Category: Stage/Screen Writing

Characters: MAE: The mother of teenagers, late 30s to 40s. Often serious, but witty. Not rich, but gets by. A devoted parent who has had a rough few years. LLOYD: A middle-aged dad of two teen girls. Probably blue collar. Gregarious, a man’s man. He probably laughs at jokes he knows he shouldn’t and thinks…

  FADE IN: INT. APARTMENT – DAY A young woman who has already lived a difficult life, PHOEBE sits on one of two stools at the lounging counter separating her small galley kitchen from the main room of the apartment. There is a plastic cup in front of her along with a fifth of vodka.…

A Ten-Minute Comedy Characters Nic, Any Age or Gender Olive, 40’s – 70’s, Female Setting: The Audience, Right Before the Curtain Goes Up   “I pray you.” ~ William Shakespeare   (A theater. NIC is seated in the audience. OLIVE approaches NIC. OLIVE seems hesitant. She looks around, and then –cautiously– sits next to NIC.…

DRAMATIS PERSONAE, one performer in a dual role PRINCIPAL _____ – an elementary school principal, where _____ is the name of the performer, e.g. PRINCIPAL SALMONS MARINE LE PEN MIZELLE – 10 year old girl (A stage, as in an elementary school auditorium, with a microphone on a stand or podium. PRINCIPAL _____ enters.) PRINCIPAL…

CHARACTERS Arthur…………………………..man, any age, any ethnicity Felicity…………………………woman, any age, any ethnicity Announcement SETTING A train stop platform with tracks below TIME Present PRODUCTION NOTES The Announcement’s italicized dialogue represents robotic word/number inserts: ex. “The train is 1 minute late.” The announcement can be pre-recorded, or played by an actor on a mic offstage. The set…

Setting: A bar. Present day. Late afternoon. A high wire runs high in the air, from stage left to stage right.   Characters:   Rob                    m., any age, any race. A man’s man; talks a big game. Slick.   Aldo                    m., any age, any race. He appears to be just emerging from a slightly…

  CHARACTERS CLOWN 1: FEMALE, ANY AGE. CLOWN 2: MALE, ANY AGE. DOUG, THE LIZARDMAN: EARLY 40S. TIME: NOW LOCATIONS: MULTIPLE   The curtains are down as lights come up. From behind them we                                           …

Lights up: One-Armed-Kenny sits in his window-less panel van, drumming the fingers of his one good hand on the steering wheel. An unlit cigarette hangs from his lips. Leonard approaches. Kenny steps out of the panel van, the cigarette still hanging from his lips.   KENNY You’d be Leonard? LEONARD Kenny? KENNY That’s right. LEONARD…

CHARACTERS JULIAN, mid-twenties, male-identifying, Bryce’s live-in boyfriend BRYCE, mid-twenties, female-identifying, Julian’s live-in girlfriend NURSE, any age, ethnicity, or gender; working the late-shift (Lights up. A hospital emergency room, in some city. A few seats, paired together. A small table with some magazines. It’s late, maybe midnight: We hear sounds of ambulances, doctors being paged, beeping…