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