A HISTORY. Short. Physically and poetically based: A brief and partial history of the judicial world as it is known to some of us. 10 mins. 1 female/1 male or 2 females.

A LETTER TO JEFF BEZOS: A Monologue Play. Short. A letter writer addresses her thoughts on life to Jeff Bezos. 10 minutes. Zoom-friendly. 1 female, female-identified, or non-binary actor (of any race/ethnicity/age/appearance).

AMERICAN ROSE. Full-length. An ensemble cast portrays the changing lives of American women who enter war production workplaces and wartime situations during the 1940s. Their stories are juxtaposed with additional roles iconic of U.S. female individuals from the WWII period. 75 minutes. Large female ensemble, multi-ethnic, diverse cast.

ANOTHER LETTER TO JEFF BEZOS: A Monologue Play. Short. A letter writer shares their thinking on cloning with Jeff Bezos. 10 minutes. Zoom-friendly. 1 female, female-identified, or non-binary actor (of any race/ethnicity/age/appearance).

AN OCEAN OF BEES. Full-length. An uproarious and poignant near-future of post-environmental collapse wherein four souls try to grasp what traits we humans need, and which we need to jettison, for survival. 80 mins. 2 female/2 male or one of each non-binary, 50%+ BIPOC, diverse cast.

DEAR JEFF BEZOS: A Monologue Play. Short. A Hot Guy confides in Jeff Bezos via an imaginary letter. 10 minutes. Zoom-friendly. 1 male, male-identified actor (of any race/ethnicity).

EVERY CONCENTRATED FRAGMENT.  One-act. A lyrical exploration of the friendship bonds and the life-outcomes of four factually-based French women Partisans (Charlotte Delbo and her colleagues of Convoy 31000) from Nazi-era Europe as they confront the meaning of their arrests on the eve of the Paris deportations during WWII. 4 females (any), age-range teens/20s to 50s/60s. 45 minutes.

LETTERS TO JEFF BEZOS: A Full-Length Play. A group of letter writers express their thoughts on life via a contemporary icon, deploy a social media campaign to enlist others to do the same, and change their lives in the process: "a whimsical, satirical, imaginative riff on fame, truth, and the American gods."  90 mins. 2 female-identified, 1 male-identified, one non-binary or any; all race-neutral or any/all.

LETTERS TO JEFF BEZOS: A One-Act Play. One-act. A group of letter writers meet to write letter to Jeff Bezos and then decide together what they should do next. 35 mins. 2 female-identified, 1 male-identified, one non-binary or any; all race-neutral or any/all.

LITTLE KINGS. One-act. Five family members exist as present-day fractured-fairy-tale-versions of characters from King Lear, via an originally conceived satire that sends-up 400 years of human civilization and family history. A hilarious and thought-provoking tour de force. 60 minutes. 2 female or female-identified, 2 male or male-identified, 1 of either or non-binary, race-neutral or any/all.

MY MEDEA. Full-length. A vibrant, accessible, and relevant re-telling of Medea, imbued with current events cut from the American landscape. 75 minutes. Large ensemble, both males and females, multi-ethnic, diverse cast.

ROLLOVER OTHELLO. Short. A stylized and satirical adaptation that achieves an emotional wallop: Oth, Desdie and I. find themselves in a contemporary Brooklyn police house, where they "talk" over their various consummations and conflicts. 15 minutes. 1 female, 2 males.

EDUCATION. Short. A magician-mime-teacher-scientist character provides a brief tragicomic history of human weaponry. 10 minutes. 1 actor of any description.

WAITING FOR A TABLE AT THE GARDEN OF EDEN. Full-length rom-com alternative. Two actors explore the story of their lifelong relationship through modular, send-up scenes. 80 minutes. 1 female, 1 male, race-neutral or any/all.

WE ARE ALL DICK 3. One-act. Love/story mash-up by way of Richard the Third subplots spun from news and entertainment factories, including the incidents of 9/11. A stand-alone drama of relationships. 50-minutes. 1 female, 1 male, race-neutral or any/all.

WHO WILL WITNESS FOR THE WITNESS. One-act. A lyrical play exploring the lives and the life-outcomes of four factually-based women from Nazi-era Europe (Marthe Cohn, Edith Stein, Gerda Taro, Simone Weil) as they ponder truth, life, fact, death, and existence. 25 minutes. 4 females (any), age-range teens/20s to 50s/60s.

14 LADIES IN HATS. Full-length. A character series that explores the tension between expression and repression in the lives of 20th American women and girls. Monologue-based. 75 minutes. 1 - 5 female-identified, any/all.



The above texts are available from <susan.hansell@gmail.com> and through NPX, the New Play Exchange National New Play Network.



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