On the night of the first-ever White House movie screening, First Daughter Margaret Wilson must find a way to break with her past and become her own woman. Yet at a showing of the infamous epic The Birth of a Nation she is forced to fend off advances from a young minister, confront her own racial intolerance, and somehow live up to her duty to her father and to her country without completely losing her mind. After Birth of a Nation is a farcical sendup of politics, piety, racism, and our fractured American experiment.   

• Cast Size: 6M 2W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

After Tartuffe: A reimagining of Molière’s Tartuffe, set in a Christian Fundamentalist post-apocalyptic America. The population has been decimated by the super-strain of the Avian Flu – stolen from a lab, probably by Fundamentalists. Oral, a rich businessman, has opened his home to a former megachurch pastor, disgraced in sex scandals: the Reverend Chadwick Pusser. Oral’s son Daniel cannot be free with Tyler, the guy he loves, with Pusser around, planting hidden cameras. Daniel reads SF alternate histories and suspects his own world is an aberration. He asks the website oracle.net for the original draft of Molière’s play Tartuffe – the one that was banned, before Molière watered the play down. Daniel thinks if he can get a pdf of the original, the universe will shift back to what it should be. Tyler’s older brother Vaughn is engaged to Daniel’s younger sister Mary-Anne – but Oral decides to force Mary-Anne to marry Reverend Pusser, horrifying her. Pusser tells Oral to control his women; he cites Lot as the kind of upright man the Lord smiles on. Oral won’t listen to truth when Reverend Pusser makes a pass at Oral’s wife Alma, or hear the outspoken housekeeper, Doreen, who denounces Pusser and tries to get Mary-Anne to stand up for herself. Daniel rejects a pass from Pusser also … and it seems that there is no end to Pusser’s hypocrisy or to Oral’s gullibility … but the people who see through the evangelical con man keep on fighting for truth, and for change.

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

Reading from a makeshift room in an abandoned warehouse, homeless Ruthie is startled when Flavors, drunk and also homeless, suddenly intrudes. He soon becomes fascinated by Ruthie’s stacks of books and  her refined ways, as she reads him poetry and tells stories about her once upon a time life. A friendship evolves and he softens, as she introduces him to a kinder, more gentle way of life. However, disappointments are on the horizon for both, when Ruthie’s longtime friend Moe, exposes the painful truth to Flavors about her and what she really is. Feeling betrayed, Flavors returns to Ruthie enraged where he unleashes his anger. It is during this powerful scene, that she admits, her stories were all dreams and then asks the question, “ Is it wrong to share a dream? After all without dreams, we are but empty shells.”  

It is then made clear, her fantasy life was the only thing that kept her from falling into her own madness. 

• Cast Size: 2M 1W
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• $50 per performance

On a summer night in 1979, a man picks up a male street hustler at a bus station in Houston, Texas, and they go to a motel that caters to the prostitutes that work in the area.  As the evening wears on, the hustler learns that he may be a pawn in a very dangerous game.  A game orchestrated by a man named Jeffery Dahmer.  After completing basic training in the US Army, Dahmer completed his Advanced Individual Training in San Antonio, Texas.  While no known killings happened during Dahmer’s stint in The Lone Star State, this edgy docudrama depicts a possible chance meeting of the man known as the “Milwaukee Monster” and a male prostitute bearing a resemblance to Dahmer’s first murder victim.

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

Becca, a 40-something married woman, has to creatively adapt to her condition of infertility due to “old eggs.” As an adopted woman who has no biological ties to her past, and as an infertile woman, she wrestles with her condition: she is, she say, in “eggs-isle.” Becca dubs herself a “genetic island” as she is adopted and her eggs are “mature” – a fertility euphemism for old. Joined by her alter egos, Estrogen and Lucky, two live puppets, who serve as the chorus, wise fools, and comic relief, the play is full of stories, tragic and funny, about motherhood, fate, the transmission of identity, nature vs. nurture and God. 

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

Howard is an irascible and stubborn WWII naval veteran. He’s also dying. When his college-professor son, Winston, returns home for a visit, the truth about his wartime service begins to emerge. Is it really smoking that has caused Howard’s lung cancer? Or does it have something to do with his ship’s dropping anchor in the Nagasaki harbor a month after it was devastated by an atomic bomb? And why did Howard remain in the military for so long after the war ended – years that, even now, he won’t or can’t talk about? With searing theatricality and emotion, Atomic Field explores the lingering effects of war on one family.

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

It’s hard to label anything, especially when you’re in love. And everything starts looking queer as one tribe decides what it truly means to belong. Andi and Mac are dating, both in their first opposite-sex romantic relationship – they discover the pitfalls of coming-out as bisexual when all of your family and friends already know you as ‘lesbian’ & ‘gay.’ Andi’s ex-girlfriend, Sarah, feels betrayed while other friends, Roger and Arco, struggle with disbelief or the purpose of labels altogether. Regina, Mac’s mother, considers Sal to be his other mother as both women raised him. But Sal soon realizes that Regina will never abandon her public identity as heterosexual, even though both women have shared emotional and physical intimacy over decades of a relationship lived in the shadows. All characters attempt to reconcile these personal identities with their public selves in terms of career, sexuality and relationships while testing the boundaries of LGBTQIA+ inclusiveness.

• Cast Size: 2M 4W 1NB
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

When Jonah and his partner Giancarlo decide to adopt a baby from a foreign country, their friends hold a baby shower for them. But there’s trouble in paradise as Giancarlo had doubts about taking on the responsibility of raising a child. Will the baby help or hurt their relationship?

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

Hamlet was just your average millionaire playboy prince until the king was murdered most foully. And the throne (and queen) seized by a murderous clown and his lackeys. Oh well, revenge solves nothing. Right? Wrong! 

One supernatural origin story later and Bat-Hamlet’s costumed quest begins punching, kicking, and thwarting its way towards justice. But his end has already been written. Or has it?

Bat-Hamlet blurs the line between classic literature and pop culture, suggesting that they might have more in common than your English teacher would care to admit.

• Cast Size: Large Flexible Cast
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Looney TV news anchor Rick Flick reports on the mysterious coma that has overcome all the residents of the King’s Court. The coma is the work of the evil Pixie Patrick of Paxton, who perpetrated the curse because lovely Princess Briar Rose failed to invite him to the gala palace ball. Once the curse is set loose, the race is on to find the one true Prince who can awaken the Sleeping Princess–and her entire court–with a magical kiss. Of course, Patrick will have none of it–unless he himself can be the Kissing Prince and marry the lovely Briar Rose himself! Lots of laughs and lots of action but, in the end, the sweet, romantic story of Sleeping Beauty is told with charm, humor and care. 

• Cast Size: 10M 4W 3 Gender Neutral
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Brutal and poetic, this searing drama follows a promising young attorney who passes up a lucrative offer at a big U.S. law firm to defend the young survivor of an attempted honor killing in her native Turkey. Challenging barbaric traditions and a corrupt legal system, she embarks on a life-changing journey of social activism and self-discovery, while developing an extraordinary bond of sisterhood with her visionary client.

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

Following Aristotelian unities, this Four-Movement Music Drama centers around Beethoven’s obsessive love for his nephew and deep devotion to his “Immortal Beloved.” Like the star-crossed lovers in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, whose tragic romance continues to captivate our consciousness centuries later, the story of Ludwig and Josephine will fascinate today’s audiences as they witness what happens when a great soulmate love – due to deep-seated fears, social conventions, and cultural constraints – falls asunder.  Beethoven endured bouts of insufferable distress and debilitating depression, but ultimately, this indisputable genius used his undying passion and exquisite pain to create some of the world’s most memorable music.

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

In the blink of an eye things are changing; cars replace wagons, television replaces newspapers, jet planes move us farther and farther away. Big Hills, Small Mountains, is a collection of fragmented conversations that happen in a small township of less than 49 square miles. It all takes place on May 12, 1974, between 2:03pm and 2:13pm, in the same moment for all of the characters, unbeknownst to them. The Big world will swallow the Small world of a township, not far from where you are now.

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

Female breasts – entrancing, bothersome, nourishing, aggravating, healthy, unhealthy, hidden, flaunted! A playwright interviews diverse women and two breasts for their personal stories. A girl is furious when her parents don’t give her implants for her 16th birthday. A New Yorker doubles down at the gym when her breasts refuse to defy advancing age. Two new mothers come to grips with nursing. A mammogram is experienced from the P.O.V. of the breasts. Reconstruction after cancer surgery is experienced by a delightfully upbeat young woman. And much more. A patchwork quilt of monologues and duologues touching on the universal through the personal.

• Cast Size: 2-16 actors (Flexible Casting)
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Four vengeful, narcissistic actors, with the assistance of a brutish stage manager and a cynical stagehand, abduct and hold captive a theater critic notorious for shutting down productions and ending careers through his malicious reviews. To confound matters, they intend to carry their plan out during a performance of a show they’re all currently appearing in. Less than an hour before the curtain is due to rise, their scheme begins to quickly unravel as we discover that none of the conspirators are familiar with the actual plan or its designed outcome. Brute Farce is a satirical commentary on the perpetually symbiotic, oftentimes dysfunctional, and occasionally turbulent relationship between actors and reviewers.    

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

Buchenwald explores man’s hunger for power and the fight for something greater than the individual. Set in 1946, the show discloses the continued use of Nazi concentration camps as Soviet extermination camps for the Germans. Imprisoned by the Soviets, Nazi SS Colonel Max Richter reaches out to save the future of his young Soviet guard, Sasha Novsky. Buchenwald was inspired by playwright Cristina A. Bejan’s visit to the concentration camp in 2001 when she was a college student studying abroad in Germany. When she toured the camp, she saw the single prison cell “chalk chamber,” learned of the post-WWII Soviet use of the Nazi camps, and was shocked to learn that many Weimar residents lived in denial of the mass murder in their backyard. This new knowledge haunted her and one night back at Northwestern University Richter and Novsky’s story seized her, and the script for Buchenwald was born. Her senior year of college she produced and directed the play as a joint project within the university’s German and Theatre Departments. Fascism and Russian aggression are again at the forefront on the world stage. This play is a reminder of what is ultimately at risk for us all.

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

A story of Language, Love, Lust, and Loss. Burning up the Dictionary journeys into the tenaciously crumbling relationship of two people who love and need each other but can’t find any room for trust.   The play tracks the dissolution of a relationship through anachronologically distributed scenes.  The couple in the play have come to speak their own language; every word they say to each other is layered with multiple meanings, and we learn the definitions of words as we progress through the play. The play explores the personal language of every relationship and how a common language that once kept people extremely close can also wound and drive them further apart.

