Selected Plays, Synopsis, and Characters : Long Plays

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 4M (20s-60s) 2W (20s-40s) Single, suggested set. 

Synopsis: In his backyard, Leo Oscar is the United States of America. He is naïve, petulant 

and ultimately violent. The play is set in New Orleans in 1963; in and out of Leo’s mind. 

He has managed to create a political commotion around himself and has landed a spot on a local TV show. It is the day the show airs and he has set the television up in the backyard; so that, the whole world can hear it. However, the TV is not working. 

 His wife has invited two strangers over for the weekend, and Leo is haunted by an old friend. The play is an historical fiction based on one day in the life of Lee Harvey Oswald. 

“Venus & Mona”  

3W (20s-60s) Single suggested set. 

Synopsis: Venus & Mona is a Fight Fantasy for 3 Bad Ass Women; inspired by the 

mythological writings of Joseph Campbell.  

 Mona Lisa Times: left home, changed her name, and became a bad girl Hollywood movie star.  Venus: stayed in the Bay area and continued the same abusive relationship with “Junky/Drunk”; the name they dubbed their mother with. Her career is on the precipice of disaster and she’s feeling a need, something deep inside her, that’s driving her to change.  

When Mona gets a call, from her estranged sister that Junky/Drunk has had a brain hemorrhage and lies on the verge of death, she leaves the set of the film she’s shooting and flies halfway around the world, from London to San Francisco, to return to her ancestral battleground.  It is surrounded by a literal mountain of garbage and patrolled by the Gala Damy; a demon that lurks in its bowels and lives to cause the twin's pain and agony. They soon find their only means of getting off the roof snapped and they are forced to replay the ancient rituals of their past in hopes of finding a way down. 

 2M (40s-60s) 1W (40-50) Single suggested set. 

Synopsis: An estranged father and son ride along the Carolina border at 2am to scatter 

the ashes of their dearly departed. A journey of closure quickly opens up to a scheme of 

celebrity, abduction, and inevitable infamy.  Who will be left standing when the livestream stops?  One car. One plan. 3 riders and a snake.   A modern day, overnight, of human intentions and inhuman consequences. 

 4W (20s-60s) 3M (30s-50s) Multiple suggested locations. 

 Synopsis: Molly Jones loves the NY METS; still, she’s never been to a real game. 

 This brilliant 9-year-old reads Seneca and dreams of catching baseballs; while being treated for Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Her Make-a-Wish is a Mets game and she has a ticket. Her Doctor wants to begin a new treatment with an experimental drug; but, Molly would have to miss the game. With the help of Lance Lane, a burned-out ex-Mets pitcher and Tammy the Toucan, an eccentric hospital clown, Molly sets out on a most unusual 

odyssey. Meanwhile Dr. Marshall, hospital security, and her disease are just one step 

behind.  Seneca says, “The life well lived is long enough”.  9-year-old, terminally ill, Molly Jones; plans to put this philosophy to the test. 

3M (17-40) 2W (17-40) Single set. Done in the style of classic French Grotesque Theatre. 

Synopsis:  It’s Billy Brumfaylure’s 18th birthday and the family has gathered to celebrate. Step daddy is a pervert, mommy is indifferent, little sister is a heroin addict, and the poet uncle is locked in the closet.  The play, is the nuclear American family turned inside out and set on fire. 

 1M (40s) 1W (40s) Single set. 

Synopsis: This melodrama is set in a rubber raft in the middle of the ocean. A man and 

woman are sunburned, delirious and married. They battle thirst, starvation, sharks and 

each other.   Will they survive? 

1M 30s 2W (30s) Single set. 

Synopsis: Is a light, two scene comedy. It’s a boy meet girlfriend’s sister story. The play 

explores the idea of the “one who got away”.  But, did she really? 

3W (30s-40s) Single suggested set. 

Synopsis: 3 women, who work at Madison Square Garden, steal Paul McCartney’s 

famed bass guitar. They have a buyer willing to pay one million dollars in cash. As they 

drive through Manhattan, to the drop off point, the caper starts to unravel  and, we 

discover the true motivations behind the crime.

3W (30s) Bare stage. 

  Synopsis: A poem for the stage.  3 women play the heart, mind and soul of a single 

woman. She tells the story of the end of a marriage through the eyes of an air traffic 

controller as she loses a plane on her radar. 

2M/W (20s) Single suggested set. 

Synopsis: A Beckettian satire. Two humans stand in a planet on fire. As the world is 

burning down around them, they argue over correct pronoun usage.