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Richard Nelson
Description
The Apples sort through family anxieties and confusion on the day of electing the President.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesQui NguyenDescription
After avenging the death of her lover, a young samurai girl named Dewdrop, along with her faithful sidekick Cert, must now battle through vampire-infested Brooklyn to make it back home.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesReginald EdmundDescription
A white widow is assaulted; an angry mob is at the jail house door, screaming “Lynch him!” The only way to untangle the truth about the events is for the accused, Christopher C Davis, to look into the events that have led him to a tree stump in Athens, Ohio, in the year 1881.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, 1 female and 2 males are black)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesTiffany AntoneDescription
Maybell has a problem: Guys never stick around after she sleeps with them. She thinks she just needs to adjust her dating radar, but when her court-appointed gynecologist discovers that Maybell's vagina is actually sending her lovers to space, the federal government decides it wants a piece of the action, leading Maybell to ask "Am I Woman, or am I Weapon?"
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (3 female, 9 male, flexible casting, doubling, bit parts)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesJim KnableDescription
Barbara, recently deserted by her husband of five years, discovers a Conquistador in her living room... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesNeal BellDescription
When a screenwriter becomes entangled in the life of a university professor under investigation for a grisly murder, what begins as self-interest soon gives way to empathy, and a bond between men from seemingly opposite worlds deepens... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesAishah RahmanDescription
A speaker introduces his concepts on America's "eminent world domain."
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesJohn FisherDescription
An action-adventure about a mission behind enemy lines during the Gulf War.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesEdwin SánchezDescription
A group of actors rediscover hope in their chosen profession.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesTom JacobsonDescription
Pulled from the stomach of a whale, an American whaler is bleached blind and becomes a modern Tiresias in the court of Louis XVI... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (3 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 140 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period CostumesAlan BowneDescription
Unmarried cousins Eleanor and Lolly have inherited from their recently deceased aunt a historical house on the windswept Massachusetts coast... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesFrank Wedekind, English version by Kenneth Tigar and Clayton KoelbDescription
Possibly the ultimate coming-of-age drama. The play follows a group of high-school friends in Victorian-age Germany who begin to experience their first sexual desires in a world where even talking about sex is taboo... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 25 total (7 female, 18 male, some doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesMaría Irene FornésDescription
The eternal story of love and betrayal.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesMartin JonesDescription
A diverse group of homeless people, from a pregnant teenager to a thirty-year-old mental patient to a street musician in his forties, struggle to survive.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 105 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesNeil LaButeDescription
An amateur comic struggles with his new routine.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes