PG-13

arabesque no 1 follows Bonnie and Chris in their small town as they grow up and enter adulthood. Two actors, seventeen characters.

Type: Play.

Cast:

• Bonnie/Chris: female
• Chris/Bonnie: male

Running Time: 120 Minutes.

You’ll love this show if:

• You have 2 strong actors whose talents you can’t wait to show off
• You’re looking for something easy & cheap to produce

PG-13: Adult language & topics.

Beautiful Pasadena tells the story of a marriage in crisis at the start of the economic collapse in 2008. As Will begins an extensive remodel on their apartment at The Castle Green, a historic building in Pasadena, he and his wife, Rachel, up for a promotion at her law firm, clash over politics, family and world values. As they wait for an expensive bathtub to arrive from overseas, their marriage, the economy, and their bathroom begin to crumble around them.

Type: Play

Cast: 1 female (30s), 1 female (50-60), 1 male (50s-60s), 2 male (30s)

Running Time: 75 Minutes.

You’ll love this show if:

• You want a family drama from the perspective of a female writer

PG-13: Adult themes, descriptions of murder.

On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy is assassinated. Two days later, his alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald is killed. What if one of these men survived? Children of Camelot introduces us to the Oswald and Kennedy families in an alternate universe and gives us a peek into their lives and how their stories are connected forever.

Type: Play, 2 acts

Cast:

• Lee Harvey Oswald: Defendant, 20s, Male
• Mark Lane: Defense Counsel, 40s, Male
  
• Nichole Andrews Assistant U.S. Attorney General: 30s, Female
  
• Marina Prusakova Oswald: Wife of Lee Harvey Oswald, 20s, Female
  
• Jackie Kennedy: Former First Lady & wife of JFK, 30s, Female
  
• JFK (John F. Kennedy): Deceased President of U.S., 40s, Male
  
• Calvin: Jackie’s Bodyguard, 30s, Male
  
• RFK (Robert F. Kennedy): JFK’s brother, Jackie’s brother-in-law, 30s, Male

Running Time: 90 minutes

You’ll love this show if:

• A story about the Kennedys will pique your audience’s interest
• Your actors love delivering a meaty monologue

PG-13

Dream a Little Dream of Me follows a young Black woman, Colleen, and her ailing mother, Priscilla, as they deal with the consequences of an unspecified diagnosis; however, when Priscilla begins seeing the spirit of a strange man known only as Angel-Boy, Colleen must decide whether her mother’s sanity is worth her own.

Through a series of incidents, the play investigates the Black family and the commitment required of children to parents, and questions the role reversal of parent and child and its consequences on the mental health of all parties involved.

Type: Play, 1 act

Cast: 2 female, 1 male. All characters are Black.

Running Time: 60 Minutes

You’ll love this script if:

• Your audience loves a heartbreaking story about family bonds
• You have older Black actors who will shine in intense roles

PG-13: This play deals with the aftermath of sexual assault and alludes to depression and PTSD.

Narrated from the present and taking place in the early 2000s, Finding Olive tells the story of a teenage girl who embarks on a school trip to an educational wilderness facility, just days after she was sexually assaulted at a party. Olive is randomly placed in a small group with her abuser and while she aims to free herself from the burden of her trauma, she becomes forced to face the consequences of something she never asked for in the first place.

Type: Play, 1 act.

Cast:

MATT, 20s, he/him
BALLET FLATS, teen, she/her or they/them
OLIVE, teen, she/her
BASEBALL CAP, teen, he/him
HOODIE, teen, he/him or they/them
OVERALLS, teen, she/her or they/them
SCRUNCHIE, teen, she/her or they/them
STEPHEN, teen, he/him
MICHELLE, 20s, she/her
YOUNG WOMAN, ageless, she/her

Running time: 90 minutes

You’ll love this script if:

• You work with an ensemble of teen actors

PG-13: Mentions of rape, violence; death; allusions to state-sanctioned violence

1994 Jakarta, Indonesia. Sari is an aspiring singer hoping to achieve her dreams of stardom through her karaoke performances at her best friend Fina’s parties. One of her song numbers leads to a chance encounter with Lisa, a determined journalist, and the two become a hot item in Jakarta’s lesbian party scene. But when Sari is forced to flee from the after effects of Suharto’s U.S-backed dictatorship, the two must adapt their love to conform to the pressures of survival and migration. Based on Indonesian lesbians who had to conform to cisheteronormative nuclear family dynamics during the late 1990s and early 2000s migration to Queens, New York City, First Sight is a look at the long-censored Indonesian lesbian zine movement, generational differences on what it means to be out, and what it means to love when everything else gets in the way.

Type: Play, 4 acts.

Running time: 2 hours.

Cast:

Sari – (She/Her, Indonesian, 18-25)
Older Sari (She/Her, Indonesian, 40-55)
Lisa – (She/Her or They/Them, Indonesian, 18-25)
Fina – (She/Her or They/Them, Indonesian, 18-25)
Diah – (She/Her or They/Them, Indonesian, 18-25)
Melli – (She/Her or They/Them, Any Non-White Ethnicity, 18-25)

You’ll love this script if:

• Your audience is interested in untold stories from history
• You have Indonesian & AAPI actors to highlight

PG-13: Race-based violence

Gray deals with the state of the African American male experience. The play opens with two African American boys walking into a crime scene on the street, just another day, but then a basketball brings them together into a game of life. It is clear the boys are from different times, experiences, and worlds but they are still able to connect. The boys turn out to be Emmett Till and Trayvon Martin, two boys who in life had been wronged, but this is the beginning of their journey to freedom, but there is a path that must be followed. The play tells different stories by different people and represents different perspectives of the issues that face Black men and women in this country at present and historically. It is a reminder that life is not just Black and White, but rather we live in shades of Gray.

Type: Play, 1 act

Cast:

23 characters are played by 8 actors. The actor tracks are as follows:

• 4 African American Men
• 2 African American Women
• 1 Caucasian woman
• 1 Caucasian Man

Running time: 1 hour, 45 minutes.

You’ll love this script if:

• You have strong actors who can play a variety of roles in one tour-de-force play
• Your audience cares about racial justice and equity, and likes to be challenged with complex issues

It’s a Free Country is a new play about how the coarsening of American society affects a famous writer and her fractured family.

Louisa “Lou” Clay is the author of a cult classic feminist novel that recently premiered as a TV series. It’s a massive hit, causing a slew of unintended consequences — and death threats — thanks to the current political climate and rage against the patriarchy that is the hallmark of the show.

Type: Play, 1 act

Cast:

LOUISA “LOU” CLAY (late 50s): An androgynous southern writer who wrote a cult classic feminist novel decades ago that recently debuted as a TV series.

RAMONA FRY (early 20s): Lou’s queer niece who lives in Lou’s apartment in the city. 

NELL RICHARDS (late 60s): Lou’s agent, friend and port in the storm. 

Running time: 90 minutes

You’ll love this script if:

• You have three strong actresses who can play complex roles
• Your audience appreciates a feminist story

PG-13: Talk of drug use and addiction

Memories of The Game is an African American family drama that centers on the McIntosh family. Father, Kenneth is suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s disease. He is fun, loving and our heart breaks for the man that he was and can no longer be. Kenneth’s love for football has always been his hold on reality, but soon even the love of the game is fighting against him. Wife, Karen continues to work on keeping her husband’s mind as present as she can while also being pulled into the sadness of her son, Michael and his drug addiction. Daughter, Sharon tries to keep her mother balanced, and her father strong but Michael is on a downward spiral and unintentionally taking the family with him. A story of a loving family that is overcome with one chosen illness and one not that reminds us that family is family no matter why they are sick.

Type: Play, 2 acts

Cast: 2 men and two women; all African American

Running time:  2 hours

You’ll love this show if:

• You love a deep, complex family drama

PG-13

The world is no longer plentiful, and the hive is growing restless. This colony of honey bees is on the brink of environmental collapse, but the Togethermind of the workers only knows what the Queen allows them to know. A close advisor to the Queen is getting a little too close, and we follow her agonizing emergence into a new stage of evolution: individual selfhood. Tooth-and-nail power struggles, political misinformation, and animal group-intelligence. This play is a meditation on grind culture, climate change, and the trust we put in leaders. How much will you do to serve the hive?

Type: Play, 1 act

Cast: 6 cast members. Nonbinary actors are encouraged regardless of assigned sex at birth, providing they are comfortable playing femme-presenting characters.The Queen is preferably played a plus-size actress. 

Running Time: 90 Minutes

PG-13

When Christian loses his job, his Ate Darna takes him in. Two months later, he is still unemployed, hiding in his video games. Meanwhile, Darna continues to date white dudes obsessed with her “exotic” appearance, all the while hiding her Filipino identity behind anime cosplays and a love of Japanese culture. Through a series of video game fever dreams, bad dates, and lots of late night snacking, the two of them must confront their fears about their Filipinx identity, their hobbies, and ultimately, their place in the world.

Type: Play, 1 act.

Cast:

Christian: Filipino, 24, Darna’s brother

Bill/Gamer: non-Asian, 33

Phil/Gamer: non-Asian, 25

Darna: Filipino, 29, Christian’s sister

Jun: Filipino, 27

Running Time: 75 Minutes

You’ll love this script if:

• You have Filipino actors who will shine onstage
• You love a heartfelt comedy about love and family

PG

Alex and Julia return to their childhood home after their youngest sister, Eva, has a particularly bad panic attack that sends her to the hospital. Together for the first time in over a year, the sisters are forced to come to the realization that despite being related, they don’t really know anything about each other. Through reminiscing, the comforts of home, and a few secrets they can’t believe they’ve never told each other, they begin to unpack their own mental health, and discover what it truly means to be there for one another.

Type: Play, 1 act

Cast: 3 F (all ages 18-25)

Running Time: 60 Minutes

You’ll love this script if:

• You have younger actors to highlight
• You love a heartfelt comedy about sisterhood