~SHORTER PLAYS~

 

On the cusp of Mariella’s 13^th birthday, her father, Robert, finds his first gray hair. Convinced it is due to his daughter’s impending womanhood, it’s no wonder he’s panicking. Fortunately for them both, Robert’s wife, Lucinda, planned ahead and created a very large, very special scrapbook for just such emergencies.

Available from Samuel French, early 2008

When George, a hairy young man, shows signs of loneliness, his owner presents him with an attractive and feisty young female named Sheila.  His dreams of mating the two are threatened however, when Sheila insists that she and George must escape. 

Sometimes the comforts of home aren't all they're cracked up to be, even when they include a giant hamster wheel!

Developed at UCLA as part of the Francis Ford Coppola Staged Reading Series

Jake and Shy were just children when their mother died saving them from a burning building.  Their heartbreaking story was told on new stations around the nation, and soon enough the newly orphaned youngsters were adopted by a loving couple from Michigan.  But there’s a secret to that fateful day that only Jake remembers.  Now, years later when Shy returns to Hollywood to become an actress, Jake fears his sister will stumble into the shoes their mother left behind.  Torn between his love for his sister and what the truth will do to her, Jake has to decide what “protecting” his sister really means.

When Frank enters the men's room, the last thing he expects is to end up singing "America the Beautiful" to a toilet bowl, but after a strange encounter with Max, an unusual man watching over the bathroom, that's just what happens.

Pushed to his limit by rising gas prices, the ever increasing cost of movie tickets, and the overwhelming material success of the “Have’s”, Charlie decides to strike back on behalf off the “Have-not’s”.  Kidnapping the CEO of a large company, he’s forced to admit that even good men like himself are capable of doing very bad things.