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Adam SzymkowiczDescription
A much despised art critic who is slowly going blind falls under the spell of a painter with an agenda of her own.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, doubling)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
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
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: 16 total (11 female, 5 male, flexible casting, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Rochelle OwensDescription
A play about people living at the extremes of experience, their stories conveyed as much by imagery and sound as by plot... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Christi Stewart-BrownDescription
From the Brontë sisters to the Brady Bunch sisters, THREE MORE SISTERS takes a fantastical ride through the pangs, clashes, and ultimate endurability of sisterhood.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 female)
Full Length Comedy (about 55 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
John StrandDescription
A comedy about the Iran-Contra affair.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (1 female, 7 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Anton Chekhov, translated by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear, and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
"Mankind used to be busy with wars, filling all its existence with campaigns, raids, victories, but now that has all outlived itself, leaving a huge empty space, and there's nothing to fill it with... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 14 total (5 female, 9 male, extras)
Full Length Comedy (about 110 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Scott Alan Evans and Jeffrey Couchman, based on the stories "Dancing Dan's Christmas" and "The Three Wise Guys" by Damon RunyonDescription
Christmas Eve, 1932. Three New York wise guys on the run from a hotheaded racketeer journey from a Manhattan speakeasy to a swanky Long Island mansion to a ramshackle barn in Pennsylvania, inadvertently spreading holiday cheer everywhere they go... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (2 female, 5 male, doubling or flexible casting, up to 4 females, 10 males)
Full Length Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes