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Sherry Kramer
Description
The perfect rent-controlled New York City apartment has one fatal flaw — the roommate from hell. The play takes place on the day the newest roommate can't take it anymore... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesNaomi WallaceDescription
Three young Texans spend their nights patrolling the Mexican border to earn a $10 bounty for every Mexican they catch crossing it... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesSybille PearsonDescription
A play within a play set in a veterinarian's office.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (4 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesSally NemethDescription
The rain will not stop. Rising seas reclaim the land. In a loft barely above the water line, scientist Evangeline tracks the deluge, while locked in a love triangle with fellow researchers Jack and Dresden... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Short Drama (about 25 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesJennifer TuckettDescription
What would you do if you woke up one day before school and discovered you just happened to be a superhero? Impress your friends or save the world? Two ordinary schoolgirls, Yasmin and Katie, try to make sense of this crazy and confused world in this honest and powerful play.
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 female)
Short Drama (about 40 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesFranca Rame and Dario Fo, adapted by Estelle ParsonsDescription
A woman's double is a doll who says four-letter words to attract men.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 female)
Short Drama (about 45 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesStephen BelberDescription
When Beau, a directionless 19-year-old, discovers that his mother was involved in a decade-old unsolved crime during her time as a military contractor, he seeks out the Afghan victim's daughter in California... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesBrett NeveuDescription
Three American career women find themselves bound to chairs and interrogated by masked men. One is asked to renounce her country... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesAnton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Nelson from a translation by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
“LITTLE COMEDIES finds the sublimity in intimacy and reminds one that the author was, among many things in his too-short life, a master of the short story … by turns riotously funny, deeply sad and quietly contemplative... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male)
Short Comedy (about 20 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesMark St GermainDescription
Susan and Martin Merrit are unable to have a child on their own, so they hire Becca Connor to serve as a surrogate... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (5 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesLaura QuinnDescription
A math major, a biology major, and an economics major explore feminist poetry with the help of several pitchers of beer.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 20 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesRachel LynettDescription
After an attack influenced by her race, Cass wants to just forget about it and move on with her life but her (white) roommate and the dean of the university push her to "make an example of it... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (4 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesKat RamsburgDescription
Wendy, a recently widowed baby boomer, is thrust into a world that left her behind years ago. She once dreamt of having wild adventures, wrestling crocodiles, sword fights, and swimming with mermaids, only to find herself keeping house and raising children... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, 1 male character a boy)
Full Length Drama (about 80 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesMartin JonesDescription
Set in a black barbershop in Arkansas, 1955, WEST MEMPHIS MOJO sings the unsung heroes of the blues tradition... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (1 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumesbook and lyrics by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor, original music composed by Nick Graham, additional material by Dee RyanDescription
History like you've never experienced it before. As a musical. You’re gonna laugh like it's 1499, and the music will knock you out!
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male, as written; gender-diverse and/or expanded casts welcome)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes