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Tammy Ryan
Description
Before heading off to war in Iraq, Casey Johnson neatly organizes her life into a box of lists, envelopes, and registration forms for her son's activities... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesRichard NelsonDescription
A group of American college professors and their students is making an annual summer pilgrimage to London and indulging in an orgy of theater-going (28 plays in 28 days!) The group's itinerary has been programmed for the Complete British Experience... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 11 total (5 female, 6 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 130 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesNeil LaButeDescription
Your career as a writer is blossoming, your beautiful, young fiancée is waiting to get married and rush off to Cancún by your side — so what is your natural reaction? Well, if you're a man, it's probably to get nervous and start calling up old girlfriends... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (4 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 115 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesJames Edward LuczakDescription
Set in rural Alabama in the late 1960s, the play is a bittersweet tale of a middle-aged waitress whose ability to love and be love is rekindled by her chance encounter with a young drifter.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesDouglas PostDescription
SOMEBODY FOREIGN is a political drama about Liz Fletcher, a human rights activists and professor of Middle Eastern Studies at a private college in a small town outside of Chicago... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (3 female, 6 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesWilly HoltzmanDescription
This play tells the story of a notorious '60s radical who has served nearly 30 years in prison for her part in the accidental killing of a police officer during an explosive war protest... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Drama (about 85 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesNeal BellDescription
SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC takes place on a troop ship at the end of World War II. The ship's captain is haunted by the death of his son in battle, and the young marines under his command are terrified and restless as they are stalked by an invisible enemy.
Production Info
Cast: 9 total (9 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesCassandra MedleyDescription
On the occasion of his sister's wedding, Craig struggles with haunting flashbacks to the war and the bomb he dropped on a wedding party... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 4 total (3 female, 1 male)
Short Drama (about 40 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesJosé RiveraDescription
SONNETS FOR AN OLD CENTURY examines what it means to be alive at this particular time and place and what traces each of us will leave behind... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male, up to 12 actors, flexible casting)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesSean GraneyDescription
In THESE SEVEN SICKNESSES, Sophocles' seven surviving plays — OEDIPUS, IN TRACHIS, PHILOKTETES, IN COLONUS, AJAX, ELEKTRA and ANTIGONE — combine with music and food to create a stunning portrait of the human condition, where the intermingling of chance and fate yields disquieting results... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (5 female, 7 male)
Full Length Drama (about 220 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary CostumesRichard NelsonDescription
The Apples sort through family anxieties and confusion on the day of electing the President.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary CostumesQui NguyenDescription
After avenging the death of her lover, a young samurai girl named Dewdrop, along with her faithful sidekick Cert, must now battle through vampire-infested Brooklyn to make it back home.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, Multiethnic Cast)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesReginald EdmundDescription
A white widow is assaulted; an angry mob is at the jail house door, screaming “Lynch him!” The only way to untangle the truth about the events is for the accused, Christopher C Davis, to look into the events that have led him to a tree stump in Athens, Ohio, in the year 1881.
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, 1 female and 2 males are black)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period CostumesTiffany AntoneDescription
Maybell has a problem: Guys never stick around after she sleeps with them. She thinks she just needs to adjust her dating radar, but when her court-appointed gynecologist discovers that Maybell's vagina is actually sending her lovers to space, the federal government decides it wants a piece of the action, leading Maybell to ask "Am I Woman, or am I Weapon?"
Production Info
Cast: 12 total (3 female, 9 male, flexible casting, doubling, bit parts)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary CostumesJim KnableDescription
Barbara, recently deserted by her husband of five years, discovers a Conquistador in her living room... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (3 female, 2 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes