ALLEGRA at the BEACH (Audition
Scene 3 - 5 Minutes)
1
F *(Contact Author)
Allegra
returns to the beach where she and young son spent
happy times. Today
she is alone.
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BATTLE
HYMN (10 Minute Play) *(Contact
Author)
1 Woman 1
Man 1 (Either Sex) - Bare
Stage
Battle in a small town between Freedom
of Religion, and Freedom
From Religion, and the ensuing
solution. (Based on news s
-- Staged
Reading: Christians in the Arts Conference
-- Staged Reading: St. James Prayer
Group
-- High Sshool
Speech Competition - Won Superior (2004)
--Various other productions
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THE BEACH CLUB (One
Act Comedy/Drama - About 30 min.)
3
Females 2 Males -- Beach Setting *(Contact
Author)
Humor
and pathos meet at the beach where The King of the Beach
and his eclectic
assemblage encounter the first snow of the season.
-- Village Church
(Milwaukee WI)
-- Alliance Theatre Company
(Atlanta GA)
-- University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
(Oshhosh WI) (Experimental Theatre)
-- Rhinelander School of the Arts (Rhinelander WI)
- Reading
-- Wisconsin Theatre Conference
(Stevens Point, WI)
-- Wauwatosa Village
Playhouse (Wauwatosa, WI)
(Winner of John Flessas Award
- Best Play)
-- National Chengchi
University (Taipei TAIWAN) (Special Play Award)
-- Wheeling High School Drama Club (Wheeling WV)
-- Monologue scenes - Wharf Rats Theatre (Salem MA) -
"Twisted Machismo III)
-- Theatre Studio Theatre (New
York, NY) - 2005
-- Sam French Festival - American Theatre of Actors Chernuchin
Theatre
(New York, NY) - 2005
-- Shoestring Theatre - Morning Star Peninsula - AUSTRALIA - Jan.
2006
-- Scene printed in
"THE BEST WOMEN'S STAGE MONOLOGUES 1998"
- Smith & Kraus
-- Scenes (2) printed
in "THE BEST MEN'S STAGE MONOLOGUES 1998" -
Smith & kraus
-- Early Version - Printed in "TheLiterary Half
Yearly of India"
-- Televised WGTV (Atlanta GA) - Alliance Theatre
Co.
-- Best Actor Award - State Theatre Conference
- WI
-- One Act Play Contest Winner/Production - Village
Church (Milwaukee WI)
-- Goforth Drama Society - England - Long List
- Play Contest
(Also
rewritten as full length play - "KING OF THE BEACH")
-- National Playwriting Contest
- Winner, Production - Attic Playhouse(Detroit MI)
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BELLE OF THE BIJOU (One
Act Monologue - 1F)
(See: Full Plays
- ONE ACTS & MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN
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BITSY & HER FRIENDS
(One Act - Under 30 min.)
6
F - Garden setting *(Contact
Author)
Bitsy
and street friends recycle trash for art faire
in
mansion garden, meeting opposition.
-- Mae West Fest (Seattle
WA) - 2004 (Selected, but not performed)
-- Theatre-Studio Inc. (New York, NY) (Into
rehearsal - cancelled)
-- Good Neighbors Senor Center - (Winnipeg Canada)
- 2004
-- Cornwall Manor Players (Cornwall PA) (2005)
-- Honorable Mention - Kernodle Playwriting Contest
- 2002
-- Semi-Finalist - Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors
- 20003
-- Script sold online at Plays Now - ArtAge Web Site
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BUNNIES IN A BOMB SHELTER (10
Minute Comedy)
2
F 2M Simple Setting *(Contact
Author)
Peter
has a mania for bunnies. When he and mommy
go
to a bomb shelter, everything explodes!
-- Combat
Theatre - Off-Broadway Theatre (Milwaukee, WI)
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BY THE SEA, BY THE
SEA (15-20 Min Comedy)
2F
2M - Pool Setting or Simulation *(Contact Author)
( Mommy
and Peaches are rehearsing for The AmericanIdol)
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CARRY-ON (10
Minute Play) *(Contact
Author)
1
Woman - 1 Voice - Bare Stag
Your
last flight-- What would you want to carry-on?
--
St. James Prayer Group (Mequon WI) - Reading
-- Christians in the Arts Conference
(Milwaukee WI) - Reading
--
University of Kent (Main) Playwriting Contest Winner
(Mainstage Production
- $75 prize & Video)
--
HerRah ((International Center For Women Playwrights)
North
Dakota University (ND) - Readings
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THE CHILDREN OF SIN (10 Minute
Monologue)
1F
- Bare Stage (Possible Carnival Music) *(Contact
Author)
"Haunting
sideshow memories still vibrate as woman recalls viewing
'The
Children of Sin' and deformed children's plea for help to escape.
-- VILLAGE
PLAYHOUSE OF WAUWATOSA - PLAY FESTIVAL
"Best Script" and "Best Actress"
by audience vote.
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CITY SIDEWALKS (Short
- Christmas Monologue)
1
Female -- No Setting (Music can be added)
(PUBLISHED -
HaveScripts -2005)
A
street person on Christmas Eve with miracles in store windows.
-- Pike
Theatre Guild - Pittsfield, IL
-- St.
James Prayer Group
--
Senior Class Acts - Wichita KS (Touring Productions)
(Productions at 12
various sites)
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DANCE of the SUGAR PLUMP FAIRIES
(10 Minute Play)
2
Female - Bare Stage *(Contact
Author) (Newest Play)
The
Nutcracker has closed and Clarina and Jinky are cleaning the stage.
They
find a leftover bottle of wine and have their own party and perform
their
own dance. (Nutcracker music -- holiday comic piece.)
--
Mid-Manhattan Library (NY) (Reading)
- Dec. 2005
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DATELESS IN WISCONSIN (10 Minute
Comedy)
3
F 1M Setting: Bar scene & Kitchen *(Contact
Author)
Two
dateless Northern Wisconsin women begin in the bar
and
end up with America's "most wanted".
--Created
in conjunction with Combat Theatre
-- Performed
- UW-Milwaukee - Mainstage
--
Used for Theatre Arts final exam - International School in
Bangkok,
Thailand. (Filmed and sent to England for marking. )
--
Production: Alpha Learning Insitute - Santa Cruz, Venezuela
- 2004
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A DAY IN JUNE
(10 Minute Play) *(Contact
Author)
A
colorful play with colorful women that swerves into verse.
--
Production - LOOKING GLASS THEATRE
- New York
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DENTAL MANIA (3 Ten Minute
Plays - Comedy) *(Contact
Author)
(All
three plays can be performed as One Act Play)
2
F 1 M - Decrepit Dental Office
(Same
cast for all 3 plays, or separate casts - 4F 3M)
Svetlana,
and her parrot Borriss, wait in decrepit dental office.
Day
#1 has Randolph running in
to escape Jennifer and her
road
rage.
Day
#2 has Bride in bloody wedding dress seeking dental help after
taxi
accident on way to church.
Day
#3 has Pizza Man looking for office and encounters love.
Fast
paced-- unique characters.
(Created
in conjunction with Combat Theatre)
DENTAL MANIA II -
--
Village Playhouse of Wauwatosa -
One
Act Play Festival - April - May - 2004 (Wauwatosa, WI)
--
Scene reprinted in: "Millinnium Monologues"
- Meriwether
DENTAL
MANIA I -
-- Combat
Theatre - UWM Players Guild
--
SemiFinalist - Drury One Act Play Contest
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ECCENTRIC EARTHLINGS
(An Evening of Two Female Monologues)
"THE CHILDREN of SIN" and "THE GIRL WITH THREE
ARMS"
(See
each play for descriptions.)
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EDWINA AT THE SANITARIUM *(Contact
Author)
5
- 10 Minute Female Monologue or Audition Piece)
"It
is the 1880's. Edwina, a middle-aged woman, is at
Dr.
Zastro's Sanitarium and believes her changes
are
driving her insane.
(
Excerpt from "DR. ZASTRO'S SANITARIUM")
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ENTRANCES & EXITS (Combination
of Two Ten Minute Plays)
("DENTAL
MANIA - DAY #1" and "SUNSET ZOO")
(See
each play for descriptions)
-- Finalist
in the George Kernodle Playwriting Contest
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FATLESS FUTURE
(5 Minute Comedy) *(Contact
Author)
1F
1M - Chairs
(PUBLISHED
- HaveScripts - 2005)
Year
2050 - Hannah and Hank look back on days
before
french fries were outlawed
-- Selected
for presentation Senior Theatre Conference (2002)
(Due to mixup - not performed)
-- Heartland
TheatreCo. (Bloomington IL) (Young At Heart --Touring)
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FIRST TIME
(5 Minute Monologue) 1 F - No Set *(Contact
Author)
Young
girl's first time in beauty salon-- touching reason why
-- PRINTED
in "Millennium Monologues" - Meriwether Publishing
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FLICKERING FIREFLIES (10
Minute Comedy) 2F 2M - Bare Stage *(Contact
Author)
(Come
to Firefly Fest, as family teens go on their first mating party)
-- Council
for Wisconsin Writers - Playwriting Award for 2005 - $500 prize
--
Fire Rose Theatre (North Hollywood CA)
Finalist in Play Competition
-- Turlock
High (Turlock CA) Three different versions of same play presented.
-- Finalist
- George Kernodle Play Contest - U of Arkansas
--
Reading - International Center For Women Playwrights Conference
- 2004
-- Harmo-Nanny - New Harmony Play Conference - Reading
(New Harmony, IN)
--
North Park Vaudeville & Candy Shoppe - (San Diego CA) - 2005
(North
Park Playwright Festival)
--
Wisconsin Press Women's Conferernce - (Reading) 2006
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FOUR
WIDOWS FROM WAL*MART (One Act Comedy)
4
Females - (1 Male Voice) -- Setting -- chairs
only
*(Contact
Author)
Go on an hilarious bus trip to Niagara Falls in Canada
with
four
wonderful wacky females
-- Finalist in Wharf Rats "Crossing
the Borders" Playwriting
contest with STAGED READING
- Salem, MA)
--
One of 10 Finalists - Kernodle Playwriting Contest
--
Ballakermeen High School - Isle of Man, UK
--
Leicester England (Name changed to "Woolworths") (2002)
--
University House - (Seattle WA) -Reading (2003)
--
Chatham College - Philadelphia PA (2003)
--
Golden West High School -
"For
me, the best plays are the ones that allow actors, directors and
audience
to share a common joy in the moment of performance. That
moment,
that joy, happened last night!" (Laney Roberts Artistic Dir.)
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THE GIRL WITH THREE ARMS (One
Woman Monologue)
Bare
Stage (About 30 Minutes) *(Contact
Author)
Strange
revelations of a bizarre life as woman reveals to art magazine
editor
about being born with three arms and how it affected her.
--
Senior Class Acts - Wichita KS -
Several Performances
--
Perishable Theatre's 11th Annual Women's Playwriting Festival
(One
of Ten Finalists) - 2003
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A GYPSY'S TALE (1
Woman Monologue - Under 10 Minutes)
Bare
Stage *(Contact
Author)
Older
gypsy in costume, with tambourine, retells Magda's story
and
the following the Christmas Star and life thereafter.
---
St. James Prayer Group - Christmas Program
(Twice)
-
Christmas Service - Trion GA - 2006
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LATE/LATE-- COMPUTER DATE! (One Act
Published Play) - 2 F
(See
"FULL PLAYS" - One Acts & Monologues for Women)
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MARTHA'S BOY (One
Act Drama) *(Contact
Author)
1 Female 2 Males -- Kitchen Setting
--
A doting aunt, favorite nephew, and personal
revelations....
--
First Prize - Theatre Guild of Webster Groves
(St.
Louis, MO) - Prize money and Production
-- Playwriting
Award - WISCONSIN COUNCIL FOR WRITERS
($250
- from Johnson Foundation)
--
First Prize - Playwriting - WISCONSIN REGIONAL WRITERS
WISCONSIN
IDEA THEATER CONFERENCE
-- Village Church (Milwaukee, WI)
-- UW-OSHKOSH - Experimental Theatre
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MOUSSAKA
MEETING (10 Minute Play) *(Contact
Author)
2
Females 1 Male -- Simple Restaurant Setting
Two
sisters meet yearly at a Greek Restaurant
( PUBLISHED
- HaveScripts - 2005 )
PRODUCTIONS
and AWARDS:
-- MILWAUKE REPERTORY WRITERS' SHOWCASE
-- WAUWATOSA PLAYHOUSE - Original One Act Play Festival
--
SPARC THEATRE GROUP - LasVegas Convention
(Role
of Catherine performed on roller skates.)
--
AMERICAN RIVER COMMUNITY PLAYERS - (Sacramento CA)
(Translated into
Greek for ANTITEATRO THEATRE in Athens Greece
-- Finalist - TEN BY TEN FESTIVAL - 2003
(Chapel
Hill Arts Center NC)
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NUNS
IN A GARDEN (10 Minute Scene) *(Contact
Author)
2
F Bare Stage - Bench
Novice
nuns make their decisions about leaving the world.
--
Scene Reprinted: BEST STAGE SCENES (Smith
& Kraus)
--
Scene used for SCENE STUDY CLASS
(Webster College Performing Arts - St. Louis, MO)
(Scene
from full length play - "A GARDEN OF WOMEN")
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OZMANIA (10
Minute Play- Comedy) *(Contact
Author)
2
F 2M - Simple Setting -
Magical and Whimsical
Dorothy
and her friend(s) find themselves in a strange place,
with
unusual offbeat occurences upon meeting Dr. Marvel, O.Z.
-- Combat
Theatre - Off-Broadway Theatre (Milwaukee WI)
--
SYDNEY SHORT & SWEET FESTIVAL
(Australia) (Short List)
--
OSWESTRY SCHOOL (College) - Founded in 1407
- (England)
( Play
competition - 2003)
-- CHAPEL HILL CHAUNCY
HALL SCHOOL - Waltham, MA (May - 2004)
(Created
in conjunction with Combat Theatre)
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RING
AROUND ROSIE (Monologue - About 30 min.)
1
Female -- Simple Setting *(Contact
Author)
Childless
housekeeper left to care for newborn baby.
-- Production - THIRD COAST
PLAYWRIGHTS, Milwaukee Art Center
-- Finalist - WEST COAT ENSEMBLE
PLAYWRIGHT'S CONTEST
--
Finalist - DRURY COLLEGE ONE ACT PLAYWRITING CONTEST
--
Semi-Finalist - THEATRE WORKS - U OF COLORADO
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ST. CECILIA
(One Act) *(Contact
Author)
3
Females 1 Male -- Simple Setting
The
dying hours of a martyred saint. Part fable, part religous allegory.
--
St. James Prayer Group (Staged
Reading)
-- HARLEQUIN
PLAYERS - Australia
(Play
Festival Tour) - June - August 2003
-- Finalist
KERNODLE PLAYWRITING CONTEST - U of Arkansas
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SAVING AMERICA (One
Act - Ten Minute) *(Contact
Author)
2
Females 2 Males + Voice - Bare Stage
Strangers are
brought together in mysterious gathering to "Save America"
--
First Prize Winner - Eileen Heckart Senior Drama Short Play - 2005
--
Reading - Ohio State University
- Oct. 2005
-- -Published
- Senior Theatre League Spring Bulletin (Spring - 2006)
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SHELTER
SKELTER (10 Minute Play) *(Contact
Author)
(Also
Radio Version of Script)
2
Females 1 Male -- Simple Setting
Homeless
person seeks residence at an animal shelter.
