One-Act Plays for Adults

If you’re looking to produce a play at your school, youth theatre, college, community theatre, camp, church 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.

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What do you do when you’re addicted to beef and there’s only one cow left on earth?
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A college student’s absurdist nightmare about the break-up of his first sexual relationship.
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A door-to-door gun salesman comes home from work to learn from his young son that “something happened today.”
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.
When he discovers a used bookstore is removing the pages from classic books and replacing them with blank ones, a customer fights back.
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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.
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In a dystopian America where families are limited to three members, what do you do if you have twins?