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Y YorkDescription
What do you do when your spouse is conked on the head and wakes up with a terrifying new personality: optimistic happy person?
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Mark Chrisler, ELIZA, and PARRYDescription
Persecuted gay British codebreaker Alan Turing helped develop the first computers and an empirical test for artificial intelligence and other minds... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 50 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Yussef El GundiCollection Description
This collection includes ten short plays: In BRASS KNUCKLES, a woman, Maysoon, stands in front of a mirror, puts on her hijab, and girds herself to face the outside world... [read more]
Neil LaButeDescription
Two brothers meet on the grounds of a private psychiatric facility. Drew, has been court-confined for observation and has called his older brother, Terry, to corroborate his claim of childhood sexual abuse by a young man from many summers ago... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 118 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Karen SundeDescription
Based on a true story, a kidnapped "cowboy" Marine serving the U N in Lebanon's maze of rival Muslims drags America into this new world as the mystery of his capture unfolds... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (1 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
book and lyrics by Eric Overmyer, music by August DarnellDescription
In Eric Overmyer's hilarious send-up of private-eye pulp fiction, Shrimp Bucket and his brother, Gut, are stealing the sexy Dolores Con Leche's dreams... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Eric OvermyerDescription
Eric Overmyer's cosmic comedy probes the world of international conspiracy, political paranoia, and intergalactic connections.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Rebecca RitchieDescription
Lilith shares with Eve a few eye-opening tidbits about Adam.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 female)
Short Comedy (about 25 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Naomi WallaceDescription
Appalachian-born Craver and Palestinian-American Remzi bond in a way characteristic of soldiers, but their relationship soon becomes something far deeper and dangerous in Naomi Wallace's exploration of war, love and the possibility of desire to change us at our core.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Billy AronsonDescription
What begins as a romantic rendezvous between two college students turns into something else entirely when the boy's mother visits, and a terrible truth is revealed.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Stuart SpencerDescription
A trilogy of one acts on the theme of art how and why we create it. In the first play, THE ROTHKO ROOM, a man and woman meet in the room of a museum devoted to the works of Mark Rothko... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Jennifer Tuckett, Dorothy Fortenberry, Lauren FeldmanCollection Description
This collection includes three short plays: WAYS YOU CAN SURVIVE THE WORLD by Jennifer Tuckett, AFTER THE FLOOD by Dorothy Fortenberry, and WHEN IT RAINS by Lauren Feldman... [read more]
Nick RobideauDescription
Erica, shy and more than a little socially awkward, is in love with Dee. The problem is that her politician sister, her only and equally awkward new friend, and the nosy residents of their small town in Massachusetts don't understand at all, because Dee … well, Dee is a Dairy Queen sign... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Adam SzymkowiczDescription
Elise is a pyromaniac fire chief who falls in love with Jake, the detective investigating her fires. Carrie, Elise's therapist, is trying to get her to stop lighting fires and Carrie's husband, Gary, is leading the life of a somewhat ineffective corporate spy.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male, doubling, up to 15 actors)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
After six months of self-imposed pandemic isolation, the Apple siblings again gather on Zoom for an evening of dinner, conversation and performance, while the world continues to sputter more and more out of control, amidst anger, loss, death and a coming election.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes