Shorts 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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Two young adults look for love in a convenience store—with more than the usual baggage.
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Mayhem takes off when two passengers think their airplane is about to crash.
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A couple sorts out the drowning death of their son—in a water fountain—and their own second-hand lives.
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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?
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?
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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.
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What do you do when you’re a bear and your habitat disappears? Join the high school track team, of course.
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A strange man and his laundry invade the laundry room of a woman’s New York apartment building.
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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…
The untold story–until now–of why Godot, one of the most famous characters in all of theatre, never showed up.
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With Preston as his wingman, sensitive college kid Charlie’s finally going to lose his V-card, if only things go as planned…
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A modern-day Moses and Zipporah try to rekindle their flagging romance with a trip to a middle-American burning bush.