New Voices, Volume 2: More Winning One-Acts by Young Playwrights
Anthology. 210 - 270 minutes. 4-12+ females, 3-6+ males, 0-26+ any gender (7-44+ performers possible). The second collection of winning one-acts from the New Voices competition spans a vast variety of time periods, genres and topics, but what unites these young writers is their ability to speak to the issues that impact young people today. More Info... More Info... |
Pieces of Mind: Ten Plays about Mental Health for Teens
Performable Collection. 105 - 150 minutes. 4+ females, 2+ males, 4+ any (10-50+ performers possible). Mental health takes the spotlight in this performable collection as we encounter depressed superheroes, runaway phones, oh so many spiders and (a whole lot) more. More Info... More Info... |
Small Cast Theatre for Young Audiences Script Bundle (4 actors or fewer)
Genre varies by title. 15 - 70 minutes. Varies by title. Twelve plays for young audiences that have casts ranging from one to four actors, ideal for touring. More Info... More Info... |
Vignette-Style Script Bundle
Genre varies by title. 23 - 110 minutes. Varies by title. Thirteen plays written in the popular vignette (aka episodic) style, often with very flexible casting, great for classwork and performance alike. More Info... More Info... |
Aladdin! Choose Your Own Arabian Night (full-length version)
Comedy. 100 - 110 minutes. 4+ females, 4+ males, 4+ any gender (12-40+ performers possible). The audience's wishes are granted when Choose Your Own Adventure meets Aladdin in this zany comedy. More Info... More Info... |
Almost Mary (full-length version)
Drama. 60 - 70 minutes. 6 females, 4 males, 2+ any gender (8-12+ performers possible). Before Mary Anning became the world's first female paleontologist, she was a young girl from a small town hunting for fossils in this beautiful coming-of-age story. More Info... More Info... |
Millions of Boxes
Musical. 15 - 20 minutes. 2+ females, 2+ males, 6+ any gender (2-20+ total performers possible). With a world awaiting her through the screen of her phone, is this the escape Cam's been waiting for, or is it not all it's cracked up to be...? More Info... More Info... |
Thumbelina
Musical. 30 - 40 minutes. 5-13 any gender. Neither Thumbelina nor The Fairy Monarch have ever belonged, but are they meant to find each other, or will they learn to write their own stories? More Info... More Info... |
Aladdin! Choose Your Own Arabian Night (one-act version)
Comedy. 50 - 60 minutes. 4 females, 4 males, 4+ any gender (12-40+ performers possible). The audience's wishes are granted when Choose Your Own Adventure meets Aladdin in this zany comedy. More Info... More Info... |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Comedy. 40 - 50 minutes. 2 females, 5-18+ any gender (7-20+ performers possible). Insecure Alice literally follows her heart through Wonderland and finds the power of her own voice in this highly theatrical take on the Lewis Carroll classic. More Info... More Info... |
Almost Mary (one-act version)
Drama. 35 - 40 minutes. 6 females, 4 males, 2 any gender (8-12+ performers possible). Before Mary Anning became the world's first female paleontologist, she was a young girl from a small town hunting for fossils in this beautiful coming-of-age story. More Info... More Info... |
Apo in the Sky
Folktale. 40 - 50 minutes. 2-4 females, 2-4 males, 1-3 any gender (5-11 performers possible). In this reimagined adaptation of a classic Filipino folktale, Apo visits the Sky and learns that the most precious things in life might be closer than we think. More Info... More Info... |
Community Service
Dramedy. 25 - 30 minutes. 5 females, 2 males, 1 any gender. A group of high schoolers meet up for a community service project at a facility for displaced families, but Lexie, who has been keeping her housing-insecure status a secret from her classmates, is left to wonder—is the jig finally up? More Info... More Info... |
A Girl in Haarlem
Drama. 35 - 45 minutes. 3+ females, 3+ males, 2+ any gender (6-20+ performers possible). Set against the backdrop of the Dutch war for independence from Spain, a young man and woman who have come together across the religious divide must decide if their own love is worth fighting for. More Info... More Info... |
