It’s the winter of 2017. Recently divorced and raising her child alone in the town in which she grew up, Julie has returned to Guilford, CT. Upon the mysterious visit of a stranger on a snowy night, Julie is prompted to return to her childhood home. After some misgivings, she does so, and it is in that home from her past that she experiences flashbacks to her beloved brother’s fall into the grasp of mental illness. Poetic, touching, and honest, 77 U-Turn is about going home again, parenting, love, loss, confusion and what happens when we turn around and look back before moving forward.

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

Hilarious yet tender, this coming-of-age story focuses on narrator and central character Frank, opening the play using food-as-metaphor in recounting his immigrant parents’ journey from Sicily to Brooklyn. Young Frank and siblings Phil and Jennie are unfortunate witnesses to the volatile relationship between their overworked father Gaspare and domineering mother Maria. Years of volatility in her explosive marriage, plus the struggle of finding footing in a new country, take a mental-emotional toll on Maria. In the summer of 1966, she returns to Sicily with 7 year-old Frank in tow. There, Frank is exposed to the land’s rustic culture. He meets his colorful relatives, experiences death for the first time plus the histrionics that ensue, all leave an indelible imprint on his young psyche. Back in Brooklyn, Frank quickly becomes the buffer, nimbly maneuvering between his warring parents. Now, wanting to claim his own manhood and identity, he dances through the disco era eventually landing in a laugh-out-loud visit to a Nevada brothel. After his father’s sudden death, Maria takes emotional stranglehold of Frank’s life. He learns release the “husband role”, finally creating a healthy mother-son relationship. Frank eventually meets Teresa, also a child of Sicilian parents. They marry and honeymoon in Sicily where, after 29 years, Frank reconnects with his family. Compassion and forgiveness ultimately bring healing to his parents’ story.

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

The Screaming Skull
Capt. Braddock, a retired seaman, tells a haunting tale about the local doctor who he suspects of murdering his wife.  Braddock, who inherits the doctor’s seaside cottage, has also inherited a mysterious skull in a hat box. But when he tries to get rid of it, the screams begin. Will Capt. Braddock become the next victim of gruesome intrigue surrounding the screaming skull?

The Upper Berth
A business traveler named Brisbane recalls securing a haunted berth on a steamship bound for Liverpool.  During the first night of the voyage, his roommate runs screaming out of the cabin and throws himself overboard.  Brisbane soon learns that three other men who booked Room 105 have killed themselves in the same fashion, and he recruits the ship’s captain to help investigate matters that strike him as altogether ‘supernatural.’

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

Midnight.  Late December, 1937.  Reed, a disgraced archeologist and aesthete, is running for his life.  Having stolen an ancient amulet from the fetid grave of a neglected Holland churchyard, he locks himself in the library of his London townhouse in order to evade the pursuit of some “malign being.”  In shocking detail, he recounts a gruesome testimony of unnatural occurrences surrounding the totem’s theft… and the appalling consequences for all who come to possess it.

Cast Size: 1-2M

Running Time: Under an Hour

Royalty Rate: $40 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

Kate Carden knows that, sometimes, keeping your boyfriend in a dog crate is a perfectly logical thing to do. In an unfiltered, no-holds-barred seminar, the self-described interpersonal guru takes her audience on a hilarious and heartbreaking exploration of relationships and reality, seasoned with adult language and candid sexual references. It’s everything you wanted to know about relationships but didn’t have the balls to ask. But,just when Kate is on the verge of complete clarity, an unexpected discovery changes everything.

• Cast Size: 1W
• Running Time: 60+ 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

Addressing a group of incarcerated teenage female offenders, Edna, the donut lady of Hayward, CA,shares her story of survival. How, through stubbornness, creativity, a capacity for love, and God’s peculiar care, she escaped her would be destroyers and found salvation in, of all things, donuts. Herhome and donut shop have provided abused and neglected youth safe haven for years. After listening to her speak, one of the young inmates was overheard saying, “I feel like I just spent an hour listening to the sun talk about darkness.”

• Cast Size: 1W
• Running Time: About an Hour
• Royalty Rate: $50 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

On the day of his retirement the famed “Nazi Hunter” Simon Wiesenthal welcomes one final group of students to his Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna, Austria. With warmth, wit and surprising humor this charming man known as “The Conscience of the Holocaust” recounts the remarkable story of how, after cheating death at the hands of Hitler’s dreaded S.S, he dedicated his life to tracking down and bringing to justice the greatest mass murderers in human history.

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

New England, 1891.  Jane, a sensitive and imaginative young woman, finds herself sequestered on a remote estate that her husband, a physician, has rented for the summer.  She is forbidden to write, and must hide her journal entries as she recuperates from what he has diagnosed as a “temporary nervous depression” following the birth of their baby.  Without anything or anyone to stimulate her, Jane becomes obsessed with the wallpaper in her bedroom as the effect of her domestic oppression and stifled creativity begins to take a toll on her sanity.

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