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| Buried in the Bahamas is the story of Nikki, a charmingly unstable young lady who finds winter more exhilarating than life. When she meets a stranger named Joe, she appears ready to surrender to love and reclaim a lost summer. Unfortunately, not every love story can have a happy ending. This 15-minute play requires minimal staging and three actors. Choice, Lies, Bleeding, the story of a young woman who makes a difficult choice, is a five-minute monologue addressing the politically volatile topic of abortion. Room 124 is about a young couple, Manprasad and Madhuri, who experience a difficult night in a roadside motel. This one-act play requires minimal staging and two actors. Dead Cat's Bounce is about a father, home from the hospital with a supply of morphine, who has just enough time to cautiously interact with a family on the edge. This 25-minute one-act play requires minimal staging and four actors. Winner, Heartland Theatre Company’s Emerging Illinois Playwrights Project, March 2008. Reconstructing Julie is a short play about an intelligent young woman who receives an unorthodox diagnosis from her therapist, resulting in a lively, humorous debate about the nature of existence. This 15-minute play requires minimal staging and two actors. Reconstructing Julie will be presented in New York, July 7, 2008, as part of the Algonquin Theater’s One Act Festival. The festival runs July 7-13. Tickets available now on smarttix. The Rose Merchant visits a disharmonious couple wrestling with the nature of their maturing relationship after a night out. This 15-minute play requires minimal staging and three actors. Herslip & Formost, a lighthearted play about ambiguity, requires four actors, 10 minutes and minimal staging. The Trouble With Brandon is a short play about a middle-aged male couple pondering why their young nephew, Brandon, has stopped attending family events. This 10-minute play requires minimal staging and two actors. Presented in June 2008 by New York's Native Aliens Theatre Collective, as part of Short Stories 9, Queer Prime. The Clairvoyant Wife visits a couple wrestling with the here, the hereafter and what lies between. This 10-minute play requires two actors and minimal staging. Vitamin World is a bawdy farce about a misfit crew of independent filmmakers struggling to get just one scene right. This 15-minute play requires minimal staging and four versatile actors. |
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