Ten-Minute Plays

Bottom of the Order

10 minutes
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

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.

IN THE CROSS CITY TUNNEL (Sydney version,) (radio production,) Keppel Bay FM 91.3, Yeppoon. Australia, 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

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

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.

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