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Adam RappDescription
In ESSENTIAL SELF-DEFENSE, disgruntled misfit Yul Carroll takes a job as an attack dummy in a women's self-defense class and finds himself mysteriously drawn to Sadie, the repressed bookworm mercilessly honing her skills on him... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male, Actor/Musicians)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Julie Marie MyattDescription
Who gets to decide if a woman has children, and for whom? For years Martin is thought to be the last frog of his species, living alone in an amphibian lab, under the observation of a scientist eager to make her name in the field... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Edwin SánchezDescription
Ethan's going to be a millionaire by the time's he twenty-one.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Louis PhillipsDescription
A totalitarian future where food is so scarce that people pay to watch others eat.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Aeschylus, adapted by Robert AulettaDescription
In THE EUMENIDIES Orestes, trying to escape the vengeance of the Furies, is rescued by the gods and ordered to stand trial in a democratic court in Athens... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (6 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Samm-Art Williams, based on a short story by Anton ChekhovDescription
Set in Baton Rouge in 1919, the defendant of a criminal trial meets the judge who, unbeknownst to him, is to try him the following day... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Judy GeBauerDescription
In this discomfiting study of McCarthyism, Richard Packard, a teacher, is contacted by an F B I agent and asked to spy on his colleagues.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Bob ClymanDescription
Where do you draw the line between eugenics and the desire of every parent to give his or her child the best possible start? If the answer seems pretty simple, just ask Gwen, Allie and Tom, three parents whose children were conceived at a prestigious donor insemination program, specializing in donors with IQ's over 180... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (3 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Kermit FrazierDescription
An elderly white woman strives to survive through memory, hope, and strange visitations in a seemingly contentious urban landscape.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short (about 35 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Franky D GonzalezDescription
An undocumented boxer, haunted by the death of his mother on the journey to the United States, battles his way up the rankings to position himself for a world title fight and an opportunity at a visa... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (1 female, 7 male, doubling)
Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Greg OwensDescription
Aren't tech support operators supposed to wait for you to call them? Not at Computer Cult.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
CJ HopkinsDescription
Spin or fact? Theater or reality? A biting, original political satire that challenges audiences of any political affiliation, THE EXTREMISTS is a labyrinth of wordplay and mind games in which a television talk-show host and his guest, author of a book about terrorism, get lost in their own doublespeak … or are they really double-agents, subversively reprogramming our sound-byte-saturated minds?
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Leah D Frank, Editor, Adele Edling Shank, Lee Hunkins, Constance Congdon, Megan Terry, Janet Neipris, Helen Duberstein, Roma Greth, Lynda Sturner, Neena Beber, Lenore Bensinger, Karen Sunde, Katy Dierlam, Rebecca Ritchie, Lavonne Mueller, Y York, June Siegel, Judy GeBauer, Nancy Rhodes, D Lee Miller, Sally Ordway, Sherry Kramer, Sally Dixon Wiener, Lynn Nottage, Susan Miller, Staci Swedeen, María Irene Fornés, Christina Cocek, Sybille Pearson, Sally Nemeth, Laura Quinn, Wendy WassersteinCollection Description
This collection includes 34 one acts and monologues by notable American women playwrights. 67201 by Adele Edling Shank: Love and fantasy in the afternoon... [read more]
Plays in This Collection
- 67201
- The Best of Strangers
- Boarders
- Breakfast Serial
- Brussels Sprouts
- The Cord and The Track
- Curtain Call
- The Death of Huey Newton
- Dry Smoke
- Food
- A Ghost Story
- Haiti (A Dream)
- Halfway
- Helen Melon at the Sideshow
- In the Beginning
- Jim's Commuter Airlines
- Life Gap
- Metamorphoses
- The Nip and The Bite
- Ocean Dream
- Origami Tears
- Panicked
- A Permanent Signal
- A Place Where Love Is
- Poof!
- Repairs
- The Sleep Seeker
- Springtime
- Stepping Off a Cloud
- Trips
- Watching the Dog
- Water Play
- Well Done Poets
- Workout
Jon KleinDescription
What do you believe? And why should it be anybody's business? This family is about to find out! FAITHLESS is about an aging atheist named Gus, recovering from cancer, who is forced to deal with two grown stepchildren: a Presbyterian minister who is suffering from a crisis of faith and a young woman who seems to have had a glimpse of the afterlife after a head injury... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
José RiveraDescription
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes