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Allison WhittenbergDescription
SLINKY explores the invisible struggle of male eating disorder recovery through an intimate domestic lens... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Sherry KramerCollection Description
This collection includes five short plays: CAKE, HOLD FOR THREE, THE DREAM HOUSE, THE WORLD AT ABSOLUTE ZERO, and A THING OF BEAUTY CAN BE COPIED FOREVER... [read more]
Plays in This Collection
Janet NeiprisDescription
Three American professors come to teach in China the summer before Tiananmen Square. The Cultural Revolution is over, but when Remy, the American professor, attempts to bond with her Chinese translator, Sun, the friendship proves to be impossible for political reasons... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (5 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 130 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Willy HoltzmanDescription
Memory and song converge as Judy Holliday, the “dumb blonde” with a genius IQ, charts her experiences from Greenwich Village to Broadway and beyond with notable show business alums, including Leonard Bernstein and Marilyn Monroe.
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male, doubling)
Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Brooke BermanDescription
Twenty-one-year-old it-girl Abby and her plucky best friend, Clea, embark on a spur-of-the-moment revenge trip to London — Abby, in pursuit of the young novelist who has cannibalized her in his literary debut and Clea desperately seeking Madonna.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Edwin SánchezDescription
Ernest can't wipe the smile off his face.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 male)
Short Drama (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Vickie RamirezDescription
A Tuscarora woman, who was born outside of her Clan, and therefore outside of Longhouse tradition, struggles to find her place on her very traditional reservation.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Brett C LeonardDescription
“Leonard comes at you head on and with no holds barred, like no one that I know of at work presently in the theater... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (1 female, 5 male)
Short Comedy (about 40 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Yussef El GuindiDescription
A man is casually introduced to an army sniper, and it provokes a deeply discomfiting reaction.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Carl Sternheim, translated by Eric BentleyDescription
In THE UNDERPANTS, she is waiting in the crowd — Berlin, circa 1910 — craning her neck forward to see the Kaiser pass by... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Lynne AlvarezDescription
Set in Denmark in the early 1890s, Nina, the Snow Queen, has migrated south yet once again to find her "boy" for the season... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 60 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Y YorkDescription
A Native American family and an African American family find communion with one another and with the beleaguered natural world... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesYussef El GuindiDescription
A battle-scarred peace activist struggles with her calling.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Christina MasciottiDescription
June, a retired pretzel factory worker, finds herself deaf after 40 years with machines, widowed, and stranded in the urban muck of Reading, PA... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Tammy RyanDescription
Before heading off to war in Iraq, Casey Johnson neatly organizes her life into a box of lists, envelopes, and registration forms for her son's activities... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes