Children of Hooverville
Published by YouthPLAYS
Historical Drama. 45-55 minutes.
3 males, 10 females (with opportunity to add up to 7 additional non-speaking roles; 13-20 performers possible).
Suitable for middle school or older. After 13-year-old Elsie Davis loses her family farm to the bank and her brother to the dust storms, she joins family and friends on a forced journey along Route 66 in search of a better life in California. Together they must survive unimaginable hardships and overcome theft, illness and unsympathetic authorities. But when at last they arrive in the Golden State, it may not be the promised land they had hoped for.
Productions:
All Saints Episcopal School, 2020 – You can watch it here!
Arts Live Theater – Fayetteville, Arkansas in August 2016
MS 51, Brooklyn NY – 2012
Take a look at some of the Productions!
Our Lady of Sorrows School
for Troubled Girls
Synopsis: In 1989 an all-girls boarding school suffered two tragedies. At the center, of those tragedies were The Boys. Twenty years later, during a TV interview, alumni from the school revisit those memories bringing the past to life. *ALL FEMALE Cast: 10* 90 min *Find it on NPX*
Productions
The Boys was going to have a workshop production this Spring ( 2020) at RCA. But because of the pandemic, it was canceled. The play was created out of devised character work and had made it through the rehearsal process.
No Fear
Fantasy / One Act / Youth Play / Characters: 32 total. 14M / 8W / 10 any gender. (Can be played by 7 actors)
In a camp cabin several campers refuse to go to sleep. Wick, their counselor, tells them a tale that mashes several Grimm’s Fairy together. The story unfolds in their cabin as Wick tells the story of Abay, a young child whose one wish is to feel fear.
Abay is ostracized from the other kids in the village because they are different. But when their friend is taken by a Dwarf (from Snow White’s tale) Abay is the only one who can save him. Impressed by Abay’s lack of fear, the dwarf agrees to set their friends free if Abay completes a mission.
The Dwarf sends Abay on a hero’s journey through mountains and forest to find the Wicked Queen who cast the spell on the dwarf’s friend (Snow White). Abay must cast a truth spell on the Queen to discover how to break the curse of the maiden who sleeps forever. Along the way Abay meets a new friend, Falada the talking horse. Together they travel in and out of other famous tales such as Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Rumplestiltskin and many more to find the Wicked Queen.
Productions:
Camp Skylemar in 2011.
Awards: It was a was a finalist in the East Valley Children’s Theater and in the Moonlight Wings playwriting festival in 2015.
Scraps
Historical Drama / Full Length / Characters: 2W / 4M
In 1948 three adult Jewish siblings have just inherited their father’s failing junkyard. Having faced religious persecution in Ideal Town Georgia, the Siegel family is torn apart when they are only given a day to either sign the land over to a racist business owner or fight to keep it. Lucille, who has spent her life working on the yard with their father, does not want to let it go. However, Simon, the oldest brother, doesn’t have the same attachment to the family business and wants the yard out of their lives so they can make a new start in Israel. Caught between his brother and sister Herman isn’t sure who to side with, especially when his lover begins to push him in another direction.
Productions / Readings
Reading at Urban Stages/ Off Broadway 2010
Reading at City University of London 2009
Bedpan Palace
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Ensemble Comedy / Full Length / Characters: 6M / 4W
Bedpan Palace is an Ensemble Comedy that follows Rose, an elderly woman, who has been forced into an assisted living facility against her will. While continually plotting her escape, she befriends the other residents, starting a new chapter in what society normally deems the end of life.
Productions:
Brooklyn Heights Player Theater, NY in 2006
Spoiled Cherries
C
Comedy/ Full Length / Characters: 3M / 3W
At what age does childhood end? Twenty-six year old Sheila Kramer, a wannabe poet struggles with her refusal to grow up and her obsessive crush on her not-so-single best friend Alan. As those closest to her try to steer her in the right direction, she is forced to embark on a couch-hopping journey of self-discovery that ends up affecting those around her in unexpected ways.
Productions:
Narrows Community Theater – 2008
Manhattan Repertory Theater – 2009
Dirty Laundry on The Crazy Girls Line
Comedy / One Act / Characters: 2M / 2W
Crazy Girl explores her current predicament of being emotionally unbalanced and single.
Produced:
Strawberry One Act Festival – Riant Theatre, 2006
(Published in The Best Plays From The Strawberry One-Act Festival:
Volume Four. Bought where ever books are sold)
Short Plays:
The Masque of the Red Death – Workshop Devised – Hive Mind Theater/ Jennifer Onopa / BAX – Brooklyn NY 2011
10 going on 40 – Production- Adaptive Arts /One Minute Play Festival, 2011
*Cell Begat Cell – Production – The Old Vic /Adam Lenson dir., UK 2010 – Ensemble writing.
Stranger Danger – Stage Reading – City University of London 2008 and Stage Reading – Creative Artist Network, NYC 2008
Brian and Kira, a Love Story Featuring Mr. Bottom Sucks – Stage Reading – Creative Artist Network, NYC 2008