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  • Writer's pictureLaurie Swigart

ONE-ACTS FOR COMPETITION

…and Stuff by Peter Dee

110th Street Station by Burton Bumgarner

A Bird of Prey by Jim Grimsley

A Children's Story by George Selden

A Door to the Heart by Kathleen Bruce

A Gap in Generations by Jerry Blunt

A Mad Breakfast by Isabel McReynolds Gray

A Memo from Jupiter by Dennis Snee

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

A Piece of My Heart by Shirley Lauro

A Rose for Emily by Joseph Robinette

A Voice of My Own by Elinor Jones

Acoss the Plains: The Journey of a Palace Wagon Family by Sandra Fenichel Asher

Admissions by Colleen Neuman

Aesop's (Oh So Slightly) Updated Fables by Kim Esop Wylie

After Midnight, Before Dawn by David Campton

Afternoon at the Seaside by Agatha Christie

Air Raid by Archibald MacLeish

Alice by Jerome McDonough

Alice in Wonderland by William Glennon

Alice Thru the Looking Glass by William Springer

All in the Timing by David Ives

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Ernest Zulia

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

All the World's a Stage by Mary Schaller

Almost the Bride of Dracula by Dennis Snee

Amber Waves by James Still

American Beauty by Baker et al

An 'a macbeth' by Marowitz, Koehler, Shakespeare

And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson by Jim Leonard

Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Audience by Michael Frayn

Babes in Gangland by Dutton Foster

Baby by Conrad Davidson

Babylon Revisited by Laura Shamus

Bang Bang You're Dead by William Mastrosimone

Bathers by James Schempp

Bernice Bobs Her Hair by D. D. Brooks

Blah Blah Blah by Brian Marshall

Bury the Dead by Irwin Shaw

Butterfly by Jerome McDonough

By the Waters of Babylon by Stephen Benet

Cages by Walter Dean Meyers

Candid by Michael Scanlan

Car Wash by Louis Phillips

Cinderella? by Bill Springer

Class Action by Brad Slaight

Clippings by Deni Fuson

Competition Piece by John S. Wells

Creatures of Impulse by W. S. Gilbert

Crying Out by Matthew L. Hunt

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel

Dead by David Abolafia

Deadly Illusion by Dave Strong

Degas, C'est Moi by David Ives

Dragons by Lucile mcIntyre

Dreamjobs by Graham Jones

Dreamwalk by Eddie Kennedy

DUI=DOA by Dan Roberts

Early Frost by Douglass Parkhirst

Egad, What a Cad! By Anite Bell

Eleemosynary by Lee Blessing

Escape from Nemotex by Paul Lavrakas

Every Seventeen Minutes the Crowd Goes Crazy! By Paul Zindel

Fables by Jerome mCdONOUGH

First in Line by Rob Frankel

Forward to the Right: A Play of Joan of Arc by Lily Ann Green

Four Little Words by Edward Finnegan

Four Poems and a Blue Guitar by Alan Wallisch

Fourteen Lines by Alan Haehnel

Frumpled Fairy Tales by Bill Springer

Game by Barry Meehan

Games by Peter Filichia

Glamorgan by Don Nigro

God's Favorite by Neil Simon

Godspell by Stephen Schwartz

Gorilla Tactics by Sam White

Graceland by Ellen Byron

Greek to Me by Squire Fridell

Hamlet II by Sam Bobrick

Happily Never After by Tim Kelly

Help by Gavid Grote

Help Wanter by James Rayfield

High School: It's a Concept by Mary Krell-Oishi

High Window by Verne Powers

How Does a Thing Like that Get Started? By Pat Cook

How to Make a Teenage Quilt by Tom Akers

Humphrey Pumphrey had a Great Fall by Alfred Greenawy

Hush, Little Celia, Don't Say a Word by Joseph Wallace

I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Celeste Raspanti

Interview by Jean-Claude Van Itallie

Into the Woods by Lapine/Sondheim

Jack, the Ark, and the Aardvark by Earl Reimer

Just a High School Play by Eugene Perry

Just a Stage He is Going Through by Pat Cook

Just Desserts by Pat Cook

Juvie by Jerome McDonough

Kiss Me Quick - I'm Double Parked by John Kirkpatrick

Knowing Beth by Simone Petitjean

Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett

Land Slides by Jessica Leader

Last Lists of My Mad Mother by Julie Jensen

Lepers by Robert Barone

Life is a Highwah by Christopher Durang

Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder

Looking Glass Land by James DeVita

Ludlow Fair by Lanford Wilson

Lunacy by Patricia Weaver-Francisco

Making Nice by Alan Haehnel

Mama Drama by Ayvazian/Farrell/Daley/Nachtmann

Mankind & Co. by Thomas Hischak

Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman

May I Have Your Attention, Please? By Catherine Rhoden-Goguen

Midnight Wax by L. Don Swartz

Mr. Flannery's Ocean by Lewis John Carlino

Museum by Tina Howe

My Cup Runneth Over by Robert Patrick

Next by Terrence McNallly

Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music by Lee Blessing

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Night of January 16th by Ayn Rand

