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PLAY DIRECTORY

Looking for a script to produce or perform? My plays have been performed over 2,000 times around the world and won dozens of awards - and they're waiting for you to grab a hold of them!

You can also grab a volume of my audition monologue books below, courtesy of The Monologue Project.

ONE-ACT PLAYS

A group of people in an office meeting sitting down in a steel chair and wooden table with laptops in the middle A group of people in an office meeting sitting down in a steel chair and wooden table with laptops in the middle

CIRCUS OHS 

When workplace legislation goes too far.

 COMEDY | 25 MINS | 2 MALE, 2 FEMALE  

A Grandmother holding her stand support inside a nursing home with yellow walls A Grandmother holding her stand support inside a nursing home with yellow walls

HOME SWEET NURSING HOME 

A mourning widow and her teenaged son get some bad news - they can no longer afford to keep grandma in the nursing home, and she is about to move in with them. Unfortunately for Bev, her new carer doesn't care for her at all. In fact, her grandson James only cares about himself and is perfectly willing to take advantage of his grandmother in any way he can, including forging her signature and hacking into her bank account. Will her daughter-in-law stand up for her, or will she also succumb to greed?

 COMEDY | 25 MINS | 1 MALE, 2 FEMALE  

A silhouette of a man standing in a cliff in front of sunrise A silhouette of a man standing in a cliff in front of sunrise

THE NEW INHABITANT 

Winner, Naked Theatre Company's "Write Now!" comp, 2002. The play opens with a man talking to God. He is told that he has just died, and will undergo a test to be given a second shot at life. His soul will be implanted in an inanimate object, with the power to say one thing and one thing only. Meanwhile, two uni students are hunting for a new flatmate. The guy who comes isn't exactly what they're looking for, but he really wants to move in. This is what happens when the Devil has plans for free university education.

 COMEDY | 25 MINS | 3 MALE  

Two desktop computer showing different codes that looks like a virus Two desktop computer showing different codes that looks like a virus

VIRUS 

Four people who are living online as electronic copies of their real-life selves are thrown into panic when one of them gets a virus. Not a cough cough virus, but a your-operating-system-has-encountered-a-critical-error virus.

 COMEDY | 30 MINS | 2 MALE, 2 FEMALE  

Two male and 1 female sitting on a round table and drinking beer Two male and 1 female sitting on a round table and drinking beer

WHATEVER WILL BEWILDER 

A young man discusses the idea of 'randomness' with his flatmate and her girlfriend, when randomness comes to find them.

 COMEDY | 25 MINS | 2 MALE, 2 FEMALE  

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