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Ten Minute Plays

DINKS

1 female 1 male

In this ten minute comedy a middle aged couple, obsessed with their thirty something neighbors, rediscover the intimacy in their own marriage.

  • readings at SWAN DAY No Name Players, Pittsburgh and TedxUniPittsburgh Carnegie Mellon University 2010

 

DRY CLEANING THE SOUL

1 female, 1 male

A woman is dragged into a confessional by her 2nd grade daughter and finds herself face to face with the new priest, little Daniel from down the block, just out of seminary.

  • Finalist for 2010 Heideman Award

Six Women Playwriting Festival: (link)

 

X-MAS AT THE THUNDERBIRD CAFE

2 female, 2 male

On a snowy Christmas Eve, after closing, the proprietor of the Thunderbird Cafe tries to show her employees a little Christmas cheer.

  • Bricolage Theater's B.U.S. 24 hour play project, Pittsburgh

 

THE TEA CUP

1 female, 1 male

A newlywed couple finds new meaning in domestic bliss.

  • Primary Stages, New York and Pyramid Productions, Pittsburgh and presented at the International Women Playwrights Conference, Galway, Ireland, 1997

 

MAN IN THE CLOSET

1 female, 1 male

A woman believes the man who assaulted her is living in her closet.

  • Lovecreek productions and Pyramid Productions

 

CRAZY BONE

2 female

A woman gets a massage along with a blow by blow re-enactment of neighborly revenge.

  • Produced by Pyramid Productions, Open Stage, Pittsburgh

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