Samantha Mavher Elizabeth is not out to her parents, but wants to ask her girlfriend, Alex, to Prom. With the help of her choir and her best friend Ollie, Elizabeth pops the question. It turns out, though, that they end up Prom-posing to each other with a flash mob and a scrap book. Playwright: Samantha […]
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
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
The New York Society for the Suppression of Vice Read More »
Del Shores Centers around a family, the Westmorelands. Bobby, the high school football coach and father, and Katie, the therapist mother, get terrible news that their prodigal football son, Dayne has a potentially terminal illness. While this continues, Gracie, a classic theatre kid daughter, brings her best friend, Kendall, around. Kendall is assumed to be
Jennifer Fraser 17-year-old, Carol Hawksworth is growing up in a traditional Christian household with her father, John, her mother Eleanor, and her two older brothers, Grant and Dirk. When she starts sleepwalking at night, she begins to question her sexuality. In doing so, she is forced to choose between herself and her family. Playwright: Jennifer
Nick Witzeman O and X are nonbinary teenagers attending a co-ed Catholic high school where their brother teaches music. During a Zoom interview, sibling tensions are revealed and religion, art, and gender are discussed. O and X are angry about the Catholic Church and their school’s rigid view on gender, which has put them both
The Statue of St. Marinos the Monk Read More »
Stephen Kaplan Tim is a 10 year old who hates baseball but plays because his parent is the coach. It’s the last inning and Tim is grudgingly on the field when the ghost of a famous female baseball player appears to support him. She is there because she thinks he likes baseball, but all he
Right Field of Dreams Read More »
John Bavoso Camp Mannuppia is a safe haven for “effeminate men” although it is disguised as a masculinity camp from the outside. When two new campers, one of which is assigned female at birth (AFAB), and discovering their gender, come to camp looking for “masculinity”. They try to make their own program to make themselves,
JJ Green This play follows the life of Boy, growing up autistic and queer in early 2000s Britain. Portrayed through an “otherworldly” lens where imagination and reality are blurred, this play tells the story of a neurodiverse person whose parents made the decision to go through Applied Behavior Analysis with the goal of suppressing his
James Hindman David Sullivan is a new kid and is completely shocked when he gets the lead in the school musical. However, Ted Barnes, who is a part of the school board wants his son, Greg, to get the lead, as he normally does. Ted stops at nothing to make sure David doesn’t play the
The Drama Department Read More »
