Category: Stage/Screen Writing

  • 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.…

  • Gun Story

    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…

  • Holding Space

      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.…