Category: Stage/Screen Writing

  • Paul

    A Short Play Characters Sally Nicole Setting A coffee shop, morning “Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.” ~Tennessee Williams Two old friends are meeting to discuss Paul. Paul is very close to one of them, and has grown distant from the…

  • Bonnie and Regina Say Goodbye to Hope

    Characters REGINA, late teens Mother to a four-week-old baby. Petulant, sarcastic, deliberate, an avid reader. She’s a smart kid. BONNIE, early 30s Regina’s aunt. Sanctimonious, judgmental, short-tempered, not an avid reader. Life has been unkind to her. Setting A small kitchen in a small house in a small town in the hot-and-humid Florida panhandle, somewhere between Gainesville and…

  • The Diary of Maria

    Characters   MARIA (17) Female  High school senior.  MR HARRIS (37) Male   High school drama teacher.  Setting   Sidewalk outside a high school two hours after the school play.   Time  The present. 11:00 PM.   After the school play, Maria knows her dad is not coming to pick her up and Maria’s director, Mr. Harris, must decide if…

  • Secondhand Smoke

    A melancholy song plays as lights rise on the living room of a house in a Chapel Hill, North Carolina retirement community. The room is furnished with chairs and two couches, two dog bowls labeled “BRUCE”, and end tables holding varied ashtrays.

  • Staring Off Into

    NOON – Late twenties, they/them, peace and love and breathing it in, deeply humanist. JACOB – Early thirties, he/him, resourceful and ambitious, but also deeply sensitive. MADISON – Late twenties, she/her, anxious and a bit of a perfectionist, but deeply loving in her own way.   The first week of January. Public transit train noises.…

  • A Rare Find

    CHARACTERS: TATER……………man, 70s, Vietnam veteran, any race MONICA…………woman, mid 30s, attractive but worn out, any race TIME: 2019 (pre-pandemic) PLACE: Any town USA   AS HOUSE LIGHTS GO DOWN, we hear SFX of a car screeching around a corner, excited teenaged voices, and a bottle hitting an object, then smashing on the ground as the…

  • Troubled

    A one act play Setting A camp for troubled teens. Present day. Or close enough. Characters JESS, 16. Queer. Puts up walls and burns down bridges (and towns). WENDY, late 40s or early 50s. A shell of (self) hatred. Head counselor at the camp. RAYLEIGH, 17. Weaker than she looks. Stronger than she feels. CONNOR,…

  • Monument

    A Play in Ten Minutes (The lights rise on SCOTT staring up at a roof while smoking a cigarette. HE wears dirty jeans, T-shirt and work boots, and one of his hands has a rag wrapped tightly around it.)   (After a moment, PAUL enters. HE is dressed business casual and has a laptop in…

  • A Little Family History

    Characters: Mya, 20’s Dana, 50’s – 60’s Jay, 50’s – 60’s Setting: Dana and Jay’s House, Dinnertime   “Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.” ~ Oscar Wilde     (MYA is having dinner with her parents DANA and JAY at their home.…