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José RiveraDescription
Set in the desert of Barstow, California, where Gabriela, the wife of career soldier Benito, dives into a surreal fantasy world during her husband's prolonged absences and imagines the mating rituals between a coyote and a cat.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
Unfolding on the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, REGULAR SINGING is the final play in Richard Nelson's series chronicling the lives and times of the Apple family in upstate New York.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Lynne AlvarezDescription
Wilson is searching for his deceased son, James. With the assistance of two experts in reincarnation, he finds a young woman, Jaime, but is she really his son reincarnated?
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Cassandra MedleyDescription
Race and science collide in Cassandra Medley's trenchant drama. Claire is a melanin scientist. She believes people of color are genetically superior — physically, mentally, in every way... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Sherry KramerDescription
A young man who sows his wild oats is a hero — every woman he beds is a medal. The more medals, the bigger the hero... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Susan MillerDescription
Finishing a basement is either a neurotic retreat from reality or a way of patching up the cracks.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Greg LamDescription
What would happen to our world if anyone could choose to remix and rewrite their memories and personalities? Rich and Gretchen seem to have the ideal marriage, until they learn that it was manufactured by a mysterious biotech company which installed it into their brains... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male, plus 2 bit parts, flexible casting)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Stuart SpencerDescription
A comedy about Michael, a Kierkegaard-quoting intellectual in small town Wisconsin, who doesn't know what to do about the "AWOL alien busboy" who has decided to spend his shoreleave in Michael's living room watching reality TV and eating Cheese Doodles... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Jon KleinDescription
Ibsen's characters from HEDDA GABLER, who know the play insanely well after centuries of performances, try desperately to keep the play afloat... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 140 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Allan HavisDescription
A fantasy drama on clairvoyance and supernatural events surrounding the life of an African American PhD candidate who is researching folklore and ghost communication within immigrant communities in California... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (5 female, 4 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Joe SuttonDescription
Cold fusion, long a dream of nuclear scientists, able to generate enough electricity to power entire cities from water, has at last been achieved... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (1 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Naomi WallaceDescription
THE RETREATING WORLD concerns an Iraqi bird keeper from Baghdad and his address before the International Pigeon Convention.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Naomi Wallace and Marcus RedikerDescription
In the silence of a Quaker meeting house, Benjamin Lay — shepherd, sailor, revolutionary, and the British Empire's first revolutionary abolitionist — returns from the grave almost 300 years after his death, as feisty and unpredictable as ever... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
The famous long-nosed hero returns home to Italy a changed man after the experience of his success in Hollywood and America.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 75 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Michael BradyDescription
Four friends graduate from high school, young and unformed, but full of promise and contradictions. Over the course of several class reunions they love, betray, damage, and heal each other, living their lives as best they can... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes