Ten-Minute Plays

Rockaway Park 2012

Dramedy
2 w

NEW script!

In the Rockaways, ten days after the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, neighbors Helen and Roxanne wait for the Red Cross and FEMA to help them clean up their basements and resume a normal life.

• Parish Players Spring Tens Festival, Thetford, VT, March - April 2025.

• Upcoming production, Authenticity Theater Authentic 10 Showcase 2025, Atlanta, GA, April 2025.

On the Cross Bronx

Comedy
1 w/1 m

In a cop car stuck in traffic on the side of the highway, Kate, in labor, refuses to give birth until she can get to the hospital. Officer Joe's job is on the line if she doesn't safely deliver. And time is running out.

• Keppel Bay FM 91.3, Yeppoon, Australia, as IN THE CROSS CITY TUNNEL (Sydney version,) radio production, January 2023

• Published in She Persisted: Thirty Ten-Minute Plays by Women over Forty, editor Lawrence Harbison. Applause Books, November 2021

• Short+Sweet Perth, as IN THE PIPE (Perth version,) Australia, March 2021

• Short+Sweet Dubai, United Arab Emirates, February - March 2020
  - Winner, Best Play
  - Winner, Best Actress (Lydia Medeiros)
  - First Place, Judges’ Choice Award

• Love and Other Catastrophes (staged reading,) The Rum Diaries Presents, Glasgow, UK, February 2020

• Selected for The New Play Exchange’s featured list of Parenting Plays, November 2019

• Short+Sweet Hollywood, Hollywood, CA, October 2019

• Two XX Sketch Women's Sketch Comedy Writing Festival, Columbus, OH, June 2019

• The New Short Play Festival Season 6, New York, NY, March 2019

Bottom of the Order

Drama
2 m
In a 1970’s kitchen, the morning after a violent family fight, a 15-year-old boy engages in an almost silent battle of wills with his unpredictable and dangerous father. Can the kid get out the door before the next round begins?

• Short+Sweet Dubai, (The Cross Bronx Crew,) January 2024

• Published in Raw and Other Short Plays, Next Stage Press, December 2020

• Berrie Center New Play Festival at Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, April-May 2014
  
  

High Water Line

Fantasy/absurdist comedy
2 w
Teenage Abby and her mother Elise — stuck in a room together after the ice caps have melted — must either escape or drown. A short climate-change apocalyptic black comedy, maybe impossible to stage. Or maybe not.

• Short+Sweet Dubai (Studio Republik,) February 2024

• Vibrating Body, (staged reading, in its Russian translation,) Vspyshka Theatre, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, January 2021

• Published in Raw and Other Short Plays, Next Stage Press, December 2020

• Winner, Vanguard Arts Collective’s Impossible Fest, Chicago, IL. Production cancelled due to pandemic, 2020

• Winner, the Independent International Award for Improper Dramaturgy «Neem-2019>> for “a play that no one will ever agree to stage,” Vibrating Body, Achinsk, Russia, May 2020

• Published in some scripts literary magazine issue 3, The Era of Climate Change, May 2020

• The New Short Play Festival, Season 7, New York, NY, October 2019

Final Rest

Dark comedy
2 w

Chris returns to her empty childhood home to help resentful sister Beth sprinkle Mom’s ashes in the backyard garden. Time’s up: the house will be sold tomorrow. But Chris, unprepared to let go, proposes a plan that threatens to ruin everything.

• Warner International Playwrights Festival, as one of the 9 “most memorable plays and playwrights” of the last 9 years. Torrington, CT, October 2021

• Published in Raw and Other Short Plays, Next Stage Press, December 2020

• Winner, The Grand Theatre Playwriting Competition 2020, Cartersville, GA.

• Winner, Warner International Playwrights Festival, Torrington, CT. Full production recorded and streamed on Facebook and YouTube, November 2020

• Published in The New Short Play Festival: The Finalists Fall 2019, editor Michael Susko, 2020

• Boston SLAM Diverse Voices in Theatre, Open Theatre Project, Boston, MA, December 2019

• The New Short Play Festival Season 7, New York, NY, November 2019
  - Audience Winner: Finalist, Season 7

• Theatre Tapas (O.G. Productions,) as part of West Grandview Fringe Festival, Columbus, Ohio, September 2019

Raw

Drama
1 w/2 m or 2 w/1 m
When Sam, a strong-minded urologist, refuses to give a family friend “The Snip,” Sam's wife Grace tries to convince Sam to apologize. But their family dinner spirals out of control, catching ten-year-old son Alan in the crossfire.
[NOTE: Alan can also be played as a daughter, Allie.]

• Published in Raw and Other Short Plays, Next Stage Press, December 2020

• Short+Sweet Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January-March 2020
  - Finalist, Audience Choice Award
  - Winner, Best Actor (Amit Ghosh)

• Pen Parentis (staged reading), New York, NY, March 2019

• Winner, Warner International Playwrights Festival, Torrington, CT, October 2018

• NYU Finalist, Theater Masters National MFA Playwriting Festival, Aspen, CO, October 2014

Circling the Globe

Comedy
2 w
When world-traveller Adele arrives at the home of daughter Celia -- unannounced, and with a very personal request -- only a secret in Celia’s snow globe collection can bridge the miles between them.

• Published in Raw and Other Short Plays, Next Stage Press, December 2020

• The New Short Play Festival, Season 7, New York, NY, October 2019

• The Greenhouse Ensemble, First Annual Festival of Independent Theatre Companies, Jersey City Theater Center, September 2019

• Fly Center New Works Festival (staged reading), Shelbyville, TN, August 2017

• Winner, 2014 Connecticut Artists and Playwrights Festival, Torrington, CT, October 2014

• KPBX-FM (NPR,) (radio production,) Spokane, Washington, August 2014

• Winner, Longwood University's 0 to 60: Ten Minute Play Competition, Farmville, VA., April 2014

• Actors Studio 10-Minute Play Festival (staged reading), New York, NY, September 2013

Tiger Lilies 

Fantasy/drama
2 w
Vanessa’s come home to bury her mother’s ashes in the family garden. But will burying Phyllis really allow Vanessa to let her go?

• DC Swan Day (staged reading), Washington, DC, March 2011