Plays include:

• Dinner at Dario’s
  Two male ex-lovers bicker over past events before a farewell dinner at Dario’s bistro in Greenwich, Connecticut Frank has been dating two men who briefly appear at different times when they are intimidated by Mark, who hopes to reunite with Frank. They lose their reservation at Dario’s and Mark attempts to seduce Frank who confesses guilt about his problem with intimacy and which is the centerpiece of their parting. Mark initiates a wrestling match and it engenders overwhelming physical and emotional reactions. It has a happy ending. No suicides. No AIDS.
      One-act: 40 min. - one set, one sound cue
      4M: 20s, 30s
• Agrippina
  Rome’s most powerful woman was emperor Nero’s mother Agrippina. As he ascensends to power, can he, keep all the power and not share with his lovers, his “boy slaves,” and expecially keep power from the woman with whom he also had a sexual relationship — his mother. The play blends elements of classical tragedy, contemporary satire, music, and dance.
      Two-act
      6M: 20s-40s
      3F: 20s-40s

      Plays include:

• Incoming
  Sally and Liz, a lesbian couple, are having a baby in a most unusual way, involving an inverse gravity board, a game of “Red Rover,” and an ex-lover trapped under a hospital bed.
  “Incoming” was selected for the International Centre for Women Playwrights Chicago “Her-Rah: A Festival of the World’s Best Women Playwrights and Their New Plays” (June 2007).
  It also won the 2007 Queer Women’s Play Contest and was produced by Bloody Unicorn Theater Company in Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona (September 2007).
      Two-act: 2 hours - 1 set, minimal technical requirements
      3M: one is 40-50s, others of any age
      3F: 20s-30s

      Plays include:

• Someone Bought the House on the Island: A Dream in Two Acts
  A young man, Kevin Green, overcomes obstacles during his pursuit of a not-so-unusual romantic ideal. Though a serious drama, which explores Kevin’s moral and psychological growth, the play is also a great Halloween spectacle, with atmospheric lighting and a vampire motif. An adaptation of Anderson’s novel of the same name.
  Won the 2008 Saints & Sinners Playwriting Contest, and was a finalist in the Independent Publishers Book Awards.
  Premiere: May 9, 2008, at the Marigny Theater, New Orleans.
      Two acts: 2 hours - 1 set
      7M: two 18, four 20s, one 38

      Plays include:

• M4M4NOW
  An honest peek into the lives of eight gay boys from Chelsea, NY, as they frantically search to “connect.” Computer chat room talk becomes the springboard for a look at their bizarre sexual couplings. The characters intersect at various points, culminating in an evening of cyber-sexual madness.
      Two-act: 2 hr. 15 min. - minimal or elaborate sets
      8M: requires nudity - six in 20s, two in 30s
  
• About Christine
  Unknown playwright, Tony Scarpellini, is desperate to interest 40-year old soap opera veteran Jeanetta Jamison in his new play. So he kidnaps her and cuffs her to his coffee table. She frees herself, and turns the tables on the tortured writer. Meanwhile, Tony’s best friend Nando, who secretly longs for him, wages battle with Tony’s ex fiancé and Jeanetta’s mean, manipulative mother.
  Workshop presentation at the Ground Floor Theatre in Greenwich Village, NYC in December 2002.
      Two-act: 1 hr. 45 min. - two sets
      2M: 20s
      3F: 20s, 40, 60s
  
• Lexy
  Lexy is a lesbian therapist whose sexy significant other, Miriam, inexplicably leaves her to bear a child. Lexy’s girlfriends, the bumbling Jag and militant Alana, help her re-enter the world of dating. Upon meeting a high school acquaintance, Adam, she has an affair with a male for the first time in her life. Miriam returns and wants Lexy back.
  Premiered at the Producers’ Club II Theatre, NYC, in February 2002.
      Two-act: 2 hr. 15 min. - simple sets
      2M: a teen, 30s.
      4F: 20s, two in 30s, 40s
  
• Michael’s #1 Fan
  Robert is a shaken and shattered gay man on the verge of suicide. Through him we meet the inhabitants of his small home town, which includes: his best friend Lily, his ace reporter boyfriend Don, his dead Aunt Bonnie, a few living family members, and an octogenarian serial killer known as Monstrous Molly. Robert eventually unearths shocking revelations about his lineage, and experiences unthinkable betrayals by his trusted inner circle.
  Premiered at the Producers’ Club II Theatre, NYC, in November 2000.
      Two-act: 2 hr. 15 min. - minimal sets
      3M: nudity required of two M - 20s, two in 30s
      5F: nudity required of one F - two in 20s, 30s, 40s, 80
  
• Unhinging
  At a New York city bistro, neurotic gay schoolteacher Andy is cruised by Phil, the spunky waiter, while waiting for Chris, his attractive, abrasive, female blind date. Evelyn arrives; she is Phil’s understanding and odd mother. Denny arrives; he is Phil’s ex-beau. Then there is Dan, a kooky, kinky boy from the south. Amidst all the battling for attention, Phil and Andy bond via a love of 70s disaster movies, but their new friendship is soon threatened.
  Workshop presentation at the Sanford Meisner Theatre in 1993, and premiered at the Judith Anderson Theater, NYC, in 1994. It has since been updated with a radical altered ending.
      Two-act: 1 hr. 45 min. - minimal or elaborate sets
      5M: nudity required - three in 20s, 30s, 50s
      2F: 20s, 50s

      Plays include:

• Harvey & Company
  A male couple take a female roommate, due to a rent increase on their San Francisco apartment, with hilarious results.
  The play has had a workshop and a staged reading, meeting with favorable reviews. The script is also available (based on acts 1 and 2, respectively) as the pilot first two episodes for a teleplay.
        Two-act: 1 hr. 30 min. - one set
        5M: 30-50s
        7F: 30s-70s

      Plays include:

• Men Like Trees
  During 24 hours, in the heart of the city, six gay men find a tricky landscape after 25 years of HIV. Dawn in the park, who is under the tree?
  “Lean, witty dialogue … and a committment to the concrete lives of the play’s characters.” - Xtra West, December 7, 2006
  Produced at AIDS2006, Toronto, and at the Gay Men’s Summit in Vancouver, December 1, 2006.
        One-act: 1 hr. 10 min. - minimal sets
        6M: 25-50
• Mustang
  In the fall of 1968, two sisters, in an ossified, English-speaking ghetto in Montreal, receive a taste of changing realities. Mustang revisits the old, linguistically divided Montreal; a pre-Stonewall world of gay men.
        One-act: 30 min. - minimal sets
        2M: 20s
        2F: 29, 40

      Plays include:

• The Stops - book by Eric Lane Barnes and Drew Emery
  Three lady organists — new-age pagan, devout Nazarene, and boozy Baptist — put an act together and take it on the road. They sing material by Christian songwriter, and church organist, Dale Meadows. When the ladies discover that Dale is gay, and being ousted from his post as music minister, all hell breaks loose.
  “A fiendishly clever cabaret event … a gleeful send-up of all things holy and good” - Chris Jensen, Seattle Weekly
  “The brisk two-act piece has a clever concept, amusing songs … and consistently funny dialogue … The Stops works so well because much of the humor is character-based and its endearing plea for love and mutual understanding isn’t preachy.” - Michael Grossberg, Columbus Dispatch
  Won “Best Musical,” “Best Ensemble Show” and “Best Actor in an Ensemble” at the Columbus National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival, 2006.
        Two-act: minimal set
        3M: mid 30s-late 50s, 1 baritone, 2 medium-range tenors
        1 or two accompanists (non-speaking)
• Vitamin Q
  A musical review, comprised of 24 gay-themed songs from the ridiculous (“Drama Queen,” “Pansies Everywhere,” “For the Straight Guys,” “Vitamin Q”) to the sublime (“My Evil Twin,” “Who’s Your Superman?,” “Available”). Q contains social commentary, sweet ballads, and several poignant moments that were developed during 10 years of performing with the vocal groups Windy City Slickers and Seattle’s Captain Smartypants.
        Two-act: minimal set
        6M: 20s-50s, low baritone to medium-high tenor
        1 pianist, bass/drums optional

      Plays include:

• First Couple
  Before congressman Blair Tyler and his partner, Jason Lawrence, a free-lance journalist, have time to adjust to Blair’s new, very public role as vice president of the United States, the president resigns, propelling Blair and Jason into the White House.
  First Couple premiered at the Tiffany Theatre, Los Angeles, September 1995.
      Two-act - two sets
      4M: 20s, 30s, two in 40s
      1F: early 20s
  
• Expressions of Life
  Perry Green (AKA Greenblat) is a young man desperately looking to find out who he is and what life is really all about, in this present-day comedy set in New York City. Complications arrive in the form of his neighbor Jonelle, (a black, wannabe singer and who thinks she has all the answers), Perry’s new, about-to-move-in boyfriend, (who is not what he appears to be), and his mother who pays a surprise visit with some startling revelations of her own. In the process, Perry discovers some of the answers he has been seeking.
      Two act: one apartment set
      2M: one in 20s
      3F

      Plays include:

• Porn Yesterday (co-written with Pat Milton)
  A young, male porno star decides to get out of the porno business. After his wealthy, much older, lover makes a contribution to a legitimate theatre’s building fund, he is cast in “Edward II.” Too late, he realizes he is going to have to learn how to act. A Catholic university theatre professor is pressed into service to teach him the actor’s trade. In this Pygmalion-inspired story, both teacher and student end up learning more than they planned.
  Productions: Fritz Theatre Company (San Diego), Alternative Theatre Company (Phoenix), Curan Repertory Theatre (NY)
      Two-act - 2 hours, one set in hotel room
      5M: (20s-50s)
• Strange Bedfellows (co-written with Pat Milton)
  Disillusioned campaign manager Antonio has his cynicism challenged when he works for Nathan, the first gay candidate for Orange County District Attorney. The idealistic candidate deplores the pragmatic approach of the campaign professional. Their disputes cause Antonio to consider leaving the campaign. Clashes also occur when, into the fray, appear an opportunistic office intern, a right-wing political columnist, and an escaped death row inmate. Politics makes strange bedfellows in more ways than one in this wacky comedy.
  Absolute Time Festival winner (staged reading, San Francisco), City Lights Theatre New Play Development Series winner (staged reading, San Jose)
      Two-act, 2 hours, one set in campaign office
      6M: 20s-50s (possibility for doubling two of the males)
      2F: 30s-50s
• Another Man’s Slingbacks
  The outlook is promising for “Killer” Kerrigan, the star quarterback for the Lincoln High Gladiators. He is handsome and athletic, his dad runs the most successful car dealership in town, and all the girls are crazy about him. He is also extremely homophobic. Ricky, a classmate, is subjected to Killer’s taunts and jeers and makes a wish. The wish is granted by his Fairy Godmother, and Killer is magically transformed, overnight, into a homosexual. Killer learns what life is like on the other side of the pom-poms, and Ricky also learns a few lessons.
      Two-act, 2 hours, simple sets in and around a high school
      7M: teens, early 20s (Godmother, Coach, Father, Miss Bibza played by one mature man)
      2F: teens, early 20s

      Plays include:

• Arbitrary Lives
  Three siblings struggle with ageism, monogamy, and homophobia, as they each begin a journey that results in breaking rules society has created. The trials they endure provide an amusing, poignant, and provocative look at the rules we choose — or choose not — to live by. Witty, sobering, and, ultimately, heartwarming.
      Two-act, 2 hours, 10 sets (can be just furniture)
      4M: one is 18+ (to play 16), 25-35s
      3F: 25-35s
      1N: male or female for all supporting roles
• It’s a Holiday Thing
  A family holiday gathering brings laughter, surprises, and conflict, when a certain secret, a case of mistaken identity, and a little too much egg nog create a Christmas which will never be forgotten. Out of the closet and into the flurries! Perfect for making the yuletide gay. Hilarious and heartwarming.
      One-act, 45 minutes, 1 set
      3M: 20s, 40s
      2F: 20-30, 40s
• An American Family
  Each member of one family is a victim of bigotry in a land where supposedly “all men are created equal.” Revealing, riveting and raw; an eye opener about our county’s history of ignobility. An exploration of the history of civil rights in America.
      One-act, 30 minutes, no set
      2M: 15-25, 40s
      2F: 40s

      Plays include:

• Albee Damned
  College music professor Bill and his wife Hilary, invite a sweet, innocent male couple home for drinks after a cocktail party. A parady of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” But this time, the visitors are gay, and the games Bill and Hilary play may, or may not, include a kid (as in, a goat).
      One-act: 20 min. - one set
      3M: two in 30s, one 40 or older
      1F: 40 or older

      Plays include:

• Memory’s Caretaker
  A uniquely South Texas tale of multi-generational border crossings.
      One-act
      1M

      Plays include:

• Internet Baby
  A gay media personality and his handsome partner, a talented and successful graphic artist, have a happy and stable relationship. Failing to adopt a baby through legitimate means, a third world country and various subterfuges, they find an internet ad that leads them to an attractive, pregnant street girl — and her bisexual heroin addicted boyfriend — who is only too ready to assist them. This leads to more difficulties than they anticipate.
      Two-act
      5M
      3F (doubling possible)
• The Lost
  In l939, on the eve of the Second World II, the gay writers Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden left England for America. During this dreary winter voyage, Isherwood relives incidents from his life. In the isolation and limbo of the ocean, he feels alienated from his life in Europe, and unsure what the future in America may hold for him. He is writing a book called “The Lost” that reflects the lives of the emotionally bankrupt folk, the lost generation which has lost its way — the victims of the Nazis, the survivors of the Spanish Civil War, the desperate and the confused. On this journey he feels he has joined their ranks. This one-man play begins as the ship leaves England and ends as the towers of Manhattan loom out of the fog.
      Two-act
      1M
• Fresh Pleasures
  Duncan Grant was beautiful, charming, talented, loving, and promiscuous. Some called the artist a “darling of the gods,” and he endeared everyone he knew. Men and women fought for his personal and professional favours, among them essayist Lytton Strachey, artist Vanessa Bell, economist Maynard Keynes, and novelist David Garnett. A one-man performance about a brilliant and talented man, an artist who dared to be different without trying.
      Two-act
      1M

      Plays include:

• Paperclip Messiah
  A priest finds himself in the middle of a forbidden love story hidden in a Catholic Parish. Shocking comedy mixed with stirring drama; psychologically disturbing as well as moving.
  One of Burlingame’s most controversial works. Voted top play at the Sacramento Playwright Festival and became most sought after script by GLBT theatrical companies around the region.
      Two-act: three locations (compatible with limited stage space)
      11M: 17-60
      3F: 30-50
      (several actors may play multiple parts)
• Nine Eleven
  A comedy-drama set in the lobby of a community college theater. Seven diverse-minded students and their ultraconservative theater instructor face life before and after the Sept. 11 tragedy. One of the first theatrical productions to deal openly and sensitively with this difficult topic. Strong gay characters.
      Premiered in Sacramento, April 2002.
      Two-act: one two-part set
      4M: 19-22, 35
      4F: 18-21
• A Mooving (sic) Experience
  A series of sharp-witted, touching monologues brings to life five very different, yet interconnected characters. From a young, Asian immigrant to a gay Mormon — from an aging southern belle to an elderly African-American woman and her rebellious granddaughter — their gripping, powerful stories are sure to delight and entertain audiences.
      Two-act: no set
      1M
      4F
      (can be done as a one-person character piece)

      Plays include:

• New England Lodge © 2001
  During the winter of 1939, seven people become snowbound in a beautiful New England lodge. Friendships and relationships evolve that will forever change their lives.
      Two-act: set can be simple or elaborate
      3M: 20s
      4F: 20, 30s, 50s
• The Debutante © 2000
  During the summer of 1964, Catherine Anderson prepares for her debut at the Magnolia Ball. Field, Catherine’s brother, makes important life decisions the week of the ball. This play is not only about Catherine’s coming out to society, but also about Field’s coming out.
      Two-act: set can be simple or elaborate
      4M: 20s, 50s
      4F: 20s, 40, 60
• Cakewalk © 2001
  Timothy and Glenn are leaving for a well-deserved vacation when they discover a baby on their doorstep. The baby’s arrival completely changes their lives.
      Two-act: set can be simple or elaborate
      4M: 20, 30s
      2F: 30s, 60s
• The Wisdom Channel © 1999
  A secret about a famous actor and his novelist wife is about to be published. To counter the news article, they ask a well-known journalist to write their own revealing article.
      Two-act: set can be simple or elaborate
      4M: 20s, 30s
      3F: 30s
• Triple Knot © 2000
  A group of friends spends Christmas together in New York. They learn that relationships can evolve at any age, and often by way of unpredictable partners.
      Two-act: set can be simple or elaborate
      5M: 30s, 40s
      1F: 60s
• Trophy Husbands © 2002
  Field, Alex, John and Clifford are 45-year-olds who have been friends for more than 20 years. Through a series of events and relationships, they discover the strength and importance of their bond.
      Two-act: set can be simple or elaborate
      8M: 20s, 40s
• Gentleman’s Wish © 2002
  United States Senator Hanford Hanover and his staff have returned to his family estate to work on damage control. His wife, Sarah, has just discovered the senator’s 20-year affair with his best friend, Lake. Like Hanford, Lake is married with grown children. Hanford, Lake and the staff must figure a way for the Senator to publicly establish his new gay image, as well as win re-election to the Senate.
      Two-act: set can be simple or elaborate
      4M: 30s, 40s
      4F: 30, 45, 60-70
• Prince Charming © 2002
  Catherine and flirtatious husband Trevor host a wedding for their famous friend, actress Barbara Edwards, on their resort island. Barbara’s first ex-husband and daughter Sylvia also attend the wedding. Plans unravel when Trevor flirts with Sylvia … and the groom.
      Two-act: set can be simple or elaborate
      3M: 20, 40s
      3F: 20, 40s
• Soldiers of Love © 2003
  After an 11-year relationship, Tyler and Bart are in the process of breaking up because of Bart’s affair. At Tyler’s grandfather’s request, they arrive at his private mountain house for five days to try and mend their bitter feelings. Their good friend Field joins them. As they try to work things out, the play incorporates flashbacks of the grandfather as a young man and his relationship with a boyfriend.
      Two-act: set can be simple or elaborate
      5M: 20-30s
• Lavender Shore © 2003
  New York socialites Harrison and Daffney Anderson are hosting a party in 1931. A month later, Harrison and his valet, Gerald, disappear at sea. Five years later, Daffney has married Harrison’s best friend. When Harrison and Gerald are found, Daffney must decide between the two husbands. And Harrison struggles with his strong feelings for Gerald.
      Two-act
      4M: 25-45
      4F: 21-55

      Plays include:

