One-Act Plays

BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS 2022 – from SMITH & KRAUS 

  • STUCK INSIDE THE WALLS

BEST AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS from APPLAUSE BOOKS

  • CAPTAIN ABALONE (2002-03)
  • LOVE ON THE B-LINE (2005-06)
  • HEARTS AND MINDS (2006-07)
  • LAUNDRY AND LIES (2007-08)
  • SISTERS (2008-09)
  • THE SUBTERRANEANS  (2014-15)

PLAYS FOR TEENS (Commissioned and produced by Stella Adler Studio)

  • ACCEPTANCE (Cast:  3F)
  • THE SUBTERRANEANS  (Cast:  2F, 1M)
  • KISSING COUSINS (3F, 1M)
  • TAKING THE PLUNGE (4F, 1M)
  • THE FAMILY PLOT (4F)

LAUNDRY AND LIES

Comedy.
A man desperate for truth becomes entangled with a recreational liar.
Cast: 1W, 1M

Productions: Ensemble Studio Theatre and Rude Mechanicals Theatre Company

Appears in Applause Books’ Best American Short Plays 2007-08

WILD TERRAIN  

A retired professor and his dreamy wife battle over love, art and the relativity of memory.  Cast: 2W, 1M

Production:  Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon of One-Act Plays

PEOPLE OF THE BOOK

An elderly Shakespeare scholar wrestles with the loss of the words which have given his life meaning – and the love of an 82-year-old virgin.  Cast 2W, 1M

Productions:  Theater for the New City; Play Group Theatre

THE INFANT SOCIETY
Comedy.
The whole world wants Lisa, age 33, to have a baby.   Lisa has other ideas.

Cast: 3W, 2M (with doubling)

Excerpt appears in Dramatic Publishing’s Scenes and Monologues for Mature Actors

A WOMAN OF RUMORA
A surrealistic comedy.
Betty Laughingbrooks discovers that a handsome stranger has taken up residence in her bathroom.

Cast: 2W, 1M

Winner:  Brave New Plays Competition

HB PLAYWRIGHTS SHORT PLAYS from SMITH & KRAUS

  • SURVIVING MOM in The Hospital Plays
  • CAPTAIN ABALONE in The Beach Plays
  • LOVE ON THE B LINE in The Subway Plays

DRAMATIC PUBLISHING

  • TAKING OFF in 25 in 10
  • THE TURNOVER in 25 in 10