PLAYWRITING- short works

A government agent comes home to his mother and faces the cost of his work. 

Contemporary Drama.  

10 minutes  

1 w , 1 m

Two friends wait in line to hug a famous guru whose embrace promises existential bliss.  

Dark Comedy 

15 minutes

1 w, 1 NB

After a natural disaster, an abandoned phone booth is put to use to connect to lost loved ones.

Drama

10 minutes

2 w, 2 m

Two sisters stand on a pier in Seattle to help them move on from a loss. 

Dark comedy

10 minutes 

2 w 

A woman speaks her mind about the term misappropriately applied to cowards 

Dramatic monologue

1 w

A graduate student meets her dissertation advisor unexpectedly in the airport. 

Drama  

10 minutes

2 w 

Olympe de Gouges is one of dozens of women featured in the full-length Fight Like A Girl, a collage of historical, groundbreaking, and fearless women. 

Two Acts

Flexible Casting

Rooted in the testimonies of Holocaust survivors, How It Will Be portrays the historical puppet performance given by women while imprisoned in the Kaiserwald Concentration camp in 1944. 

Historical Drama

Two Acts

9 w, 1 m

Based on the real-life experiences of the author,  Reclaiming Othello tells the story of seven young people who participate in a production of Shakespeare’s Othello while incarcerated as juveniles. 

Contemporary Drama 

Two acts

10 m, 1 w

Residents in a three story Chicago apartment in Ukrainian Village find their lives intersect and intertwine despite the emotional distance at the core of existence.  

Contemporary Drama 

One act

1 w, 3 m

Through one German-American family's experiences, Rabble Rousers examines the struggle for the 8-hour work day, workers' rights, and the rise of the labor movement in the context of the Haymarket Affair in Chicago in 1886.

Period Drama

Two Acts

5m, 4w