• Fantasy Men with music by Zack Emton
  A musical comedy revue about the icons of gay male fantasy. The piece includes nine songs (including: “1-900-HOT-STUD,” “All Greased Up,” “The Same Old Bump and Grind,” “Gunfight at the J/O Corral,” and “The Penis Monologues.”) The show includes nudity.
      Two-act: 1 hr., 40 min. - single, flexible set
      4-10M: variety of ages and types
• The Satyricon: a Queer Odyssey
  A surreal comedy loosely adapted from “The Satyricon” by Petronius. The play follows the picaresque exploits of three young men: Encolpius (a gladiator turned scholar), Ascyltus (his best friend), and Giton (the young boy who comes between them). The play is narrated by Petronius (as an author/god figure), and the seven deadly sins.
      Three-act: 130 min. - a seven platform set
      12-or more M: as in the Greco-Roman theater, 4 female roles are played by men

      Plays include:

• Robbie Ross or the Man with One Idea
  No one fought harder to restore Oscar Wilde’s legacy than his best friend Robbie Ross. His fiercest opponent was Bosie Douglas, Wilde’s Narcissus and lover, and who became his nemesis. R. Ross: “One brazen vibrating thought sparkled in the fetid courtroom air. I too was seized by the sweeping clarity of it; the sick and twisted soul of Oscar Wilde must be excised from the British body politic, like the virulent cancer that it is, or England will lose this Holy War and be destroyed.” “Robbie Ross” is like a Wilde biography written over much sherry and cigars, torn from the pages of Vanity Fair.
  “The irony captured in Chaos’ script is breathtaking. … A witty, thoughtful, civilized play.” - MoMagazine, Nanaimo
      One-act: 1 hr., 30 min.
      1M

      Plays include:

• Miss Lizzie A. Borden Invites You to Tea
  On August 4th, 1892, Andrew Jackson Borden and his wife, Abby, were brutally axed to death in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. While their daughter Lizzie was accused and acquitted of the crime, she was jailed 10 months awaiting trial. Remaining in Fall River, she and her sister, Emma, inherited almost a million dollars. Lizzie talks about her love affair with one of the great Shakespearean actresses, Nance O’Neil, and reveals many family secrets such as father’s penny-pinching habits, Emma’s death bed promise to their real mother, a house with no hallways, and bedrooms that open into each other. Lizzie holds a party on every anniversary of her parent’s murder — and you are invited.
      One or Two-act: 1 hr. 10 min. - one set
      1F: any age - can be played by a male drag
• The Honeymoon Years of Eleanor Roosevelt & Lorena Hickok
  Lorena Hickok details her passionate friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt. She reveals what Eleanor’s husband — president Franklin D. Roosevelt — thought about their relationship, stories about her travels with Eleanor in Canada and San Francisco, the Lindbergh kidnapping, what it was like living in the White House, as well as the changes there after Pearl Harbor. The play’s text comes directly from Lorena’s books and material she donated to the FDR library in Hyde Park, N.Y.
      One- or Two-act: 1 hr. 10 min. - one set
      1F: any age

      Plays include:

• One Damned Thing after Another, or Oops, That Must Have Hurt
  A gay man and the two women who love him exchange e-mails as their lives’ vicissitudes ebb and flow. A realistic drama with some comedy. All three actors read the e-mails, memorizing not required.
      Two-act: 2 hours - no set
      1M: 45-60 American accent.
      2F: 45-60 British and Brooklyn accents.
• Despicable Daughter - or - Shed No Tears for April
  A sociopath daughter and a gay man fight for the love, and estate, of a woman dying of cancer. A realistic drama with comedy elements - characters move in slow motion between scenes.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. VIII
      Two-act: 2 hours, plus intermission - modern day, minimal sets; few props, pools of light
      2M: 30-40s
      2F: 20-30s, 45-50s
• Bless Me Father. I Have Sinned
  Sebastian, a Southern young gentleman out of a Tennessee Williams play, goes to confession and gives the Catholic priest an earful, in 1957. Meanwhile, Marilyn Monroe shows up in the adjoining confessional. A biting comedy.
  Semi-finalist, Reverie Theater, Next Generation Contest, 2006
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. VIII
      One-act: 1 hour, 30 min.
      2M: 30-40, 50
      2F: early 30s blonde, 50+ (walk-on)
• My Unknown Son
  A man who has donated his sperm to a lesbian couple - at the same time he is writing a history of the theater - encounters various versions of his son, from Greek tragedy to Shakespearean comedy, Oscar Wilde farce, and Sam Shepard. A comedy, with powerful and touching scenes. Video available.
  Premiere at Marin Theater, Marin County, California, summer 1987. Performed at Circle Rep Lab, NYC, October 1987, and off-Broadway Equity production at Kaufman Theater, NYC, October 1988.
  Published by Dialogus - out of print.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. III
      One-act: 1 hour, 18 min.
      2M: 20s, 40s
      1F: any age
• When Bertha Was a Pretty Name
  Several couples and family members are down for the weekend. The hosts, two male lovers, are worried about Ma Mere, who does not approve of their love. Suzette is not happy with her wooden-legged stuffy lover. A Noel Coward and Somerset Maugham sort of drawing-room high comedy, with style and some farce; set in the present, with modern issues.
  Workshopped at West Coast Playwrights, Marin County, CA, 1988.
  Published by Dialogus - out of print.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. IV
      Two-act: 2 hours
      5M: 20-40s
      3F: 20-50s
• Cinderella II
  What happens after you live happily ever after? Cinderella finds Prince Charming too "perfect." She’s is falling in love with his less-than-charming brother, Prince Moe, and she’s even homesick for her awful stepsisters. Meanwhile, the evil court jester is plotting to overthrow the prince. Cinderella winds up in Charming male clothes and Charming in Cinderella’s dress. A musical comedy; music by Dan Turner, book and lyrics by Curzon. Tape of music available.
  Winner of three Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Awards.
  First produced by the Angels of Light, S.F., 1984.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. III
      Two-act: 2 hours, 5 min.
      8M: various ages
      8F: various ages, some in drag
• Pixies in Peril
  A wimp sets off against his will on a quest for the dragon’s gold through the intervention of some pixies and a meddling magician. There are funny S&M spiders, hillbilly gremlins, a campy Ice Queen, who changes clothes every 15 minutes. A broad comedy, fairy tale parody.
  Published by Dialogus - out of print.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. III
      Two-act: 2 hours
      7M: various ages, with doubling
      7F: various ages, with doubling
• Don’t Rub Me the Wrong Way
  Four bisexuals answer an ad by mistake when a man advertises his furniture as "a good bi." Also, a dangerous genie is released from a magic lantern, and he is not happy with the human race he is forced to serve, and determines to do something about it. A comedy with satirical bite. Staged readings at Gay Performance Company, New York, 1991, and Phoenix Theater, San Francisco, 1996.
  Published by Dialogus - out of print.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. V
      Two-act: 2 hours
      4M: various ages
      2F: various ages
• I’m Glad I’m Me and Not You, or Avatars
  Four people appear in various versions of themselves from 1893 to 1953, 1973, 1993, and 2093, revealing the way sexual taboos change and re-assert themselves in expansive and repressive times. A serious comedy.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. IV
      Two-act: 2 hours
      2M: various ages
      2F: various ages
• Beer and Rhubarb Pie
  A sexy, homophobic, macho Cuban repairman with marital trouble encounters a gentlemanly gay man, who also has sexual problems with his ex-lover. A drama with some humor. Video of one-act version is available.
  A one-act version was produced at Theater Rhinoceros, San Francisco, 1979 and 1980. The 3-act version had a staged reading at Gay Performances, NYC, May 1990.
  One-act version Published by Dialogus - out of print.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. I
      Three-act: 1 hour, 45 min.
      3M: 20-30s
      1F: 30s
• The Birthday Boy
  A middle class, male drug addict hates life. His long-suffering partner discovers that he is addicted to his lover’s addiction. A drama.
  Premiered as a one-act at One Act Theater, San Francisco. 1982.
  Published by Dialogus - out of print.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. I
      Two-act: 2 hours
      4M: 20-40s
      2F: 1 teen, other in 50s
• Please, Not to Us
  The lesbian version of The Birthday Boy.
      Two-act: 2 hours
      2M: various ages
      3F: 1 teen, 1 20s, 1 50s
• Beneath the Surface
  Representative members of various prevailing minorities, from the handicapped to Native American, are trapped in a subway train that is losing its air; their real feelings for each other come out. A Biting, politically incorrect, unsentimental view of self-interest and bigotry.
  Performed in a shorter version at Earnest Players, San Francisco, 1979.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. I
      One-act: 1 hour, 15 min.
      7M: various age
      5F: various age
• Sex Show: Comedy Madness
  15 satirical skits on various aspects of sex, from the ways men are allowed to touch, to a man having a dialogue with his penis about masturbation. A comedy.
  Premiere at Gay Community Center, San Francisco, 1977. Performed at the Leavenworth YMCA, San Francisco, 1977, and at Mabuhay Gardens, San Francisco, 1977.
  Nominated “Best Script” by San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critics Circle, 1977.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. I
      Two-act: 2 hours
      5M: various ages
• Demons
  A gay man is visited by the spirits of three women in his life: a grade school nun, his mother, and his ex-wife. A drama with laughs.
  Staged reading at Julian Theater, San Francisco, 1983.
  Published by Dialogus - out of print.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. II
      Two-act: 2 hours
      1M: 20-30s
      3F: 30-50s
• Comeback
  A male cabaret singer is making a comeback as a female after a sex change. Personal and career challenges follow. A musical drama, with music by Dan Turner, and Lyrics by Curzon. Tape of music available.
  Staged Reading at Noe Valley Ministry, San Francisco, 1987.
  Published by Dialogus - out of print.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. I
      Two-act: 2 hours
      2M: 30-40s
• Hugely Entertaining
  A group of “seminarians” takes a theater course in London. Conflicts ensue because a purse has been stolen; a transsexual hopes to be a clairvoyant; an old Shakespearean actor is going blind; and a countess has bed-wetting concerns. A realistic comedy-drama.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. V
      Three-act: 3 hours
      6M: various ages, 1 cross-dresser
      4F: various ages
• Heaven: The Musical
  A hot new dance club just opened, and rumors persist that all types of sex take place in secret “closets” throughout the building. People clamor to get in, and they’ll pay whatever is asked. However, the doorman is very fussy. An engaged young couple, out on the town, decide to have a bachelor party, together. They stop to see the commotion outside the club. They shouldn’t have. A musical Drama. Currently does not have music written.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. VII
      Two-act: 3 hours
      5M: 20s, 40s, 20-60s, part doubling
      5F: 20s, 40s, 20-60s, part doubling
• Reality Check
  Two male roommates watch a TV reality program, during which household tensions and larger frictions emerge, especially concerning the incessant obsession with a put-down of homosexuality in the straight world. A realistic dramedy.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. VIII
      One-act: 10 min.
      2M: 20s
• Liars
  A lie-detector has finally been invented that gives absolutely reliable results. Oh, no! Where can we hide? An absurdest dramedy about a man who may have killed his male lover.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. VIII
      One-act: 10 min.
      2M: any age
• A Streetcar Named Viagra
  It’s 1946 and a playwright named Tennessee encounters a drag queen named Desiree in auditions for the out-of-town workshop of his Broadway-bound play. She inspires him to make certain alterations in the role of the original Lance DuBois. A comedy satire/revisionist history.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. VIII
      One-act: 30 min.
      3M: 30s, any age for the other two, one a drag role
• Batman and Robin: Cute Meat
  Batman and Robin meet on an airplane and develop a rapport. A comedy. Also available as “Batperson and Robbie.” Video available.
  Staged reading at the Actors Theatre of Santa Cruz, April 2002, and at First Stage, Los Angeles, June 2002.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. VII
      One-act: 15 min. - set: two chairs
      2M: early 20s, 30s
• Peni
  Two guys (played by women with three-foot-long penises) have big needs. What if women had penises? A comedy.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. VII
      One-act: 25 min. - props: two three-foot-long strap-on styrofoam penises.
      2F: any age
• So Middle Class
  A middle-class man, who merely wants to read a book on a park bench, winds up having a tension-filled afternoon with a “homeless” person. A lot gets said, and done, that has been bottled up for too long, as insinuations about one man’s sexaulity surface. A serious drama; an answer to “Zoo Story.”
  First Prize, in Attic Theatre One-Act Contest.
  Performed at The Marsh, San Francisco, 1994, the Attic Theatre, Los Angeles, June-July, 1998, and by the California Travel Troupe, San Francisco, February 2001.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. V
      One-act: 35 min.
      2M: 35-70; any age
• The Hit
  Four producer/playwrights (one a gay man) have their bill of short plays picked up by an outside producer, at which time the power plays (to say nothing of the slashing and burning) begin. Satirical comedy. Winner of the Attic Theatre Play Contest, 1997.
  Produced by the Attic Theatre, Los Angeles, February 1997, and by the California Travel Troupe, San Francisco, summer 2004.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. VI
      One-act: 20 min.
      2M: various ages
      2F: various ages
• The Murder of Gonzago - a Comedy
  A group of eccentric playwrights (inluding — gasp! — a gay man) meet for their regular play reading session. One of them has connived to win their support, however, she goes berserk when critiqued and reveals “horrible” secrets about the others. Backstage dirt and a play-within-a-play-within-a-play! A comedy. One-act version, also available in longer version.
  Produced by Theatre Rhinoceros, 1986, and by Above Board Theatre, San Francisco, May, 1993.
  Published by Dialogus - out of print.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. III
      One-act: 45 min.
      3M: various ages
      2F: 20-30s
• Your Town
  A journey through life with a typical couple; from courtship to marriage; from kids to caring for aging parents; to old age. A biting satire on traditional “family values,” revealing that, by contrast, the gay “lifestyle” isn’t so bad.
  Produced by Earnest Players, San Fran, 1978.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. I
      One-act: 18 min.
      3M: various ages
      2F: various ages
• Last Call
  In a gay bar, a handsome man and an un-handsome man cruise each other but barely speak. What they are thinking becomes clear in its ironies and disappointments. An amusing and touching tale.
  First produced by the One-Act Theater Company, San Francisco, 1980. Radio adaptation via an NEA grant, 1982; broadcast KQED and KPFA radio.
  Published by Dialogus in “Homosexual Acts” - out of print.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. I
      One-act: 20 min.
  3M,     3M: 2 in 20s; 40-50s
• One Man’s Opinion
  A killer of homosexuals explains himself in hate-filled terms. Based on Curzon’s short story in “The Revolt of the Perverts” (1978). A drama.
  Performed in “Homosexual Acts,” Theater Off Square, NYC, 1991.
  Published by Dialogus in “Homosexual Acts” - out of print.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. I
      One-act: 12 min.
      1-3M: 20-30s
• S & M
  A male sadist does a heavy “scene” with a male masochist, who turns out to be Jesus. Savage satire.
  Performed in “Homosexual Acts,” Theater Off Square, NYC, 1991
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. IV
      One-act: 5 min.
      2M: any age
• Immortality
  A gay man meets with his lesbian friend to discuss the baby they are planning, only to learn she has changed her mind about him as a donor because of AIDS. Drama.
  Produced in bill of one-acts by Theater Rhinoceros, 1986.
  Published by Dialogus in “Homosexual Acts” - out of print.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. IV
      One-act: 11 min.
      1M: 20-30s
      1F: 20-30s
• Rev. What’s His Name
  A Christian minister, full of Christian love, teaches a Bible study class of children about AIDS as a punishment from God. Satirical comedy.
  Winner of special award from Bay Area Theater Critics Circle, 1984.
  First performed as part of “The AIDS Show,” Theater Rhinoceros, San Francisco, 1984. Also part of a national tour of the United States. Performed in acting class of American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, 1986.
  Published in West Coast Plays as part of “The AIDS Show,” 1985.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. III
      One-act: 5 min.
      1-6M: 30-60s
• The Tasteful Transvestite and the Three Bullies
  Claudette Camembert is a straight man who simply wants to wear tasteful frocks, but three bullies don’t want him to do this. So what is one to do but teach such bullies a lesson, no? A comedy.
  First produced by the Absolute Theatre Company, San Francisco, February 1994. Also produced by the New Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, Spring 1994.
  Published by Dialogus in “Homosexual Acts” - out of print.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. V
      One-act: 10 min.
      3M: 20-40s
• A Christmas Miracle at the Open Mess
  In an officers club on Christmas Eve., two gay soldiers, who recently became lovers, decide to risk the military’s wrath by slow dancing together. A touching drama.
  First produced by the Absolute Theatre Company, San Francisco, February 1994. Also produced by The New Conservatory Theatre, spring 1994, and by Frank Calo in “Men In and Out of Clothes: Four One-Act Plays,” in The Raw Space, NYC, winter 2000.
  “A very fine play.” - Andrés J. Wrath, off-off-broadway review (oobr.com)
  Published by Dialogus in “Homosexual Acts” - out of print.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. V
      One-act: 10 min.
      3M: 20s, 30s, 40s
• In a Five-and-Ten-Cent Store
  A lonely man and a sex doll. A touching drama.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. V
      One-act: 10 min. - prop: “Sweetie,” the sex doll, male or female
      1M: any age
• Body and Soul
  A man argues with his penis, which argues back. A comedy, from the “Sex Show.”
  Included in “Sexy Shorts,” produced by the New Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, May 1996.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. I
      One-act: 6 min.
      2M: any age
• Celebrities in Hell
  Notorious homophobe Eddie Murphy and the Pope in Hell with AIDS. A satire.
  Broadcast on KPFA radio, 1982; included in Homosexual Acts, NYC, 1991.
  Contained in “Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon,” Vol. IV
      One-act: 10 min.
      3M: various ages
• I Married the Nightstalker
  A woman wants the notorious serial murderer for her husband. Go figure. Marriage must be sacred, with one man, one woman. Biting comedy.
      One-act: 7 min.
      2M: any age
      1F: any age

      Plays include:

• The Black Eye
  When an aging gay man asks a street-wise kid if he needs a lift home, is he prepared to go where the dangerous young man is about to take him? Narrator: “He’s seeing himself for the first time. Look at him. Nothing on this earth is more beautiful.”
  Winner: “Best Short Play” - 2001 Edward Albee Last Frontier Theatre Festival.
      One-act: 18 min. - three chairs
      2M: early 20s, late 40s
• Daughter of the Regiment
  Its Billy’s first day at a new school. Now if only his mother could get him out of the limousine. Mother: “It’s called ‘Ritalin.’ But you don’t have to tell that to your new friends. Just say it’s a special vitamin.”
  Panelists’ Choice Winner, 2002 Edward Albee Last Frontier Theatre Festival.
      One-act: 18 min. - three chairs
      1F: early 30s
• The Shaving Lesson
  An emotionally damaged father teaches his son the art of shaving. Father: “You don’t want me to start that … some old boring war story … that was 10 years ago. No one wants to hear those stories now … no one ever did.”
  Chosen “Best Play” - 2002 Eventide Arts Festival.
      One-act: 17 min. - no set
      1M: late 30s
• Cavalier
  A blizzard, a mysterious pregnancy, and an emotionally fragile high school quarterback take a small North Dakota town by storm. Billy: “It was like something wild came over me and made me strong, and brave, and invincible. I was wild and couldn’t be stopped … not by anyone.”
      Two-act: 2 hours - diner
      5M: late teens-70s
      3W: late teens-40s
• Starkweather
  Forced out of his childhood home by a rapacious traveling saleswoman, a young man is torn between returning to the man who betrayed him and settling for life in a dying town on the wind-swept plains of North Dakota. Mrs. Cook: “Nothing’s more dangerous than a man with nowhere to go and an eternity to get there.”
  Finalist - Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Competition
      Three-act: 2 hr., 20 min. - set: farmhouse, gas station
      3M: late teens-40s
      2W: 40s and 70s
• A Little Off the Top and Sides
  When an eight-year-old brat, a middle-aged man, and a retired professor visit the barber shop, they get more than just haircuts. George: “If you and your friends stick together, you’ll beat David Osowski no matter how scared of him you are.”
      One-act
      6M: 7-75
      1W: 30s
• Love and Death and Isabella Stewart Gardner
  Three former college roommates are re-united in this romantic comedy about a museum tour gone terribly astray. Alex: “Each year at za stroke von midnight on za anniversary of St. Isabellas death … You can hear za moans and groans from deep within zeez werry valls.”
  Honorable Mention - Ten Best Plays; Cape Cod Times, 2001
      One-act: 45 min. - set: picture frames
      3M: early 30s
      1W: early 30s
• The Brave
  The telling of an Indian legend helps two men express their love for each other as they face a terminal illness. Jack: “The brave was the only one in the hunting party who saw the white buffalo.”
  Selected for the 1999 Boston Theatre Marathon.
      One-act: 18 min. - set: bedroom
      2M: early 30s
• Consequences and Their Side Effects
  Could a relationship that begins in the shower room of an ivy-league gym have any chance of succeeding? Jack: “That evening I felt like I had peered over the edge and into something … immense. Something real. I had never felt that in my entire life.”
  [This is the title play appearing in a collection of seven short plays.]
      One-act: 30 min. - no set
      3M: early 30s
• Three Pillows
  Howard’s very non-traditional wedding is just a week away. Everything is ready … except the bed. Veronica: “I believe in equal rights on this earth. The afterlife is a different story, though.”
      One-act: 15 min. - furniture store bed
      2M: 20s, 30s
      2F: 20s, 30s
• Professionals
  Billions of dollars are at stake and Victoria’s job is on the line. But is that more important than an inconvenient fire on the 60th floor of a rather tall office building in downtown Manhattan? Victoria: “The mission of this company is bigger than us … much, much bigger than us.”
      One-act: 15 min. - NYC financial district board room
      1M: 30s
      2W: 20s, 40s
• Like Father, Like Son
  Louis is taking his father to his first Gay Pride Parade. But will he be proud when he discovers what’s really on his dad’s mind? Louis: “And look at this. Poppers! Poppers, Dad, poppers! My old man uses poppers! Great!”
      One-act: 15 min. - attic apartment in Boston’s South End
      2M: 20, 52

      Plays include:

• All Tied Up in Love
  An hilarious, gay, romantic comedy about people who are so heart-over-head in love with each other that they just can’t get it straight. Kenny falls wildly in love with straight Paul, who falls for Kenny anyway. Just as Kenny’s best friend Curtis, is about to take the leap with his boyfriend, Kenny falls for Curtis. Just as Kenny finally works everything out, Kenny’s suicidal mother calls to move in. In the end, it’s old-fashioned love that saves the day, and Kenny.
  “Outstanding Writing. An enjoyable new play about blossoming gay love, full of snappy dialogue, that explores the development of love beyond sex and how a new relationship can change older ones. Fun and engaging, the playwright clearly knows his craft.” - Off-Off Broadway Review
  Played at Expanded Arts Theatre Company, NYC.
      ?-act: full-length play
      3M: late-early 20s
      1F: 50s
• A Little Class
  A gay graduate student is so obsessed with his Marxist journalism teacher that he jeopardizes his relationship with his own lover. The student, convinced that the teacher is the answer to his life, tracks the teacher down in a bar where they engage in a battle of wills about Marxism and the meaning of love.
  “Finely wrought, slick, nicely paced and stocked with talent.” — New Haven Advocate
  Played at The Long Wharf Theatre. A Samuel French Semi-Finalist.
      One-act
      3M: two are 30s, one 40
  
• Within Touching Distance
  Going backwards in time, to the beginning.
      One-act: a trilogy
      4-9M: 20-30s
  
  • Salty Tears
    A comedy about what might have happened if Christopher Columbus’s map maker had been gay.
    
  • Prometheus All Bound
    An exploration of the current-day political meaning of the mythic characters Prometheus and Zeus.
    
  • Garden Street
    A highly stylized play about Adam and Steve, black and white, in the Garden of Eden.
    

      Plays include:

• Brad Pitt, Why Haven’t You Called?
  Looking for love in all the wrong places. A man’s search for Mr. Right and how his best friends and his big mouth keep getting in the way.
• Betty Jo Bullthwaite’s Country Calamity
  A bad taste country/western cabaret for two.
• Big Dicks on Stage
  Selling out just to sell out. A comedy about a playwright who has trouble getting his message across.
• Get Away from Me, Bitch!
  A gay wedding table at a straight wedding and it seems everyone knows the groom … intimately.
• Puss in Pumps
  A very bent panto with kings, queens, ogres and pussy!
• Rust in the Dust
  Sicko country/western singer Betty Jo and friends return for a wake. Some of the vilest numbers you’ll even sing along with.
• Sometimes My Friend
  A theatre-in-education play about young people and HIV/AIDS.
• The Art of Being Still
  A serious comedy. Seven friends living and loving in the time of AIDS.
• The Gathering of Vampires
  The sequel to “The Art of Being Still.” A story of friendship, love and moving on.
• The Ladies Choice
  Three women from different parts of this century, each with her own story to tell. A play with songs.
• The Night My Boyfriend Turned into an Idiot
  Sometimes love means shutting the hell up! Two men fall in love and build a relationship then do battle to keep it going.
• The Realm of Wasps
  Based on the life of playwright Joe Orton and his relationship with Ken Halliwell.
• The White Rose
  A gay Greek farce. Getting married just for some white goods with a little bit of Nana Mouskouri thrown in.
• Greetings from a Small Planet
  Monologues. A one man show about hope, love, desire, passion and memory.

      Plays include:

• Behind These Eyes
  Psychological drama. An emotionally crippled public defender tries to help a gay man who has admitted to a brutal double murder. Her efforts lead her toward a shattering emotional realization.
  Premiered at Philadelphia’ Daylight Zone Theater. Winner of the East Central Theater Conference Award for Best Play of 1998. Staged readings in NYC.
      Two-act: 2 hours - minimalist set
      8M: 20s-40s, doubling possible
      1F: 30s
• Preserved in Amber
  Family drama. A straight and a gay brother, along with their spouses, bury their abusive father when a stranger appears at the funeral. It is the brother’s mother, who abandoned them 25 years ago. As the mother tries to reconcile with her sons, secrets are revealed that ultimately help begin a healing process.
  Premiered at the Daylight Zone.
      Two-act: 2 hour - adaptable unit set
      3M: 20s-40s
      3F: 20s-50s
• Bend Over, Straight Boy!
  Comedy/drama. A gay man and straight woman are best friends. Both seem to have found the man of their dreams. The gay man discovers they have been seeing the same man.
  Premiered in Philadelphia by ErotiZone Theatricks.
      One or Two-act: 75 min. - three-scene set, adaptable to small stages
      2M: 20s, 40s
      1F: 40s
• Sacrilegious Sequels
  Comedy/satire/drama. An episodic exploration of various figures from Christian mythology, and what they’re up to today. Lucifer approaches the gates of Heaven, intent on resigning his post as the Devil. He discovers that Yahweh has already resigned as the Lord. It is revealed the big fight between Yahweh and Lucifer was really all about. Other characters include: Eve, Cain, Gabriel, Jesus and Mephistopheles.
      One or Two-act: 1 hr. 30 min. - unit set
      8M: all ages
      1F: changes if director casts women in angel/demon roles

      Plays and videos include:

• Scaredy-Kate & the Monsters - or - How to Pay the Rent
  (A marionette opera, with music by Josef Haydn)
  Skittish and fearful Kate must take a long, dangerous journey to Foggy Mountain in hopes of finding a treasure which would enable her and her mother to pay the overdue rent. During her travels, three monsters attempt to enslave or destroy her. This feminist piece was well received at its premiere at Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival in 1982.
      One-act: 25 min. - six sets, backdrops, or plain curtain
      1M: 40
      2F: 12, 30s
      1 Feline: 2 (in kitty years)
      3 Monsters: any age
• Our Old Gang Grows Up - A Vaudeville Romp
  A sweet and silly piece of vaudeville based on the childhood gang, now matured into their teens. Hanky and Alf confess they love each other. Karla runs into her screen idol, Betty Boo, and the two women consider getting romantically involved. The discomfort of shifting allegiances provokes a battle between the males and females.
  Commissioned by, and premiered at, the Gay Theater Festival in Seattle in June 1985. Re-written in October 2001.
      One-act: 30 min. - one set - five 20s and 30s songs
      3M: 2 teens, any age
      2F: teen, 20s
• Hey, Citizen
  An anti-war, street theater poem, performed by two, oversized puppets. It can be recited by the puppeteers or by two others.
      One-act: 2 min. - no set
      1M: 40s
      1F or M: any age
• The Fight Before Christmas (video, 1993)
  A video musical comedy about a same-sex couple and family values.
  This video tells the heart-warming story of Bruce and Bill, a male couple, which is loosely based on Clement Moore’s familiar poem, “The Night Before Christmas.” In this version, Bruce pretends his mom is Santa and she pretends that Bruce and Bill are just roommates. But it’s Bill, not Santa, who hits the roof.
  Won runner-up in the comedy category in a national, independent video contest in 1993.
      Run time: 7:30 min. excerpt (original 20 min. version no longer available)
• Gilgamesh & Enkidu — The Oldest Love Story Ever Written
  An Independent Video Feature (in pre-production)
  An arrogant ruler is transformed by love — transformed, once again, by its loss — and thereby becomes a legend. A very personal story, showing a physical and mental journey that begins with greed and abuse of power. A retelling of the 4,600-year-old poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh.
  This project received a production grant from the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation on November 10, 2001.
• The Right to Marry (video, 1996)
  A documentary about a basic human freedom. It spells out why this right is so important to the community, and what we can do to win and preserve it.
      Run time: 7:30 min. excerpt (original 72 min. version out-of-print)

      Plays include:

• Handsome Men
  Four different generations of gay men with nothing in common — except for one little thing — they all were very naughty.
  “A play that deftly communicates the notion that sex can be used as a pathway to a greater human understanding.” - Back Stage West
  “Fluid use of subtle metaphors enriches the tapestry of the characters that weave throughout the story … At times, the script shines like a beacon in the night.” - After Dark
  Produced at the Saint Genesius Theatre in Los Angeles and the Diversionary Theatre in San Diego.
      Two-act
      5M: early 20s-75
• Versions of Lust & Disgust
  What happens when love and lust cross the fine line?
  “A clever look at the everyday life and intimate relationships.” - Update
  “Funny, poignant, and provocative.” - Unzipped
  Produced at the 6th @ Penn Studio in San Diego, and in Los Angeles at the Saint Genesius Theatre in 1998, and at the Gardner Stages in 2001.
      One or Two-act (depending on the direction)
      2M: early-mid 30s
      2F: early-mid 30s
• Miss MacInernie’s Acquaintances
  A thirty-something nerd battles his inner demons and finds self-discovery during a job interview.
  “A comedy you’ll want to become acquainted with! Miss MacInernie’s Acquaintances will tickle your fanciest bone and you’ll feel good all week long.” - Gay & Lesbian Times
  Produced at 6th @ Penn Studio in San Diego, California, October 2002.
      One-act
      1M: 30s
      2-5F: depending on casting
• Outside The Box
  A series of monologues of women who define what family means to them. Views from a gay teen, female impersonator, Texas Housewife, and former beauty queen battle their inner thoughts.
  Staged reading at Sprague Theatre (Bandon Playhouse Production), Bandon, Oregon, February 2006.
      One-act
      6F: early teen-early 70s

      Plays include:

• Curacao Chris
  A biographical memory play about the life of Christopher Isherwood. The story takes place in 40s Los Angeles during the end of the film studio’s golden years. The drama centers on Isherwood’s striving for enlightenment, and the relentless pull of sensual life.
      One-act: 1 hr. 20 min. - no set
      3M: 20s American, 30s British, 40s Indian
      1F: 20s British

      Plays include:

• The Grandma Show co-written with Peter Marino
  Logline: “Despite the better efforts of his 93-year-old Italian grandmother, Anthony Deficiente, 38, gay, and a virgin, tries to find love.”
  Anthony Deficiente tries to find his niche in life, but opportunities don’t come easy in the dying industrial city of Gloversville, New York. Chronically unemployed, he struggles to make ends meet. All his relatives are dead and he’s the only one left to care for Grandma, who refuses to share him with anyone. The insanity of his past, and the strong, freakish bond that holds him and Grandma together is revealed. When Anthony meets Doug, a fellow Linda Ronstadt nut with a secret, Grandma and Anthony must learn how to maintain their relationship, while allowing Anthony a little freedom.
      Two-act: 85 min.
      6M/F: cast plays 13 characters

      Plays include:

• Rehearsing Cyrano
  Students at a women’s college stage their own version of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” experimenting with men’s roles and power. Full of poetry, song, improv comedy, sword fights, as well as explorations of gender roles, body image, and homophobia.
  Finalist, 2001 Jane Chambers Award.
      Two-act: 95 min.
      11-13F ensemble cast     1M: 20s
• Three the Hard Way
  Three unconventional sisters meet in a Reno motel after the sudden death of their colorful, gambler father, Albert. As they go through his effects and make funeral arrangements, they also try to make sense of their past and their own spiky relationships — with the kibitzing ghost of Albert looking on.
  Winner, Gilmore Creek Playwriting Competition, Ohio Arts Council Artists Fellowship.
      Two-act: 1 hr. 50 min.
      3F: 20-30s
      1M: 50s
• Marla’s Devotion
  Lesbian couple Marla and Joey have hit a bad patch. Marla begins an intense Buddhist meditation practice that soon has her living half-time on her knees. An off-beat comedy about relationships and change.
  Winner, Festival Prize, All-England Theatre Festival.
      One-act: 55 min.
      2F: 20-40s
• The Names of the Beast
  A feminist writers circle is thrown into crisis when Alicia, exhausted and blocked, asks for help with a “ritual of transformation,” burning all her manuscripts. Alternately furious, supportive, silly, and sad, four diverse artists struggle together with the limits of creativity, friendship, and the special obstacles they face as women.
  Winner, Sappho’s Symposium.
  Honors, Jane Chambers Award.
      One-act: 55 min.
      4F, diverse age/ethnicity preferred
• Gentrification
  A young, lesbian couple defends their urban home purchase to a brother from the ’burbs.
      One-act: 10 min.
      2F
      1M
• Running from the Red Girl
  Continually consumed with anger, Jackie gets a startling diagnosis from her therapist-shaman, Doctor Yin-Yang: her aura indicates she has been inadvertently feeding an ancient vampire goddess. A poetic comedy.
      One-act: 20 min.
      2-4F
• A Rustle of Wings
  A smoky, lesbian bar. A mysterious noir angel. When Mira meets Jewell, her matchmaking friends can’t understand the heart-pounding attraction. And can those be real wings on her black leather jacket? A poetic comedy.
      One-act: 10-min.
      4F - or - 3F, 1M
• That Was No Lady from the Sea
  Lust and laughter on the fjords: a married woman pines for her long-lost, lesbian sailor in this campy parody of Ibsen’s classic.
      One-act: 20 min.
      5F
      1M (cross-gender possible)
• Acme Temporary Services
  An offbeat personnel recruiter enumerates the benefits of signing with an outrageous temp agency for artists, queers, and misfits whose motto is “Acme … if I care?”
  Published in Even More Monologues for Women by Women.
      One-act: 15 min.
      1F or 1M
• At the Root
  A lesbian mother faces the literally unspeakable: shall she give up her tongue, in new transplant surgery, to her son, who is losing his?
  Published in The Actor’s Book of Gay & Lesbian Plays.
      One-act: 15 min.
      1F
• The Club
  Charlie, a bisexual poet, recounts her nightmare: standing outside a women’s club, awaiting interrogation by threatening bouncers on her sexual preferences and loyalties. A dark comic look at our slippery identities.
  Published in Anything That Moves.
      One-act: 10 min.
      1F
• F2F
  A middle-aged woman’s first face-to-face meeting with a female cyber-colleague brings rueful surprises.
  Published in Blithe House Quarterly.
      One-act: 15 min.
      1F
• Pretzels and Longing
  Maddie wants to meet women in the worst way; the oh-so-political Rina insists that the very worst way is in a bar. But are the “Good Lesbian Seal of Approval” alternatives any better? A comic rant.
  Published in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 1998.
      One-act: 10 min.
      1F
• Ungrateful
  Stood up by her lover in a theatre lobby, a woman suddenly comes to grips with the relative privileges in her life.
  Published in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 1997.
      One-act: 10 min.
      1F
• Zombie Grrrls from the Crypt
  Magda, a goth style performance poet, explains her obsessive attraction to zombie grrrls.
  Published in Even More Monologues for Women by Women.
      One-act: 10 min.
      1F

      Plays include:

• Fifty-Fifty
  A fast-paced comedy centering on the hidden life of Scott Wheeler, young headmaster of Thwaite Academy, the oldest continuously operating girls boarding school southwest of the Connecticut River. Scott appears to have everything in his conventional married life until his old flame Nick turns up, partnered to David, the new English teacher who is determined to convince the world that the founder of Thwaite was a “ninety-five percent lesbian.”
  Winner of the Carol Weinberg Award for Best Play at the 2003 Baltimore Playwright’s Festival. “A sparkling traipse through the prickly politics of bisexuality.” - Baltimore City Paper. “Rich Espey’s Fifty-Fifty examines hypocrisy, sexual orientation and appearances versus reality, and it tackles these weighty themes with wit and humor” - Baltimore Sun
      Two-act: 105 min. - one simple set
      3M: 30s
      2F: 30s, 50s
• Hope’s Arbor
  Hope, seventeen, a student at Thwaite Academy, comes of age while dealing with parental confrontation, fat camp, a college essay seminar, various on-line acquaintances, a true friend, and, ultimately, autonomy and self acceptance.
      Two-act: 1 hr. 40 min. - one set
      2M: 20s, 40s
      4F: 16-24, one is in 40s
• Near and Far
  A ten-minute version of Hope’s Arbor [see above], focusing on the most pivotal incident in which Hope is the victim of a cruel prank at her school.
      One-act: 10-12 min. - one set
      3F: 16-24

      Plays include:

• A Mind of Its Own
  A surrealist comedy. Even when family and friends insist that he come out, Danny Rosenberg seems oblivious to his own obvious homosexuality. One night, Danny is paid a visit by his own penis, who — fed up with Danny’s denial — insists on outing him at any cost.
      One-act: 45 min.
      4M: 2 early 20s, mid 30s, late 40s
      2F: early 20s, late 40s

      Plays include:

• About Bernard Carlton
  Bernard Carlton wrestles with his wealthy controlling parents, the marriage they forced him into, his own political ambitions, and his obsessive erotic relationship with Wayne Hochner, a free wheeling, easy-going, blue collar laborer. The tragic results of his duplicitous life force him to face himself. The highly-charged sexual relationship of two very different men, set against the changing culture and attitudes of the last half of the 20th century, shows their lust and love for each other, and their final redemption.
  About Bernard Carlton played a highly successful six-month run at Here in New York City and was the closing night attraction at the 1999 Queer at Here Gay Arts Festival.
      One or Two-act: 95 min. total - unit set
      2M: comfortably act adolescence-middle age
• And Puppy Dogs Tails
  Set just weeks before the Stonewall riot in New York, 22-year-old Bud visits his high school best friend John. As their closeness re-establishes itself, Bud’s sexual and intellectual ambivalence is brought to question as he faces John’s gay life and the period’s counter-culture. Bud’s questioning of a world with more possibilities than he had anticipated, causes John, his lover and their outrageous best friend, Tommy, to examine their moral values and emotional state.
  For years considered a “lost” gay play from the Stonewall era, this seminal work of contemporary gay theater had a seven-month run Off Broadway in 1969-70. Many additional production were staged in the United States and Europe in the early 70s.
      One-act: 1 hr. 50 min. - one interior
      4M: early-mid 20s
• Befriending Beau
  Seventeen-year-old Tash lives with his single mother in suburban L.A. She plans to send Tash to live with his father, a fundamentalist Christian in San Diego. As Tash tries to help his friend Beau kick heroin, their friend Chili plots to find shelter for Tash. In their adolescent confusion, the three work to create a family unit, while struggling with their mutual sexual attractions and the siren call of drugs.
  Befriending Beau premiered in 2000 and played to sell-out audiences in the 2001 New York International Fringe Festival.
      One-act: 60 min.
      2M: 16, 19
      1F: 17
• eXs
  After three years of a joyous sexual and emotionally fulfilling relationship, Ted and Lane find that their casual promiscuity has destroyed their romantic and physical chemistry. Separating, they find themselves adrift in San Francisco’s fast lane where sexual gratification is swift and easy, but emotional contact remains elusive. As they define their emotional needs and values, they are surprised to find they may have placed themselves on the road to reconciliation.
  eXs enjoyed a successful run from Jan.-Mar. 2002 at C.S.V. Theater, New York.
      One-act: 1 hr. 30 min.
      6M: early 20s-mid 30s
• Shadow Boy
  In 1927, Lyle, a young factory worker, frustrated by the limits his world offers, strikes out for Manhattan where he soon is kept by politically ambitious Wall Street lawyer Allen Steele. When Lyle learns Steele’s political rival, Burt Kirkland, plans a smear campaign, he uncovers an even bigger scandal on Kirkland. Lyle’s confronting Kirkland stops the impending smear scandal, and gives him a more central role in Steele’s life. The play is a realistic, well-researched portrait of gay life in New York during the 20s-30s. It includes authentic comic drag routines of the era, as well as appearances by gay film stars and sports figures of the times.
  SHADOW BOY was first produced by C.S.V. Theater in New York in 2001.
      One-act: 1 hr. 30 min. - unit set
      8-12M

      Plays include:

• The Second Coming of Joan of Arc
  A lesbian Joan returns with an impassioned message for contemporary audiences.
      One-woman show
• The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman
  One of the greatest actresses of the nineteenth century, Charlotte Cushman, a large butch lesbian, treats the audience to excerpts from her Hamlet, Romeo, and Cardinal Wolsey, as well as scenes and other monologues from her repertoire.
      One-woman show
• Amy Lowell: in Her Own Words
  A platform reading by the famous Imagist herself, including the erotic love poems written for her beloved partner Ada Dwyer.
      One-woman show
• Extravagant Love: the Life of Violette LeDuc
  An avant garde odyssey into the vivid and often terrifying world of lesbian Parisian author Violette LeDuc.
      One-woman show
• The Amazon All-stars
  Musical comedy about a lesbian softball team with a player who is really out in left field.
  Show has broken box office records in three theatres!
      Musical
• Leading Ladies
  Six leading ladies take stage with musical numbers celebrating the turning points in their respective careers. Characters include: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleanora Duse, and Laurette Taylor.
      Musical
• Sappho in Love
  A Lesbian midsummer night’s dream with the goddesses of celibacy, love, and marriage competing for Sappho’s attention amid poetry contests, meteor showers, lessons on lesbian love-making, romantic trysting, mix-ups and disguises.
      Full-length play
• The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women
  Engrossing, controversial courtroom drama, where the audience must serve as judge and jury, deciding motions and verdict, in a case against the five women who betrayed the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov.
      Full-length play
• The Spindle
  A lesbian reworking of the fable of Sleeping Beauty. Children’s theatre for adults!
      Full-length play
• Ugly Ducklings
  Gothic lesbian drama. Two counselors at a summer camp struggle with their love against a backdrop of homophobia. Scenes with the campers depict with chilling accuracy the cruelty of girls towards those they perceive as outsiders.
      Full-length play
• Thanatron
  Over-the-top comedy about a dysfunctional nuclear family. A depressed, middle-aged woman plans a going-away party for her suicide. It is sabotaged by her lesbian housekeeper.
      Full-length play
• Esther and Vashti
  An epic lesbian “Midrash,” or retelling of the traditional Purim story, with an emphasis on the liberation struggle of Jewish women living in exile and Persian women sexually enslaved in the harem.
      Full-length play
• Coming About
  A wedding in the country is hit by a hurricane — figuratively and literally — and the guests undergo a sea change. Disintegration of the traditional roles in marriage between men and women.
  Award-winning drama.
      Full-length play
• Mason-Dixon
  Separated for thirty years, a white woman attempts to recruit her former slave to return to the South and work as a Union spy in the Confederate White House. Issues of race, class, and gender explode as the women confront their lesbian girlhood and shared history of sexual abuse.
      One-act
• Jane Addams and the Devil Baby
  Lesbian reformer Jane Addams locks horns with an elderly Irish woman, in an attempt to understand the strange obsession that has gripped Chicago.
      One-act
• Louisa May Incest
  The writing of Little Women is interrupted when the character Jo March and her famous creator cannot agree on the ending. The struggle for control of the book becomes deadly when Jo accuses Louisa of repressed lesbian desires and incest memories.
      One-act
• Battered on Broadway
  A farcical, retrospective look at the misogyny of Broadway’s musicals through the eyes of the characters themselves.
      One-act
• Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter
  Comic monologue by the real Calamity Jane, an alcoholic butch; spittoon, whiskey, and all!
      One-act: 15 min.
• Cookin’ with Typhoid Mary
  Dramatic monologue by the notorious typhoid carrier who refused to admit the existence of germs. Her side of the story.
      One-act: 30 min.
• Artemisia and Hildegarde
  Two of the most powerful and radical artists in history discuss their work on an explosive arts panel about survival strategies for women artists.
      One-act
• Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist
  Harriet Tubman, suspected of planning an escape, has been sent to the therapist, an African-American woman, for an evaluation. Radical activism meets one-day-at-a-time therapism.
      One-act
• Entr’acte, or The Night Eva Le Gallienne Was Raped
  Eva Le Gallienne has checked herself into a private hospital the night she was raped backstage during her Broadway run of Liliom. She sends for her former lover, Mimsey, who left her for a husband.
      One-act
• Parmachene Belle
  “Fly Rod” Crosby, a lesbian Maine hunting guide from the late 19th century, shares secrets about fly-fishing as she indulges in her romantic fantasies about her friend Annie Oakley.
      One-act
• The Pele Chant
  A 92-year-old Native Hawaiian woman struggles with the last request of her adoptive mother, Queen Liliuokalani, the last queen of Hawai’i.
      One-act
• The Drum Lesson
      One-act
      5F drummers
• The Evil That Men Do: the Story of Thalidomide
  The conspiracy of the German drug manufacturers and the FDA unfolds like a murder mystery, as one woman stalls for time. Fast-paced radio drama, suitable for stage production.
      One-act
• A Labor Play
  Kafka-esque play about a multi-national corporation in the business of selling babies.
      One-act
• Heterosexuals Anonymous
  A playful send-up of the 12-step movement. Five women in recovery from their addictions to men, convene at their weekly meeting.
      One-act
• Radicals
  Women in the anti-war movement of the Sixties. Sexual tensions fuse with political agendas, as the women cross mine fields of repressed emotion, and the action builds to a violent climax, as the war comes home.
      One-act
• The Boundary Trial of John Proctor
  John Proctor, finding himself in the boundary lands of patriarchy after his execution, encounters a second trial, this time by the women. Features the notorious anti-hero of Arthur Miller’s Crucible, and the women he exploited.
      One-act
• Patricide: A Play in One Minute
  A woman confronts her father on incest.
      One-act: one min.
      1F: any age, ethnicity, race, orientation, physical ability, or class
• The P.E. Teacher
  A new teacher is hired to replace a lesbian teacher who resigned under suspicious circumstances. Misogyny, racism, and homophobia in the schools.

      Plays include:

• Book of Revolutions
  Four pieces about various revolutions, and a moment in the lives of each character who fears what the new government would do if it finds out that they are homosexual.
      One-act: 45 Min.
      6M: 18-35
      3F: 18-35
• Killing of Karma
  Three stories about the lives of four people who will eventually blow up on a train in London unless one teen-aged boy convinces another teen-aged boy (and future terrorist) that if he kisses him in the mouth everyone will be saved.
      One-act: 45 min.
      5M: 18-25
      1F: 18-25
• Nijinska/Nijinsky
  The great choreographer Bronislava Nijinska is going to do one last show, and her gay brother, Nijinsky’s ghost, decides to come out and tell her a few things.
      One-act: 45 min.
      2F: 21-40
      1M: 21-40
• A Cheating Nirvana
  Two gay, best friends, approaching middle age, decide to go to one last gay dance to see if their luck has changed, and if they can, perhaps, still meet the man of their dreams.
      One-act: 45 min.
      2M
      1F: 45

      Plays include:

• A Queer Carol
  Ben Scrooge lost his partner and lover Jake Marley twelve years ago on this very Christmas Eve. In the sumptuous town house office of “Scrooge & Marley, Interior Design,” Ben’s assistant, Robert Cratchit, awaits permission to close shop, and join his lover, Tim, who is HIV+, and their friends Carol and Maria. The wheels are in motion for a “very bumpy night.” While faithful to the Dickens original, this comedy offers an honest look at gay relationships, with Marilyn Monroe as the “Ghost of Christmas Past,” and “Christmas Present” portrayed as a drag queen.
  “Very funny and unexpectedly touching” - Backstage
  Available in the anthology, “Plays and Playwrights 2003”, edited by Martin Denton, from The New York Theatre Experience, Inc..
      Two act: 1 hr. 30 min. (intermission optional) - simple set
      7M: all ages
      2F: 30s or 40s
• Bed & Breakfast
  Five guests arrive at a Provincetown Bed and Breakfast for a June weekend. The new owner and his attentive “houseboy” have eagerly prepared for the guests, which include an older actor and his boy-toy, a cross-dressing cop, a personal trainer, and the owner’s widowed mother. By Sunday afternoon, things have changed for everyone, as issues are confronted, fears voiced, and hurdles overcome. While a comedy, this play also explores issues of love, loss, self-worth, and desires.
  “Clever and witty. Plenty of punch. A delight.” - The Citizen
      Two act: 1 hr. 30 min. - one set.
      6M
      1F
• Massage Therapy
  Over the course of eleven consecutive sessions, a gay massage therapist and his female client grow to form an unusually strong bond. At first skeptical of each other, the two develop trust, and come to treasure their time together. When the client needs extraordinary support from the therapist, their bond is put to a huge test. This serious drama also provides surprises, and lots of humor.
  “Best new play in the Key West Festival. Plays gingerly on the heart.” - South Florida Sun-Sentinel
      One-act: 1 hr. 20 min. - simple set
      1M: 40s
      1F: late 30s
• Claptrapp or the Sound of Musicals
  The travails of Maria and the Von Krapps. Within this comedy spoof excerpts of lyrics from 40 musicals constitutes the dialogue of the play.     One-act: 50 min. - simple set
      3M: one in 40s
      4F: 40s
• Child Support
  A gay male couple announce to their two best friends that they are adopting a child from a Roumanian orphanage. One friend’s reaction is not at all what they expect.     One-act: 20 min. - simple set
      3M: one 60s, rest 30-40s
      1F: 30s

      Plays include:

• Just Men
  A TV writer and his bigoted father must come to terms over one combustible weekend, with the help of the son's lover and their best friend, a gorgeous African-American woman. Produced at the Stella Adler Theatre, Hollywood, spring 1996; three extensions.
  “Funny and touching … A show with comic appeal for anyone who's ever faced a difficult confession.” - Los Angeles Times (Critic’s Choice).
  “Howlingly funny … A real side-splitter.” - Santa Monica Outlook
      Two-act: 1 hr. 55 minutes - one set
      3M: two 30s, one 60
      1F: late 20-30s
• Parental Discretion
  A gay couple decide whether or not to have a child. Just at that time, one of their narrow-minded fathers is forced to move in with them. A follow-up piece to “Just Men.”
  Produced at the Coast Playhouse, West Hollywood, spring-summer 1999, and The Little Room Downstairs, Houston, fall 1999.
  “Skillfully crafted and clever!” - LA Weekly
  “Floor-stompingly funny. A must-see!” - KXLU-FM
  Developed as a half-hour pilot for Warner Bros. TV, and executive producer Jennifer Aniston.
      Two-act: 1 hr. 50 minutes - one set
      3M: two 30s, one 60s
      4F: three late 20-30s, one 50-60s
• Three Grooms and a Bride
  A gay male couple and their straight best friends plan a double wedding, with unexpected complications.
  Produced at the Coast Playhouse, West Hollywood, Summer 2002.
  “Uproariously funny! Recommended!” LA Weekly.
  “Non-stop guffaws! A wonderful piece of entertainment” - Orange County Blade
  The subsequent “Three Grooms” screenplay adaptation won the 2003 One In Ten Screenwriting Contest, which rewards excellence in gay-themed material.
      Two act: 2 hrs. - various locations, one multi-use set
      3M: late 20-30s
      2F: one late 20-30s, one 50s

      Plays include:

• Like an Old Song
  Secrets are spilled as seven older gay men meet a handsome young member of the “new” gay generation and find their beloved nightclub under siege by a gay-bashing gang of high-schoolers.
  Named “Best Gay-Themed Play” of 2000 by Backstage West and Frontiers Newsmagazine. The original production of this play starred Tony winner Sammy “A Chorus Line” Williams.
      One-act: 1 hr. 30 min.
      8M: 20s, 40s-70s
• Inverted Pyramid
  Gay man meets Jewish woman in this dramatic comedy that neatly wraps up themes of homosexuality, Judaism, AIDS, cancer and religion in a story about an unusual friendship in a New York ad agency.
  Winner of the Midwest Playwrights Festival, and named “Best Play of the Year” by the Ann Arbor News.
  Originally produced at the Performance Network.
      One-act: 1 hr. 40 min.
      4M
      4W
• When Harry Met Harry
  This comedy tells the story of what happens when two perfect strangers meet briefly, connect and then must break “the rules” or forever wonder if they missed their “mister right.”
  Critically acclaimed by the LA Times and LA Weekly. Originally produced at the 2100 Square Feet Theatre.
      One-act: 15 min. - airport gate
      3M
• Bible Stories
  This 12-monologue (one or two characters are gay) play deals with issues of contemporary morality through comedic and dramatic character studies.
  Critically acclaimed in the LA Times. Nominated for three LA Weekly Theatre Awards including “Best Playwriting.”
      1 hr. 30 min.
      12M (parts can be doubled, if necessary)

      Plays include:

• To Have and to Hold
  Two gay, HIV+ men, who are aspiring performers, meet online and attempt to have a relationship.
  The play has had six different productions. In 1998, it was nominated for the George Oppenheimer Award as the best NYC stage debut by a playwright.
      One-act? - one set
      2M: 30s
• You Look For Me
  Two men meet in the Peace Corps, in 1964, have a relationship and then go their very different ways. Their ongoing relationship is told in letters and e-mails.
  Produced in NYC in 2000, and will be performed in the Summer of 2001 on Fire Island, NY.
      2M: the same age (25-60)
• Flowers for Terry
  In the District of Columbia Mall, the straight brother of a deceased man due to AIDS meets two of his brother’s gay friends at a showing of the AIDS Quilt.
      One-act: 15 min.
      3M: 20s-30s
• Breakfast with Maria
  A monologue by gay man who talks to his cat over breakfast before going to the hospital for a hernia operation. It is the same hospital where his partner of almost forty years dies a year earlier.
  Broadcast on NPR.
      One-act: 30 min.
      1M: 60s

      Plays include:

• Running on Empty (Dramatists Play Service)
  This comedy/drama takes place at a cocktail party set in the future, where America has run out of just about everything. Five people discuss their love for one bisexual man.
  Premiered at the Stages Theatre (Houston, Texas).
      Two-act: 2 hours - 1 set
      3M: 20s, two in 40s
      2F: 20s, 40s)
• Comfort and Joy (Dramatic Publishing)
  A Christmas comedy about a gay couple whose relatives suddenly arrive for the holidays.
  Played at Portland Center Stage (Oregon), New Conservatory Theatre Center (San Francisco), and elsewhere.
      Two-Act: 2 hours - 1 set
      4M: three 30s, one any age
      2F: 20s, 50s
• Boys’ Play (Dramatic Publishing)
  Two teenagers have a night camping out that changes their lives forever.
  Premiered at Arkansas Repertory Theatre, and played at New Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco), Hudson Theatre (Los Angeles), and elsewhere.
      One-act: 1 hour - 1 set
      2M: teens
• Heartbreak (Dramatic Publishing)
  In this comedic drama, a man dies and leaves behind a “tell all” book about his friends and lovers.
  Winner of five L.A. Dramalogue Awards including “Best Play.” Presented at World