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

A vaudeville-style comedy straight out of Saturday morning cartoons. This play has 18 characters and is intended to be performed by only 2 women. Captain Cobalt is an up-and-coming superhero trying to balance her heroic deeds with her secret identity, Cyanna Conda, the lowly pet store clerk. She battles everything from giant squid monsters to cheese-themed supervillains, encountering any number of bystanders (and a love interest) along the way. The final showdown, however, is with Captain Cobalt’s nemesis, the nefarious Dr. Killington, the mad scientist who insists that SHE is the hero of the story. Captain Cobalt et. al. encourage lots of audience interaction (cheering and booing especially) along the way. The set can be as stripped-down or elaborate as the production pleases, but the most important part…all the props are bananas. (Yes, actual literal bananas. The kind that pop when you throw them.)

• CAST SIZE: 2W
• RUNNING TIME: 90+ minutes
• ROYALTY RATE: $75 per performance

Back in the early days of YouTube, Kurt was a minor celebrity vlogger who screamed about video games he hated. Now, he’s left that behind him after he got married, and it’s been years since he’d even thought of his old online persona. Until one night where he is visited by a shadow person…who won’t stop tickling his feet. When Kurt and his wife Patty attempt to catch this shadow person, questions arise about the origins of this being. According to Patty’s favorite podcast, Darkness Calls, these tickling incidents could be the work of a ghost, an alien, a traveler of space-time…. But they have to figure out a solution soon, or else they’ll never experience a good night’s sleep again.

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

What do Mother Teresa, one bad driver, a man telling tall tales to his granddaughter, a missing golf ball, a brand new car, a hero running out of time, the misspellings of children and Satan himself have in common? They’re all fodder for the not-quite-right mind of writer John Busser. These seven one-act plays take you from Calcutta to Mexico, with side trips to golf courses, hospital waiting rooms, suburban homes, and car dealerships. Oh, he’ll also take you to Hell and back for good measure.

• Cast Size: 6M 4W (Gender Flexible on some roles)
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A taboo-breaking drama about a 13-year orphaned girl adopted by a wealthy couple. Once dropped inside their world, she will either make it explode or alter its entire fabric…

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

A modern Cinderella story: in reverse.
Princess Cynthia of Malibu has it all, yet she longs to be “normal.” Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be unremarkable and forgettable? When the paparazzi break the news about her husband’s foot fetish–he’d been caught forcing women throughout town to try on Cindy’s shoes–she seizes her chance and embarks on an adventure to find out who she truly is. Going incognito as Ella, Cindy seeks to prove herself capable without servants and discover what the world outside of celebrity culture really has to offer. Meeting a host of quirky characters while traversing across the Kingdom of California’s urban sprawl, Cindy discovers that what she’s been craving most has been with her all along.

• Cast Size: Flexible; 9-12 (5-7F, 4-5M)
• Running Time: 60+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

This one-act musical comedy follows Catherine, Amy, and Hailey as they navigate the stress of the college admissions process in different ways– Catherine trying to get into her dream school, Amy trying to choose the best option for track and field, and Hailey applying to a whopping sixteen schools to hopefully commit to the Ivy League. The senior class faces pressure on social media, the feeling of falling behind your friends, financial burdens, and the scariest application question there is– who are you?

• Cast Size: 3F 5+ Gender Neutral
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

If a stranger with a cello shows up in a rainstorm claiming to be your husband’s wife, do you let her in? Agoraphobic artist Althea Emory does, and receives a mysterious big red envelope for her trouble. She’s also treated to Bea Lamartino’s wacky wordplay, swordplay, Egyptiana, food fights, melt-downs, and very strange charades.  DENIAL (is not a river in Egypt) is a loopy dark comedy about love, loss, and embalming (yes, onstage, and even funnier than it is gross – which it totally is). DENIAL… it’s also about how women – especially when they have reasons not to – help each other. 

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

When Jasmina, a political refugee seeking asylum in the U.S., suddenly disappears, her tough, wheelchair-using lawyer must track her down. Who is the dog? Who is the wolf? A psychological and political play of intrigue, identity, and pursuit.

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

If you could go back and change your life, would you? – – – A fledgling scientific genius and his little sister grow tired of being teased and neglected by their overprotective mother and deadbeat uncle. When the boy witnesses what he thinks is his uncle’s nefarious deed, he decides to devote himself to creating a miraculous invention that will save him and his sister from their miserable life.

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

Sometime in the not-too-distant future, inside the headquarters of an American school district, District representative Dr. Quell meets with Katherine and Clarissa Clemons, the mother and older sister of troublemaking student, Abraham. The District is fed up with the boy’s misbehavior. No consequence they have ever given the boy has deterred or changed his mischievous ways. New policy adopted by the District dictates that rebellious students who do not respond well to traditional behavioral interventions must be publicly humiliated with the letter “F” “laserbranded” onto their faces. Clarissa argues with Dr. Quell that this is an unacceptable consequence for Abraham—it will ruin his self-esteem forever—but Katherine begins to side with the school district…

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

Knight is a middle-aged Army Reserve Soldier, an experienced veteran now facing physical and spiritual decline. Upon reporting for a month of training at a desolate Wisconsin base he fails his Army ‘fat test’. Now he has a week to lose weight or lose his rank and be sent home. Ahmad is a native Iraqi who claims to be the motel maintenance man (at least that’s what his uniform says), but doesn’t seem to know how to fix anything, including the heat in Knight’s room. These two men form an unlikely bond as they struggle to stay warm, confront painful questions about the past, and try to make sense of why they’ve been brought together.

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

November is the season of endings and beginnings. It is also the time of Esbat, where one is free to frolic and amuse oneself, but it is also a time when anything you are holding onto, for which you’re hoping for some kind of resolution from can finally be released from ones soul into the night air and it is on one such night underneath a full moon inside a red sky where at Sacco’s Café-Bistro, Lisa Crosco and Anthony Santoro with the help of a magical and mystical Maitre d’, meet; these two strangers, both with wounded hearts will discover that the possibilities of true love just might be only one single fallen snowflake away.

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

These unique collections of drama and comedy one-act plays, written by professional women screenwriters, will  enthrall audiences worldwide.  From dysfunctional family relationships, unrequited love, coming-of-age issues, historical pieces about prejudice and discrimination, to life-altering accidental run-ins and absurd communication problems, these plays are crafted by writers trained to entertain for television and film, now turning their talents to the stage.
These anthologies will make you laugh and cry. From fighting over mattresses, confiding secrets to a stranger on an airplane or confronting a cheating spouse, these plays are about the moments that can potentially change a life.  GUILDED plays are diverse, ranging from stories of Chinese immigrants, to a young Latina finding romance, to teenage fashion angst and childhood monsters who threaten in the dark. Take your pick from the women of GUILDED, each one is a gem. 

This collection contains the following plays:

Foodie by Zoila Amelia Galeano

The Apology by Sharon Soboil

Take-Off by Linda Shayne 

Hysteria by Susan Cinoman

Happy Talk by Valérie A. Brotski 
Sizzler by Ellen Ancui

The Pinky Promise Dissolution Service by Tracy Held 

The Monster in the Dark by Catherine Wignall

These unique collections of drama and comedy one-act plays, written by professional women screenwriters, will  enthrall audiences worldwide.  From dysfunctional family relationships, unrequited love, coming-of-age issues, historical pieces about prejudice and discrimination, to life-altering accidental run-ins and absurd communication problems, these plays are crafted by writers trained to entertain for television and film, now turning their talents to the stage.
These anthologies will make you laugh and cry. From fighting over mattresses, confiding secrets to a stranger on an airplane or confronting a cheating spouse, these plays are about the moments that can potentially change a life.  GUILDED plays are diverse, ranging from stories of Chinese immigrants, to a young Latina finding romance, to teenage fashion angst and childhood monsters who threaten in the dark. Take your pick from the women of GUILDED, each one is a gem. 

This collection contains the following plays:

The Wife and Other Woman by Maria Elena Rodriguez

Gaslighting by Monique Sorgen             

Gam Saan by Amy Joe

Natural Son by Cheryl L. Davis

Boot Night by Carissa Kosta                    

Fifteen Candles by Linda Dillon Moya                       

Silver Linings by Susie Singer Carter 

Newlyweds Jake and Luna are headed for epic calamity. Impulsively eloping after meeting on a bungee jump, they now must discover the stranger they married. But their wish for a marriage of constant surprises becomes more than they bargained for. First, they have no place to live, and every attempt to solve this only creates more mess. They deal with quirky roommates, Mari and Stan, by unwisely trying to match-make them. Then they must cope with mysterious disappearances, violence, intruding interlopers, and a disastrous dinner party ending in a mystical disco dance. As Jake and Luna bring their dreamy romance back to earth, they see their crazy love contagious to the people surrounding them. 

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

A bride visits her groom in prison… still in her wedding dress! Two women bury the body of their blackmailer. A composer returns home after an accident has taken away their talent and passion. Lucrezia Borgia, Aimee Semple McPherson, and the Devil rehearse a Nativity play in Purgatory.

Four visions of Hell: romantic, gothic, artistic, and theatrical.

In four short plays that can be performed as an evening or individually:

BULLETPROOF LOVE (1F/1M)

THE FALLOW GARDEN (2F)

O, FOR A MUSE OF FIRE (2A)

SOMEWHERE SOUTH OF BETHLEHEM (2F/1M(or A))

The Board members of Central Ohio’s Romance Authors of America are on edge tonight. Their beloved long-time treasurer Evie St. James has embezzled club funds, and the members are about to debate whether or not to press charges. Evie herself joins the proceedings in the form of a spirit, accompanied by her chief nemesis and male muse The Player. The Player is muse to everyone present. Through brief depictions of scenes from the members’ various romantic novels as well as flashbacks of Evie’s personal interactions with Board members, this seriocomedy explores the nature of romance, friendship and forgiveness, and that line—perhaps thin—which separates creativity and madness. Loosely based on a true story.

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

It’s the Roaring 20s, and sugary sodas like root beer have been outlawed by the outrageous 18 ½ Amendment. Detective Holly Abel is short on cases, but when she reads about a suspected ring of soda smugglers operating in town, her toes begin to tingle. Then, a group of strangers whose stories sound very familiar barge into her office, begging her to find their lost mothers, and she knows her time has come to earn some clams! Is it a lot of phonus balonus, or are the Brothers Grimm headed to the big house? Will Holly & Opal figure out why the mothers are always missing in fairy tales? If we know our onions, this delightful ensemble play for young performers and family audiences is the bee’s knees! Holly Abel is root beer barrels full of fun for casts and audiences of all ages, so get on the trolley with Holly, Opal and a gaggle of fairy tale characters!

• Cast Size: 6M 18W 3NB
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

A House by the Side of the Road: Clyde and his sons Steve and Dan sit on the back porch on a summer evening listening to the Detroit Tigers play baseball on the radio and learn that you don’t have to play the game to be in it.

Blind No. 7: Clyde, Dan and Steve spend a morning duck-hunting, telling dad-jokes, and being together.

And the Wisdom to Know the Difference: Clyde stops by to see Dan on visiting day at the treatment center.

