One-Act Plays            

 

Negotiations

Three lawyers getting in touch with their inner cowboy. Two secretaries from Hell. One client you don't dare mess with. A

For six performers.

  • Running time: approximately 20 minutes. 
  • Presented in a staged reading at New Jersey Repertory Co. March 15, 2004.

The Savage Sex  

   
Sex is power, and Madame Poisson proves it with her deadly effect on her many admirers. But is she any match for the sharp-eyed inspector who follows the trail of bodies to her door? A farce. 

  •   produced at the Catholic University 1994

  •   produced at Washington Theatre Festival 1996

  •   finalist, George R. Kernodle One-Act Play Contest 1997 

  •   produced at Western Kentucky University, April 2003

  •   presented at Mill Mountain Theater Feb. 17, 2004            

running time 20 minutes; for two women, four men

Short Plays and Sketches

 

  • So Tell Me About This Guy, 10 minute comedy about breathless love. Published in "More Ten-Minute Plays from Actors' Theatre of Louisville" and widely produced, including Edinburgh Fringe Festival 1999. Also available in Spanish translation.

In "30 Ten-Minute Plays for Two Actors," from Smith & Kraus Publishers. Also available in "More Ten-Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville," Vol. 3, from Samuel French.

       for two women

  • After the Dance: 10-minute comedy in which clothes make the woman. Produced in Washington Theatre Festival, 1996. A popular choice for forensics competitions. I've gotten half a dozen requests for this play in the last year.

       for three women

  • Work Stoppage: 10-minute comedy in which technology comes to a halt, briefly.

        for one woman, one man

  • The B Word:  A comic meditation on the origins of a certain epithet. Published in Best Women's Stage Monologues 1999 from Smith & Kraus.

       for one woman

  • Passion Play: One couple discovers that when they speak of love, it doesn't pay to be too literal. 

       for one woman, one man

  • Why We Invented God:  

        Winner, the George R. Kernodle Award 2004.

        Heidman finalist.

         A young couple struggles to cope with the inevitability of death and          the randomness of terror in a post 9-11 world. 

         for two men, one woman

 

 

 

 

Screenplays

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