THE ADJUSTMENT by Mike Folie
A cheerfullly amoral lobbyist falls in love with her married, Jewish-Orthodox chiropractor and plots to seduce him away from his family and religion. Genre: Drama with Comedy
Single Set - 2M, 1W
Contact: mikefolie@optonline.net

THE ARRANGEMENT by Rick Eisenberg
Set in a Wall Street public relations agency, THE ARRANGEMENT pits an unfairly dismissed executive between two agonizing choices: an insider trading scheme that can give him the compensation he feels cheated of, versus walking away and starting a new life. Spurred by his older partner to choose the former, the executive soon finds the seemingly "foolproof" scheme is being investigated by an inexperienced but driven female lawyer bent on destroying him. The cat-and-mouse game which ensues tests the deepest notions of loyalty, nerve, honor and betrayal.
Genre: Drama
Three men, one woman
Contact: eiscom@msn.com

BIG BOYS by Rich Orloff
“Rip-roaringly funny, an on-target skewering of the ethically murky cesspool among corporate America’s elite,” wrote the New York Times. “With its snappy dialogue and non-stop mayhem, BIG BOYS proves a winner.”
Genre: Comedy
2 men
Contact: richorloff@aol.com

BLOODY MURDER by Ed Sala
Characters in a British murder mystery rebel against their author.
Genre: Mystery/Comedy
Four women and four men.
Contact: fishr42@yahoo.com

BOXES by Mike Folie
A Vietnam War veteran and former drug addict is force to confront his own past when his 17 year-old niece almost dies of a heroin overdose.
Genre: Drama 
Single Set - 3W, 2M
Contact: mikefolie@optonline.net

CERTAIN SOULS by Ken Javie
A collection of eight one-person plays that can be performed together or individually. "Meet a gambler facing the bet of his life, a woman choosing between money and love, a doctor delivering bad news. These eight stories remind us that hope and the power of the human spirit unite us all."
Four females, four males. All roles are for actors of any race
Roles may be doubled.
Contact: kjavie@aol.com

CHEMISTRY LAB  by Ben Alexander
In a small New Hampshire town in the late 1970s, the most popular jock in the senior class seduces the most unpopular outcast in the class for a top-secret gay male liaison.
Genre: Drama
4 men, 2 women.
Contact: benalexandernyc@yahoo.com

THE CHOSEN WIFE by Kathy Kafer
A comedic drama about a couple who has been happily married for 27 years when the husband suddenly decides to become ultra-Orthodox.
Genre: Comedic drama
Ruth (40s-50s)
Norman (40s-50s)
Lindsay (college student)
Abe (50s-60s)
Max (50s-60s)
Rabbi (voice only)
Contact: kkafer4442@aol.com

THE CZAR OF NOTHINGNESS by Stuart Warmflash
An elderly Trotsky-ite is confronted by a young female thief who claims to have links to his past. Genre: Dramatic Comedy
1 woman, 4 men
Contact: swarmflash@aol.com

EARLY IN THE MOURNING  by P. Seth Bauer 
On a dark and stormy night, Betty & Leo are sitting shiva for their son Daniel when a former student stops by to pay his respects and something else. This funny and sad play tells the story of what grieving people must go through in the early stages of mourning.
Genre: Drama
3 men, 1 woman 
Contact: psethbauer@hotmail.com

ENDURANCE by Jennifer Fell Hayes
Two young and hostile brothers, one dying, the other, inspired by Shackleton's heroic voyage, enduring painful procedures to save him, discover their fraternal love.
Genre: Drama
Five men and two women.  Three of the men double.  There is also a chorus that can be shared out among the cast, or could be separate actor(s).
Contact: fellhayes@aol.com

ERRATICA by Reina Hardy
Bitter, witty Professor Samantha Stafford deals with a lovestruck student, a scheming publicist, a stolen book and the very irritating ghost of Christopher Marlowe.
Genre:  Comedy
Cast:  Three female, two male.
Contact: reinahardy@yahoo.com

A FAMILY COMEDY  by  Robert Cessna
Gladys leaves her husband of thirty-five years and arrives, unannounced at her son's townhouse in New York City which is owned and shared by her son and his lover David.
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Gladys
Arthur, her son
David, Arthur's lover
Tarek, the tenant upstairs
Charlie, an old friend of Gladys
Paul, Gladys's husband
Contact: robces34@aol.com

FEASTING ON CARDIGANS by Mark Eisman
A wild and "wooly" parable about a moth-infested New York and the romantic and reproductive misadventures of exterminators.
Genre: Comedy
2 Male, 3 Female
Contact: marklab@aol.com

IN SERVICE OF THE QUEEN by Bo Wilson
A seagoing adventure in which a fiercely independent Victorian woman fights to find her place in the rough new colonies at the edge of the earth. 
Genre: Drama
”In Service of the Queen” utilizes a unit set and a cast of as few as five men and two women with doubling; in the case of larger companies, of course, doubling is not required. 
Contact: bo@bowilson.net

INFORMED CONSENT by Richard Brockman
Every heart needs a second chance, sometimes life gives you that chance, sometimes it doesn’t. “Informed Consent” – set in an OR, set in the Bronx – is the story of a pediatric transplant surgeon who must face the possibility of real failure for the first time in his life.
Genre: Drama
4 men, 3 women, 1 drag queen - it's the Bronx.
Contact: rb37@columbia.edu

INTELLECTUALS by Scott C. Sickles
An hilarious comedy that examines the age-old struggle between the heart and the head. Margot, a psychologist, informs her philosopher-husband Philip and their theater-critic-compadre Brighton that she is leaving her marriage temporarily to "become a lesbian."  This decision sends all three members of their social troika hurtling towards the possibilities of romance, forcing them to decide which they should follow: their feelings or their intellect, and in each case what that means.
Genre: Comedy
3M; 4F
Contact: doughboynyc@hotmail.com

IPHIGENIA  by P. Seth Bauer 
King Agamemnon has assembled the entire country of Greece to make war on Troy when he is confronted with a terrible choice - in order for the wind to blow he must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia.
Genre: Comedy/Drama
3 women, 4 men (flexible casting)
Contact: psethbauer@hotmail.com

LAST LOVE by Peter Papadopoulos
An apocalypse outside the door, a disintegrating relationship within. A darkly funny and surreal tale of emotional warfare. Drunken poetry. Furniture hurling. Competitive sex. Two couples do battle in a mountainside house as an international terror crisis looms outside. 
Genre: Tragiocomic 
3M, 2F
Contact: pjpapadopoulos@hotmail.com

MANLY MEN by Bo Wilson
The comic story of a hapless fellow named Harold who is in search of the secret of male-female relations . . . and he'll listen to pretty much anyone with a theory. 
Genre: Comedy
Two men and one woman who create a total of 17 different characters. 
Contact: bo@bowilson.net

THE MARRIAGE OF MOSS & MOONLIGHT by Matt Hoverman
A comic fable in which two brothers, a horny nun and a sexy lake spirit duke it out over love and loss, under the watchful eyes of some very idiosyncratic higher powers.
Genre: Comedy
Two men, two women (all in their late 20’s, early 30’s) and two spirits (could be played by puppets or a man and a woman (50’s-70’s)
Contact: mhoverman@earthlink.net

THE MARTYR OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY by Matt Hoverman
A black comedy about resentment and forgiveness, in which the adult children of an incredibly manipulative Connecticut matriarch challenge her sad rule by daring to get married (to other people)!
Genre: Comedy
Two men, three women.  (The men: 30, 60; the women: 30, 35, 60)
Contact: mhoverman@earthlink.net

THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE by M.Z. Ribalow
A brilliant female scientist startles her husband, her daughter and her CEO when she announces she is stopping all her work to spend her time exclusively on discovering the meaning of life; and by the end of the play, she finds it.
Genre: Comedy/Drama
1 man, 3 women.
Contact: mzr66@rcn.com

NEVER MISSED A DAY by Ken Javie
A group of co-workers meet at the retirement party for the office patriarch. As the men drink, joke and tell tales, their long-buried secrets come to light.
Genre: Tragicomedy.
Deuce - 60s.
Whitey - 50s.
Michael - Late 40s/early 50s
Nick - 30s.
Danny - Early 20s.
Contact: kjavie@aol.com

O, THE DAYS! by Sheila Walsh
In 1975 a woman named Una McQuire kissed a man and Ireland moved into the 20th century.
Genre: Comedy
7 characters (all Irish)
Contact: swalsh5856@aol.com

ON DEAF EARS by Robin Rothstein
Two headstrong old ladies must finally choose between the safe realities they have created for themselves and the frightening ones that truly exist.
Genre: Dramatic Comedy
2 females: 70's
1 Male: 70's
2 females:  Early 40's
1 Male: 30's
Contact: robinrothstein@yahoo.com

SKIN DEEP by Jon Lonoff
“A warm-hearted comedy, the laughter was literally show-stopping” (TalkingBroadway) as a large, lovable, lonely-heart gets more romance than she bargained for, when she agrees to a blind-date finagled by her well-married, cosmetically-enhanced sister. “A little Paddy Chayefsky, a lot of Neil Simon and a quick witted, intelligent voyage into the not-so-tranquil seas of middle-aged love and dating.” (NY Theaterworld)
2 men, 35-55
2 women, 35-55;
Single set

TAKING LEAVE by Nagle Jackson
The three daughters of Prof. Eliot Pryne who suffers from Alzheimers must decide what to do with the old man in a sadly comic drama shadowed by King Lear.
Genre: Comedy/Drama
4 women, 2 men
Published. Contact: Dramatists Play Service.
Contact: naglejackson@worldnet.att.net

WASPS by Sally Clark
Val McIntosh, a sane sensible librarian, marries in haste and repents at Gale Force Velocity. A drawing room farce for distempered times.
Genre: Farce
6 Actors: 2 Male 4 Female
Contact: sallyclark@uniserve.com

WHEN IT RAINS by Rahti Gorfien
A four-character drama, When It Rains is the story of a love triangle that takes place in New York City involving three emotionally complex players: Moira, a successful albeit sexually and biologically frustrated editor, her ardent but sterile husband Lenny, and a virile, hitherto unknown writer named Gideon. This play is performed on a single set that can project multiple locations, making it inexpensive to produce, and conveys a provocative feminist perspective on marital and fertility issues.
Genre: Drama
2 men, 1 woman
Contact: furchildr@yahoo.com

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