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Mere
Waters
Full Length Historical Drama
5W
Winner, Best Script, SheNYC Festival 2024
Honorable Mention, American Playwriting Foundation Relentless Award, 2024
Semifinalist, O'Neill Playwrights Conference 2024
Finalist, Seattle Public Theatre Distillery New Works Festival 2024
Gynecologist Gisella Perl arrives at a concentration camp and is assigned to work as the camp doctor. She has no tools, no antiseptic, no water. She is promised by a young female guard that if she behaves, sending all “interesting cases” (particularly pregnant women) to Dr. M, she will be reunited with her daughter Gabby, from whom she was separated when they left the Sighet ghetto. Guided by two bickering biblical prophetesses, Gisella treats prisoners who have fallen pregnant. Some have been assaulted, some have traded sex for life-saving goods, others just wanted to feel something aside from pain. When she realizes the scope of evil being perpetrated in the hospital, she undertakes a spiritual mission to ensure the safety and survival of the women in her care by performing secret, life-saving abortions.
MERE WATERS is a Jewish play. It's an abortion play. It's a play about mothers, daughters, faith, and survival.
Inspired by the life of Gisella Perl and her memoir "I Was A Doctor In Auschwitz".
TW: Holocaust trauma, infant death, abortion, sexual violence
Romeo
& Her
Sister
Full Length Queer Historical Drama
5W 2M
“Blevins shows a mighty fine ear for language and conversation… a strong, engaging and truly entertaining tale.” –Jeanné McCartin, ArtPort NH
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She NYC 2022 Semifinalist
Workshop, Whiskey Theatre Factory 2022
Read & Rant, Athena Project 2023
Salon Reading Series, Angels Theatre Company, 2023
World Premiere, New Hampshire Theatre Project 2024
In 1845, Charlotte Cushman is the most famous American actress in the world, well-known for playing men's roles in the plays of Shakespeare. Despite her international fame, she harbors a secret, hidden in plain sight: she loves women. Celebrated in her own country, she has brought her sister Susan to London to play Juliet to her Romeo. Old resentments between the sisters surface as Charlotte--along with Sallie, her dresser and closest confidant--struggles to balance her exploding career, her tumultuous relationship with writer Matilda Hays, and her affair with another young woman, all while keeping her personal life hidden from her fans, her sister, and her bitter rival, Edwin Forrest. Will the play be a success or a flop? Will Charlotte and Susan put aside their differences and come together in time for the curtain to rise? Will Forrest uncover Charlotte's secret and use it to ruin her career? And can Charlotte allow anyone close enough to know the real her?
The Polycule:
A Comedy
Of Manners
Full Length Satirical Verse Comedy
3W 3M 1NB
“The Polycule tackles a variety of toxic tendencies in relationships with pithy rhymes and comical queer absurdity… an unpredictable, spirited adventure of polyamorous pandemonium.” – Socks Whitmore, Stage Raw
Finalist, Boston New Works Festival 2024
Semifinalist, The Road Summer Playwrights Festival 2024
Frank Moffett Mosier Longlist Prize for Works in Heightened Language from Synecdoche Works 2023
World Premiere, Loft Ensemble Theatre, Los Angeles CA, 2024
Fern attends a dinner party to meet her new boyfriend's family--which consists of his wife and the other members of their polyamorous household. An outsider to their world of consensual non-monogamy and its unfamiliar rules and norms, Fern struggles to keep up and to fit in. Written in rhyming verse and inspired by Moliere, THE POLYCULE satirizes the conventions of unconventional relationships.
Morphology
Full Length Family Drama
2W 1M
SEEKING DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
Claudia is a single mother to Nico, a nonverbal autistic teenager. As she and her own mother struggle over what direction her life should take, Nico reaches out to the one creature he thinks might understand him. Written in a mix of verse and prose, MORPHOLOGY explores the power and inadequacy of language, what it means to know one another, and what we can learn from deep sea biology.
The Female Gaze
ONE-ACT FEMINIST MYTHOLOGICAL COMEDY (3W)
Medusa is living comfortably enough in exile on her deserted island, surrounded by statues of the men she's turned to stone, when the blind Princess Metope arrives seeking sanctuary. Is Metope safe with Medusa? And who is the mysterious old man who brought them together?
The Bed Trick
ONE ACT TRAGIC SEX FARCE (1M 2W)
A man wants a woman who doesn't want him back. To protect her purity, she enlists a decoy to pretend to be her. A comic device as old as time isn't so funny for the decoy or her target in this play inspired by Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, classical tropes and modern love.
Postpartum
15-MINUTE HORROR (1M 1W)
The Mother had a baby a month ago. Her Husband knows something is wrong. And the baby monitor keeps making these weird noises…
Crisis Exercise
ONE-ACT EPISODIC TRAGEDY (3 ACTORS, GENDER FLEXIBLE)
Three kids sit in a dark classroom, trying to stay quiet during a routine lockdown drill. Their friendships, and their shared understanding of what the drills mean, evolve as they age from five to seventeen.
TW: gun violence. High school students may perform this play royalty free with permission.
