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Rural America

Our latest featured list comes from playwright Doug DeVita, who offers this exciting introduction: "Rural America ain’t Mayberry RFD, folks, as this very diverse range of plays make apparent. Whether it’s a small dystopian Pennsylvania town in the not-too-distant future, or an Asian family struggling against the rising tide of racism in contemporary Texas, or an aging couple, unlucky in love, finding each other in a truck stop diner… all of the plays on this list – be they dramas or comedies, full-length or short – represent a cross section of small-town American life from the 1920’s and into the future. I hope you’ll read, enjoy, and recommend them"

Trade With Klan: A Play about Choices by Donald E. Baker
RAW by Amy Bernstein
2029 by Marjorie Bicknell
Tracks by John Patrick Bray
TERMINUS by Gabriel Jason Dean
Highland Center by John Greiner-Ferris
Let Maisy Rest in Peace by Margo Hammond
SUGAR PIE by Vivian Lermond
To Tread Among Serpents by Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
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Miss American Pie by Gwendolyn Rice
Mother Road by Octavio Solis
THE BOYD SHOW by Melisa Tien
Brackish by Hope Villanueva
Home-Style Cooking at the Gateway Cafe by Philip Middleton Williams
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The NPX Index

  • Scripts tagged with the keyword phrase "rural America": 80
  • Scripts tagged with the keyword phrases "rural life," "rural community," "rural poverty," or "rural conflicts": 25
  • Scripts tagged with the keyword phrase "red state": 5
  • Scripts tagged with the keyword phrase "small town": 150
  • Scripts tagged with the keyword phrase "Black Lives Matter": 296