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  • José Rivera

    Description

    Lulu's acne must have some cosmic meaning, perhaps punishment for her vanity, but when the acne morphs into hibiscus flowers, she believes she is cursed... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
    Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Molière, translated in verse by Mark Haywood

    Description

    Valère and Lucile are in love with each other, but Lucile's father wants her to marry a wealthy old man instead... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male)
    Full Length (about 60 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  • Neena Beber

    Description

    Two women are starving for something, anything, that might provide fulfillment.


    Production Info

    Cast: 2 total (2 female)
    Short Comedy (about 5 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Alan Bowne

    Description

    FORTY-DEUCE explores the homosexual prostitution scene around 42nd Street in the 1980s, where a toxic mix of drugs, sex, and money make survival a brutal struggle.


    Production Info

    Cast: 7 total (7 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Dominic Finocchiaro

    Description

    In the Pacific Northwest live Norma, a professional cuddler and reluctant dog-rescuer, and Norm, an amateur ribbon-dancer and attentive barista... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Laura Shamas

    Description

    Four Native American women are desperate to find missing friends and relatives in the face of apathetic sheriffs and dwindling clues... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 4 total (4 female)
    Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Y York

    Description

    Joanie wants recognition for her paintings; her crime-boss husband, Nick, can ensure that she gets it... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Julie Marie Myatt

    Description

    For many urban dwellers, daily life includes walking the dog surrounded by strangers and neighbors with whom you have only a passing acquaintance, whose personal stories you can only guess, imagine, or project upon them through the various waves hello, small talk about the weather, or random gestures of kindness... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male, one dog)
    Full Length (about 90 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Frank Langella, an adaptation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac

    Description

    Frank Langella's gritty, minimalist adaptation of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, based on Brian Hooker's translation.


    Production Info

    Cast: 12 total (3 female, 9 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
    Minimal Set Requirements
    Period Costumes
  • Richard Nelson, with a special introduction by Tom Creamer

    Description

    A stunning play from one of America's best contemporary playwrights, FRANK'S HOME is a lyrical, heartbreaking story about Frank Lloyd Wright, one of our greatest — if less than perfect — visionaries, a man who created a new architectural vocabulary but couldn't create a home for himself and his family.


    Production Info

    Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
    Single Set
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Mary Shelley, adapted by Austin Tichenor

    Description

    Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1816, and it caught the public imagination almost immediately... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 16 total (6 female, 10 male, gender-diverse casting welcome)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Period Costumes
  • Richard Nelson

    Description

    Summer, 1957. The streets of Greenwich Village sizzle with the insistent rhythm of jazz. Accompanied by their grandmother, two teenage sisters from the country visit their married cousin in the city... [read more]


    Production Info

    Cast: 5 total (4 female, 1 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Honoré de Balzac, translated by Laurence Senelick

    Description

    THE FRAUDSTER follows Auguste Mercadet, a man fighting against his creditors and the ruses he uses to escape them.


    Production Info

    Cast: 15 total (4 female, 11 male)
    Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes
  • Matt Pelfrey

    Description

    On a rainy night in Los Angeles, a young couple get an abrupt visit from two old friends. But they're not stopping by for pleasure but to warn them that someone, or something, from their past is coming for them all …


    Production Info

    Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
    Full Length Drama (about 95 minutes)
    Multiple Sets
    Contemporary Costumes
  • Billy Aronson

    Description

    Eight iconic characters from different Shakespeare plays wind up on an island. Comedy/tragedy/romance ensues.


    Production Info

    Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
    Short Comedy (about 45 minutes)
    Single Set
    Period Costumes