A Moment of Clarity: Clyde and Dan share memories and truths.

Favorite Son: Dan and Steve are waiting to visit their father who is in hospice care. As they sort through the arrangements, they sort through their relationship, bracing themselves for what’s coming next.

I’ll Be Here: Clyde and Dan spend some time together in the woods where they used to go birdwatching.

Good Grief: Dan stops by the forest to visit Clyde and meets his new lifelong companion. He’s an attractive young man named Grief, and he and Dan are going to get to know each other very well.

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

It’s the year 2000, and our protagonist, newly-divorced A., has just moved into a new apartment. The apartment is empty except for a series of moving boxes, a landline telephone and an answering machine. A. is attempting to create new material for a performance piece as she embarks on her new life, but her judgmental, immigrant Italian mother keeps interrupting her with continuous phone calls lecturing A. on how A. should live her life and decorate her apartment. The two women struggle to understand one another, and each phone conversation inspires A. to create yet another character that explores the hysterical and universal struggles between an immigrant Italian mother and her Americanized daughter, and, ultimately, the struggle between all mothers and their adult children.

• Cast Size: 1W or multiple performers 
• Running Time: About an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $50 per performance

“HUCKLEBERRY TOWERS” follows a retired couple, Henry and Helen Auburn, as they make the difficult decision to sell their family home – at the request of their daughter and son – and move into a retirement community.  They find their new home consists of a variety of colorful characters who maintain their independence and zest for living. Suddenly, however, an unexpected threat to the community emerges in the form of a successful real-estate developer. To counter progress, everyone rallies together in an effort to demonstrate that “old people matter!”

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

In the South Bronx, three teenagers struggle to survive where not living beyond today is just another heartbreak and gunshot away.

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

Jack is an average man trapped in a post-apocalyptic world. Separated from the person he most loves, he is forced to find ways to combat his loneliness by any means necessary including striking up a heartfelt and quite genuine friendship with a scarecrow. It is through this newfound relationship that Jack discovers new purpose in life even if it takes him further away from reality.

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

The classic story of Mowgli the Man-Cub springs to life in this lively and spirited adaptation of “The Jungle Book.” Raised by wolves and protected by a wise panther and semi-narcoleptic bear, Mowgli’s adventures take him from a crumbling ancient city to a run in with a massive python, to a climactic showdown with the ferocious tiger, Shere Khan. Filled with action, heart, and all your favorite characters from the Rudyard Kipling classic, this retelling puts a fresh spin on the story we all know and love, while weaving a lesson about finding one’s place in this vast and wild world.

• Cast Size: 4M 4W 5-22 ANY GENDER
• Running Time: 90 minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Sometimes we lose sight of what matters most.

Barry, an acclaimed artist, races the clock to finish his last painting before a progressive illness takes his sight. Haunted by the ghost of his grandfather (Nolan) and forced to rely on the help of a woman he jilted in high school (Amy), Barry must confront the lost and damaged relationships of his past before he can face his future. Will Barry be able to do this before he loses his sight?

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

Army wife Kate faces the toughest night of her life after learning of an attack at Camp Freedom, the Iraqi base camp where her new husband, Ray, is deployed. Unable to get information of whether Ray is dead or alive, Kate cries herself to sleep fearing the worst only to be visited three times by visions of Ray – a past, present, and (possible) future version of the man she loves. Through these interactions, the audience learns how they fell in love, the unique challenges of being a military couple and how overwhelming it is to be separated during war. This love story crescendos with sharp feelings, dramatic moments, and even some comedic levity all while draped in the constant uncertainty of whether Ray is already dead. Clues to Ray’s fate will keep the audience guessing until the play’s emotional climax, which delivers a new appreciation and admiration for military couples.

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

MAD FOR MYSTERY offers a full evening of tasty shorts sure to satisfy a mystery lover’s palette. This collection of six one-act plays, offering roles for Gen Z to age 50+ actors, serves up a smorgasbord of “who-dunnits” with a madness chaser, sure to sate your audience’s senses. 

Each unique play tackles plot twists and turns that make MAD FOR MYSTERY a memorable night of theatre, taking on all your favorite motives for murder – love, greed, buried secrets, and of course, a distinctive dose of revenge. 

Join us in witnessing the full experience of the unpredictable under belly of human nature gone awry – that magic that makes for the wonderful genre of mystery. 

• Cast Size: Flexible Casting
• Running Time: Variable
• Royalty Rate: $75 for the Full Evening, $15 for individual plays

This is the story of Romie and Bernice, the love they share and the world that keeps them apart. The heart of Eros, guarded by witches, burns deep within Mount Socrates and demands sacrifice. Those who live on the mountain are forced to mine the magic and serve Mama Massey, who holds the power of Eros.  Romie refused. Rejected by the town, he lives as a lowly outlier. Then one day, fate brings Romie to Bernice, a girl stuck between Massey’s town and a world beyond her own.  But “the mountain chooses, the mountain calls, deny the mountain and it will destroy all you love.” And it’s calling out to Romie. 

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

As the school year comes to an end; Amy is desperate to make some memories. Unfortunately, nothing exciting has happened until the principal goes missing! Can Amy organize a secret group of students to find out what happened to him before the bullies find out he’s gone!?

• Cast Size: 1M 3B 3G (Gender Flexible)
• Running Time: Under and Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per Performance

Making It Up As We Go Along

The story of how two down-on-their-luck mountebanks and one enterprising woman invented Commedia, by accident, on a Wednesday afternoon.

The New Kid

There’s a new kid at school.  The only problem is, he’s a zombie.

• Cast Size: 4M 2F (Making it Up As We Go Along) 5-6 M / 1-2 F (The New Kid)
• Running Time: 120+ minutes (Together) Under an Hour seperately
• Royalty Rate: $75 when produced together, $40 separately.

Mamma Mia – La Befana?! weaves the ancient Italian Epiphany tale, La Befana, into a contemporary American setting. Could the fun loving sixty-something Nonna from Florida really be the thousands of years old scruffy old woman who on January 5th delivers gifts to the good children and coal to the bad? The answer becomes evident as Nonna/Befana uses her holiday magic to find her lost and injured granddaughter, Mary.  Every January, La Befana finds all the Italian children in the world, this year she finds one very special Italo-Americana, her granddaughter.

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

Mourning a matriarch is hard enough without her head sitting on the kitchen table talking to you every day. This peculiar situation is a reality for Robert, a wannabe playwright stuck in the family business after the untimely decapitation of his mother. As Robert and his father go at each other’s throats, Mama plots the best way to reunite with the rest of her body.

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

With comedy, poignant anecdotes, and a little bit of Yiddish, Arielle takes us through growing up in a conservative Jewish household and then falling in love with a non-Jew. In a time of otherness, My Shiksa Boyfriend asks, how can we honor both our past and our future?

• Cast Size: 1W
• Running Time: About an hour
• Royalty Rate: $50 per performance

Amanda is an upbeat professional from California preparing to start a new job in Boston. With the guidance of a well-meaning real estate agent (Shirley), she encounters hilarious surprises as she seeks the perfect roommate… virtually. The cast of potential roomies includes a pet enthusiast, a theater afficionado, a shady mobster, and a house full of rowdy gamers. Will Amanda ever find the perfect roommate? Will she learn how to pronounce the names of Massachusetts towns? Will Shirley ever master the mute button? Making comical use (and misuse!) of video conferencing features, this 12-scene virtual play can be pre-recorded or performed live for audiences of all ages.

• Cast Size: 1M 3W 2-11 ANY
• Running Time: About an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The monster of climate crisis is staring eleven year-old Savannah right in the face, and she’s petrified. She is convinced she’s too young, too ignorant, and too powerless to help stop the destruction, and she despairs in her attempts to write poetry and make videos calling for change. When the non-human beings of the Earth – animal, plant, and mineral — call a council to inspire humans to take action, though, it’s Savannah they invite to sit in the seat reserved for humans. The trees, forest deities, and the council of all beings shower their pledges of help on Savannah, but it may not be enough to convince her of her own abilities. That’s where a little forest magic may come in handy… A play for young audiences. 

• Cast Size: 1G (Flexible Additional Cast)
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Everyone in mid-century Dublin knows Mamie Cadden — she’s the boorish woman who motors around the city in her bright red sports car. She also happens to be a notorious backstreet abortionist who profits off the secrets of Dublin’s most powerful men. When the body of pregnant Helen O’Reilly is found dumped outside of Mamie’s flat, the infamous nurse is sentenced to hang. Can a Divine intervention save Nurse Cadden’s soul before it’s too late?

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

Set in the far distant future, One Empire, Under God – an epic, dystopian drama in two acts – tells the story of how an emotionally disturbed young man – with the help of virtual media technology – is able to rise to political power by inciting an uprising against America’s openly atheist president, and subverting democratic and military rule throughout Western civilization, paving the way for him and his descendants to rule for generations to come. Every step toward a more perfect union is followed by an enormous reactionary backlash. That historical trend remains very much alive in the future, as seen in this provocative indictment of nationalism, imperialism, and religious extremism.

Cast Size; 6M 4W 4NB

As Alicia, a tech-savvy teenager from San Francisco, is recovering from the death of her mother Patricia, her sister Frances drowns in a freak accident. Alicia is determined to create a virtual reality app to bring Frances back to life, but her father Garrett and aunt Jody, partners in their own VR company, stand in her way. Frances returns as a winged spirit, as Alicia confronts her hidden trauma and creates a different path towards healing. 

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

Jameson is a troubled community college student in love with Fiona, his Psychology 101 professor. Jameson has adored Fiona since he was a small boy and Fiona was his live-in nanny. Fiona is in love with David, Jameson’s extremely wealthy and powerful father who everyone regards as a genius and a wonderful man but who is in truth terribly cruel to Jameson. Jameson becomes convinced that David and Fiona had an earlier affair when Fiona was the nanny and this led to his mother’s suicide. Jameson resolves to expose the earlier affair, ruin his father, and free Fiona from his clutches. But how does a neurotic child defeat a genius father without becoming a genius oneself?

• Cast Size: 3M 2W 1NB
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Growing up gay in the “fabulous” 70s was no picnic for the precocious budding writer Phillie McDougal. Through nuns, priests, bullying classmates, parents – and years later the realization his best friend may not be the person he thought she was – he lived to tell the tales, with results no one bargained for. Including him.

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

In the ‘super-natural’ drama Piece of the Sky, the battle between fate and free will takes its toll as six souls search for meaning and truth outside of the confines of time.

Gilbert, while drinking to forget his troubles, introduces himself to Jack, who has stopped off at the bar to relax before heading home to his young son. Total strangers, Benjamin and Gabby, happen upon each other while celebrating the end of a long work week with friends. The two pairs’ soul-tending, angelic bartenders are struggling with the meaning of life and their responsibilities towards humanity. All six characters take a philosophical journey toward a deep understanding of their places in and out of time.

• Cast Size: 3M 1W 2 ANY
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Valerie’s world is turned upside down when she learns she is being unjustly fired by St. Sebastian University. As she attempts to save her career from freefall, she discovers the corruption running rampant among her conservative, religious male colleagues. Meanwhile, Valerie’s star student, Marina, is lured into sex work to pay her tuition. As the costs become too high to bear, Valerie and Marina find the seedy underbellies of their career paths exposed, but which profession is more corrupt isn’t entirely clear. As religion, sex, and politics collide, both women must answer the question: how much should be sacrificed for a job?

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

Granny hasn’t been visited by her red-hooded grandson in a while, and with Dementia being the only one keeping her company, she can’t remember how long it’s been or who he is when he waltzes through her door. In this contemporary twist on Little Red Riding Hood, what Wesley thought would be a simple trip to Granny’s house, turns into a battle against Dementia to remind her who he is…long enough to reveal the reason behind his spontaneous visit. 

• Cast Size: 1M 2W
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

A poignant and often funny slice-of-life piece, set in a park over a period of four days, where the central characters, a retired old man and an autistic park keeper, navigate the diverse personalities of the park regulars.  When the well-intended actions of the park keeper cause the tragic death of a little boy, the park keeper becomes overwhelmed with guilt, frustration, and despair.  The old man helps the park keeper find hope through the grief so they can bring comfort to the mother who lost her son.  Sage is a heart-warming and heart-breaking story that reminds us of the value of differences and the importance of every little human connection.

• Cast Size: 6M 3W 2 ANY
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

What do we do when the past refuses to let the present move into the future? Five contemporary women find themselves bound in varying degrees to what happened to Eastern European Jews during World War II. Four of the women are second- and third-generation descendants of Holocaust victims. The fifth is a survivor herself. The protagonist in the play is losing her sense of identity in a debilitating way. She needs to know details of what happened to the survivor, her grandmother, or all will be lost. In desperation she reaches out to strangers and the stories unfold, the secrets are revealed. With varying degrees of success, the past is confronted and dealt with. Based on true stories and extensive interviews.

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

Based on the work of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, the Sound of Silence follows Robert Graham and Anna Hart as they embark on their pursuit of following their dreams in showbiz. The two cross paths at the most renowned theater in Hollywoodland. Robert is working as a stagehand and Anna is starring in her first play. Upon meeting, the two heroes experience love at first sight only to be separated and brought together for the rest of their lives. Will their love be able to persist through the trials and tribulations or will it fall by the wayside? Only one thing is certain…silence is golden, but true love is pure.

• Cast Size: 2M 1W 3+ Gender Neutral
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In a crumbling chain hotel, two estranged daughters, come together to care for their dying, demented mother. Each of their traumatic pasts and shaky futures converge in one night of surreal, burlesque devastation. Together, this prickly family of three, find their deepest love, longing, and losses as they attempt to escape an ancestry of demons as well as the rented room they seem unable to leave.

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

In 16^th Century Hungary, working for the most powerful women in the country is the hope of any young peasant girl. Zsuzsanna’s time has come. Intelligent and independent, she is aware her future lies within the castle walls. Elizabeth Bathory, of quiet disinterest and strength of fortitude, has discovered a secret; a soothing salve to alleviate pain, slow the ravages of age, and quiet the voices. Zsuzsanna’s success could be Elizabeth’s salvation.  Based on historical events shrouded in the fortress of the most prolific serial killer in history, enter a world where the fight for survival is common, but an unknowable destiny tests the tenuous grasp of sanity and soul.

• Cast Size: 6M 10W 1 Gender Neutral
• Running Time: Under an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Tinderbox takes place during the East St. Louis Riots of 1917. The Potts Family, black migrant workers from the South, arrive along with 470 other blacks in February 1917 at the height of management-labor conflict and increased racial tensions in industrial East St. Louis. The play leads up to the May 27 conflicts leading up to the deadly July 2 attacks by white rioters on blacks, the wanton destruction of property in the black section of East St. Louis, and the senseless massacre of hundreds of Blacks. The mob violence escalates, threatens the South End section of East St. Louis where they live, and the Potts are forced to defend themselves from imminent danger.

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

Dina Kummerspeck, a filmmaker in a small country that isn’t America, has been taken by the newly-fascist government and tortured for making supposedly seditious films. Now returned home under house arrest with an electric shackle on her ankle, she and her husband Tomas invite over their actor friends for a party, but unbeknownst to them, it’s going to be a secret reading of Dina’s new screenplay loosely based on her torture.

Cast Size: 3M 3W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

“The Three Graces” moves Chekov’s “Three Sisters” to a segregated army base in the South during World War II where three daughters of a Black General deal with love, friendship, racism, and sibling rivalry. The play celebrates The Three Graces of every woman of color: Brilliance, Joy, and Flowering. While this play captures the differences still existing between the North and the South, as well as the stresses that arise between parents and children, siblings, and men and women, it is primarily a play about one family’s life together, with the warmth and memories of the past. It is a joyful celebration of Black lives with an emotional and dramatic ending. The work is also historic in how it accurately depicts how Black soldiers were treated at the time, thanks to playwright Zane A. Coleman who served in a military base like the one depicted in the play.

• Cast Size: 6M 5W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Shortly after her husband’s premature passing, Cedar finds herself with two new tenants in her home. Her husband would have eased the transition of Dawn, her mother-in-law, but now that task is up to her. Then there’s Reed, whose baggage is mostly metaphorical, except for the turtle, Ambrose. The three must learn how to cohabitate while Cedar prepares to bring yet another member into the household, an adopted baby.

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

Twelve short interconnected plays based in modern day France at Christmas time. Twelve stories set in Paris, Brittany, Normandy and Provence which weave together wild boars and hunters, swans on the Seine, partridges in plum trees, lonely lovers and more… 

• Cast Size: 2M 4W w/ Flexible Casting
• Running Time: 60+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

What makes a play “unproduceable?” These shorts present thoughtful challenges to actors, designers, and directors. Some of them…have even been produced!

• Cast Size: Flexible
• Running Time: Variable
• Royalty Rate: $75 for the whole evening, $15 for individual plays

Several years after the country falls under the sway of criminal corruption, Maddie (a former activist turned convenience store clerk) finds herself stuck in her dead-end job, without hope and unable to move forward. When a gun-toting convenience store burglar convinces her to embrace the new America and turn to crime, Maddie embarks on a surreal journey involving a punk rocker, an philandering academic, a former child actor and a man in a giant penguin suit. WAYS TO BE HAPPY is a post-Trumpian comedy about rediscovering hope when you’re surrounded by insanity.

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

Paul and Anthony have been friends since birth. Paul said his first word in Anthony’s kitchen. But screw Missouri. Screw freshman year. They wanna live in this really cool patch of woods Paul found. Girls are coming! This is going to be a very good night. Anthony is pretty nervous. What happens when the girls actually get here? 

Suddenly, the sounds of the woods are electronic. Suddenly they are older. They’re coming back here. What has life done to each of them? There’s blood? Paul’s blood. He’s desperate.

“Anthony? Help. Please.”

Will he?

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

Famed playwright, inventor and actor William Gillette has just opened “Sherlock Holmes” at the Garrick Theatre to rave reviews; he meets his old friend, colleague and fellow founding Players club member James O’Neill following its Broadway debut to await the reviews and talk about success, happiness, family and the golden handcuffs of becoming a Matinee Idol of the Gilded Age as O’Neill already has with “The Count of Monte Cristo”, and their ghosts – William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Helen, Robert & Mary Gillette, and Edmund O’Neill – visit them.

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

After an unspeakable tragedy strikes, siblings Bianca and Evan are left to try and pick up the pieces. Both siblings attempt to cope in their own ways, Evan choosing to self-medicate while Bianca starts to seek help from an unconventional outside source. What both might not realize is that they could be getting much more than either of them bargained for, and this realization threatens to ruin all the progress they’ve made. With both parties keeping secrets along the journey to cope with what they’ve lost, the revelation of the truth might be more than either of them can bear. 

• Cast Size: 2M 1W
• Running Time: About an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $50 per performance

When a company that produces a sexual enhancement drug relocates to a religious factory town in northern Minnesota, and its fumes begin to enter the air, the puritanical beliefs of the townspeople begin to waver. Long held inhibitions release and untold secrets spurt forth as the town spills into debaucherous revelry. For the pious Pastor Johnson, it means the arrival of the devil. For the tempting Dr. Corazon De La Fuente, who runs the factory, it is a wonder to be studied. Stuck in the middle is Mayor Frankie, anxiously watching as his town populace begin giving into wildest urges. Fargo meets Frankenfurter in this wacky comedy that is based on true events until it’s not.

• Cast Size: 6M 5W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Like Bette Davis said, “growing old is not for sissies,” and this collection of 20 short plays by Debra A. Cole offers vivid and powerful voices to the adventure that everyone goes through, if we’re lucky. Plays range from 5 minutes to 12 minutes each including the audience favorite The Wrinkle Ranch, where the ladies of Rancho Felicidad Assisted Living Facility are done playing Scrabble and ready to ride the ponies once more as the sun continues to set on the ranch. Whether performed as just one single play, a small collection, or an entire evening, these plays will speak to audiences of all ages about the very real and very human aging process with humor, respect, and meaningful moments, as well as offer seasoned performers outstanding opportunities to bring colorful and well-rounded characters to life. These plays may be performed together or licensed independently!

• Cast Size: FLEXIBLE CASTS AND RUNTIMES
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance for the full evening. Contact for individual plays

New York City, 1897. Christmas is almost here, and eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon is beside herself with excitement. Suddenly, though, she finds herself facing a crisis of belief when her friends tell her Santa Claus is a myth. Filled with doubt, Virginia asks everyone she knows to tell her the truth: Is Santa Claus real or not? Still unsure and dissatisfied, she finally takes her father’s advice and famously writes a letter to the New York Sun newspaper for a definitive answer to that most crucial of questions. Funny and heartwarming, this holiday play will delight audiences of all ages.

• Cast Size: 2M 7F (3adults, 4 children)
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

The play takes place at a yoga retreat and reveals a variety of characters (including a blind woman and her dog) seeking love, peace, and friendship. They are all in love with the yoga teacher, who is present as a voice and only appears at the end when he adjusts each of them in a pose. The group succeed in becoming a community. 

• Cast Size: 3M 6W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

YOUR LITHOPEDION is a dark comedy about a serial killer who becomes the founder of Serial Killers Anonymous and how that ruins his marriage. You’ll never think of 80’s rock in the same way again. The show uses a false-narrative that parallels how the characters are false-people pretending towards humanity. The play constantly subverts time, space, and story, while always teasing with a feeling of narrative—an almost-narrative perhaps. This play walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, but on close inspection is really a fish. A very murderous fish. Remember, it’s a comedy.   

• Cast Size: 1M or 1W (with expandable casting)
• Running Time: 60+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance