Any Second Now

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Any Second Now

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  • Ryan Kaminski: Any Second Now

    04/26/2026 - One of the more imaginative original plays I've read in years! What begins as a waiting room comedy quickly dives into a piece about playwriting, storytelling, theatre, and the types of characters we've loved over the years. Theatre-makers will love this as it speaks to them and audience members will love it for its wit and how it peels back the curtain on the creative process. Witty, endearing, and the kind of piece that makes you think. Well done!

    04/26/2026 - One of the more imaginative original plays I've read in years! What begins as a waiting room comedy quickly dives into a piece about playwriting, storytelling, theatre, and the types of characters we've loved over the years. Theatre-makers will love this as it speaks to them and audience members will love it for its wit and how it peels back the curtain on the creative process. Witty, endearing, and the kind of piece that makes you think. Well done!

  • Maximillian Gill: Any Second Now

    A sharply satirical and wonderfully packed short piece infused with the writer's trademark wit. With one of those endings that I should've seen coming but didn't, the best kind in my opinion.

    A sharply satirical and wonderfully packed short piece infused with the writer's trademark wit. With one of those endings that I should've seen coming but didn't, the best kind in my opinion.

  • Donald E. Baker: Any Second Now

    As we playwrights beat our scripts into submission--draft and re-draft, edit and tighten, move scenes and move them back, and especially eliminate characters or re-think their roles--we never consider the psychological effect our actions have on the characters we create and, perhaps, cavalierly throw to the curb. Fortunately, the ever-empathetic Philip Middleton Williams has examined their feelings and has here given us a first-hand report of his findings. It's a delicious inside-the-craft script guaranteed to tickle your funnybone.

    As we playwrights beat our scripts into submission--draft and re-draft, edit and tighten, move scenes and move them back, and especially eliminate characters or re-think their roles--we never consider the psychological effect our actions have on the characters we create and, perhaps, cavalierly throw to the curb. Fortunately, the ever-empathetic Philip Middleton Williams has examined their feelings and has here given us a first-hand report of his findings. It's a delicious inside-the-craft script guaranteed to tickle your funnybone.

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Character Information

  • Clark
    Average Guy
    Character Age
    Mid-twenties
  • Karen
    Pretty Girl
    Character Age
    Mid-twenties
  • Fred
    Average Man
    Character Age
    Middle-age
  • Ethel
    Matronly
    Character Age
    Middle-age
  • Hal
    Hot Hunk
    Character Age
    Mid-twenties

Production History

  • Type University, Organization The University Players, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Year 2023