PEE BABY
10 mins
2F, 1M
At an over-capacity college house party, Emaly is just drunk enough to hunt down the person who didn't flush their 3M highlighter yellow piss and convince them to chug water with them. A comedic shortie about random meetings in ladies rooms, and how women and femmes care for each other (and their urinary health).
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SCABS
10 mins
4F
When Octavia, a first-time staff writer, immediately jumps to Co-Executive Producer on her second job after the 2023 WGA strike, her colleague Maree astutely suspects - SCAB!
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:
2024 - Abingdon Theatre, Virtual Festival of Short Plays
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PRESS:
Abingdon Theatre Company Selects Four Playwrights to Showcase - BroadwayWorld
‘ZAT YOU, IT’S ME?
10 mins
2F
A raunchy, riotous holiday comedy set in the early aughts about Sarah Lawrence roommates who, just before Winter Break amid conference week (aka finals), try to solve one of campus' most enduring mysteries/annoyances: the identity of the "It's Me" guy phone prankster.
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SOLAR ECLIPSE OF THE HEART
10 mins
3 (gender flexible)
A wannabe stand-up comedian's dream of shining in the comedic spotlight is eclipsed by their disruptive heckler-partner.
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
2023 - Broadway Bods, 10-Minute Play Festival (NYC)
ASLEEP AND SCREAMING
10 mins
2M
Collin, an insomniac ghostwriter on a deadline, rents a creepy AirBNB in the middle of no place Oklahoma in hopes of finishing his latest horror book for popular author Val Pallingrooth. He invites Trey to join as a cute, lil sexy distraction but sinister forces work overtime to keep Collin asleep . . . and SCREAMING.
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
2024 - CCBC Short Comedy Festival (Baltimore, MD)
PLUMMET FROM THE HAUNTING OF DRU HILL HOUSE
30 min one act
2F, 2M
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MERCURY IN GATORADE
10 mins
1F, 3M
In the near future, former child actors reconvene fifteen years after the finale of "Mercury in Gatorade," the wacky and surreal astrology-themed kids' show. When a CGI reference appears on set as a stand-in for the show's mercurial superhero, Zo D. Ack Ack Ack, the returning Cosmo Kidz contemplate Zo's life and legacy.
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ATTENZIONE!!! PICKPOCKET!!!
10 mins
3F
Giulia's a Sicilian pickpocket evading TikTok exposure. Portia's an American tourist on a solo trip to Italy to find herself. So, like - what's the scam?!
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FUTURE IS F*****
10 mins
2F, 1M
This very dark sci-fi comedy is set in a futuristic government co-working space where programmer Ronnie and HR director Margaret are the only women left in their department. Ronnie is secretly developing a new system of disarming attackers that is accidentally triggered by a passive-aggressive male intern.
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
2022 - Hyde Park Theater Audio Plays (LISTEN)
2021 - Teatrx, La Vida Es Cortos / Life Is Shorts festival (Houston, TX)
2019 - Otherworld Theatre (Chicago, IL)
2017 - 20% Theatre (Chicago, IL)
DIBS
10 mins
3F, 3M
3 Chicago couples compete for a parking spot on a crowded street after a blizzard.
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
2011 - American Theater Company, Big Shoulders Festival (Chicago, IL)
NOT THIS WHITE WOMAN
10 mins
3F
This is the first time Karen Michelle has truly been ashamed to be an American. She tries desperately to connect with other passengers but for some reason, her safety pin and "Not This White Woman" shirt aren't working . . .
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
2022 - Hyde Park Theatre Audio Plays (LISTEN)
2017 - BoxFest Detroit (Detroit, MI)
2017 - arciTEXT "United We Stand" short play festival (Chicago, IL)
2017 - Indie Boots Theatre Festival, (Chicago, IL)
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:
2019 - Reading, Play Club West, (Los Angeles, CA)
2018 - Reading, Barrington Collective, (NYC)
2018 - Reading, Itinerant Theatre, Coffee Shop Theater (Lake Charles, LA)
AWARDS/HONORS:
2017 - Audience Award, Indie Boots Theatre Festival
TOWER TATTS
10 mins
2M
A barely employed construction worker who wants to commemorate his gainful employment (clearing away debris at Ground Zero) by getting “some gnarly ink” from his tattoo artist friend.
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
2017 - Funhouse Anthology (Seattle, WA)
AWARDS/HONORS:
2011 - September Play of the Month - NYC Playwrights blog
LIKE MEAT LOVE SALT
20 mins
2F, 2M
A transgender youth and their cousin fall victim to a game of love and loss in this short alt-folk tale. Inspired by the Appalachian tale of Pretty Polly and the songs of Will Oldham aka Bonnie "Prince" Billy.
Premiered in Hyde Park Theater's FronteraFest Short Fringe Festival in Austin, TX (2007).
PRODUCTION HISTORY:
2012 - Eat Street Players, Fresh Bites One Act Festival (Minneapolis, MN)
2008 - Mir Productions (NYC)
2007 - Louisiana State University, Outworks Festival (Baton Rouge, LA)
AWARDS/HONORS:
FronteraFest Short Fringe Commission Grant, 2007 ScriptWorks