A family plagued with addiction and abuse has their world turned upside down when one member reaches a catastrophic breaking point. A grim but touching look into the origin of the all-consuming demon of shame that conspires to torture a matriarch for the sins of her husband and sons, and ultimately herself.

• Cast Size: 1F, 5M, 5+ either
• Running Time: UIL Length (Near 40 minutes)
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

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

If a dancer falls in the forest…

The ripple effect caused by the disappearance of a ballet dancer, as told to us by those affected, near and far. A modern-day reimagining of THE RED SHOES, told in monologues for 1 to 20 actors.

• Cast Size: 5W, 1M
• Running Time: Approx 85 minutes
• Royalty: $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

And Lightning Struck: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Creation by Robert Weibezahl is an atmospheric historical drama that delves into the intimate life of Mary Shelley, the writer of Frankenstein. It is a story about Mary herself—not an adaptation of Frankenstein, but rather the story of how this literary genius came to write it. Mary Godwin Shelley was only eighteen years old when she “gave birth” to her classic story and the Creature at the heart of it. Along with her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and their friends, including Lord Byron, Mary was part of a group of freethinkers who lived life by their own rules, often provoking scandal. The Creature himself gives voice to Mary’s beliefs about creation, humanity, and art as he descends into the vengeful madness of the novel’s plot. At the play’s end Mary rejects the past—or does she?

• Cast Size: 4M/3F or 6M/3F/1NB if no doubling
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance
• Running Time: 90+ minutes

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

Lisa & Eddie Fairchild had a rough upbringing, which is why they’ve always been fiercely loyal to each other, even when Eddie went to prison for rape and assault on his former girlfriend. Now, years after his release Lisa finds him on her doorstep in the middle of the night with fresh scratch marks and talking about an incident with a young woman. With the police on his tail, led by the tenacious DI Jenkins, who’s determined to put Eddie back behind bars, Lisa has to make a decision about who she will believe.

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

As a tornado threatens to tear the town apart, Hannah finds herself to be an unexpected guest in Doug and Vivian’s basement refuge. It’s 1965, and civil rights meet civil war as the trio struggle to survive this shelter from the storm.

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

Silvia and Cat Henson have just moved from a tiny apartment in Washington, DC, into their sprawling dream home in the small, affluent town of Greenville, Delaware. Their new house, however, was recently the home of a teenaged mass shooter and his single mother. Is this the right time and place for Silvia and Cat to bring a new baby into the world, or will the house create an irreparable rift between them and their new community?

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

The story of Pinocchio told in a new and exciting way! With Brecthian theatre elements dive into this magical world full of faires, puppets without strings, and a whole lot of heart!

• Cast Size: 3M 3W 3-27 Any gender
• Running Time 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In 1957 in the southern U.S., a young boy is missing and later found dead of a hit and run. Alcohol is the cause, and a family is torn apart when it is discovered that one of them is the driver. Black-out drunk on the night of the hit and run, Olivia Jacobs must deal with the realization that she could do such a thing. Broken promises, broken family…but is Olivia really the person responsible? The family is hit once again as the truth comes out. 

• Cast Size: 5m 7W Plus extras
• Running Time: 40 minutes
• Royalty: $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

Luke Krueger intertwines his adaptation of Geoffrey Chaucer’s beloved classic with the well-known rivalry, made famous by Shakespeare, between Richard II and Henry Bolingbroke…a time in which Chaucer lived and thrived. As Richard waits to launch for Ireland to suppress rebellion, he grows increasingly paranoid regarding Henry’s whereabouts and the presence of Lady Joan de Bohun, Henry’s mother-in-law, within his court. Chaucer arrives to court unannounced, apparently to secure patronage for his latest draft of the Tales. Mocked and taunted by Richard and his Dukes of Exeter and Surrey, Chaucer en-treats Richard to watch the Talesplayed out by the company of jongleurs at his court. Richard soon surmises that the Tales are actually encrypted messages from Chaucer, a wily states-man and spy, as to the machinations of Henry. Richard’s paranoia and delusions of grandeur cloud his judgment, and he embarks on his ill-fated expedition to Ireland.    

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

How do you prepare a little girl to slay a dragon? A traumatized child who has stopped speaking is helped by a therapist who struggles to peel back the layers of mistrust by entering the internal world of this little girl to help her confront the dragon that has stolen her voice and now threatens to completely destroy her. 

• Cast Size: 3M 5W 1G
• Running Time: 2 hrs.
• Royalty: $75 per performance
• Available for UIL: $40 per performance for contest use. 

Kevin D. Ferguson’s A Christmas Carol is a faithful adaptation of Dickens’ novella sure to please any fan of the original Christmas-time ghost story and amaze younger audience members new to the telling. Full of authentic Victorian Christmas carols that conjure the Yuletide mood, this family-friendly telling of the classic story nevertheless maintains the spookier edge of this cautionary tale. Come follow Ebeneezer Scrooge as the ghosts take him on a journey of redemption sure to put the “fa la la la la” in everyone’s holiday.

• Cast Size: 9M 5W (with doubling)
• Running Time: 2 hrs
• Royalty: $75 per performance

Meet Howard Suffect, he’s a brilliant physicist with wisdom that could change the way the world sees itself. Yet there’s one problem – his life is a train wreck —about make a fatal crash. Enter Derrick Wyman. Wyman claims to be Howie’s actual “dreamweaver”. A metaphysical, quantum odyssey, Coffeehouse Magik gently probes the integration of life’s dimensions by weaving together dreams and waking reality into one seamless garment. As lonely, forlorn Howie meets his Destiny, he realizes the power to change misery to joy is found in every human heart- simply put, it is the will to love.

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cast Size: 2M 1W (w/doubling) 2M/F

Running Time: 90+ minutes

When Fletcher Driscoll returned to his hometown to direct Romeo and Juliet, he never expected to end up in his own star-crossed romance with Jeff, a recently out divorcé with a complicated past. Nor was he prepared to confront Tommy, his high school best friend who broke his heart… repeatedly and on purpose. A powerful drama about the resonance of loss, Composure is for everyone who has ever loved the wrong person and worries that it’s too late to find the right one.

• Cast Size: 4M 2W
• 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

It is 1816, the Year without a Summer, and the greatest ghost story of all time is about to begin. But in order for that to happen, Mary must work through her self-doubts of womanhood, her place as a writer, her conflict with her dead mother, and Claire, always Claire there in her life, not to mention Percy, the ultimate bad boy Lord Byron, and the boyish advances of Dr. John Polidori. Tucked away in Byron’s villa in Switzerland, these five people are present at the inception of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly’s 

Frankenstein. Discover how a young girl becomes an independent woman, a free thinker for the ages, navigates a complicated love life, and establishes herself as one of the greatest storytellers of all time.

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

It is the near-future and America is in the midst of civil war. Christian fundamentalists have won control of the federal government, banned all other religions, and rewritten the Constitution, doing away with the Bill of Rights. As a result, some units of the U.S. military are in revolt. As the war rages, an Army patrol fighting in the Rocky Mountains is forced to take refuge in a remote cabin now owned by a former college professor who wants only to be left alone. Their discovery of an impending attack on their base, and the capture of a devout Christian soldier, causes the patrol to be caught between its mission and difficult moral decisions.

• Cast Size: 4M 2F 1M(voice only)
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Into the lives of Tyrone “T Bone” and Teresa Stakes come a new neighbor and a mysterious manila envelope. Is it fate or coincidence that these two things occur on the same day? The neighbor is Bonnie, an exotic dancer. And in the envelope? A file left in the possession of T Bone, a 22-year-old journalism student at SMU. This file, stolen from the Dallas Police Department 10 years earlier by the student’s father, himself a policeman, is intended to be delivered to the District Attorney in New Orleans. But the policeman, sensing a serious threat, placed the file in a safety-deposit box just before his death; the box was paid up for ten years. And so, the coincidence of the play begins, the file is in our hero’s hands, and Teresa is in the grasp of the mysterious Bonnie. All in all, The Dallas File is a plunge into the conspiratorial world that continues to define the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Is nobody safe? Are there things in life that are too dangerous to know? 

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

Dark Twist is a drama about coming to terms with the past. Set at an all-boys boarding school in New England – a school not only steeped in tradition, but also in illicit scandals and harrowing secrets – Richard Barlow and Jeff Arnold, former classmates and now teachers, meet in one of their old classrooms to reminisce. Enter Jim Robertson, the man who hired them both. Tensions intensify as the three begin a fierce dance culminating in a relentless series of revelations, each more startling than the last. 

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

Amanda Linden is opening tonight in a new Broadway show: a jukebox musical entitled Notorious! Ten years ago, when they graduated from college, she and her five best friends made a pledge: Whichever one of them made it to Broadway first, the others would all be in the audience on opening night. So most of the members of this once-close-knit group are gatheringin the apartment Amanda shares with her husband Leo. Ian, a director, arrives with a new friend—and a mysterious manuscript; Molly, now a New Jersey housewife, has managed to get a rare night off from childcare duties; and Barry, an aspiring comic, is a bit too excited about seeing her again. The only friend who didn’t keep the promise is David, a charismatic actor who was the center of their group but disappeared mysteriously in the city three years earlier. Could he still be alive? David’s Play is a serious comedy about love, loss, musical theatre, and the enduring power of friendship.

Cast Size: 5M 2W

Running Time: 90+ 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

During one of the most horrific tragedies our nation has ever faced, our keyboards kept us connected.  Email: 9/12 demon-strates how sharing, grieving and even allowing a spark of humor to fly through cyberspace helped America get through the painful aftermath of 9/11.  Unnamed actors play all the characters that responded to Margaret’s e-mail rambling about her day. These responses provide a picture that probes into the hearts of the people that were there, had someone there and those of us who will always be able to tell you where we were when the first plane hit the North Tower at 8:46 AM on September 11, 2001.

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cast Size: 2M 3W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

One-act dramas, comedies. Bronco Buster: A scruffy cowpoke and his horse open a sculptor’s eyes. In Transit: Residents of a retirement home discover a mutual obsession. Urgent Care: Sugar addiction and toenail fungus fail to topple a late-in-life love. Roses to Plan: Kleptomania and cancer go head-to-head, but love wins. Between Dollywood and Disney: Memory loss, souvenirs and growing old together. Bigger Than Pretend: Pollution sparks action in a homeless couple. Squeezing Papayas: A former Mexican president and his porn star wife find love buried beneath barbs. Escape in a White Toyota: The memory of an abusive husband fails to stop a woman’s progress. 

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

Who has the right to tell your story? Especially when it’s the same story told from the differing memories of two legendary show business siblings? And one sister’s version is about to become a big, Broadway musical that is also destined to become legendary? June Havoc was famously ambivalent about the show Gypsy, which her sister, the burlesque star Gypsy Rose Lee, referred to as her legacy. And in Fable, which is itself a fable about the creation of that musical fable, the sisters’ loyalty to each other is tested in a mounting battle that takes place in rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, onstage, backstage, and all in the memory of the aging Ms. Havoc as she faces her imminent death, still battling with fiction and truth in order to keep her own legacy alive.

• Cast Size: 2M 4W 1G
• 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

In a not-too-distant future when procreation is strictly regulated in a last-ditch effort to save the human race from self-annihilation, public defender Joseph Truman (Cowboy) finds himself saddled with a new client. Sydney Marginski (Sid) is initially charged with kidnapping when she is apprehended with an undocumented child, and later faces far more egregious charges when it is discovered that she has conceived a child without lawful sanction. Cowboy must plead his client’s case and win over public opinion via the Federal Education and Entertainment Display (FEED), a state-controlled, judicial broadcast that will ultimately decide Sid’s fate. During the explosive proceedings, Cowboy fights with everything he has for his client’s right to choose, and ultimately discovers a reason to reinvest in a dying world.

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

Grant fears his two-year long emotionally charged friendship with Meg is a threat to his marriage. His wife, Dana, on the other hand, thinks it just might save it. Meg is caught between the two, wanting desperately to move to a new level of intimacy with Grant but terrified the friendship will end if she is the aggressor. Grant and Meg tightrope walk the fine line between friends and lovers until Dana’s plan to explore new territories of trust and commitment forces all three to reconsider what they really want.

• Cast Size:2M 3W
• Running Time: 2 hrs
• Royalty: $75 per performance

Levon Lyons is a sixteen-year-old who has been battling depression after his mother leaves him. His teacher, Athena MIller, makes a home visit to discuss his mental health issues with his father, Mickey. We see Levon’s nightmares come to life, which include his mother, Kitty Lyons, a stripper who wears a lion costume, and Milo, Kitty’s abusive boyfriend. Mickey and Levon have been telling everyone that Kitty has died, but did she really pass away? Will Levon’s nightmares help him to understand his dysfunctional family, and will Athena’s concerns about him make a difference?

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

When Paul gets invited to New Mexico for the summer for an artist’s retreat with his gay bromanticcollege buddy Alonso, he discovers that Alonso’s sister Blanca is tasking Paul with keeping Alonso on his medication for temporal lobe epilepsy, which he doesn’t want to take since he identifies with Van Gogh, who had the same condition.  Paul and Blanca begin a clandestine affair as he increasingly offers teases of his body to Alonso as incentive to take his meds.  All comes to a head when Blanca’s boyfriend Gabriel returns unexpectedly from the army. Tormented painters, sexual obsession, and crossed boundaries combine for a scorching new play. 

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

When Victor Frankenstein’s fiancée, Elizabeth, reveals she had a near-death experience, the ambitious young scientist feels his glory calling to him. Through unbearable grief, he will seize the impossible: Victor Frankenstein will conquer death itself! Begged by Elizabeth, warned by dreams, Victor cannot stop his ambition—his ill-fated reach for glory—from taking him by the throat. Seeking love and acceptance from his creator, alone in all the world, Frankenstein’s nameless Monster shines a light on Victor’s inability to see with his heart rather than his eyes. Victor’s success—his glory—becomes his worst nightmare, forcing him to choose again and again—between lies and the truth, between love and loss. Even as his world crumbles, Victor will not take responsibility for his actions, begging the question: Which is the monster? 

• Cast Size: 5M 5W 10M/F (extra children if needed)
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Gays is an evening of theater comprised of gay monologues and short plays. The plays require minimal furniture, just some chairs and a small table will do. The same actors can appear in multiple plays and perform multiple monologues. 

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

A glimpse into the all too real world of high school academics: Eddie is new to the ultra-competitive world of Northwood High School. While he struggles to catch up to his current classmates after moving across the country, privileged Riley can’t keep up with the expectations placed on her by her family. Meanwhile, Madison – an unexpected talent from a single parent home – is sailing to the top of her class. Riley finds a way to get – and stay ahead – by breaking the school’s academic honor code, and in so doing, takes down an unsuspecting Eddie. 

• Cast Size: 7M, 10F, 6 any gender (doubling possible)
• Running Time: Under and hour
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

Nothing is sacred and no woman is safe. Grand Dragon D.C. Stephenson takes control of an entire state on a platform of anti-immigration and Protestant moral values. He is brought down only when he is convicted of murder after a brutal rape results in the death of one of his girlfriends. This tale of demagoguery, misogyny, and xenophobia is inspired by true events. Although it is set in the 1920’s, it resonates with echoes of today’s society and politics.

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

When priveledged and pretty Anastasia is sent to a Siberian gulag for the murder of her abusive husband, her arrival destroys the intricate web of hierarchy, alliance, and treachery among the other four inmates of her bunkhouse. To save herself, Anastasia must save all of them: the prostitute, the killer, the crone…and Pruska – the mouse. Arthur M. Jolly’s harrowing drama asks the question: How far will you go to survive?

• Cast Size: 5W, 1M
• Running Time: Approx 85 minutes
• Royalty: $75 per performance

Lawrence is on the rebound. His best pals — ex-lover Niles and devout virgin Briony — can only provide so much comfort. Then in walks Allan, a handsome attorney who whisks him away from his problems… and soon begins to separate Lawrence little by little from the people and things he cares about. Allan’s plan to control Lawrence starts to backfire when Lawrence reveals himself to be a stronger person than the heartbroken sad sack he was the night they met. But is Lawrence strong enough?

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

Set in 1968, the play is a poetic homage to the style of Tennessee Williams. Brother Linus is a monk who has been exiled to a remote monastery on an island, where he has lived alone in quiet contemplation for the past 20 years. Then, during a huge thunderstorm, a young man named Christian washes up on the beach with memory loss, and in giving succor to him, Linus begins to question to what exactly he is truly devoted, and if he has allowed his life to be wasted.

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

Heroines follows Donna, a 33-year-old mother, waitress, and long-time heroin addict.  When she loses her daughter to Child Protective Services, she must navigate drug court, NA, and her own demons in an attempt to earn her back. Heroines is a complex, detailed exploration of the nature of addiction, familial love, and the limits of friendship in the face of turmoil.  

• Cast Size: 2M 3W
• Running Time: 1hr 45 minutes
• Royalty: $75 per performance

Adapted from Corrie ten Boom’s autobiography, The Hiding Place dramatizes one family’s efforts to do what is right during Hitler’s invasion of Holland. Spinsters Cornelia and Betsie ten Boom and their elderly father become central figures in an underground operation to rescue, house and relocate persecuted Jews. But when Nazis raid their home, they find only the family, their “guests” safely hidden. The three are brutally arrested, separated, and imprisoned. Corrie and Betsie are shipped by crowded cattle car to a German prison camp, arriving with nothing but a tiny bottle of vitamins and a contraband Bible. In unbearable conditions, they share scripture and hope with others. In a powerful moment, Corrie discovers that the seeds of faith she and Betsie sowed have begun to grow in the most unlikely of hearts.  

• Cast Size: 7M 8W (flexible cast with doubling, plus extras)
• Running Time: 40 minutes
• Royalty Rate: $40 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

The year is 1953, and the House Unamerican Activities Committee is at its peak, fomenting suspicion and distrust, nowhere more so than in the insular world of Academia. Adjacent to this world, but inextricably intertwined, five women, shackled by societal constraints, defined by their husbands careers and politics, are meeting for their monthly play reading – knowing that one of them has betrayed the others to save her husbands position at the University. This is the evening they have chosen to read Medea – and as they delve into the classic Greek tragedy, their own stories unfold, their secrets and betrayals are brought to light, and their friendships are tested, shattered, and renewed.

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

Josie Divine is making a comeback as a jazz singer when her life is violently cut short. In her after-death experiences, Josie learns that her lover Freddie was her killer and discovers her capacity for love and forgiveness. In this in-between state, the outcome of a test administered by the mysterious Announcer allows her, as an evolved soul, to perform at The Bardo Theatre. Josie auditions with her lover/killer, not recognizing him. Their earlier relationship repeats in compressed form, but this time he saves her life. Josie’s successful new life takes her to India to star in  a film. She befriends a young writer, the reborn Freddie,  who enlightens her about the divine creative  source available to evolving souls, thereby enabling her to design her life to come.

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

The play takes place in an upper East Side Manhattan apartment, switching back and forth in time from the early 1990s to present day. The earlier scenes explore the relationship of Richard, a handsome, irresponsible actor in his 40s, and Rodney, an slightly older, attentive, well-off member of a theater’s Board of Directors. The two are sometime partners, sometime roommates who share a tumultuous, unequal association, wherein Richard does not completely return Rodney’s affections, yet finds himself frequently availing himself of Rodney’s generosity. In the present-day scenes, some 25 years later, an older version of Rodney brings an older version Richard to his apartment to care for him in the end stages of Pancreatic cancer. The two have had no relationship to speak of for many years, and Richard is both perplexed and wary of Rodney’s motives in fetching him from his Brooklyn apartment after all this time. As Richard’s illness progresses, he has bouts of anger, amnesia and confusion, testing the limits of Rodney’s devotion to him. Taken together, Like Drowning is a complex, detailed exploration of the nature of unrequited love from both the giver’s and receiver’s point of view, and the bonds of friendship and devotion that somehow manage to withstand turmoil and time.

• Cast Size: 4M
• 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

The Love Song of Sidney J. Stein follows the relationship of Sidney, a 45-year-old man who works at an NYC half-way house, and Dennis, an 17-year-old streetwalker. Sidney is a snide, funny and guarded former prostitute who tries to set Dennis straight, despite Dennis’ immaturity and indoctrination into the street life. They begin tenuously living together, though Dennis is not quite willing to give up his past. Both end up bringing out something in the other that is revealing and unexpected. With humor and pathos, Love Song explores the struggle to truly connect with another human being, and the role one’s past has in dictating one’s future.

• Cast Size: 2M
• 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

Magpie is a story of identity, transformation, and sacrifice.  With the support of her therapist, Maggie is beginning to claim her own story. Risking her troubled relationship with her mother, she searches to learn more about the father she doesn’t know. But can she summon the strength to find the one thing she needs the most, herself?

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

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

An alcoholic magician tries to win his family back through a disappearing act. Staked outside The Milky Way Cabaret, a pair of clown-costumed assassins reveal everything. And the grown-up version of the magician’s daughter travels back in time, through black holes, to try to save her father’s life.Is humanity bigger than the universe? Is a heart bigger than a planet? Set in a South Philly nightclub, The Milky Way Cabaret is a theatrical event inspired by the magical, time-travelin’, heart-exploding, meatloaf-making, hula-hooping, elephant-piss drinking people of the city of Philadelphia.  

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

Five years after their breakup, architect Harry Wallace unexpectedly encounters his much-younger ex Jim, who wants him back. Unsettled, Harry reflects on their romance, one that was filled with great affection, great sex, and great classic movies. Harry’s no-nonsense sister Diane was deeply concerned by their significant age difference, while his brother-in-law Ben just wanted him to be happy. When a disturbing revelation imploded their motion picture perfect romance, Harry and Jim were left to pick up the shambles of their suddenly separate lives. Back in the present, Harry must confront the question: what’s stopping them from being together now?

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

The Man and The Woman stand at the edge of the water. They take a blank piece of paper from their pocket. They imagine all of the things it could possibly be. They meet at a bar for the first time over and over and all at the same time. They fold the paper into a sailboat. They sit in their apartments and press their faces against the glass. They place the sailboat on the water and give it a gentle push. They journey through their broken pasts, broken futures, and broken skin, revealing everything to find the beautiful place together inside of the knives.

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

This is a loose adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” decidedly not for children. The play begins with Alice Liddell playing with Charles Dodgson, and ends when Alice succeeds in getting into the garden. The twelve scenes explore aspects of Alice and Dodgson’s relationship with her through various character pairings and re-interpreted scenes (the Tea Party, the Caucus Race) from the novel.

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

In 1930, E.M. Forster met and fell in love with Bob Buckingham, a policeman 23 years his junior. Before long, fear of discovery forced Bob to court and marry May, a young nurse. The ensuring love triangle, turbulent and unique, evolved until Forster’s death nearly forty years later.

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

“Norma’s Rest” explores the poignant journey of Norma, a compassionate woman running a sober living home. As she battles cancer and confronts her mortality, a local pastor presents a tempting offer to buy the home, stirring inner conflict. The play delves into themes of forgiveness, second chances, and the shared humanity that unites us, revealing that even the most flawed individuals are not so different from the rest of us.

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

Susan, in her 50’s, suddenly starts forgetting things and blanking out. It’s as if she’s suddenly left the room. Both her mother Joyce and her daughter, Alli have noticed this and become concerned. When, after mishaps at work and in her car, Susan is finally diagnosed with early onset dementia, the world of the three women changes drastically. Susan makes her mother promise to care for her at home. The grandmother and the daughter after making the promise, are forced to play caretaker and breadwinner as the dementia worsens. The grandmother and Alli pay the price as their lives begin to degrade as well. But a promise is a promise, isn’t it?

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

Nutcracker: Krakatuk is the adapted origin story of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s hero, the Nutcracker. When Madam Mouserinks suffers a terrible loss at the hands of Drosselmeier, she takes vengeance on the arrogant King and Queen by uglifying Princess Pirlipat. Can Drosselmeier and the Royal Astronomer find the hard nut Krakatuk in time to save the princess?  With a cast of larger-than-life characters, Krakatuk is a delightful exploration of Hoffmann’s zany world. Offering a fun and fantastic menagerie of roles to thrill, inspire, and stretch a flexibly-sized cast, Krakatuk is a holiday tradition in the making! 

• Cast Size: 2M 6W 4M/F (Ensemble of 12)
• Running Time: 90 minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

On the Expectation of White Christmases takes place in 1975 suburban New York from Christmas Eve through Christmas Day.  It tells the story of Mary, an 11-year old girl who is waiting for her long-estranged father to show up for a Christmas dinner reconciliation.  Mary lives (quite uncomfortably) in her Irish grandparents’ house with her mother Katherine.  Her Nana, the unquestioned authority in her home, is decidedly against the prospect of hosting a dinner for the man who abandoned her daughter and pulls no punches in letting Mary know exactly what she thinks of him.  Mary waits fruitlessly for her father’s arrival with her promised bike, but dinner and the rest of the night go by. When the father finally appears drunk at 3 in the morning, the entire family is forced to confront very real Christmas ghosts.With equal parts humor and pathos, On the Expectation of White Christmases explores the trials of familial love, hope and redemption. 

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

How do you know your purpose in life?

When Maggie asked for guidance from the other side of the sky, she didn’t think she’d really get it. Or when she did, that it would be more confusing than ever before. With a best friend, a boyfriend, and now the Mother of God all offering advice, what on Earth or in Heaven is Maggie going to do?

• Cast Size: 3M 1W
• Running Time: 90 minutes
• Royalty: $75 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

In rural Scotland in 1793, a small parish believes it is safe from the revolutions shaking the world.  But when a well-intentioned man of reason arrives, bringing violent upheaval, the people of Parish Dunkeld must fight their way back from the brink.  A true ensemble drama where the parish itself is the protagonist, and each character’s journey is bound up with all the others. 

• Cast Size: 7M 5W
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

In Arthur M. Jolly’s fellowship winning play Past Curfew, the dysfunctional relationship between a single mother and her teenage daughter erupts on the night 17 year-old Kirstie sneaks home late after a disastrous first date, and is caught by her mother, Sarah. During the course of one night, years of bitter conflicts gradually erupt as Sarah and Kirstie finally confront the unspoken issues between them through a vicious series of head games, where lies are buried under lies, and the truth is brought out only as the ultimate weapon. The arrival of Kirstie’s would-be boyfriend Michael only compounds the issues – but as dawn approaches, all the lies are stripped away; the core of their relationship is finally exposed – and can be rebuilt. Arthur M. Jolly -an academy recognized screen-writer and award winning playwright -explores some of his darkest territory yet in this harrowing drama. 

• Cast Size: 1M 2W
• Running Time: 90 minutes
• Royalty: $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

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

Earth. The near future. When technology brings the world to the brink of disaster, a new regime decides to dream it all up again: the children. Round Went the Wheel opens in a waiting room, fitting for a play about the nature of time. For David, every second that passes is a frustrating reminder of his lack of purpose in this brave new world. Today is different: he’s invited for a rare interview with the “Boy”, the leader of the retro-revolution. But David’s wife, Eloise, has other plans: she’s pregnant, and a baby in this world will surely be taken. With time running out, will she risk everything to protect her child? Featuring a generation-spanning cast of eight, this dystopian thriller imagines a future built from the pillars of the past. It’s time…to begin again. 

Cast Size: 3M 3W 1B 1G

Running Time: 90+ minutes

Royalty Rate: $75 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: 90+ minutes

When an African-American “deserter” wanders into the camp of the Irish Brigade near Gettysburg, conflicts intensify, but the soldier carries an old statue that his family calls “Saint Somebody,” since they don’t know her real name. Based on real events at The Wheatfield, the play, SAINT SOMEBODY, suggests one solution as to how the Brigade of 600 held back Confederate troops for three days when they were outnumbered by thousands. What the Irish Brigade needed—and found—was a miracle. A play about the women and other unsung heroes in the Civil War, SAINT SOMEBODY explores a part of history that has not been dramatized. It confronts the brutalities of war (to include behind-the-battlefield issues), and the characters demonstrate love’s resilience and the necessity of hope to keep the spirit alive in dire straits.

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

A child disappears and the detective investigating the disappearance, childless herself, assumes the father of the child is guilty. The father, bereft at having looked away from his child for a moment, is at first willing to take the blame for the loss of his child, guilty or not. But then, forming a strange duo with the detective, other possibilities drive father and detective into ever more dangerous personal waters, where both chance drowning. From this simple plot, “The Same Life Over” spins a complex web of deceit and compassion.

• Cast Size: 3M 2W 1F toddler mannequin 
• Running Time: 2 hrs
• Royalty: $75 per performance

Time does not heal all wounds. Best friends Jessica and Sam each have scars from their pasts that have not healed. Jessica has never been able to get past an extremely damaging romantic relationship from her formative years in college, while Sam has been ignoring a painfully fractured relationship with her sister. After years of denial, an impromptu lunch date and a surprise overnight guest forces them both to confront these wounds and face what they didn’t want to see head on.

• Cast Size: 2M 3W
• 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

History remembers Nero as one of the most bombastic and cruel emperors of the ancient world. His tutor and later advisor, Seneca, the stoic philosopher and dramatist, takes drastic measures to reign in the emperor, and in his quest to save Rome, Seneca writes some of his most enduring plays. Focused on the power and failures of the political insider, Seneca and the Soul of Nero looks back to ancient Rome to hold the mirror up to modern American politics.

• Cast Size: 11M 6W 1Baby Doll (Doubling Possible)
• Running Time: 90+ minutes
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

THE SINLESS portrays the conflict between faith and desire. Annabelle and Tuvia are a married Orthodox Jewish couple living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Tuvia is a rabbinical student and a man of deep faith, whereas Annabelle got swept up in the religious life due to its readily available community, a balm for the loneliness of being young and single. However, she is ambivalent about her marriage and the constricting religious world she finds herself in. When Tuvia leaves for the weekend to go to his brother’s bachelor party in Atlantic City, Annabelle embarks on a rebellious journey of exploration to indulge her deepest, unspoken desires. When Tuvia unexpectedly returns early, they must both confront the uneasy state of their marriage and the fictions which bind their lives.

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

Independent, tart-tongued, and unorthodox, herbalist-healer Grace sticks out like a witch’s teat in a God-fearing community and stands accused of conjuring a late-term miscarriage, bewitching crops, and shapeshifting. When the court orders a trail by water, Grace is stripped and cross-bound in a burlap sack and ducked into the waters of Lynnhaven River. Will she sink or swim?

• Cast Size: 4M 5W
• Running Time: 2 hrs
• Royalty: $75 per performance

Dave and Pete Granger, age 17, are twin brothers in rural Ohio in 1970. Dave enlists in the Army as a combat medic and is sent to Vietnam.  Pete, a piano prodigy and gay, goes to Canada to pursue his education in music and avoids the draft.  Their parents – Hal, a veteran of the Korean War, and Deb, a nurse – are left to deal with the consequences of their sons’ actions and their future as a family. Over the next five years, their lives are changed forever by the war and the choices each of them has made.

• Cast Size: 3M 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

On the evening of Sunday, June 24th, 1973, thirty-two men perished in a fire at The Upstairs Lounge, a sanctuary bar for working-class homosexual men in New Orleans. On that same evening, several blocks north, nearly a dozen women, including a gifted young nursing student, Sydney (Syd) Trahan, were taken into custody and charged with lewd and lascivious conduct for dancing together at Brady’s, a notorious lesbian bar in the French Quarter. Hopeful that the deadly fire and the controversy surrounding its multiple victims might overshadow Syd’s arrest, Bud, a reputable blacksmith, and Helen, a God-fearing woman, do everything in their power to curtail the impact of their daughter’s transgression on their seemingly near perfect lives.

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

Nick and Tammy injured their daughter, Teenie, when she was an infant. After a short prison sentence, they were able to turn their lives around and start a new family…but Teenie remained completely debilitated and bed-ridden, under the custody and care of a woman named Marion. Just after Teenie’s eighteenth birthday, Marion grants Nick and Tammy permission to visit her for the first time in all those years, so that they can see the long-term effects of what they did. When things take a turn during the visit, Nick and Tammy find themselves confronted with brand new consequences for something they did as teenagers. 

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

Three one acts (Almost Christmas, Bailing Out and Thicker than Water) bridge the thin lines between secrets and revelations, between life and death, between the past and the future in these thematically related stories. The evening can be played with a cast of three (A younger M and F and an older M), or with separate casts for a maximum of 7 performers (3F, 4M). Some adult themes and language. Almost Christmas – At midnight on Christmas Eve, a bitter waitress tries to get money from a crusty drunk and the bar’s naive new owner to fund a trip to kill her abusive father. Merry Christmas! Bailing Out – Life goes on, even in a ward for terminal patients. Reginald Niebold, stricken with cancer, holds a secret that his symptoms have deteriorated and his time is almost up. Niebold, however, is determined to wring the last moments of joy out of life, and his irrepressible spirit will awaken even jaded Nurse Lauder, who has worked on the ward too long to care anymore. Thicker than Water – Joe and Sal – a feisty young couple, smart, sarcastic, and deeply in love – are challenged on the night Joe comes home with unexplained blood on his shoes. Sal tries to cope as best she can – in spite of her phobia about blood, anxiety over the pregnancy test she’s been waiting for, fear of AIDS and an inexplicable rain of blood falling from the sky… Nothing is quite as it seems in this exploration of anxiety and hidden secrets in a seemingly perfect relationship.

Royalty Rate: $75 for the full evening, $40 for individual pieces

Cast Size: Flexible

Running Time: (Depends on pieces chosen)

A popular teacher, to teach critical thinking and provoke debate, tells his eleventh-graders that the Holocaust didn’t happen. When the press gets word, sharp battle lines are drawn in his small ski-resort town.

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

Alexandre Dumas’ most well-known story comes to action-packed life in this faithful adaptation of his novel! The adventure begins when D’Artagnan arrives in Paris and makes the acquaintance of “the three inseparables” – Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Through D’Artagnan’s new love, Constance Bonacieux, they soon become involved in a plot by Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter to discredit Queen Anne in the eyes of her jealous husband, King Louis XIII. Once their plan is foiled by D’Artagnan and the musketeers, Richelieu and Milady go on to assassinate the Duke of Buckingham and murder the innocent Constance. With the help of Milady’s brother-in-law, Lord de Winter, justice is achieved in the end, and D’Artagnan is at last awarded a musketeer’s uniform, ready to join his friends on more adventures. “All for one, and one for all!”

• Cast Size: 17M 9W
• Running Time: 2 hrs
• Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Resist or collaborate? Risk everything or lie low? Go along or get out? Ordinary people must make life-altering choices as the Ku Klux Klan pits neighbor against neighbor in a small Indiana town in the 1920’s. The religious prejudice and xenophobia of a century ago still echo in contemporary American society.

