The plays on this page are appropriate for teen performers, and most were written specifically with them in mind. Why not consider them for possible production at your school, theatre, camp or other program?
- Dramedy
- 30-35 minutes
- 3+ females, 3+ males (6-30+ performers possible)
- High school and older (or skilled middle school actors)
A world full of teen characters, ranging from a lonely short-wave radio DJ to a modern Romeo and Juliet to the writer of a most unusual letter, try to balance their fears and dreams as the rest of the world sleeps.
- Musical
- 75-85 minutes
- 4+ females, 4+ males (8-40+ performers possible).
- High school and older performers, and middle school or older audiences
A world full of teen characters, ranging from a lonely short-wave radio DJ to a modern Romeo and Juliet to the writer of a most unusual letter, try to balance their fears and dreams as the rest of the world sleeps.
- 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.
- Dramedy
- 30-35 minutes
- Flexible cast of 8-40+ performers
- Middle school and older
When a man and woman in suits take Emmett away in the middle of math class, why is it that no one noticed him until he was gone?
- 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?
- Dramedy
- 8-10 minutes
- 1 female, 1 male
- Middle school and older
When the smart but far from cool kid is trapped in the closet with the girl who’s way out of his league during a game of the infamous teen rite of passage Seven Minutes in Heaven, will it be hell on earth or the heaven that neither of them expected…?
- Drama
- 9-11 minutes
- 1 female, 1 male
- High school and older
A bullied teen’s random encounter with another student before school might be just the hope he’s looking for, or everyone else’s last chance.
- Comedy
- 10 minutes
- 1 female, 1 male
- High school and older
Mayhem takes off when two passengers think their airplane is about to crash.
- Musical
- 90 minutes
- 5 females, 3 males, plus a flexible ensemble of 7-42+ any gender
Some people wish the high school years would last forever. Others would do anything to get them over with. What if they all had a chance to get their way?
- Dramedy
- 80-90 minutes
- Flexible cast of 8-50+
- Middle school and older
Through scenes and monologues, a group of teen characters search for their “Chuck,” that elusive moment of knowing who you are.
- Dramedy
- 30-40 minutes
- Flexible cast of 8-30+
- Middle school and older
Through scenes and monologues, a group of teen characters search for their “Chuck” that elusive moment of knowing who you are.
- Drama
- 40-50 minutes (with some flexibility)
- Flexible ensemble of 10-50+ performers
- High school (or skilled middle school performers) and older
Through a connected series of scenes and monologues, Declaration explores the befores, durings and afters of a group of students whose school is yet another ground zero for a mass shooting.
- Drama
- 10-15 minutes
- 3 females, 1 male (with additional actors possible to create the soundscape)
- Middle school and older
A teenage girl repeatedly relives the cyberbullying of her best friend as she tries to cope with the aftermath.
- Comedy
- 35-40 minutes
- 2-6 females, 2-8 males (4-14 performers possible)
- Middle school and older
When Romeo reveals that he plans to revenge himself upon Shakespeare by killing him in a duel, it’s up to three characters from the comedies to make sure that all’s well that ends well and save the Bard.
- Comedy
- 10-15 minutes
- 2 females, 1 male, 1-12+ any gender (4-15+ performers total)
- High school and older performers, and middle school and older audiences
Escaped convict catfights, epic vomiting, questionable vaguely Eastern European accents, air guitar virtuosity, teen ice princesses and the greatest of expectations—can those all happen to one boy in a single summer…?
- Comedy
- 90-100 minutes
- 7-25+ females, 5-25+ males (12-50+ performers possible).
- Middle school and older
Everyone’s favorite vampires, wizards and werewolves battle lots and lots of evil in this crazed mash-up parody of the two biggest megahits of recent years, Harry Potter and Twilight.
- Comedy
- 35-40 minutes
- 4 females, 4 males, 2-32+ any gender (10-40+ performers possible)
- Middle school and older
Everyone’s favorite vampires, wizards and werewolves battle lots and lots of evil in this crazed mash-up parody of the two biggest megahits of recent years, Harry Potter and Twilight.
- Comedy
- 75-80 minutes
- 5+ females, 6+ males, 4+ any gender
- Middle school and older
In this parody of Disney’s High School Musical, join Toy Boatin, Gaberella, Shitzu, Cryin and the rest as the Roswell High bowling team goes for a state championship, students pursue their dreams of performing in the Winter Muse Cycle and surgical decathletes compete in real live surgery, but when Gaberella’s singing voice turns out to be so bad it could cause mass casualties, what will win out—following your dreams, or preserving life as we know it?
- Comedy
- 35-45 minutes
- 8+ females, 3+ males (12-40 performers possible)
- Middle school and older
When a desperate high school drama troupe gambles that adding a zombie or two to the cast will bring them enough audience to save their program, their hungry new actors threaten to change forever the meaning of “live theatre.”
- Comedy
- 10 minutes
- 1 female, 2 males
- High school and older
A teenage boy hitchhikes along a highway that seems to be disappearing into a black hole.
- 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?
- Dramedy
- 40-50 minutes (flexible)
- 2-20+ females, 2-20+ males (6-40+ actors possible)
- High school and older
Through a series of scenes and monologues—everything from an accidental first date to a most unusual art project to creating that last, best selfie—we meet a group of teens who are struggling to find the balance between documenting their lives and living them.
- 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.
- Comedy
- 10-15 minutes
- 2 females, 1 male, 4 any gender (4-12 performers possible)
- Middle school and older
A teen thespian detective discovers a vast black market for plagiarized papers and an unlikely ally.
- Dramedy
- 10 minutes
- 2 males
- High school and older
A pair of residents at a home for troubled teens wait for a photo op with Newt Gingrich.
- Dramedy
- 30-35 minutes
- 5+ females, 3+ males (8-22+ performers possible, with considerable gender flexibility)
- Middle school and older
A play about what happens when young people slip through the cracks, and what drives them to violence.
- Dark Comedy
- 8-12 minutes
- 5 any gender
- Middle school and older
A pizza delivery guy arrives at the exact moment a doomsday cult expects the world to end.
- 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.
- Drama
- 90 - 100 minutes
- 8+ females, 4+ males (14-50+ performers possible)
- High school (and advanced middle school) or older performers, and middle school and older audiences
A band of teenagers struggles for survival and to find the little moments of joy in the wake of a global warming disaster.
- Dramedy
- 30-35 minutes
- 8+ females, 3-4 males
- Middle school and older
A band of teenagers struggles for survival and to find the little moments of joy in the wake of a global warming disaster.
- Comedy
- 40-50 minutes
- 10 females, 3 males, 4+ any gender (9-30+ performers possible)
- High school (possibly advanced middle school) and older performers, middle school and older audiences
When Tiny Tim throws away his crutches and declares his intention to run the marathon, he could inspire millions—but with big business behind Oliver Twist as their inspirational figure of choice, Tiny Tim may never make it to the starting line…
- Comedy
- 10-15 minutes
- 4 females, 1 male, 1-4+ any gender (6-11+ performers possible)
- Middle school and older
When Puritan rivals accuse each other of witchcraft, everything in their small town goes off the rails in this madcap mashup of The Crucible and Our Town…with a dash of Avenue Q. Yes, there are puppets.
- Horror Comedy
- 8-10 minutes
- 2 females, 1 any (optional)
- High school and older
When “teen” vampire Celeste accidentally sucks the life out of her date…again, is it time for yet another burial, or for a long overdue awakening?
- Comedy
- 15-20 minutes
- 2 any gender
- High school and older performers, and middle school and older audiences
A teenage sign spinner suddenly has competition for their favorite corner.
- Dark Comedy
- 8-9 minutes
- 1 any gender
- Middle school and older
When your mother tells you at the age of three that you’re going to end up stealing saxophones from homeless people, it’s all downhill from there.
- Dramedy
- 8-10 minutes
- 2 males
- High school and older
When you’re a gay teen but apparently not the right kind, where else can you turn for help…but to your straight friend!?
- Dark Comedy
- 10 minutes
- 1 female, 1 male
- High school and older
When a high school debate tournament’s sudden death round turns out to be exactly that, losing is no longer an option…
- 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.
- Drama
- 10 minutes
- 1 female, 1 male
- High school (or possibly mature middle school actors) and older
After two of their classmates stage a Columbine-style massacre at their school, a pair of students hiding in a custodian’s closet must decide whether ten minutes of silence means it’s safe to come out, or something else entirely…
- Dramedy
- 30-35 minutes
- 3-4 females, 3-4 males, 2-24+ any gender
- Middle school and older
As two bullied students try to survive their daily lives, they wrestle with a terrible question: is the only way out to become the people they hate?
- Dramedy
- 10 minutes
- 2 males
- High school and older
A gay teen shakes things up in his home ec class when he wants his boyfriend to be his “husband” for a family budget assignment.
- Drama
- 80-90 minutes
- 8-16+ females, 5-12+ males (14-40+ performers possible)
- High school and older
Alisa arrives at a new high school in the middle of the year to find her locker next to a shrine for a popular lacrosse player who’s died in an auto accident, but as she digs deeper, she discovers another loss that no one talks about, even as it’s left many of the school’s students trying to pick up their own pieces.
- Dramedy
- 35-45 minutes
- 8-16+ females, 5-12+ males, (12-40+ performers possible)
- High school and older
Alisa arrives at a new high school in the middle of the year to find her locker next to a shrine for a popular lacrosse player who’s died in an auto accident, but as she digs deeper, she discovers another loss that no one talks about, even as it’s left many of the school’s students trying to pick up their own pieces.
- Dramedy
- 30-35 minutes
- 3+ females, 3+ males (6-30+ actors possible)
- High school and older (or skilled middle school actors)
A world full of teen characters, ranging from a lonely internet radio DJ to a modern Romeo and Juliet to a serial letter writer who’s never sent a single letter, navigate that magical hour between night and morning as they wrestle with the changes in their lives.
- Comedy
- 10-15 minutes
- 3 females, 2 males
- Middle school and older
A group of teen monsters—a zombie nerd, a rebel without a cause vampire, a werewolf jock, an overly sweet and sentimental witch and an existentially depressed ghost—are thrown together in midnight detention in this homage to the classic 1980s John Hughes film, The Breakfast Club.
- Comedy
- 40-50 minutes (flexible)
- 3+ females, 2+ males (10-30+ gender-flexible performers possible)
- High school and older performers, and middle school and older audiences
With so much of our lives spent in bathrooms (more than a year!), whether it’s private time with a favorite floating bath toy to discovering “ancient” graffiti to the invention of a new dance craze, the teens of this vignette-style, flexible-cast comedy are growing up…in the throne room.
- 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
- 20-25 minutes
- 3 males
- High school and older
The gun is missing from the pot on the right rear burner at the Doe house, replaced by an egg.
- Comedy
- 90-100 minutes
- 8 females, 5 male, 4 any gender (9-50+ performers possible)
- High school and older performers, and middle school and older audiences
When Tiny Tim throws away his crutches and declares his intention to run the marathon, he could inspire millions–but with big business behind Oliver Twist as their inspirational figure of choice, Tiny Tim may never make it to the starting line…
- Comedy
- 25-35 minutes
- 2-3 females, 2-3 males, 4-36+ any gender
- Middle school and older
A madcap parody of the Dickens Christmas classic.
- 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…
- Drama
- 90 - 100 minutes
- 2 females, 10 males
- Middle school and older performers, and middle-upper elementary and older audiences
The youth of a town on the brink of ruin battle the students of a local prep school that is gradually buying up their town, all the while protecting one of their own whose parents have abandoned him.
- 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
- 65-75 minutes
- 1 male
- High school and older
A backyard wrestler traces his career as he wrestles with whether to continue in a match after suffering a concussion.
- Dark comedy
- 35-45 minutes
- 7-21+ females, 1-14+ males (9-22+ performers possible)
- High school (potentially advanced middle school) and older
Sweeney Todd meets high school in this dark comedy with scheming cheerleaders, mysterious loners and a couple of teens just trying to survive their daily lives with their dignity—and their vital organs—intact.
- Drama
- 15-20 minutes
- 2 males
- High school and older
Two teenagers struggle with how to defend themselves against a bully.