of African history and traditions.  As the principal griot observes, “There are usually at least two sides to any story.”  He traces the legend of Sundiata, enacted by the characters in the play, with interruptions from a second griot presenting a contrary version.  They duel over episodes from Sundiata’s sickly childhood to his climactic victory over his evil rival, Sumanguru, at the battle of Kirina.

• Cast Size: 14M 4W Many ensemble roles, doubling suggested
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

V (Veanne), recently separated from her twin brother Baz as a result of their parents’ divorce, starts her senior year at a brand-new school in Elmira, NY. With her boyish appearance, manner, and nickname, V gets misgendered by the other kids at school—but she goes along with their misconception because she feels surprisingly welcomed by them. Misunderstandings, miscommunication, and misdeeds abound in this freewheeling, contemporary, high school-set adaptation of William Shakespeare’s TWELFTH NIGHT.

• Cast Size: 6M 4W; 1W or NB; 1 M or W off-stage voice; Extras M, W, or NB
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The Thanksgiving gathering in this small apartment is no Norman Rockwell picture. The vegan teenager in the family is horrified that a “poor bird” is roasting away in the oven. There’s not enough food, but two uninvited guests manage to wangle their way in for dinner. Another couple said they had “news” to share and the family figured they’d hear about the upcoming birth of a child. Wrong. When the turkey catches fire and folks decide to take off for roomier pastures, an environmental accident occurs and everyone must “shelter in place.” Can it get any worse?  Oh, yes indeed.

• Cast Size: 4M 6W 1 ANY
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Set in 1901 Africa, the king has been kidnapped and the golden throne is in peril. His daughter princess YaYa’s pleas to save her father falls on the deaf ears of the elders. She goes to the witch Olumide for answers but is given a cryptic prophecy saying that she will be queen. Emboldened YaYa makes plans to save her father and the golden throne. Embarking on a murderous tale of loyalty, betrayal, family and destiny.

• Cast Size: 13M 6W 
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

On the night of the 2016 presidential election, Boston University’s Women Loving Women club gathers to celebrate the birthday of their club secretary. Things go awry when the identity politics within the group suddenly come into question, and all hell breaks loose as surprise revelations amongst the lesbians catapults them into an all-out war for the future of their club. 

• Cast Size: 1M 6W 1NB* (*The male and non-binary roles are transgender.)
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

“Monsters are Made in the Minds of Men” is a thought-provoking play that delves into the destructive impact of trauma, obsession, and the blurred lines between reality and perception. The story follows a father who is obsessed with monsters and all things in the realm of the mystical. As his obsession takes hold, he becomes convinced that his own family has been replaced by bakenekos, a shapeshifting cat-like entity, and in his attempt to ‘save’ them, he ultimately destroys everything that he holds dear. The play bounces between the past and present to explore themes of mental health, the generational ripple effect of trauma, and the destructive impact of obsession.

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