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Karen SundeDescription
The plight of a Haitian family aboard a rickety boat seeking their dream of America.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Ken WeitzmanDescription
Retired NFL player Don Devers has had over thirty surgeries, experiences violent outbursts, and relies on a blizzard of yellow Post-It notes to offset his ravaged memory... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesRoma GrethDescription
There is a question as to who is the inmate and who is the attendant in this halfway house for mental patients.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 25 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Ruth WolffDescription
Hallie Flanagan Davis headed the Federal Theater in the 1930s and 40s — until the anti-art element in Congress decided that federal support of what they saw as lazy left-wing artists must end... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (2 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Donald FreedDescription
An inspired twist on HAMLET that delves into the lines between the lines to give new theatrical shape and form to perhaps the greatest play ever written.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (1 female, 6 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Jeremy DobrishDescription
Loosely based on a Grimm fairy tale, THE HANDLESS MAIDEN weaves together three stories, that of a miller and his wife who have fallen on hard times and whose story includes devils, wizards, and cross-country treks; that of an ambitious New York lawyer who decides to give it all up and travel to Seattle to see Bill Gates' mansion, her magic castle; and that of a man who is about to be married in Seattle but decides he must first see an old lover... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Marie Thomas, music and lyrics by Micki GrantDescription
This play updates the familiar fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm from the 1800s to the 1980s. Hansel and Gretel's stepmother, Irma, has a plan to get rid of them... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (9 female, 5 male, flexible casting)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Naomi WallaceDescription
As a poisoned city disintegrates around them, three men, almost strangers, meet in a Louisville hotel room to plan an ugly crime against Rubbertown's most powerful industry.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 95 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Victoria StewartDescription
What happens when news becomes entertainment and politics become a performance? Virginia Eames, an aspiring political pundit, attempts to negotiate her way through the constantly shifting landscape of cutthroat commentary and learns what it takes to be a star.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Mac WellmanDescription
In Mac Wellman's black comedy, a very angry person attempts to make sense of his understanding of law and order in a world of other angry persons.
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (5 female, 5 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Brett NeveuDescription
A creative writing professor is called to the office of the college president for questioning. What has been going on in his classroom to provoke a growing controversy and attract the attention of the United States military? Is there a real threat, or is it imagined?
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
John Strand, music by Dennis McCarthyDescription
A loving homage to Eugène Labiche and the High Vaudeville style he was instrumental in establishing a century and a half ago... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 105 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Allan HavisDescription
A factual dramatic account of the advancing history of the Brown v. Board of Ed Supreme Court decision in counterpoint with the personal drama of Senator Strom Thurmond's unacknowledged mixed race daughter, Essie Mae Williams Washington.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Allan HavisDescription
An intriguing thriller in Haiti, showcasing an American doctor who experiments with a new infant feeding formula and along the way is coerced by CIA operatives to treat the commanding Haitian General who has only a few months to live.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Euripides, translated by Marianne McDonaldDescription
Hecuba, deposed queen of Troy, has seen her husband humiliated, her son murdered and her daughter sacrificed... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male, doubling, flexible casting, extras)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
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