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Anthologies

  New AdditionOn the Edge: Challenging Short Plays for Teen Actors by Trevor Suthers, Ed Shockley, Kate McGrath, Carol S. Lashof, Patricia Lamkin, Steve Lambert, Steven Korbar, Jonathan Dorf
Anthology. 75-80 minutes. 2-6 males, 2-9 females.
High school and older.

Eight edgy short plays to challenge high school actors, ideal for classroom use, competition or one-act festivals.

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Full-Length Plays

The Baseball King by Amelia Ross
Comedy. 80-100 minutes. 4-25 males, 2-25 females.
Middle school and older.

A modern retelling of the famous friendships, family, and feuds between David, Jonathan, and King Saul—baseball style.

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  New AdditionThe Christmas Princess by Arthur M. Jolly
Fairy Tale. 60-80 minutes. 4-5+ males, 4-8+ females.
Middle school and older.

A spoiled princess must find three magical Christmas gifts for her parents if she is to escape an arranged marriage to the world's stupidest prince.

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Masks by Paul E. Doniger
Comedy. 100-120 minutes. 5 males, 7 females, 7-11+ either.
High school and older.

Facing indifferent audiences and inner turmoil, a struggling Commedia dell'Arte troupe battles to live up to that old saying, "The show must go on."

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Miracle in Mudville by D.W. Gregory
Comedy. 60-70 minutes. 5-11+ males, 13-17+ females, 3+ either.
Middle school and high school.

With the help of a ghostly librarian, a frustrated little league ballplayer and his friends take an unexpected trip into their parents' past to fix the present.


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One-Act Plays

  New AdditionThe Adventures of Rocky & Skye by Kelly DuMar
Comedy. 30-35 minutes. 2-16 males, 2-21 females.
All ages.

Four characters grow up before our eyes as they journey from elementary to middle school in this fast-paced series of scenes that inspire us to appreciate the extraordinary moments of ordinary life.

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  New AdditionAnna's Perfect Party and the Amazing Magician's Marvelous Mistake by Karin Diann Williams
Comedy. 50-60 minutes. 0-6 males, 0-6 females.
Middle school and older performers, audiences of any age.

Nobody's perfect, but Anna can't stop trying - until she meets an Amazing Magician who makes her wish come true!

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  New AdditionBatten Down the Hatchlings by Scott Icenhower
Comedy. 35-45 minutes. 3 males, 3 females, 7 either.
Middle school and high school.

The Native American tale of an eagle being raised as a prairie chicken is retold with a happy ending and as many bad chicken jokes as possible.

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  New AdditionBrave Little Tailor by Randy Wyatt
Comedy. 40-60 minutes. 2-20+ males, 2-20+ females, 0-20+ either.
Elementary school and older.

A child, through the magic of his grandmother's attic, is transported into the fable of the Brave Little Tailor and must outwit a host of colorful characters to learn where true bravery comes from.

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The Bread, the Bracelet and the Dove by Claudia Haas
Comedy. 40-50 minutes. 2 males, 10 females, 6 either.
All ages.

Based on an Italian folktale, this lively play centers on the joys of family and the wonders and magic of Italian food.

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Dodge by Ed Shockley
Comedy. 25-35 minutes. 6-15 males, 5-15 females.
Elementary and middle school.

When a lazy but basically good elf disappears, will her apparent abduction trigger a war between the elves and the gnomes?

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  New AdditionGirls by Linda Kampley
Comedy. 25-30 minutes. 1 male, 6 females.
Middle school or older.

Three teen apprentices at a summer Shakespeare festival experience the rollercoaster highs and lows of young love...all while awaiting their entrance for that evening's performance.

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Go Joe by Len Cuthbert
Dramedy. 30-40 minutes. 13+ either.
Middle school and older.

The musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat turns to reality when some of the cast members become jealous of the lead actor and try to oust him.


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  New AdditionGoldilocks In Nurseryland by Trevor Suthers
Fairy Tale. 30-40 minutes. 5-8 males, 6-7 females.
Middle school and older performers, elementary school and older audiences.

In the spirit of Shrek, this fractured fairy tale comically chronicles the
exploits of Goldilocks as she flees the Three Bears and seeks asylum with the compulsive kisser Georgie Porgie and a host of nursery rhyme
characters.

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Hardcastle Flowers: Space Detective (fka 2071) by Ed Shockley
Drama. 45-55 minutes. 5-15 males, 5-15 females.
Middle school and older.

An intergalactic detective discovers a well-intentioned and possibly beneficial fraud, and must decide whether to reveal it.

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Kadija & Swann by Ed Shockley
Comedy. 15 minutes. 2 females.
High school and older.

Two sheltered girls imagine that the death of a pet rabbit means that one of them is pregnant.

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Little Miss Dreamer (A Nite in the Life of Bessie Smith) by Ed Shockley
Comedy. 45-55 minutes. 3 males, 3 females, 3-24 either.
High school and older.

Young Bessie Smith tries to find the courage to perform before a northern audience for the first time.

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  New AdditionPrincess Pigface by Tommy Jamerson
Comedy. 30-40 minutes. 2 males, 1 female, 3-4 either.
Middle school and older actors, audiences of all ages.

When a beautiful princess is cursed with the face of a pig, she sets out on a magical journey - only to discover that true beauty is found within.

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Reassembling Sasha by Patrick Gabridge
Comedy. 25-35 minutes. 1-3 males, 7-9 females.
High school and older.

Professor Sasha Marlowe's newest experimental device has split her into seven elemental parts, but now that they're free, not all of the elements of Sasha want to go back to the way things were before.

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Vital Organs by Jonathan Dorf
Comedy. 15-20 minutes. 3 males, 2 females.
Middle school and older.

A recovering transplant patient determined to stock up before he leaves the hospital. Doctors supplementing their salaries by selling an organ or two. A kleptomaniac kid on the loose. A soup-cooking candy striper right out of Sweeney Todd. Calling it a health care crisis would be an understatement...

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  New AdditionThe Wild and Wacky Rhyming Stories of Miss Henrietta Humpledowning by Tom Smith
Comedy. 35-45 minutes. 2-7 males, 2-11 females, 4+ either.
All ages.

Four strange, funny, and offbeat stories told in rhyming couplets.

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Ten-Minute Plays

A-Bomb Wedding by Jonathan Dorf
Comedy. 10 minutes. 1 male, 1 female.
High school and older.

Two young adults look for love in a convenience store--with more than the usual baggage.

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  New AdditionAfter The Hill by Meron Langsner
Comedy. 7-10 minutes. 1 male, 1 female, 1 either.
Middle school and older.

Will Jack and Jill finally break the vicious cycle that they've been trapped in for as long as they can remember...?

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  New AdditionBoys Gone Mild by Steven Korbar
Comedy. 8-10 minutes. 2 males.
High school and older.

Two teenage boys find that a Girls Gone Wild DVD is a lot more--and less--than they bargained for.

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  New AdditionDetention by Trevor Suthers
Comedy. 8-10 minutes. 2 females.
High school and older.

Two teenage girls stuck in detention till they've written a letter of apology.  No way.

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  New AdditionDo These Jeans Make My Butt Look Massive? by Donna Latham
Comedy. 8-12 minutes. 2 females.
High school and older.

Freaked out Serafina hasn’t been on a date in ages, so Coco comes to the rescue with a head-to-toe makeover.

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  New AdditionDragonSlay by Robin Pond
Comedy. 7-11 minutes. 1 male, 1 female, 1-2 either.
Middle school and older performers, audiences of all ages.

 A young prince goes on a quest to slay a dragon to win the admiration of a princess.

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  New AdditionFirst Dance by Nancy Brewka-Clark
Comedy. 10 minutes. 2 females.
Middle school and older.

When best friends Rain and Sophia attend their first school dance, they accidentally cause the boy who's captured both their hearts to fall, quite literally, for another.

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Last Right Before the Void by Jonathan Dorf
Dramedy. 10 minutes. 2 males, 1 female.
High school and older.

A teenage boy hitchhikes along a highway that seems to be disappearing into a black hole. 

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  New AdditionOptions by Carol S. Lashof
Comedy. 7-10 minutes. 2 females.
High school and older.

Two stressed-out senior girls at a high school dance look for a way out of the frenetic round of résumé-building--maybe accidentally on purpose forgetting the condoms on prom night could provide a welcome escape?

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The Trestle by Patricia Lamkin
Romantic Comedy. 7-9 minutes. 1 male, 1 female.
High school and older.

A train loving thrill-seeker tries to scare some romance into his straitlaced date by taking her onto a train trestle at night.


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