Normal People by Mike Willis

Not on this Night by E. Y. Jones

Number the Starts by Douglas Larche

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

Of Poems, Youth, and Spring by John Logan

Of Widows and Vegetables by Michael Scanlan

On Hold at 30,000 Feet by Kitty Burns

On the Air! By Steve Andersen

On Tidy Endings by Harvey Feirstien

Once, in the Time of Trolls by Sandra Asher

Once Upon a Playground by Jack Frakes

Once Upon a Summertime by Mary W. Schaller

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman

Ordinary People by Nancy Glesenan

Out of Our Father's House by Paul Wagner

Outrageous; Make Up and Italian Rum Cake by Jules Tasca

Over the River and Through the Woods by Joe Dipietro

Overtones by Alice Gerstenberg

Pals by David Perkins

Persephone by Ford Ainsworth

Peter Pan or the Boy Who Would Not Grow Up by James Barrie

Puberty: The Game Show by Greg Atkins

Reduced for Quick Sale by Kent Brown

Removing the Gove by Clarence Coo

Requiem by Jerome McDonough

Rest in Peace by Pat Cook

Richard III by William Shakespeare

Right Before Your Eyes by Steven Hartman

River of Tears by Michael W. Lonetree

Robin Hood by Larry Blamire

Rome is Where the Heart is by Grote/Wilmurt

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Rumplestiltskin is My Name by Tim Kelly

Runaways by E. Swados

Rutherford Wolf by Thoms Hischak

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw

Scapino! By Dunlop/Dale

Second Class by Brad Straight

Secrets by KT Curran

Seth's Anxiety by Jay Thornton

Shock of His Life by Donald Payton

Small Actors by Stephen Gregg

Snow…Sort of…White by Ken Bradbury

Something's Rotten in the State of Denmark by Joseph Wallace

Sorry, Shakespeare! By Mike Willis

Sorry, Wrong Number by Lucille fletcher

Stonehenge by N. Anon

Story Theatre by Paul Sills

Sunday in the Park with George - by Sondheim/Lapine

Take Five by Westley Pederson

Tales of Chelm by Arnold Perl

Tall Tales by Robert Schenkkan

Tartuffe by Moliere

Tear Along the Dotted Line by Jules Tasca

That's Acute Bunny by Donald lowry

That Was No Lady, That Was a Private Eye by Dennis Snee

The $39 Man by William Gleason

The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang

The Affected Young Ladies by Moliere

The Bald Sopran, - An Anti-play by Eugen Ionesco

The Boy Who was Asked to Turn Blue by Ev Miller

The Boys Next Door by Tom Griffin

The Christmas Carol by Brian Way

The Christmas Carol by Julian Lee

The Chronicles of Jane, Book Seven by Alan Hachnel

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare

The Complete History of America Abridged by Long/Martin/Tichenor

The Courters by John Nolan

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Cry of the Crows by James Lee Bray

The Dancers by Horton Foote

The Day after Forever by Charles Emery

The Dead Wife by Don Nigro

The Death and Life of Larry Benson by Reginald Rose

The Death of the Theatre by Ken Bradbury

The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Benet

The Diary of Adam by Mark Twain

The Diary of Adam and Eve by Mark Bucci

The Diviners by Jim Leonard

The Drive-In by Richard Heilesen

The Edge of the Nest by Steven Murray

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel

The Elevator by Herbert Gardner

The Eleventh by Mike Willis

The Empty Chair by Tim Kelly

The End of Civilization as We Know It by Mark D. Kaufmann

The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Socitey's Production of Macbeth by David McGillivray

The Fifteen Minute Hamlet by Tom Stoppard

The Grapes of Wrath by Frank Galati

The Great Pandemonium by Pat Cook

The Insanity of Mary Girard by Lanie Robertson

The Isle of Dogs by Larson/Lee/Wackler

The Investigation by Peter Weiss

The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

The Man Who Died and Went to Heaven by John O'Brien

The Marvelous Playbill by Tim Kelly

The Marriage Proposal by Anton Chekhov

The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

The Murder of Lidice by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes

The Omelet Murder Case by Tim Kelley

The Original Last Wish Baby by William Sebring

The Rising of the Moon by Lady Augusta Gregory

The Room by Harold Pinter

The Rope by Eugene O'Neill

The Rude Mechanicals by Ed Graczyk

The Sandbox by Edward Albee

The Scheme of the Driftless Shifter by Carolyn Lane

The Small World of Millie McIvor by Ronald Burke

The Stolen Prince by Dan Tltheroh

The Strength of Our Spirit - The Vision of Anne Frank by Cynthia Mercati

The Substitute by David Powell

The Swimmer by F. Zavier Hogan

The Taming of La Rue by LR Karcz

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

The Teen Age by Molly Bass

The Tibetan Book of the Dead - or - How Not to Do it Again by Jean-Claude van Itallie

The Trickeries of Scapin by Tunc Yalman

The True Story of Cinderella by Richard Conlon

The Ugly Duckling by A. A. Milne

The Valiant by Hall/Middlemoss

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

The Whole Shebang by Rich Orloff

The Winning Season by Ev Miller

The Women of Troy David Grote

The Woodman and th eGoblins by Don Nigro

The Wrestling Season by Laurie Brooks

This is a Test by Stephen Gregg

To Burn a Witch by James L. Bray

To Destroy You is No Loss by Dorothea Hubble Bonneau

To Kill a Mockingbird by Christopher Sergel

Tongues by Shepard/Chaikin

Toy Camp by Collette/Fritzen

Tricks and Tails by Sills/ Ashby

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Twelve Dancing Princesses by I. E. Clark

Two Horns and a Tale by Mary Schaller

Two Small Fries to Go by Molly Bass

Uncool by Vin Morreals

Voices by Richard Lortz

Voices from the High School by Peter Dee

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets

War in Heaven by Joseph Chaikin

War of the Worlds by Howard Koch

We Bombed in New Haven by Joseph Heller

What You Will by James Zager

Willabella Witch's Last Spell by Thomas Hischak

Women and Wallace by JM Sherman

Words, Words, Words by David Ives

Working by Schwarz/Fasso

When Shakespeare's Ladies Meet by Charles George

Wind of a Thousand Tales by John Glore

Winning Season by Ev Miller

Yearbook by Steven Fendrich

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