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Edwin SánchezDescription
This substitute teacher has had enough, and he's going to make sure his students think twice about ever bullying anyone again.
Production Info
Cast: 1 total (1 male)
Short Drama (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Stuart SpencerDescription
A young man who is dating an attorney feels himself drawn more and more to an older blind man in his search for intimacy... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Jon KleinDescription
Dating on the job and Internet dating — both exciting and risky. But mix the two together — WOW! A dark comedy.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (1 female, 2 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Nikolai Erdman, adapted by Richard NelsonDescription
An unemployed "little man" contemplates suicide and is besieged by discontented groups wanting him to turn his suicide into a gesture on their behalf.
Production Info
Cast: 24 total (9 female, 15 male)
Full Length Comedy (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Frank PuglieseDescription
For every success, there are dozens, perhaps hundreds of failures. In THE SUMMER WINDS, Frank Pugliese's moving collection of short pieces and monologues, we hear from New Yorkers who have striven for success in their endeavors but have failed... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
Maxim Gorky, translated by Stephen MulrineDescription
Gorky's magnificent response to Chekhov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD was written in 1904, the year Chekhov died... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 17 total (6 female, 11 male, doubling)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Jeremy DobrishDescription
A car crash. Three people dead. One of them naked. It's up to a detective and a police officer to figure out what happened in this supernatural upside-down mystery.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (4 female, 4 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 90 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Contemporary Costumes
George Cram Cook and Susan GlaspellDescription
Originally produced by the Provincetown Players in 1915, SUPPRESSED DESIRES satirizes the then-current obsession with dream interpretation: Henrietta is unable to stop overanalyzing the dreams of her husband, Stephen, and sister, Mabel.
Production Info
Cast: 3 total (2 female, 1 male)
Short Comedy (about 30 minutes)
Single Set
Period Costumes
Trish VradenburgDescription
A witty and touching play, inspired by the author's mother's battle with Alzheimer's.
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (4 female, 3 male)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes
Anton Chekhov, adapted by Richard Nelson from a translation by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa VolokhonskyDescription
“LITTLE COMEDIES finds the sublimity in intimacy and reminds one that the author was, among many things in his too-short life, a master of the short story … by turns riotously funny, deeply sad and quietly contemplative... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (2 male)
Short Comedy (about 15 minutes)
Minimal Set Requirements
Period Costumes
Richard NelsonDescription
An Apple family brunch stirs up discussions of loss, remembrance and a decade of change.
Production Info
Cast: 6 total (3 female, 3 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Tom JacobsonDescription
Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle use logic and religion to fend off a seductive vampire in this fang-in-cheek comedy/thriller.
Production Info
Cast: 8 total (3 female, 5 male)
Full Length Drama (about 120 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Period Costumes
Mia McCulloughDescription
TAKING CARE chronicles the last years of an elderly woman and the mentally ill adult son who has lived with her for almost three decades... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 2 total (1 female, 1 male)
Full Length Drama (about 90 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Yussef El GuindiDescription
THE TALENTED ONES looks at the thwarted dreams of immigrants eager to make it in their adopted country... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 5 total (2 female, 3 male, doubling)
Full Length Dark Comedy (about 100 minutes)
Single Set
Contemporary Costumes
Constance CongdonDescription
This witty and passionate play explores the story of a man with Alzheimer's and at the same time turns into "a travel guide to Middle America conducted by aliens from outer space... [read more]
Production Info
Cast: 7 total (3 female, 4 male)
Full Length Drama (about 100 minutes)
Multiple Sets
Contemporary Costumes