The Pyramid
Dark Comedy. 30 - 40 minutes. 5 females. When the coolest of the cool kids turns a wellness club into a pyramid scheme, who climbs to the top and who falls to the bottom may just surprise us all. More Info... More Info... |
The Stories of Myth
Drama. 20 - 25 minutes. 2 females, 0-5+ any gender (2-7+ performers possible). An eccentric storyteller from a mystical circus offers a young socialite the chance of a lifetime, or does she...? More Info... More Info... |
Three
Drama. 15 - 20 minutes. 2 females, 2 males, 2+ any gender (6-10+ performers possible). In a dystopia where families are limited to three members, what do you do if you have twins? More Info... More Info... |
The Throne Room
Comedy. 40 - 50 minutes. 3 females, 2 males, 5+ any gender (10-30+ gender-flexible performers possible). With so much of our lives spent in bathrooms (more than a year!), whether it's private time with a favorite floating bath toy to discovering "ancient" graffiti to the invention of a new dance craze, the teens of this vignette-style, flexible-cast comedy are growing up…in the throne room. More Info... More Info... |
Triangle
Drama. 30 - 35 minutes. 5 females, 4 males, 10+ any gender (9-19+ performers possible). A devised piece for an expansive ensemble offers a searing, theatrical look at one of America's deadliest industrial disasters. More Info... More Info... |
AP Despondency
Dramedy. 10 - 15 minutes. 4 females, 1 male, 1+ any gender (6+ performers possible). When anxious, sleep-deprived Maeve's AP Biology class turns into her imagination's worst nightmare, will she remember that nothing is as bad as her head makes it out to be, or is this a diabolical daydream she can't snap out of? More Info... More Info... |
Boy With Pearl Earring
Dramedy. 10 - 15 minutes. 1 female, 1 male, 1 any gender. On the night of his prom, a Black teen's choice of accessories is a lot bigger than just whether his outfit will work. More Info... More Info... |
El Perdido (The Lost One)
Drama. 10 - 12 minutes. 1 male, 1 any gender. When teen superhero El Perdido quits, will the agent sent by the League be able to bring him back into the fold, or will he hang up his cape for good? More Info... More Info... |
The Girl Who Talks to Spiders
Drama. 10 - 15 minutes. 2 females, 1 male (with an optional, flexibly-sized ensemble). Ana claims she can talk to spiders, so when Nikki and Ulises doubt her, they experience the extraordinary and terrifying phenomenon that has tormented Ana her entire life. More Info... More Info... |
Go! Fight! Win!
Drama. 10 - 15 minutes. 4 females, 2 males, 4 any gender. Tensions rise as a high school's students clash over whether it's time to retire their "Rebels" monicker, but when a mental health crisis interrupts their meeting, it may just cause them to think differently about their school spirit and each other. More Info... More Info... |
Let Them Play
Drama. 10 - 15 minutes. 2 females, 1 male, 2 any gender (5 total performers possible). After a trans student gets suspended from the girls' soccer team and their story goes viral on social media, will their friends in the school's LGBTQ+ Rainbow Club be able to help them cope with the fallout? More Info... More Info... |
The Naming of Things
Drama. 10 - 15 minutes. 1 female, 1 male. A boy in a dark hole and a girl surrounded by anxious birds find one another and begin a conversation. More Info... More Info... |
Phone Less
Comedy. 10 - 15 minutes. 8+ any gender (8-15+ performers possible). When a town's phones disappear overnight, two teens launch a search-and-rescue mission, but what if technology itself is trying to send them a message...? More Info... More Info... |
Secrets
Drama. 10 - 12 minutes. 3 females. Sixteen-year-old Rory is on the cusp of coming out as ace—asexual—but who can she trust her secret to? More Info... More Info... |
The Strong Friend
Drama. 10 - 15 minutes. 2+ females, 1+ males (3+ performers possible). Hannah, known as Rocky, is that strong friend everyone leans on again and again—but who can she lean on? More Info... More Info... |
Three Sides to Every Story
Comedy. 8 - 12 minutes. 3 any gender. Math makes laughs when one side of a right triangle is ready to pack up their puns and go their own way. More Info... More Info... |