-- Milwaukee
National 10 Minute Play Festival - Haefer Theatre MU
-- Wauwatosa Playhouse Original Play
Festival - (Wauwatosa WI)
-- Wisconsin Women's Voices - Studio
Theatre - Broadway Theatre Center (Reading)
-- Playwrights Studio Theatre - UWM Art
Gallery (Milwaukee WI)
-- Merry Clement Players (Touring) (Arvada,
CO)
-- Actors Theatre of Louisville- Ten
Minute Play Festival (Semi-finalist)
-- "Nine Holes Goes Crazy"
Seattle, WA (Finalist)
-- Woy Woy
Little Theatre - Australia (Christmas Party)
-- Ten By
Ten Fesvital (Finalist) (2002)
-- Senior Class Acts - Wichita KS (Touring
Productions) (2003)
--
Beast Festival - Triangle Theatre (NY) - (2003)
-- Senior
Citizens Park - (Fort Myers - FL) (2003)
-- Theatre Studio - Playtime Series (New York
-NY) -2005
-- Fire Rose Contest - Secret Rose Theatre (NorthHollywood CA) 2007
(Ten Minute Play Competition)
(Also
Various Readings and Student Productions)
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SMOKEY MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE (10 Minute
Comedy)
1F 2M - Bare
Stage, plus rocker *(Contact Author)
(Scam and Maw
live atop Smokey Mountain, when Scam decides
to start The Smokey Mountain Playhouse)
(New play!)
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STANLEY
and STELLA (10 Minute Comedy) *(Contact
Author)
1
F 2M Begins in living room, moves to
tavern/restaurant
(Background
polka music.)
(PUBLISHED - HaveScripts - 2005)
Stanley and Stella, who met
in a community theatre production of
STREETCAR, are going to a fish fry,
to celebrate their 25th, and the
possibility of "fireworks"
returning."
-- Combat Theatre
- Broadway Theatre Centre (Milwaukee WI)
(Created
in conjunction with Combat Theatre)
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SUNSET ZOO (10 Minute
Play) *(Contact
Author)
3
Male - 1 Female - Bare Stage with Chairs
(PUBLISHED
- HaveScripts - 2005)
Delightful
and poignant comedy in an old folks home, where
the residents
meet late at night with their huge imaginary animals.
-- Combat
Theatre - Broadway Theatre Centre ( Milwaukee, WI)
-- BUNBURY
THEATRE, Louisville, KY
(Contest
Winner - Prize & Production)
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TV BRIDES (10
Minute Comedy) *(Contact
Author)
3
F 1M - TV Studio (Simple
setting)
The TV show -- HOW TO WIN
A MILLIONAAIRE is down to
the final three
contestant bride-to-be, and the final payoff,
with
big surprises. Can be played to the hilt!
--
Combat Theatre - Broadway Theatre Center
- Milwauke WI
- - The
Valley of Danville Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite - Danville IL
(One
of two Dinner Theatre Plays - May 2006)
- Valentine
Dinner Theatre - Valley of Danville (Danville IL)
February
10 - 2007
(Created
in conjunction with Combat Theatre)
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TWINKLE TOURS BUS DIRECTOR
(10 Minute Monologue/Comedy)
Hilarious
bus tour ride to Niagara Falls, Canada
(Excerpt
from FOUR WIDOWS FROM WAL*MART)
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THE WOMAN WITH 27 CHILDREN (One
Act Monologue - 1F)
(See: Full
Plays - ONE ACTS & MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN)
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UP UP AND AWAY!
(5 Minute Monologue 1F (Bare Stage)
(16th
Birthday, and first time up in a baloon.)
Printed
in MILLENNIUM MONOLOGUES - (2002)
(Meriwether
Publishing)
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