Plays by Keyword
Last Drive to Dodge
By Andrew Lee Creech
Livestream reading: Sunday, October 24, at 6 pm PT On-Demand presentation: October 26–31 Synopsis 1884, Texas. Ro, a ranch worker, and Prophet, a cowboy, are in love. They dream of owning their own land, leaving…
Lonesomes: CONRADO and PAISLEY BLUE
By Octavio Solis
Synopsis Written in and for isolation, Lonesomes includes companion pieces Conrado and Paisley Blue. In part one, a man dogged by his past sins is looking for companionship or maybe salvation. In part two we…
Mrs. Harrison
By R. Eric Thomas
Mrs. Harrison is about two women and one story. At their 10-year college reunion, Aisha and Holly meet by chance. Is this the first time or has it just been a long time? They can’t…
Naming True
By Natalie Symons
Amy, a transgender teenage girl, shows up unannounced in the Florida motel room of Nell, a dying woman who’s lived much of her life on the streets of Detroit and now wishes to self-publish her…
Our Utopia
By Carlos-Zenen Trujillo
About The Swallowtail Players, The Aurora Canyon Community’s Premier (and only) Theatre troupe invite you to a public reading of one of their most important texts, Our Utopia, written by the community’s founder Aurora (transcribed by…
Pankhurst: Freedom or Death
By Jeannine Grizzard
British suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst championed the fight for women’s right to vote as the most important of all causes, declaring: “We are on the greatest mission the world has ever known: to free half the…
Perseverance
By Callie Kimball
“The future woman must have a life of work and economic independence. She must have knowledge. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.” — W.E.B. Du Bois, Darkwater, 1920 Synopsis In Perseverance,…
Pocket Universe
By Thomas Brandon
Livestream reading: Thursday, October 21, at 6 pm PT On-Demand presentation: October 26–31 Synopsis Roan surprises his wife, Kelly, with a picnic in the park where they had their first date. When happy disagreements about…
Remains and Returns
By Novid Parsi
Synopsis In 2018, as an Iranian-American family talks about nothing and everything at once, the two middle-aged brothers—one who has remained near their childhood home, the other who returns—confront their elderly immigrant parents about the…
Science Night
By Stephanie Neuerburg
While serving detention for something she may or may not have done, Lauren and her science teacher realize they might be more similar than they think. Playwright Perspective I wrote Science Night as a junior…
Side Effects May Include…
By Lisa Loomer
About A look at the pills we take to keep chasing the American Dream…at any cost. The readings will be followed by talkbacks about the play and the development process, which includes a week of…
Silueta
By Chris Shelton, Diana Burbano, and Tom Shelton
Silueta is a two-person play inspired by the true story of Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-American performance artist and sculptor, whose life ended in a harrowing 34-story fall from the SoHo apartment she shared with her husband,…
