Scott C. Sickles Jason invites over his lab partner from school, Les. Suggesting that they watch a baseball game together as it is opening day of the season. While waiting for the game to start, they play a game of truth or dare, an Jason inquires about a rumor regarding Les and another boy. Les, […]
Dean O’Carroll Narrated by a highschooler named Meliza, “destined to be a star”, a Midwestern Glee Club (full of queer members) realizes they are without a band and are coerced into becoming a drama club instead. Playwright: Dean O’Carroll Publication Year: 2004 Anthology: Great Short Comedies, Vol. 6 Publisher: Playscripts Inc. Genre: Comedy Length: One-Act
Jack Thorne Tom’s brother, Luke, is dead. Tom does not know how to feel about his death, and was never sure how to feel about his brother to begin with. The play follows Tom’s grief as he spirals to try to understand Luke more, and it is revealed that Luke was not only gay, but
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Evan Smith Vincent, an often distracted student at Cabrini Catholic Academy, is asked to tutor one of his classmates in English. Vincent chooses Rob, as he has a fantastical crush on him. Imagination running rampant due to boredom, Vincent faces homophobia amongst his peers at the private, all boys, academy and learns a sombering lesson
David-Matthew Barnes Johnny is Alex’s math tutor and the two of them have developed a close friendship. One night, they’re at Alex’s house discussing Johnny’s plans for college when the conversation turns to how Alex recently signed a note to Johnny “with love”. This leads to them confessing their feelings to each other and, as
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Chris Sheppard and Jeff Grove Ray and Milo are two gay male penguins at the zoo who want to have a family. The zoo keeper helps make this happen and the two penguins work with their penguin community of both straight and lesbian parent couples to raise their children. A concerned zoo staff member gets
Allison Williams Mike has decided to come out to his friend Tony at a local coffee shop. After chatting about it with some of the other patrons and employees, Tony arrives and Mike stumbles through the coming out process. During each awkward stage and comment, the play shifts to a dramatic re-enactment of a related
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Susan Miller This play is a short adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Our Town. Two young lesbians meet as teens and fall in love. The play then fast-forwards to a pair of same-sex parents getting ready to celebrate the marriage of their child to another child of two same-sex parents. The play fast forwards again to
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Qui Nguyen Agnes, the older sister of Tilly and a current high schooler herself is devastated over her younger sister’s death and is desperate to find a connection to her. She finds Tilly’s DnD campaign notebook and brings it to her DM, Chuck. Chuck acts out Tilly’s campaign, and Agnes realizes a lot about her
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Joel Bailey High school senior and star athlete, Jack Cusack, secretly writes a play for theatre class about his experience growing up athletic and closeted. The play is found by his classmate, Rudy, who pitches it as an idea for the spring play without Jack’s name attached. However, the school principal stops the production under
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