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Jack Gilhooley
Description
Lou and Barry work for the Russian mob as hitmen. The job happens to be the boss's daughter's boyfriend... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesAnthony ClarvoeDescription
An explosion in a classroom during Show and Tell leaves 24 students dead.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesJosé RiveraDescription
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesErin LerchDescription
When the alien Legion took over, Sheena lost everything. All she has left is one final, unlikely dream: the Rebellion... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 1 male, 2 nonbinary)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesEdwin SánchezDescription
Robin is not speaking to Sandy, and it's driving Robin crazy.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesEdwin SánchezDescription
Sandy's not speaking to Robin, and Robin makes a meal out of it.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesEduardo Iván LópezDescription
A Okinawan girl teaches an Hispanic American solider a bittersweet lesson about love.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesMia McCulloughDescription
SINCE AFRICA chronicles the relationship between a Dinka refugee from Southern Sudan and three Americans — a North Shore socialite, her daughter, and an African American Deacon — who help him acclimate to Chicago's unfamiliar urban surroundings... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesMac WellmanDescription
Two profane aliens have landed in the Southern town of Hillsbottom. Is God watching? Does he care? Is God a He? Mac Wellman addresses these and other questions in this Obie Award–winning play that skewers the social malignancy of ignorance.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Comedy (about 70 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesLuigi Pirandello, translated by Penelope BussolinoDescription
When six characters suddenly appear during the rehearsal of a Pirandello play and demand to have their story told instead, the director is forced to confront an entirely new theatrical situation, one that cascades into chaos as the characters and the actors collide in surreal twists of comical, philosophical, and tragical confrontation... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 16 total (6 female, 10 male, flexible casting, 2 nonspeaking children, extras)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Period CostumesBrett C LeonardCollection Description
This collection includes six one-act plays: SNAPSHOT; THE BRONX TO THE 'BU: BRUCE LEONARD — WARTS AND ALL; WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR; BOBO AN' SPYDER; REBUTTAL; BEAUTY AND LIGHT.
Plays in This Collection
Erin MallonDescription
Ruth is a 74-year-old woman. Rowan is a 23-year-old man. They're in love. And Ruth's 43-year-old son is freaking the hell out.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesRuth WolffDescription
The scene is the glass-roofed solarium atop a high-rise apartment building. As several seasons pass, the public and private lives of the solarium's pool members unfold before the eyes of the young handsome pool guard... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (6 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesNaomi WallaceDescription
Mixing reality and dream, the radical and the mystic, SLAUGHTER CITY is a searing drama about life in the meat-packing industry.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesPierre Carlet de Marivaux, translated from French by Laurence SenelickDescription
SLAVE ISLAND was first produced on Monday, 5 March 1725 by Lelio Riccoboni's troupe and the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, Paris... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, nonspeaking roles)
Full Length Comedy (about 50 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes













