While there are numerous plays on my Play Catalogue page that have been performed by teen actors at high schools, middle schools and youth theatres, the plays on this page were, by and large, written with them in mind. In fact, many were specifically written for teen performers. Why not consider them for possible production at your school, theatre, camp or other program?
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Drama
- 15-20 minutes
- 2 males
- High school and older
Two teenagers struggle with how to defend themselves against a bully.