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Scripts for One-Act Competitions

"Teens and their teachers deserve imaginative, 25-40-minute, large-and/or-flexibly-cast one-acts that work for high school competitions. These contemporary plays (most written by BIPOC and/or marginalized-gender playwrights) give teens space to show off their creativity, intelligence, and passionate desire for a better world, and they give your company a great shot at your state's one-act competition. I was inspired to create this list because as both a former teacher and a playwright currently sending my publishers' perusal script links to a billion teachers, I know the teen theater world is hungry for new material and a centralized place to locate it. I'm so thankful to my fellow playwrights for creating this work and allowing me to share it on this platform. Please reach out to them to inquire about performance rights!"—playwright Laura Neill

The Boy Who Cried Dragon by Inda Craig-Galván
Floating Girls Go To The Moon by Maria I. Arreola
Button Lake Band Camp by Elijah Guo
Shoebox Picnic Road Side: Route One by Deneen Reynolds-Knott
Rainbow Games by John Mabey
When superheroes die and how we mourn them... by Luis Roberto Herrera
The Inexplicable Chaos Factor of Mia Gregory by Emily Hageman
The Post Office by Melissa Leilani Larson
100 Things I Never Said To You by Adam Szymkowicz

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The NPX Index

  • Scripts by LGBTQ+ writers: 14752
  • Scripts that center characters of color: 7884
  • Scripts about labor, unions, and workers rights: 82
  • Scripts about reproductive rights, reproductive freedom, and abortion: 382
  • Scripts about guns and gun violence: 423
  • Scripts about the Black Lives Matter movement: 343