Category: Stage/Screen Writing

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…

SYNOPSIS JANICE meets KEUM LEE in a zoom meeting, after discovering through DNA and Ancestor.com that they are half-sisters, and that her father had a Korean family when he was in the Korean War in the 50’s.    They compare stories and find that they had very different fathers, though he was the same man.   Can…

Cast of Characters KAY       Mattress Magic Empire receptionist, can be played by any actor LEE       Mattress Magic Empire customer, can be played by any actor   Scene LEE’s disheveled bedroom and KAY’s office.   Time The present or close to it.   Notes This play is written to be presentable on livestream or in person.…