Unproduceable Plays by John Patrick Bray What makes a play “unproduceable?” These shorts present thoughtful challenges to actors, designers, and directors. Some of them…have even been produced! Order Script Copies Order Digital Download (Will NOT download to phones) APPLY FOR PERFORMANCE RIGHTS About the Playwright

Foul Feast by Gregory Bray and John Patrick Bray Bertrand and Bernard Lavishly invite a group of guests ostensibly to get to know the locals, however it slowly becomes revealed that they may be more interested in creating the right circumstances for ritual sacrifice. If Neil Simon had written Midsommar for Frasier and Niles Crane, the result […]

Friendly’s Fire by John Patrick Bray Guy Friendly has a problem. He’s left his cabin in Alaska for the first time in quite some time. He picks up a tourist for casual sex, but it goes terribly wrong as she turns out to be a tooth collector, sending him into a fevered dream that blends […]

Trickster at the GatebyJohn Patrick Bray Nell is the human incarnation of the Yoruba God Esu Elegba, who is being forced to live a mortal life as penance for human deformities and suffering. We are given a glimpse of three time periods: her life in Southern Louisiana; during the Harlem Renaissance; and finally, Nell as […]

Liner NotesbyJohn Patrick Bray Alice, the daughter of a rock-and-roll legend, finds George, her father’s first guitarist and the one man noticeably absent from his funeral, in order to bring him to visit her father’s grave. Liner Notes reminds us that the past is only as amazing as the one who gets to write it […]

Hound by John Patrick Bray Dr. Watson is a grieving widower who is living in a world beyond his control. Not only is he haunted by dreams of his recently deceased wife, but super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes has miraculously returned from the dead three years after falling from Reichenbach Falls. And now, Holmes is taking on […]

Donkey by John Patrick Bray DONKEY tells the story of Steve Ryan, an independent coffee shop owner in a liberal-arts college town in upstate New York. When the mayor paves the way for Quick Java, a corporate coffee shop, to move into the center of town Steve ignores the writing on the wall. A satire of […]

Dead MovementbyJohn Patrick Bray THE STORY: Welcome to the Rosendale Hotel where guests can stay a night, a week, a month, or a lifetime. Enter Patrick, a harmonica-playing stranger who meets local inhabitants such as Joe Joe, a mechanic and tow-truck operator with dreams of being a car salesman; a Resident that insists they are […]

CHRISTMAS IN THE AIRWAVES by John Patrick Bray It’s 1944 and while the boys are off at war, families are curled up by their radio sets to catch an extra special Christmas radio broadcast with WLAG’s New York radio star, Max Tyrone. The cast and producers of the local weekly live radio show, including the […]

64 SQUARES by John Patrick Bray, Gene Kato, Bryan Maynard, Frank Oteri, Ben Plopper, Carol M. Rice, and Michael Weems From opening move to checkmate, this collection of short plays based on elements of chess – King, Queen, Bishop, Rook, Knight, Pawn, Black, and White is sure to have something for every theatre lover. The added bonus is […]