The Other American

A chance encounter in a Paris cafe catapults an American art student into one of the darkest chapters of the Cold War.

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Cell 17 (one-act)

They say that Cell 17 is haunted. But is it a ghost that lingers there, or the burning memories of injustice done to an Irish coal miner and his wife?

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Host Church Triangle (one-act)

After months of flirtation with Jilly, Marko is ecstatic when she casually agrees to take a ride with him one balmy August night. Their destination: the old mill in the woods, beyond the Host Church, where Marko hopes love will blossom. But then they stumble upon an old man with a story to tell about the price of reckless love …

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Three Rings, No Diamonds (one-act)

A relationship coach encounters her most difficult client, a real guy kind of guy — the kind of guy who is not shy about being a guy–meaning he’s desperately in need of her counsel, which he’ll probably ignore.

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Some Kind of Holiday (one-act)

Years in captivity strain perceptions of time and metaphors for a long-married couple, but an unexpected delivery triggers a calendar–as well as an attitude–adjustment.

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What Goes Around

The trickle-down theory of pushing people around. A ten-minute play about the way bullying behavior is passed down and passed along – and not restricted to the playground. Commissioned by Dramatic Publishing and included in its anthology, The Bully Plays.

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Penny Candy

“There’s gotta be somethin’ wrong with somebody who can’t make a decent strawberry jam.” A boy who plays go-between discovers the down side of deception in this romantic romp set in 1950s Appalachia.

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October 1962

A paroled killer’s return to his home town creates havoc for a neighboring family already struggling with Cold War paranoia.

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The Good Daughter

One man would tame a raging river, another his rebellious child. Neither can foresee the consequences. An epic story of love and defiance in World War I Missouri.

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The Sudden Sixties (one-act)

When Hannah Winter loses her footing in a hotel lobby, the gentleman who helps her up turns out to be the boyfriend she left behind 40 years earlier. Now, after nearly a lifetime of self-sacrifice, Hannah is in the mood to rebel. The Sudden Sixties is adapted by permission of and special arrangement with the Edna Ferber Estate.

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Her Place in the World (one-act)

Adam’s immortal, diabolical first wife Lilith makes her appearance again, wreaking havoc among his descendants, now atoning for their sins in Juniata County, Pennsylvania.

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Molumby’s Million

“What was I supposed to do, send him a telegram?” — Jack Dempsey, on the knock-out punch that floored Jack Sharkey, as he turned to complain about Dempsey’s tactics.

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Design

“It’s bargaining. You’re bargaining with the fates.”
Len and Claire sense they are in for some seriously bad karma when his offhand remark at a party inspires the break-up of long-married friends. But when an anonymous sniper appears on the scene, both couples are forced to reconsider the trade-offs they have made in life and love …

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Dirty Pictures

“She tells me it’s over. I say okay, it’s over—and then somehow it just don’t stick.”

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The Yellow Stocking Play

D.W. Gregory, author of Radium Girls and Salvation Road. The music and lyrics are by writing team Steven M. Alper & Sarah Knapp, whose musical version of Mark Harelik’s The Immigrant received two Drama Desk award nominations when it was produced off-Broadway.

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Memoirs of a Forgotten Man

Long before fake news was a trending topic, it was called propaganda. And in the Soviet Union, circa 1938, it was the grease that kept Stalin’s machinery of terror in motion.

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Salvation Road

Two guys. One rusted out Honda. Twenty-four hours to separate a girl from her guru. The road to Hell was never more fun.

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Radium Girls

The original award-winning drama based on the true story. In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage—until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease.

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