Izzy at Zoom Therapy
ONE ACT SPOOKY MYSTERY FOR THE STAGE OR ZOOM. (2W)
Izzy, a people-pleasing young woman with a tragic family history, attends her first online therapy session. Her sister just died, and what's worse, the plague has returned. Is she going crazy, or is the curse that claimed her whole family coming for her? And what is her therapist hiding?
Inspired by The Oedipus cycle, IAZT may be performed online or in person.
Be The Bacchae: An Interactive Drunken Tragedy
ONE-ACT, INTERACTIVE DRINKING GAME COMEDY (6-8 ACTORS GENDER FLEXIBLE)
Audiences are invited to attend the best party in the world, hosted by the god of wine himself.
Part irreverent adaptation of Euripides' most famous tragedy, part drinking game, and all chaos, BTB was conceived for Zoom but can and should be performed in a bar, theatre, or any venue where audiences can play (and drink) along with actors.
Recommendation
ONE-ACT PHILOSOPHICAL REVENGE DRAMEDY (1M 1W)
Lane wants her professor to write her a recommendation to her university’s graduate philosophy program. Her simple request becomes a power struggle, a seduction, and a debate on the morality of revenge.
(Recommendation may be performed on its own, or together with Tipping and Last Call.)
Great Hollow
15 MINUTE HALLOWEEN COMEDY (2W 1M)
Clara is enjoying a night to herself, watching her favorite scary movie in her dilapidated beach house. Kendra, who has inherited the house from her grandmother, arrives to claim it. Will Clara stand her ground, or will an unexpected connection change the fate of both young women?
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No Clock In The Forest
ONE ACT EPISODIC SHAKESPEARE SEQUEL (1M 1W)
Orlando and Rosalind are celebrating their fifth wedding anniversary. Orlando just wants to go to dinner, but Rosalind has something else in mind. In a series of vignettes taking place over 20 years, the Shakespearean lovers navigate disparate expectations for marriage, break each other's hearts, and seek answers in the forest where they once fell in love.
NO CLOCK IN THE FOREST was written for Shakespeare On The Sound’s 2022 New Play Festival.
TOADS!!! (an amphibious nativity play)
ONE ACT NIGHTMARE NATIVITY PLAY (2W, 2-4 GENDER FLEXIBLE)
Margot and Jodie are having a baby. A talking toad tells them why. They journey to a magical swamp where three visitors bring them gifts and sing to them.
It's a nativity play, sort of. Animal characters may be puppets, but not necessarily.
Pilloried
10 MINUTE MEDIEVAL COMEDY (1M1W)
Wilkin and Doxy are locked in the pillory awaiting sunrise, and the punishing humiliation that will follow. While Wilkin prays for a reprieve from the public shaming, Doxy takes a more philosophical view.
WINNER, 49th SAMUEL FRENCH OFF OFF BROADWAY SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL
Space Laser, In Space!
10 MINUTE JEWISH SCI FI COMEDY (1M1W)
Talia and David are crew-mates aboard a laser-armed satellite orbiting Earth. Faced with an unexpected and consequential choice, their disagreement about how to respond becomes a greater argument about identity, faith, and survival.
FINALIST, 48th SAMUEL FRENCH OFF OFF BROADWAY SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL
The Eighteenth Quinquennial Endlings Picnic
10 MINUTE ENVIRONMENTALIST EXTINCTION COMEDY (5 ACTORS, GENDER FLEXIBLE)
Five Endlings--the last living animals of each of their respective species--meet for a picnic. The passing of the picnic’s founder, Lonesome George, has the surviving participants at odds: do they have a duty to use their remaining time to fight back against the cause of mass extinction, or is it enough to seek joy and solace in each other?
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Schnoz
10 MINUTE JEWISH COMEDY (2W)
Sara is considering getting rid of Babushka. But Babushka won't go without a fight.
I’m Not Wearing The Green Dress
10 MINUTE HOLIDAY COMEDY (1W, 1M (or transfemme))
Teenaged siblings Jason and Jen are getting ready to take their annual Christmas card photos when a disagreement about what to wear threatens to ruin their picture perfect family.
Tipping
10 MINUTE EXISTENTIAL ROM-COM (2 ACTORS, GENDER FLEXIBLE)
Two strangers meet in a bar, both waiting for a bartender who never comes. Will opposites attract? Or will it be their shared unhappiness that brings them together?
(Tipping may be performed on its own, or together with Recommendation and Last Call.)
Last Call
10 MINUTE ABSURDIST COMEDY (1M, 2W, 1 ANY GENDER)
A bartender wields power over their customers as they swap seats, drinks, and personalities.
(Last Call may be performed on its own or together with Tipping and Recommendation.)
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The Prince’s Shadow
10 MINUTE QUEER SHAKESPEAREAN ROMANTIC DRAMA (2M)
In the story of Henry V, his dearest friend Poins disappears when Hal leaves his life in London to take the throne; the rest of the disreputable friends of Hal's youth are imprisoned, but Poins himself is never spoken of again.
THE PRINCE'S SHADOW imagines their farewell.