Royalty Rate: $75 per performance

Cast Size: 3M 4W

Running Time: 90+ minutes

TRASH takes place entirely in a dump – a municipal landfill, where two estranged sisters have come to look for a letter from their mother. They’ve come from their mother’s funeral – the first time they’ve seen each other in years, and as they dig through the literal and metaphorical trash heap, they get further and further into their complicated relationship – and with the lives they led under the shadow of a domineering mother who still controls and influences them even after her death.

Cast Size: 2W
Running Time: 90 minutes
Royalty: $60 per performance

A Tree Grows in Longmont: A year after Allen’s death, Philip visits the park in Longmont, Colorado, where a tree has been planted in his memory. There he meets with Allen’s spirit, and they remember their life together.

Allen’s Big Adventure: Memories come flooding back as a spouse says goodbye to his soulmate.

Last Exit: Moving day brings closure to a relationship. Or does it?

Going for a Walk with Sam: Allen, Sam, and Philip meet up at a park in the spirit of remembering good times and the last time they were together.

Another Park, Another Sunday: Allen and Jill, two spirits, meet up every Sunday at the park to talk about life, the universe, the meaning of life, and peaches.

• Cast Size: 3M (1 dog), 1W
• Running Time: Variable
• Royalty Rate: $75 for the whole evening, contact for individual plays

Cat and Mouse –  Marcus Meekus is a Hollywood movie director. Jade is bussing tables having just appeared in her first acting role — a tampon advert. When their paths cross, Jade thinks her life will change forever, but both are in for a shock. 

Sylvie and Sly – Sylvie and Sly tells the tale of an aging actress, who is in denial about her tragic reality, and decides to save a floundering career with the help of a devoted friend and social media. 

Beach Break – Beach Break, two young female friends go away to a holiday resort to escape problems at home. It’s only a matter of time before something terrible happens. Something that will have dark and explosive repercussions.

• Cast Size: Flexible
• Running Time: 60+ minutes for all plays, 15-25 for individual works
• Royalty Rate: $75 for the full evening, $25 for individual plays

Set in a bar in the late 1960s, as old and new worlds collide in violent fashion, the story revolves around Jack, a charismatic yet dangerous bartender, who thinks getting over is winning, and Evie, his protégé, a young woman seeking acceptance and adulthood by adopting the attitudes and icons of the past . . . until it hurts too much.

• Cast Size: 4M 4W
• 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

UNCLAIMED is loosely based on events leading up to the Hartford Circus Fire on July 6, 1944 and the circus performers (and sideshow freaks) who were affected by the darker side of circus life. Mixed with haunting images, humor, and humanity, UNCLAIMED will remind you that hope can be found in even the darkest of places.

• Cast Size: 7/8M 7/8W plus extras
• Running Time: 40 minutes
• Royalty Rate: $40 per performance

A family drama set in the Piney Woods of East Texas. A fiesty elderly woman, Dottie, has ended her own life, but returns to help her daughter come to terms with her decision. She forms a magical connection with her young granddaughter and with the neighbor, whom the granddaughter calls Mrs. Alzheimer’s.

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

Three stories about Americans fighting for their visions of a better country. Armed with wire cutters and a hammer, three nuns attack a nuclear missile silo in “Blood Sisters.” “Occupy!” activists rework “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to confront Wall Street. Long-dead Peter Stuyvesant fills a teacher with strength to continue after 9/11 in “The Fortification of Miss Grace Wren.” 

• Cast Size: Flexible Casting
• Running Time: Flexible Run Time
• Royalty Rate: $75 for Full Evening/$25 each individual play per performance

Leighza Walker’s electrifying new play explores the lives of five friends using recreational drugs 20 years ago, then leaps into the present to see them as they are today. Act 1 is set in the late 80’s at an acid (LSD) party hosted by Elery Sanderlin, the default leader of a group of old high school friends. Act 2 is set 20 years later at the same house as the group gathers to mourn the passing of one of their own. This dark serio-comedy creates a vivid, gripping portrayal of adults striving to come to terms with life at a moment of crucial decision-making.

• Cast Size: 11 w/ doubling
• Running Time: 2 hrs
• Royalty Rate: $60 per performance

Willow and Poppy live in a society where Order is chaos, but they have found a constant- an empty stairwell they’ve claimed as their own secret Neverland. Appointing themselves Peter and Wendy, they vow to protect the Fourth Floor’s children (Chrys, Daff, and Violet) from the sinister truths of the world they live in. But when the shadows of their dystopian reality begin to seep into their haven, these “lost children” must learn how to hold onto the light and- more importantly- each other.

• Cast Size: 1M 4W
• 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

Shelley is cleaning out her old childhood home after the death of her estranged and reclusive father, Richard, when Chris, a teenage boy from up the street, comes by to retrieve something he had let her father borrow before he died. The object in question belongs to Chris’ father, Tom, who will be furious when he finds out that it’s gone missing, so Chris is absolutely desperate to return it before that happens…but when Shelley finds out what this particular item is, things take a dangerous and dreadful turn. Together, they must come to terms with matters of the unimaginable.

• Cast Size: 2M 1W 1M/W
• 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

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