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Richard NelsonDescription
The Apples reflect on the state of their family and discuss memory, manners and politics as polls close on mid-term election night 2010 and a groundswell of conservative sentiment flips Congress on its head.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Mark SteenslandDescription
Blaming herself for her son's death in an accident, a grief-stricken woman wants to hold a séance to get his forgiveness from beyond the grave... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Tom JacbosonDescription
A small Lutheran choir in its death throes provides the backdrop for this Chekhovian warning of the impending doom of mainline Protestantism in America... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (4 female, 5 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Todd David GrossDescription
A romantic comedy with a Sci-fi twist. Troubled lovers, Roger and Susan, visit rural Vermont to work on their relationship... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Neal Bell, adapted from the novel by Emile ZolaDescription
The story of a young woman forced into an unhappy marriage to her dull, sickly cousin and smothered by her overbearing aunt... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Michael McGuireDescription
A comedy with tragic overtones, THESE FLOWERS ARE FOR MY MOTHER concerns husband, Adam, and wife, Eden, who are locked in a custody battle for their gifted son, Alan, whom Eden believes is in need of her nurturing to realize his potential... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Lynne AlvarezDescription
An American composer endangers himself when he includes a revolutionary's song on his recorded collection of local music... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 10 total (4 female, 6 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Sherry KramerDescription
First, there was the Gutenberg Printing Press. It made scribes obsolete. Then the Xerox Machine made carbon paper a thing of the past... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Short Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Naomi WallaceDescription
In Depression-era Alabama, black Sunday school teacher and Communist Party member Tice Hogan lives on the edge of trouble... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Sherry KramerDescription
When you make glass for a living, your body breaks. Victor, the last in a long line of glassmakers, lies under the knife on the operating table for heart and lung surgery, while his family waits to know if he will live or die... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 13 total (6 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Peter AckermanDescription
Ever been racially slurred in the sack? Ever been subjected to strangers yelling at you at 3 am about the most intimate details of your life? Ever been to New York? Six characters from wildly different backgrounds make love, war, and hysteria late one night in the cultural, sexual, and generational smorgasbord that is Manhattan.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (2 female, 4 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 115 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Joe SuttonDescription
Welcome to Karlovec, a small town that the Soviets had started to build a nuclear plant in, but it was never completed... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Neil LaButeDescription
Belinda and Cody Phipps appear to be a typical Midwestern couple: teenage sweethearts, children, luxurious home... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 95 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Greg LamDescription
Stuck in Los Angeles traffic during a year of disasters, an employee and their boss chat by phone about work, fires, and pandemic precautions — until a zombie outbreak erupts on the freeway.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female, flexible casting)
Short Dark Comedy (about 10 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Kenny FinkleDescription
A THOUSAND YEARS is a fantastical comic-book-bright flight of fancy through time examining the enduring power of love... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (2 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes