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PLAYS

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SHORT PLAYS

ACT OF CONTRITION

Drama - 2M

A priest assumes the man in the confessional wants forgiveness for the mercy killing of his mother. He's wrong.

THE AGENDA

Comedy 6 Actors

The National Oversight Committee for All Things LGBTQIA - or as they call it, NOCFATLGBTQIA - has a very full agenda today. If they could only keep on track.

AMERICAN GOTHIC

Comedy - 1W, 1M

You know the painting. The man, the woman, the pitchfork. Well, the woman . . . she wants out.

CARLY’S LAST CALL

Drama - 2W, 2M

How do you say goodbye to your best friend? Sometimes it takes more than a couple of Pisco Sours.

CRAVEN TUTWEILER (THE REAL LIFE STORY OF)

Comedy - 3W, 1M

Three very different women discuss the remarkable man who changed their lives. With oddly graphic details.

DEAD MIME IN THE TRUNK

Comedy - 1W, 3M

A twisted little love story about a sister, a brother, a lottery ticket and the world's angriest mime.

FRANCINE, SAVED FROM DROWNING

Comedy - 2W, 1M

Nine months pregnant, Francine has had enough. Between cigarettes and glasses of wine, she lets her husband know just how much.

KNOWING BEST

Comedy - 2W

After six years of coping and adjusting and defending and explaining, Angie's mother is less than thrilled to hear that her daughter is no longer a lesbian.

LAST TRIP ON THE MOTHERSHIP

Comedy - 1W, 3M

As Lance Headman, star of TV’s Galactic Warriors, sits behind his rented table at the GalacticCon in Sandusky OH, he is faced with his greatest fear . . . super fans!

LAURA KEENE GOES ON

Comedy - 2W, 1M

It's April 1865, and legendary actress Laura Keene is not going to let a little thing like an assassination stop her from going on. Look out!

LION IN A BEAR BAR

Comedy - 3M

The Cowardly Lion has followed his boyfriend Kevin to a lather bar. It pretty much goes downhill from there.

LOVE MACHINE, RUSTED

Comedy - 2W, 2M

Felix and Frances are trying to spice up their love life. And so they’re having a foursome. Sometimes . . . you really need to think these things out.

MITZI HAS A MELTDOWN

Comedy - 2W, 1M

Mitzi is not happy about becoming a grandmother. And by ‘not happy,” we mean NOT HAPPY!

MOVE ON, OR SONDHEIM AT STUDIO 54

Comedy - 1W, 2M

Nick is your average married guy, typical in every way. Then he sees a Sondhiem show. A funny, insightful show about the power of a single song.

OBJECTS IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR

Drama - 1W, 1M

On the day of their son's funeral, a divorced couple find not only common ground, but a little understanding, in their sorrow.

OMG

Comedy - 3W, 1M

STFU! The title says it all. 

PETER, PAULA, MOM AND MARY

Comedy - 3W, 1M

Mom's baking cupcakes with the Virgin Mary. Paula is pretty much apathetic. Peter, not so much.

SARAH STEIN SENDS A SELFIE

Comedy - 3W

Sarah Stein is getting married today. But before she does, she apparently has to get a few things off her chest . . . and her phone.

SPLAT!

Comedy - 4 Munkins

Dorothy has just skipped off down the Yellow Brick Road. Leaving the inhabitants of Munchkin Land to deal with her shattered house and the apparently dead witch under it. They're not happy. A morality tale with Munchkins.

TINA THOMPSON TRIES THE TUBA

Comedy - 2W, 2M

Tina Thompson is trying the tuba ... and, apparently, Tommy Turner. Don't tell her boyfriend Terry Tarlitz. A terribly ticklish tale of taking chances and trying new trades.

UNSINKABLE

Comedy - 2W, 2M

Mr. and Mrs. Wydner-Dolye, fabulously wealthy and wonderfully oblivious, are having a hard time believing the ship they're on - the Titanic - is sinking. Why shouldn't they? It's unsinkable!

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