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Dennis J ReardonDescription
Set in 1963, LAST DAYS OF THE HIGH FLIER is the story of a young man waiting for his life to begin, the mysterious ex-pilot who enters his life, and the intricate dance of friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness that takes place between the two men... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Russell DavisDescription
Bob and Lily Baker get together with Sam, Bob's best friend, and Molly, Sam's wife, for a 15th wedding anniversary... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Edmond Rostand, translated by Brian VineroDescription
Don Juan's sexual conquests have gained him an infamous reputation all over Europe. When the Devil himself begins to drag him to Hell, Don Juan makes a bargain: In exchange for another ten years of life, he will commit to doing the Devil's dark work himself by bedding as many women as possible and leaving them wanting and devastated.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male, doubling possible, many female bit parts possible)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Louis PhillipsDescription
Jimmy Bryce, an ex-vaudevillian and comedy writer, lives in a run-down hotel in Los Angeles. As he waits for a young comic writer to arrive for comedy lessons, Bryce remembers his past life... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Greg LamDescription
The Earth has become uninhabitable. The last escape ship from Earth (Seattle, to be exact) arrives to its new home planet centuries after all the others... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male, flexible casting)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Ludmilla BollowDescription
Isobel and Veronica, spinster sisters, live alone in genteel clutter. Both are retired from the candy factory, where they spent years as candy dippers... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 40 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Alan HruskaDescription
LAUGH IT UP, STARE IT DOWN is a comedy about Cleo and Joe: how they meet, fall in love, and ardently search for a meaningful point in a universe too random to have one... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Desi Moreno-PensonDescription
A missing husband. An unfaithful wife. A laundry-sniffing best friend. And by the way, who's in the bathroom? An oddly comic fable about the value of faith, the fragility of relationships, and the "right" way to tell a bad joke … just what happened to the husband is unclear, but a mysterious stranger is about to reveal all... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Comedy (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Molière, translated from the French into English by A R Waller, adapted by Steven Pimlott and Colin ChambersDescription
Molière's satire of intellectual snobbery focuses on the women folk of Chrysale's household, who look on all but intellectual pursuits as worthless and spurn love in favour of learning... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (5 female, 8 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Molière, translated in verse by Mark HaywoodDescription
Henriette and Clitandre are in love and want to get married. But Henriette's mother, aunt, and sister have other ideas — they are pseudo-intellectual snobs who think that Henriette should follow their example by rejecting earthly pleasures and devoting her life to highbrow pursuits like philosophy and learning... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (5 female, 8 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Michael MitnickDescription
Daniel's life is in the toilet — his cartoonist career is a failure, his girlfriend has dumped him for a physical therapist and, to top it off, he suspects his identity has been stolen... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
The Left is personified in Richard Nelson's idealistic and intellectual characters, whose fascinating friendships are as fraught as the political history through which they've lived.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Kermit FrazierDescription
An African American college professor who is feeling stuck both in his life and in his world of words meets a female African American student who comes to represent for him a dangerous kind of renewal and redemption, one that leads to tragedy for two disparate families... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Mark HarelikDescription
Rural Central Texas, 1962. Dave, still lives in the old family home that his father built. The family is still the only Jewish family in this isolated country town... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Erin LerchDescription
After an alien Legion arrives and devastates human civilization via bioweapons and military might, a small band of humans continue to fight back.