shorts
On Time (is late)
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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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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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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You Light Me Up
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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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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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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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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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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 10x10 Readings, Opal Theatre Company 2018, Boise, ID WAYS NOT TO DROWN
Performance at Treasure Valley Children Theater's 8 in 48 Festival. Featuring Eric Ellis and Janet Lo. 2017.
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 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 |
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
The demon Hirmuta Dyn in Threes. Photo Chad Shohet, 2016.
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
Ashley Townend, Chad Shohet, Christy Rolfe and Sasha Allen-Grieve. Photo Chaz Gentry, 2016.
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
The play being read somewhere on the Pacific. Photo by Thomas Paul, 2015.
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
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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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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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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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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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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Short Comedy
2W, 1M 2 Minute A woman uses a toxic spray to keep men away from her at the club. |
