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From intimate two-handers to laugh-out-loud family sagas,Â
from 15-minutes to full-length, the play's my thing.Â
And if you see something you like, they could be yours, too.Â
Pen Pals
Female Friendship,
Humor,
Emotional Storytelling, International Appeal
One of the Top Ten Theatrical Events in New Jersey of 2024, PEN PALS tells the incredble story of Bernie in New Jersey and Mags in Sheffield, England - pen pals for over 50 years.Â
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We see their lives unfold right before our eyes as the women read the letters they sent to each other over the course of their lifetime. Â
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Their story is a true celebration of the extraordinary power of friendship.
Cast: 2 women, 50+
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Unit Set
No More Sundays
For license inquiries, email me at MichaelGriffo@hotmail.com
50% Comedy, 50% Drama, 100% Italian
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Cast: 6 women, 17-50
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Unit Set
It's 1995 and Rosanna Terranova's family has brought their matriarch home to die. As two generations of Italian-American women hold vigil, old rivalries are ignited, new conflicts arise, and family secrets are revealed -- including the whopper that Rosanna may have had Frank Sinatra's lovechild.Â
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Winner of the 2001 New Jersey Perry Award for Best New Play.
9th Street
Water
For license inquiries, email me at MichaelGriffo@hotmail.com
Trigger warning : Adult subject matter
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Cast: 4 women, early 30s
        1 man, early 40s
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Unit Set
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Four girls living on the same block in a New Jersey suburb were all molested by the same older boy, Ritchie, who was their neighbor. Now, Ritchie is returng to 9th Street for the first time in almost two decades. And the girls -- Vincenza, Tonigirl, Kimmarie, and Jamie B -- all want revenge. The problem is they each have a different idea of what that revenge should be.Â
Syzygy
Read the full script at Lodestar Quarterly. And for license inquiries, email me at MichaelGriffo@hotmail.com.
LBGTQ+, Adult content - Nudity, Substance and Alcohol abuse
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Cast:Â 5 men, late 30s - mid 40s
        2 women, late 30s
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Unit Set
What do you do when the person you love most in the world is trying to self-destruct? You stage an intervention as a birthday party. Bobby isn't sure it wil help Alex break the cycle of drug abuse, alcohol addiction, and constant anonymous sex, but he needs to try.Â
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But what if Alex likes his life just the way it is? It may force Bobby to rethink how he's lived his entire life.Â
THE
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PLAYS
Material Girls
Promapocalypse!
Vampire Valedictorian
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High School Age,
large casts,
simple sets
Each individual play - MATERIAL GIRLS, PROMAPOCALYPSE!, and VAMPIRE VALEDICTORIAN - was written to be performed by high school students in high school classrooms, theatres, or competitive high school-aged events. They're all fun, a bit over-the-top and silly, but at their cores they all have a powerful message of teenage empowerment that anyone who's ever gone to high school will embrace.Â
Cloudy
5G/10B
15-minute plays
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Each cast: 1 man, 1 woman, any age
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Minimal set requirements
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Winners of multiple awards including FusionWorks’ 3rd Annual Mini-Fest, Boston; Emerging Artists Theatre, Short Play Festival 2005, NY; Playwrights’ Circle 2005 National Short Play Festival, Palm Springs, CA; Columbus Ohio 2005 Fringe Festival; 2005 10-Minute Play Festival, Heartland Theatre Company, Normal, IL, Ten by Ten Play Festival, The Arts Center, Carrboro, NC; New Gate Theatre, Providence, RI
These two vastly different plays explore issues of spirituality, mental anguish, and grief - and do it all in under 15 minutes.Â
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CLOUDY tells the story of Georgia and Dan who must cope with Georgia's almost-unbearable grief after witnessing the murder of her children.
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5G/10B takes place on a deserted island where a nun and an HIV+ gay man are the only survivors of a plane crash.
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Just a Kiss
Read the play at GhostCityPress.com.
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For license inquiries, email me at MichaelGriffo@hotmail.com.
15-minute play, LGBTQ+, Adult subject matter, simulation of gun violence
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Cast: 2 men, 25+
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Minimal set requirements
In an abandoned basement, Frank has tied up Garrett and is holding him at gunpoint, not becuase of somethign that Garrett did, but because of something his son did. Â
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How much responsibility does a parent have over their child's actions? And if the child commits a crime, should the parent pay?
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Frank thinks they should.
TWOÂ /
PIECES
For license inquiries, email me at MichaelGriffo@hotmail.com
One-act plays,
Female Friendship,
Humor,
Emotional Storytelling
These two one-act plays can either be performed individually or as one evening of theatre as they both explore themes of mortality and where life begins and where it ends.Â
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In TWO, the story is told backwards from Francesca's eulogy to the moment she suspects something is wrong with her body. We see in reverse chronological order how she and her best friend, Nancy, navigate her journey from life to death.
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In PIECES, 17-year-old Tangie goes on a cross country road trip to meet the people who received her mother's organs when she died in a car crash.Â
Can Dina Even Spell Afghanistan?
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For license inquiries, email me at MichaelGriffo@hotmail.com.
Female friendship,Â
comedy-drama
One-act, 90 minutes
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Cast: 4 women, 40+
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Unit set
When their quiet, unassuming cousin Dina is arrested for being a terrorist, the DuMornay family is turned upsdie down. Can this be true? Catherine and her sister Clare don't think so, but cousin Daisy and their childhood friend, Ivy, think it could be true.
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Family ties are torn apart as the women wrestle with the fact that as much as they love Dina, they really don't know anything about her. Â
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To buy tickets, go to Theatre Brut.
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For license inquiries, email me at MichaelGriffo@hotmail.com.
One-act play, mystical realism, mother/daughter
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Cast: 2 women, 30s, 50s
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Minimal set requirements
When Melanie begrudgingly visits her Mother, she thinks it's just going to be another ordinary visit. How wrong she is. Because Melanie, ike most daughters, hasn't been paying attention to her Mother. Her Mother, on the other hand, has been looking all around her and she knows more about life - and maybe even the afterlife - than Melanie could ever imagine.Â