If you’re looking to produce a play at your university, community or professional theatre, you’ve come to the right place.
Below, you’ll find my plays broken down roughly by length, with bulleted cast, run time and age-appropriateness information, along with a one-liner about the story. Click on the title of any play below to go to its own page, where you’ll find production information, a synopsis, a short excerpt and order information or, in the case of my published plays, a direct link to its publisher’s order page.
- Comedy
- 10 minutes
- 1 female, 1 male
- High School and older
Two young adults look for love in a convenience store—with more than the usual baggage.
- Dark Comedy
- 25-30 minutes
- 1 female, 2 males
- High school and older
What do you do when you’re addicted to beef and there’s only one cow left on earth?
- Drama
- 90 minutes
- 3 females, 4 males
- College and older
A homeless teenager in Cambridge looks for the woman he believes to be his mother but instead finds a surrogate father in a gay restaurant owner.
- Dark Comedy
- 35 minutes
- 1 female, 1 male, 1 any gender
- College and older
A college student’s absurdist nightmare about the break-up of his first sexual relationship.
- Comedy
- 10 minutes
- 1 female, 1 male
- High school and older
Mayhem takes off when two passengers think their airplane is about to crash.
- Dramedy
- 10 minutes
- 1 female, 1 male
- College and older
A couple sorts out the drowning death of their son—in a water fountain—and their own second-hand lives.
- Dark Comedy
- 10 minutes
- 2 females, 1 male
- College and older
A breast cancer survivor working as a waitress at a taco stand receives a new breast as a tip from a customer who claims to be the Messiah, but is her miracle cure merely an insidious plot to push her out of her survivor support group so that he can take her spot?
- Dark Comedy
- 10 minutes
- 1 female, 1 male
- High school and older
When two jumpers end up on the same rooftop and neither wants to have their thunder stolen, who, or what, will end up over the edge in this dark comedy?
- Comedy
- 10 minutes
- 1 female, 1 male
- High school and older
A missing roommate. An eight-year-old thief on the loose. Sleep deprivation. A gift of a chicken. It all comes to a head on Valentine’s Day.
- Dark Comedy
- 70-80 minutes
- 2 females, 2 males
Marge Nancy Reagan Ballmoth goes on the lam after her children poison the cookies they give the drive-through teller at a local bank. She meets up with another fugitive, Bruce, who believes there is a milk conspiracy. They hit the road for Montana in search of the mysterious Rufus, a man they believe can provide them with new identities.
- Dark Comedy
- 90 minutes
- 2 females, 1 male
- College and older
Eight year old Wendy decides that Peter is the boy for her, then proceeds to “stalk” him, reinventing herself and reappearing in his life each time he moves on. She follows him into a new neighborhood, through college, homelessness, even incarceration–until her own crisis reverses their relationship.
- Tragicomedy
- 20-25 minutes
- 2 males
- High school and older
A door-to-door gun salesman comes home from work to learn from his young son that “something happened today.”
- Comedy
- 9-11 minutes
- 1 any gender
- High school and older
What do you do when you’re a bear and your habitat disappears? Join the high school track team, of course.
- Ironic/Tragicomedy
- 90 minutes
- 3 females, 2 males
- College and older
Three squeegee people, two mayors, one Winnebago and a parking authority that gives new meaning to the phrase “parking Nazis,” all set in a self-destructing New York City.
- Comedy
- 30-35 minutes
- 4-5 females, 1-2 males and 4-24 any gender (4-30 performers possible)
- High school and older performers, and middle school and older audiences
When a convention center collapses and all of the world’s supermodels are trapped in their dressing rooms beneath the rubble, will the “regular folks” ride to their rescue? No supermodels required to cast this play.
- Dark Comedy
- 10 minutes
- 1 female, 1 male
- College and older
A strange man and his laundry invade the laundry room of a woman’s New York apartment building.
- Comedy
- 25-30 minutes
- 2-4 females, 2 males (4-6 performers total)
- High school and older performers, and middle school and older audiences
When he discovers a used bookstore is removing the pages from classic books and replacing them with blank ones, a customer fights back.
- Dark Comedy
- 30 minutes
- 1 female, 1 male
- College and older
Boone just wants to leave home and start college. Forget that his father has mysteriously disappeared. Forget that there’s a man stuck in the garage door. But Debbie, his mother, isn’t ready for the days of motherly tips, sipping cocoa and watching car crashes together to end—not by a long shot.
- Drama
- 15-20 minutes
- 2 females, 2 males, 2+ any gender
- High school and older performers, and middle school and older audiences
In a dystopian America where families are limited to three members, what do you do if you have twins?
- Dark Comedy
- 15-20 minutes
- 2 females, 3 males (flexible)
- Middle school and older
A recovering transplant patient determined to stock up, doctors selling organs, a kid kleptomaniac and a soup-cooking candy striper right out of Sweeney Todd…calling it a health care crisis would be an understatement…
- Comedy
- 10 minutes
- 3 any gender
- High school and older
The untold story–until now–of why Godot, one of the most famous characters in all of theatre, never showed up.
- Comedy
- 8-10 minutes
- 2 males
- College and older
With Preston as his wingman, sensitive college kid Charlie’s finally going to lose his V-card, if only things go as planned…
- Comedy
- 10 minutes
- 1 female, 1 male
- High school and older
A modern-day Moses and Zipporah try to rekindle their flagging romance with a trip to a middle-American burning bush.
