AND THE WINNER IS...
Story: It's time to go backstage at the Academy Awards, where the five nominees for Best Actress -- the aging superstar, the British diva, the impressionable teen idol, the indie film queen, and the underrated African-American nominee -- battle it out during an interview with the entertainment reporters from hell.
Highlight: Featured in 60 Seconds to Shine: 221 One-Minute Monologues for Women
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 6f, 1m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
Purchase: This script is available from Playscripts
ARE YOU ALL RIGHT IN THERE?
Story: A month before graduation, in the middle of a wild party, a frustrated high school student named Gina locks herself in the bathroom. She's finally fed up with all the hypocrisies and surface relationships of adolescence, from her outrageously unfaithful boyfriend to her compulsively promiscuous best friend. With biting humor, Gina revisits her past, sizes it up with newfound maturity, and leaves it behind for a brighter future.
Highlight: Featured in The Best Women's Stage Monologues
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 2f, 1m; all characters are teenagers
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
Purchase: This script is available from Playscripts
AWAKE
Story: After meeting in a local bar and drinking together, Justin brings Misty back to his apartment and lets her pass out on his couch. When morning comes, the two realize how much they actually need each other.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m; both characters are in their 20's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
BABY IN THE BASEMENT
Story: In this gritty and urban drama, two homeless teenagers meet while seeking refuge in the basement of an abandoned building. What begins as a friendship sadly evolves into a mutual suicide pact.
Highlights: Official selection for the NYC 15-Minute Play Festival.
Highlight: Adapted into an award-winning short film.
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m; both characters are teenagers
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language; contains content related to sexual assault; contains content related to suicide
BEFORE HARMONY SLEEPS WITH JEFF
Story: Infatuated with Harmony, a young woman he meets in a Sacramento fast food restaurant, Gilbert is determined to win her heart before she sleeps with her unfaithful boyfriend, Jeff.
Highlight: Featured in The Best Men's Stage Monologues
Length: 20 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 2m; all characters are in their late teens to early 20's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
BETTER PLACES TO GO
Story: A horrendous storm looms overs a rundown truck stop diner in Grand Island, Nebraska, bringing together ten people who start to reveal damaging secrets as the night goes on.
Highlight: The Sacramento Area Regional Theatre Alliance awarded the world premiere with two awards: Best Original Script and Best Original Production.
Length: Full Length (90 minutes)
Cast: 7f, 3m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language; depiction of violence on stage; suicide
BIRD CALL
Story: Bird Call is a dive of bar. It's a place that has seen better days, populated by lonely patrons who are overlooked by the world around them. Claiming to be new in town, young Chelidon arrives at Bird Call only to confess her real reason for being there: to teach modern-day cowboy Joe a lesson he'll never forget.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2f, 1m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language; depiction of violence on stage.
BOXCAR
Story: Unable to attend their high school dance together, Austin and Harley decide to skip Homecoming and seek refuge in an abandoned boxcar. There, they dream of escaping the ultra conservative small town they live in, hoping to discover a place where they can exist and love without fear.
Highlight: Adapted into the award-winning Dutch film Wagon.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2m; both characters are teenagers
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
BRACELETS AND BOYFRIENDS
Story: Best friends since childhood, Judy and Olivia decide to return to a quaint seaside town that they once visited on family vacations during their early teen years. Reminded of love's lost, choices made, and the fading of their youth, Judy and Olivia reaffirm their friendship; a play about two women who must look back before they can move forward.
Highlight: Winner of the Carrie McCray Memorial Literary Award for Best Stage Play.
Highlight: Adapted into the award-winning short film Bracelets.
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 2f; both characters are in their early 50's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
THE BRAY OF THE BELLES
Story: Five Southern women who have known each other since childhood reunite in the ballroom of an upscale hotel to plan a wedding. Over the course of the evening, the women realize they are anything but friends.
Highlight: Watch the YouTube premiere
Length: 30 Minutes
Cast: 5f; all characters are in their late 30's to early 40's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
THE BURLESQUE CLUB
Story: Two childhood friends return to their small, conservative hometown to attend the memorial service of a man named Baker, a neighbor who provided a safe space for them to escape the brutality of their young lives.
Highlight: Featured in WE/US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters Anthology
Length: Full Length (90 Minutes)
Cast: 2f, 2m, 1 nonbinary character
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language; contains content related to child abuse
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CINEMATIC
Story: Two lonely people who share a mutual love for classic films form an unexpected bond while sitting in an otherwise empty movie theater.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 5f, 1m; both characters are in their early 20's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
CLEAN
Story: A former movie star named Victoria is suffering from the beginning stages of Alzheimer's. Struggling to maintain her independence, Victoria resists a friendship with her equally stubborn housekeeper and must face the sudden arrival of her estranged daughter.
Highlight: Official Selection, Kentuck Arts Ten-Minute Play Festival.
Highlight: Official Selection for the Alabama Conference of Theatre’s Ten-Minute Play Festival
Highlight: Watch the YouTube premiere
Length: 30 Minutes
Cast: 3f
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
CLOSE YOUR EYES AND COUNT TO INFINITY
Story: Young newlywed Sahara Mobley struggles with being married as a new sense of reality sets in.
Length: 30 Minutes
Cast: 2f, 2m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
THE CLUBHOUSE
Story: A scene about two boys and the promise they made to a friend. It’s summer and Joey and Eric are struggling with the decision to enter their shared clubhouse. They made a promise to their friend Tommy not to go inside without him but he’s gone and there is fun to be had. Do they start their summer vacation with a broken promise?
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2m; both characters are fifth graders
Audience: Suitable for all ages
Purchase: This script is available from Drama Notebook
THE CLUTCH
Story: Moments after rejecting a marriage proposal, a woman is tempted by a somewhat obnoxious stranger she meets at a sidewalk café in Greece.
Highlight: Official Selection, In the Works, One Night Stand Theater
Highlight: Off-Off Broadway Production, The Producer's Club
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m; both characters are in their early 30's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
CRUMBLE
Story: As the end of the world draws near, two men who were once in love reunite after a decade apart to spend the last night together.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2m; both characters are in their 40's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
A DARLING AMONG THE MAIDENS
Story: Four young women come-of-age at an all-girl Catholic boarding school. Rachel wants to become a nun and devote her life to God. Naomi has been expelled from numerous schools and Our Lady of Grace is her last chance. Mara is obsessed with two things: old movie stars and herself. Alisha, the only African-American student in the school, struggles to fit in. Having known her fair share of heartache, Sister Josephine is an unconventional nun who becomes a mentor to Rachel, Naomi, Mara, and Alisha.
Length: Full Length (90 Minutes)
Cast: 6f, 3m; most characters are teenagers
Audience: Suitable for all ages
DEENA AND THE DINO MIGHTS
Story: Fed up with her job as the host of a live-action children's show at Jurassic Park, Deena reaches her breaking point when her ex-boyfriend, Jeremiah, is hired to be her new co-host. Meanwhile, her co-stars, a classically trained actor and an eternal optimist, are reconsidering their career choices.
Highlight: World Premiere, Mile High 24 Festival, Vintage Theatre
Highlight: Official Selection, Animal Kingdom, One Night Stand Theater
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 2f, 2m
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
DEFENSELESS
Story: After their relationship is discovered by their classmates at school, Alberto and Justin are being separated by their parents and the school’s administration. In the morning, Alberto is being sent to a military school in Utah. Realizing the chance to say good bye is now, they meet in the night.
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2m; both characters are teenagers
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
DON'T MENTION IT
Story: When seventy-year-old New York native Stella discovers that her grandson has been diagnosed with AIDS, she turns to her best friend Madeline for comfort and strength.
Highlight: Winner, World AIDS Day Writing Contest, Stage Play
Highlight: World Premiere, Moments of Play, Salem Theatre Company
Highlight: Featured in A&U: America's AIDS Magazine
Length: 10 Minutes
Cast: 2f; both characters are in their 70's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter
DON'T SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT ME
Story: Keith and Carla show up at a bar at the request of their best friends. On their behalf, each have been asked to discuss the terms of their break-up. Their meeting takes a turn when they realize they’ve been led to dislike each other, despite the fact they’ve never met.
Highlight: World Premiere, The Play Crawl, Funky Little Theater Company
Highlight: Adapted into a short film (coming soon).
Length: 15 Minutes
Cast: 1f, 1m; both characters are in their late 20's
Audience: Contains adult subject matter and adult language
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