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Anthony GiardinaDescription
At an elite women's college in Massachusetts, two minor crises emerge during the fall semester: the philandering head of the English Department decides to callously end his affair with a colleague, and an aging professor is caught making unwanted sexual advances toward a student... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (5 female, 5 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 105 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Rachel LynettDescription
Who gets to be a part of Latinidad? While Valery fights to prove Ximena isn't Cuban, Alia has given up fighting that she is Latine... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (5 female)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Adam RappDescription
It's Christmas Eve: a Desert Storm veteran with a herniated disk and a 19-year-old runaway heroin addict share the holiday in a filthy, rundown squat on New York's Canal Street... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Georges Feydeau, translated from the French by Laurence SenelickDescription
Trapped in a misalliance, a husband is set upon by his wife, his in-laws, and the midwife.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 50 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Y YorkDescription
Four middle-school girls, played by adults, remind us of what it meant to be eleven years old and how adulthood is perhaps less removed from the needs and desires of childhood than we may wish to acknowledge or admit.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (4 female)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Billy AronsonDescription
Four people who seem to be in a reality show seem to share certain basic values until they seem to start strangling one another.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Rogelio MartinezDescription
Two of history's most enigmatic leaders — Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev — meet to halt the arms race... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male, plus ensemble of 6 actors)
Full Length Drama (about 135 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Jeremy DobrishDescription
A private eye searches for an eccentric billionaire's missing brother and along the way meets a host of characters... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (2 female, 8 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Douglas PostDescription
Carter Bartosek, a foreign correspondent stationed in Beirut, returns to his Midwest hometown for the funeral of his best friend, a former congressman who apparently took his own life while high on alcohol and painkillers... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 140 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Federico García Lorca, translated by Jo CliffordDescription
García Lorca's passionate, lyrical tale of longing and revenge: a twentieth-century masterpiece... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (7 female, 3 male, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Michael Benjamin WashingtonDescription
In the political and racial upheaval of 1963, Bayard Rustin — the brilliant proponent of nonviolent civil resistance — is pushed to orchestrate an unprecedented march on Washington D... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male, bit parts: a chorus of ancestors)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Constance CongdonDescription
Three short plays about apartment dwellers, with an epilogue by their landlady.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Short Comedy (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Julie Marie MyattDescription
Set in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Western aid workers run a shelter to rehabilitate sexually abused children... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (5 female, 5 male, bit parts)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Brett C LeonardDescription
“Leonard comes at you head on and with no holds barred, like no one that I know of at work presently in the theater... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Star FinchDescription
BONDAGE takes place pre-Emancipation on a small island in the Caribbean. With the onset of puberty, Zuri must use her wits to outsmart the twisted desires of a drunken master and a sadistic mistress on a haunted plantation... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (4 female, 1 male, 2 of the female characters should always be played by black actors or those who identify as biracial/black)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes