One-Act Plays

Published with Stage Partners:

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Click here for the PDF of a free five-minute scene for four actors (any gender).

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It's game night at the end of the world. The library is one of the only places still above the water line, and the nerds are living it up while they can. But when the soccer team shows up because their field went underwater, they begin a more dangerous game. A high-stakes dark comedy about mutant lizards, climate change, and being the generation born to watch the water level rise.

Published with YouthPLAYS:

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Five young outcasts live together in an abandoned fun park. It may not be much, but it's home—until a pair of contractors show up: Funtown has been marked for imminent demolition. Jo wants to fight, Hair wants to hack into the developers' system and Doc just wants everyone to calm down. But as the wrecking ball takes aim at everything this chosen family has built, will they come together or scatter back to their solitary lives?

Published with Uproar Theatrics:

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Check out the Free Scenes page for a killer audition monologue!

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Juliet wakes up and discovers Romeo has poisoned himself. She's about to kill herself in despair, except... instead she panics and stabs his dead body. Her cousin Rosaline (Romeo's ex) and Willow (the apothecary's apprentice) are covering up their own contributions to Romeo's death. So when the somehow-still-not-dead Romeo stumbles in, Juliet has to make a decision: will she try to save her husband? Or will she make sure he's really dead so they can all start new lives on the run?

Click here to read the full script for free. To inquire about performance rights, please contact me.

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Alpaca is just trying to get their graze on, Donkey is busy being a farmer's pet, and the Cows are battling it out for the title of Cow 1. When an unknown creature starts biting arteries and the farm is suddenly covered in blood, can the animals band together long enough to survive?

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Anna is a superhero!!! That's what her acceptance letter to the YZ Institute says--but when she gets there, she's informed it was a mistake, and she's reassigned to be a secretary. The “real” superheroes-in-training are impressive, but their arrogance makes it hard for Anna to fit in. To make things worse, the trainer Mx Medusa suddenly goes missing. When Anna suspects that one of the so-called heroes may be to blame—and may be planning to use their powers for evil—she and her fellow "secretary" Bree must team up to save the world as we know it.

Published with Uproar Theatrics:

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Gertrude switched poison for honey at the end of Hamlet, no one is dead... and she's ready to rule.  How is nobody dead?! Doesn't Shakespeare's Hamlet end with a pile of bodies? Join our queen as the scene opens on a pile of (actually not dead) bodies, and marvel as she single-handedly manages to take back the power and choose what happens next.

Published with Uproar Theatrics:

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Post-Macbeth, one witch decides she doesn't want to prophesy anymore. This all-female, anachronistic Shakespearean sequel romps through questions of fate and free will (with a side of brownie bites).

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When your famous relatives are murderers, murdered, or both, you don’t really get to have a life of your own. Iago's daughter and Desdemona's cousin decide to make new names for themselves.