Eight edgy short plays to challenge high school actors, ideal for classroom use, competition or one-act festivals.

When four ghosts visit Ebenezer Scrooge, he is forced to look at his life—past, present and future—and witness the effect he has on others. 

An orphan named Pip overcomes adversity for the sake of childhood love in this timeless story of the enduring power of the human spirit.

A group of teenage girls, all excluded from their mainstream schools, are inspired by their English teacher to mount an all-female production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

What allows children to triumph over tragedy?  When Penny is forced to deal with an impending tragedy, a neighborhood matriarch guides her through with the help of imaginative play.

Two teenagers who don't know each other deal with tragedy and struggle in the search for one good thing.

A young girl comes of age in Jim Crow Mississippi in this authorized adaptation of the Newbery Award-winning classic.

Facing frozen monsters, freezing weather, and the evil Snow Queen, young Gerda searches the northern tundra to save her brother Kai in this adaptation of the classic Hans Christian Andersen story.

A bilingual fable of young hunters competing for leadership of an ancient society which is threatened by a mysterious beast.

A young African-American girl takes an epic fantasy journey set against the backdrop of the busing movement, as two families, one on each side of the racial divide, grow to discover their love for each other.

The youth of a town on the brink of ruin battle the students of a local prep school that is gradually buying up their town, all the while protecting one of their own whose parents have abandoned him.

A fast-paced ensemble work exploring the varied accounts of the historic events in Boston Commons that transformed a collection of colonies into a democratic nation.

Jenna's plans to escape her small town through a diving scholarship are put in jeopardy when a dive damages her inner ear, and she can no longer keep her balance.

Four high school students struggle to confront their own biases of multiculturalism and language.

A theatrical adaptation of Washington Irving's timeless tale of Ichabod Crane, the fair damsel Katrina Van Tassel, and the most feared spectre of the realm, the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow.

The Princess Ariadne promises her brother—known as “The Minotaur”—that she will not let anyone hurt him, but now Theseus has come from Athens to slay the famous monster. 

Two teenaged girlfriends hesitantly share their fears and hopes about motherhood when they meet for the first time since one has had an abortion.

When a storyteller tells the story of his tribe - of his past - what characters does he become?

When Persephone runs away with the boyfriend from hell (literally), her mother--who happens to be the goddess of the harvest--holds the whole earth hostage. 

When the Pied Piper comes a-callin', it's up to three unlikely heroes - a cat, a mouse and a bird - to save the lost children of Hamelin Town and give this traditional tale a happy ending.

Events rapidly "go viral" after a group of teens put an inappropriate photo online.

When a new boy shows up at the bus stop, Lizzy “Camera Girl” Slominski has to put down her camera and look at a complicated world of love, divorce, and cell phones with her own eyes for once.

A bright young suburban teen hesitantly reveals affection for a recently transplanted inner city teen who is both streetwise and emotionally mature, with surprising and moving results.

A bright young suburban teen hesitantly reveals affection for a recently transplanted inner city teen who is both streetwise and emotionally mature, with surprising and moving results.

When a gnome and a troll become friends, they must overcome the prejudice of their families if they are to maintain their friendship.

Two versions of reality collide when a senior boy disappears on graduation day and his classmates and friends struggle with their loss and confusion about him and their own uncertain futures.  

In the style of La Ronde, a group of high school students meet at a local coffee house to gossip, confess and confront each other about everything from relationships to addictions and longings to suicide...

Two teenagers struggle with how to defend themselves against a bully.

When two teenagers find a dying bird, is the act of mercy to leave it be or end its life?

In the aftermath of a Halloween party gone horribly wrong, three college students retell the mysterious tale from conflicting perspectives.

A teenage girl doesn’t let the death of a boy she loved end their friendship.

Two young girls wait for their wounded father to return from his tour of duty.

Christmas Eve, 1971: Amidst the pall cast by the Vietnam war, a pair of young lovers in a sleepy coal mining town struggle to find hope and common spiritual ground as they confront news which threatens to alter the course of their lives.

A girl tries to make Christmas for her cynical brother in their elegant, cold New York apartment. 

Will a teenage girl's reunion with the mother who abandoned her be everything she's wished for?

An innocent but dangerous flirtation between a young black soldier and a white farm girl in the WWI-era South.