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 Short Plays

Ten Minutes and Micro Plays

shorts

On Time (is late)

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Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash
Request Script
A (short) divine comedy
2 Any Gender
10 Minutes

Kronos -- the god of measured time -- is trying to get to an important dinner that could get him back on Zeus' good side, but his escort Kairos -- god of felt time -- is taking way too long to get ready, risking both their reputations and seriously pushing the buttons of this titan with a violent track record in the meantime.


Reading:

Address Book
2024, Boise, ID

Last Road Trip

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Photo by Anja van de Gronde on Unsplash
Request Script
Short Play
2W/1M
10 Minutes

Talia meets her aunt Andrea in the park to ask a big favor that could get them both in trouble, but when a stranger shows up with a watchful eye, the trust between them starts to break, along with their close bond.

Terminal McCartney

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Photo by Safwan Mahmud on Unsplash
Request Script
Short Dark Comedy
1W, 1M, 1Any
10 Minutes 

A couple try to get away for a holiday, but their airport stay, much like their life, pulls them in like purgatory.

lift

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Photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash.

You Light Me Up

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Photo by Maxim Tajer on Unsplash
Request Script
Short Comedy
2 Any Gender
10 Minutes

Chamomile tries to escape the chaos of her life by retreating to a mountaintop, while her partner Calamity tracks her down to bring that chaos to her.


Reading:

Beth Norton & Friends!
Mad Swede
2024, Boise, ID


Pizza Date

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Photo by shaian ramesht on Unsplash
Request Script
Short Play
1W(gender questioning)/1M
10 Minutes


Bean tries to reconnect with her nephew despite his father trying to push them apart, so she takes him out for a pizza even though that's against house rules--just like most of her core values--and tries to work through the walls he's put up.

Hideaway Hotel

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Photo by Mike Beaumont on Unsplash
Request Script
Short Comedic Drama
2W, 1M
10 Minutes 


At a hotel getaway, Genna tries to confront Sammy about his behavior, but he turns it around and convinces her she’s to blame because of her sleepwalking. As their relationship unravels over the course of minutes, Genna finds herself approaching a freedom she didn’t know she needed.

Drastic Dragon Station

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Photo by Bailey Heedick on Unsplash.
Request Script
Short Comedic Drama
1W, 1M plus options ensemble
10 Minutes

A woman with terminal cancer takes a last balloon ride up to the troposphere and meets a young albatross who helps her die the way she wants, a gift that will help him earn a mate.

Readings:


City Theatre
City Reads at Key Biscayne
2024, Miami, FL


Women's Playwriting Project
Spark Creative Works
2021, NYC


Dog Days of Summer 10 Minute Play Festival
HomeGrown Theatre

​2019, Boise, ID


Digital Productions:

Northwest Ten (NW10) Festival
Oregon Contemporary Theatre
2021, Eugene, OR


10-Minute Play Festival
Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre

2020, Fargo, ND

THE WAY UP

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Photo by Reto Simonet on Unsplash
Request Script
​Short Comedic Drama
2W, 2M, OR 1W, 1 Trans/NB, 2M
10 Minutes

Three high school friends cope with the loss of their friend by climbing to the top of the same construction site where she jumped to her death. Randy seems the least brave of all of them -- but the grief he struggles with may be harder to manage than the heights.


Staged Reading:

Altered Minds, The Alternative Theater Company
2019, Theatre Row,  NYC, NY

Readings:

About Love Festival, Tomo Suru Players
2019, Vancouver, BC
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10x10 Readings, Opal Theatre Company 
2018, Boise, ID

WAYS NOT TO DROWN​​

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Performance at Treasure Valley Children Theater's 8 in 48 Festival. Featuring Eric Ellis and Janet Lo. 2017.
Request Script
Short Drama
2 Any Gender
10 Minutes

At the end of the world as we know it, Kern and Fan watch a flood eat the world around them, about to take them with it. They find a chance to survive, but it involves permanent change, and may separate these two love birds forever.


Fringe Workshop Production:
8 in 48 Idaho Festival
Treasure Valley Children's Theater
​2017, Meridian, ID
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University Production:

10 Minute Play Festival
Idaho State University
2019, Pocatello, ID

Podcast Recording:

The American Playbook
2019, HBMG Foundation


Staged Reading:

Death Rattle Playwrights Festival

2016, Nampa, ID

Reading:

Dog Days of Summer 10 Minute Play Festival
HomeGrown Theatre
​2016, Boise, ID

Request Script
Short Comedic Drama
1M, 2-3W
10 Minutes 


A monster kept as a prisoner of war in a woman's brain is tortured as her constant creating drowns him with ink, but this overworking ends up turning the tables.

LATE NIGHT SNACK

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The demon Hirmuta Dyn in Threes. Photo Chad Shohet, 2016.
Request Script
Short Puppet Play
1M, 1W, 2AnyGender, 1+Puppets
10 Minutes

When a demon turned Horrific Puppet Affair host is accused of no longer being scary, he tries to prove himself by eating all the children in the world, only to discover that the best plan taking over is to get Donald Trump elected President of the United States.

Commissioned by HomeGrown Theatre.

Production:

The (5th Annual!) Horrific Puppet Affair
HomeGrown Theatre,
2016, Boise, ID

​DROWN

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Ashley Townend, Chad Shohet, Christy Rolfe and Sasha Allen-Grieve. Photo Chaz Gentry, 2016.
Request Script
Short Puppet Play
4+ Puppets
5 - 10 Minutes


Mesmerized with the ocean, a swimmer gets pulled down to the world below and drowns. Before she dies, underwater creatures transform her into a fish. She gets eaten and coughed out of a much larger animal, given another chance at life -- as a fish.

Production:

The (5th Annual!) Horrific Puppet Affair
HomeGrown Theatre, 
2016, Boise, ID

SOMEWHERE ON THE PACIFIC

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The play being read somewhere on the Pacific. Photo by Thomas Paul, 2015.
Request Script
Short Comedy
2W, 1M

10 Minutes

Mort and Alice's honeymoon gets interrupted by a plane crash. Stuck at sea, the only survivors, a strange woman tries to save them. But there's a monster about...

University Production:

10 Minute Play Festival
Idaho State University
2019, Pocatello, ID

Readings:


Women's Playwriting Project
Spark Creative Works
2021, NYC


Dog Days of Summer 10 Minute Play Festival
HomeGrown Theatre,
​2015, 
Boise, ID

micro-plays

Tree People

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Photo by Dave on Unsplash
Request Script
Short play
1W/1NB
5 Minutes


A woman about to lose everything turns into a tree to survive in a new way.

Climate Change Theatre Action
All Things Must Begin
Events
2023: Austin, TX; Twin Cities, MN; Cork, Ireland; Boston, MA; Abbotsford, BC; Atlanta, GA; Greenfield, MA; Feldkirch, Austria; Philadelphia, PA


Reading:

Campfire Stories
2023, Boise, ID

Commission:
Climate Change Theatre Action, 2023

Dog Gambit

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Photo by Atanas Teodosiev on Unsplash
Request Script
Short Comedy
3 Any Gender
5 Minutes

A couple hit a dog and try to revive it, only to discover that they are now under the dog's control.


Reading:

Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
​2019, McCall, ID

DreamSong

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Photo by Steven Weeks on Unsplash
Request Script
Short play with music
1M/1W
5 Minutes

To help them stop climate change, two kids on the California coast call a sea monster from the deep to bring them courage and luck.

Podcast Recording:


Goucher College
Listens to the Environment
2024, Towson, MD

Staged reading:

Goucher College
Listens to the Environment
2024, Towson, MD

Readings/Performances:


Last Frontier Theatre Conference
Valdez Theatre Fringe
2022, Valdez, AK

Climate Change Theatre Action
Envisioning a Global Green New Deal Events
2022: Shanghai, China; Boise, ID
2021, Worldwide
Including Miami, FL; Beaford, Devon, UK; NYC; Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria; Greenfield, MA; Detroit, MI; Vancouver, BC, Brisbane, Australia.

Commission:
Climate Change Theatre Action, 2020

Deer You

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Photo by Scott Jackson on Unsplash.
Request Script
Short Comedy
2W
1 Minute

A woman tries to push a deer out from the middle of the road but is turned into roadkill in the process.

Reading:

National Winter Playwrights Retreat
2019, Creede, Co

Float On

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Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash.
Request Script
Short Drama
2 Any Gender
1 Minute

A couple face the beginning of Coronavirus.

Readings:

The Coronavirus Plays
1MPF
2020, Atlanta, GA

Trinity Street Players
Plays in Pajamas
2020, Austin, TX

Keep Her Dancing

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Photo by Forest Simon on Unsplash.
Request Script
Short Comedy
2W, 1M
2 Minute

A woman uses a toxic spray to keep men away from her at the club.

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