ONE ACTS AND SHORTS
EXERCISING BELIEF
ERNEST Everyman
QUARK Theoretical Scientist.
SYNAPSE Psychotherapist
SAPIEN Anthropologist
BLESSED Shaman
AENID Poet
Ernest has questions – big questions. He gets answers from a theoretical scientist, a psychotherapist, an anthropologist and a poet. Ernest gets more answers than he can process.
Received a workshop production in 1984.
I, MONSTER
SHE 20’s
DOCTOR Male 40’s
VOICES 2-5 person chorus
Can a therapist help a woman who was abused by her father? Can the voices in her head stop haunting her? Written in verse with a chorus.
Received a workshop production in 1985. After a performance at a conference for Corrective Parenting therapists, she worked with a group to use the play to help those who have experienced abuse. This piece had provoked previously unearthed emotion in audiences. However, this project never reached fruition.
COOKIES
THE FOOL
DEATH
DOG (optional)
The Fool (of the Tarot) talks to Death about the loss of his dog. But is he really gone? Death talks him through the possibilities.
THE MENTSH WHO STOLE KWANZAA
DANIEL Jewish Father
SABINA Ethiopian Jewish Mother
ROBIN age 12
ANDREA age 5
Daniel wants to celebrate the holidays with his daughters. They had always celebrated Hannukah with his wife, an Ethiopian Jew, who recently died. He tries celebrating Kwanzaa with them instead.
Performed on Second Life in 2010.
MAKING IT WRIGHT
BERT
ANGIE
PLAYWRIGHT
DRAMATURGE
A playwright rewrites a scene with the help of a dramaturge and two actors. The results are surprising.
AFTER EROS
DANNY 30-45 years
LAURA 30-45 years
THE COLUMN
LEGAL ASSISTANT
ASSOCIATE
PARTNER
SUPERVISOR
HUMAN RESOURCE SPECIALIST
A legal assistant looks to combine her worlds of working in a large law firm and writing books by writing an article for the firm’s newsletter.
PERSONAL ANSWERS
Print length: 11 pages
Cast size: 2 women, 1 man, 1 child
WRITER overweight woman
CHILD
MAN
WOMAN
A lonely young woman uses a dating website to help her with the semi-support of the voices in her head.
MANAGING FRINGE
MANDY
ROBERT
3 BOARD MEMBERS/COMPANY MEMBERS (As Board Members, they appear on screen; as Company Members, they wear commedia masks — or some other combination)
Mandy volunteers as managing director for a fringe theater, working with the company and the board. Comedy ensues.
Received a staged reading in 2011
