One-Act & Short Plays

Death Defying

(2F) 10 minutes - Zazel and Airabella, two circus aerialists from different eras, find themselves trapped in a waiting room as they await their fate which depends on someone knowing their real names.

* FINALIST: City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting
* SELECTION: Itinerant Theatre's The Play's The Thing
* SELECTION:Luna Stage 6th Annual New Moon Short Play Festival
* SELECTION: Fusion Theatre's The Seven
* PUBLISHED:The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2019

Telephone

(6) 10-25 minutes - Avery and Jordan get a call that seems to be coming from Avery's own telephone number. Who they discover on the other end of the line will challenge their understanding of time, friendship, and connections.

* COMMISSION:Ohlone College Playwrights Festival

The Last Night

(2F) 10 minutes - On the last night of Hanukkah, a young woman must decide whether to finally open a special gift from her mother.

* SELECTION:Luna Stage 4th Annual New Moon Short Play Festival
* WINNER: Jeffrey Award
* PUBLISHED: The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2017
* SEMI-FINALIST: Attic Productions' Christmas Playwriting Festival

For Unto Us

(1M/1F) 10 minutes - Mary and Joseph, two 5-year-olds, discuss religion, different kinds of families and gender roles as they play with Mary’s new Christmas present, a doll. 

* PUBLISHED: Dramatists Play Service
* WINNER: Acadia University MiniFest Selection & Best Play
* WINNER: Second Place, Storefront Theatre - We Like Short-Shorts Festival
* SELECTION:Luna Stage 3rd Annual New Moon Short Play Festival

Helen Keller Visits Martha Graham's Dance Studio

(3F) 8 minutes - Two giants face off over the nature of art.

* PUBLISHED:105 FIVE-MINUTE PLAYS – Publisher: Smith & Kraus

In Mrs. Baker's Room

(2M/1F) 25 minutes -When Jacob contacts Mrs. Baker to reconnect, she meets him in his classroom and is stunned to see that his third grade classroom is an exact replica of hers, down to the ditto machine he purchased on E-bay to do his handouts.  He has modeled everything he does and teaches on what he recalls from Mrs. Baker.  Everything.   The only thing missing from his perfect classroom is Mrs. Baker herself. 

* WINNER: Center for Spiritual Living Playwriting Contest
* WINNER: Father Hamblin Award for Outstanding Playwriting
* FINALIST: City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting Contest
* COMMISSION: Abingdon Theatre Company
* SEMI-FINALIST: Drury University One-Act Playwriting Competition

Tim Eless, Private Eye

(1M/1F) 10 minutes - Tim is a private eye with short-term memory.  Laura is the leggy femme fatale that comes to him with a mysterious case.

* WINNER: Blank Theatre Company, Young Playwrights Competition
* WINNER: City Theater Company’s Delaware 10-Minute Play Contest

The Elevator Play:
Beyond Thunderdome

(4M/3F) 25 minutes - A farce that takes place in an elevator stuck between the 46th and 47th floors of the offices of Trotsky, Dostoevsky, Hammersmith and Ping, LTD on the day that Tina Turner is scheduled to make a special appearance at the office.

* WINNER: Kitchen Sink Festival

And Jack Came Tumbling After 

(2M/1F) 20 minutes - A black comedy dealing with the battle of the sexes. Jack and Jill have just killed Jill's former lover "Harry."  Throughout the course of the play, however, the audience learns that Harry's real name is also Jack and that Jill has a plot to kill every Jack in the world because of the "Jack and Jill" nursery rhyme which she feels teaches women to be subservient to men by having them "fetch the pail of water" for him and come "tumbling after" him.  

Published as part ofFour Play With A Gun

* WINNER: Blank Theatre Company, Young Playwrights Competition
* WINNER: California Young Playwrights Competition
* WINNER: International Thespian Society Playworks Competition

The Long Walk To Forever
Book & Lyrics by Stephen Kaplan
Music by Steve Yorra

(1M/1F) 10 mintues - Based on the short story by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. On the day of her wedding, Catherine is visited by her first love, Newt who takes her on a walk.

Recordings:

Just A Walk - Live Recording (Sung by Farah Alvin)

Oh, Happy We

(1M/1F) 15 minutes - An allegorical drama in which Evelyn, an elderly woman, meets up with David, a young man, at a deserted bus stop on a rainy night.  The play deals with issues of mortality, the will to live, and companionship.  

* WINNER:Blank Theatre Company, Young Playwrights Competition
* WINNER: Northwestern University’s Short Play Competition
* WINNER: Vanguard Theatre West Coast 10-Minute Play Contest

Self-Addressed

(2M) 25 minutes - A drama that tells the story of a 17 year old boy who, upon writing a therapy letter to his dead father, brings his father back to deal with unresolved issues surrounding his death.  

* WINNER: Blank Theatre Company, Young Playwrights Competition

The Drill

(1M/F, Flexible) 1 minute - The sad nonchalance of a safety drill at a high school.

* PUBLISHED: One Minute Plays: A Practical Guide to Tiny Theatre
* PODCAST: Onstage: On-Air

The Choice

(1M/1F) 1 minute - A father buys a dress for his son. 

* PUBLISHED: One Minute Plays: A Practical Guide to Tiny Theatre

Happy Meal

(2M/F) 1 minute - A parent confronts a McDonalds cashier about the gender appropriateness of a Happy Meal.

Father's Day

(1M/1F) 1 minute - A new father surprises a grocery store cashier.

Pride

(2 Any) 1 minute - Two friends argue about the meaning of Gay Pride.