Plays
“thought-provoking…thrilling…painfully hilarious” – New York Times
Pictured are Hannah Gold and Marcus Barainyak from Temple University’s production. Photo by Mark Garvin,
8 Minutes, 20 Seconds
Late one night, a small disagreement erupts into a fight that threatens to end a decade-long marriage. In this 90 minute play, we watch in real time as Ruth and Bo try to get past their disappointments, in life and each other, to answer the question - can you ever really begin again?
Roles available for 1 man & 1 woman.
Another Girl
Aidan, a pregnant, almost-famous musician at the end of her rope, returns to the home she has not seen in over 20 years. She expected to see the sister she hasn't spoken to in years. She didn't expect was the young mother next door to leave her husband on her behalf, or to be courted by the mysterious man who lives in her mother’s attic. And what to do with baby growing inside her when she can't even face her own dying mother?
Roles available for 4 women & 1 man.
The poster from Abingdon Theatre’s production. Photo by John Yearley.
Pictured are Greg McFadden, Jeanine Serrales, Edmond Genest in the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park’s production. Photo by Judy Gailen,
Leap
Mickey Kaplan New American Play Prize
A man’s wife leaves him on the morning of 9/11. Faced by the crumbling towers as his identity itself crumbles, he feigns amnesia and goes home with a waitress he has just met. There he finds a family that is almost as strange as the day he has just had.
Roles available for 4 men & 3 women.
John Gassner Award
Ephemera
A married Professor of Pornography tries to murder his wife who is saved by a man in a mask. A young Christian Scientist who fears she is dying launches into the world but ends up seeking the advice of Mary Baker Eddy through a payphone. And how is the boat that just blew up on the river connected to it all? A wild comedy about desire and the limits of the human body.
Roles available for 3 men & 3 women.
Pictured are Marissa Danielle Duricko and Jim Ireland in the Summer Play Festival production. Photo by Roman Tatarowitz.
Bruno Hauptmann Kissed My Forehead
A stranger who is obsessed with Anne Frank meets a young woman who thinks she’s the Lindbergh Baby. Is he her savior? Or is he just there to battle her father, who thinks he’s disproved the Holocaust?
Roles available for 4 men & 2 women.
Photo by Abi Classey.
The Unrepeatable Moment
A collection of short plays originally produced at The Barrow Group in November, 2015.
Casting is flexible. The original production featured 7 men & 4 women.
Short plays include: Hating Beckett, My Father’s Heart, Horrible Person That I Am, Slave, and Racist Donut.
For a list of other short plays, click here.