Lynn Elliott

Determined to win the presidential nominee of the New Know Nothing Political Party (“NewKnowNos”), George Fallseasy has to hide certain “truths” about his family.

His all-American daughter, Suzy, and the family’s permanent houseguest, Jeremiah Braggart, “the High Priest of the Church of Perpetual Prosperity,” are positives who would impress Mr. Frank Chaloner, President of the NewNoKnows.

However, there are certain “necessary untruths” about his family, George has to hide: a gay son, Edward, banished from the household by the sanctimonious Jeremiah; and George’s father-in- law, Grandpa, who struts around the house in his pajamas misquoting Shakespeare. Moreover, everyone, excluding George, hates Jeremiah and the mesmerizing influence he has upon George.

Add to this George’s secret desire to have his daughter, who loves Michael, marry Jeremiah, twenty years her senior, and things do not bode well for George’s chances of presenting a loving, all-American family.

With thanks to Moliere's "Tartuffe."

Ray Calarco’s plans for a few sleezy nights in Graceland with his latest babe, Marlene, take him a different and unexpected direction.

Two waitresses, in a going-nowhere café of a going-nowhere town, compete for the attention of an unfamiliar customer with an English accent. Their discussion, comparing their current reality and imagined future, has a surprising outcome.

This Agency guarantees it will produce "a perfect match" in a male companion for Mary. Will it live up to its promise?

10 minute play. When Janet's husband, Harold, dies, she makes changes to her life much to the surprise of her brother-in-law, Norman. Nor are they simple changes.

A Christmas fable. After a terrible accident, Roye, Master Toymaker, no longer makes beautiful wooden toys. All changes when his daughter, Claire, discovers a mystery boy protected by a lone wolf in the nearby forest. The boy slowly gains in strength, revealing a talent for toy making. But questions remain: who is the boy, where has he come from, who are his parents, and will he remain with Roye and Claire or return to the wild? This is a Christmas story of survival, hope and redemption.

Determined to win the presidential nominee of the New Know Nothing political party, George Fallseasy hides certain “necessary unruths” about his family; “untruths” that may prevent his election. But, in this farce, the question soon becomes who is hiding what from whom?

10 minute play: James is asked some very strange questions at his interview for acceptance into a senior-living facility.

10 minute play: James, hoping to join a local choir, soon realizes that this is a "choir" in which singing is not a requirement.

Mrs. Worthmore,, a wealthy, widowed New York socialite has entered the world of rodeo, determined to “rescue” her daughter, Harper, who has fallen for a young cowboy. She is accompanied in this effort by the Reverend JJ Busy, her “protector” (also a braggart prone to malapropisms), and Busy’s nephew, Harrison, Harper’s unwilling intended. All soon get caught up in this unfamiliar world, falling victims to a mischievous rodeo clown who delights in mistaken identities. Two forms of music: 1) Storyline (between characters, advancing plot, developing character, etc.); and, 2) music in which the rodeo events themselves become metaphors for life ("everything in life is rodeo"). Demos of music used available if interested. Text and lyrics by Lynn Elliott. Music by Marcel Daguerre, Josh Hegg and Michael Bone.

Remembrances of a time, before the intrusion of packaged television Christmas show or cell phones, when in families entertained each other at Christmas. Contained within A CHRISTMAS OF NOT THAT LONG AGO is that moment shared by all when children move, barely noticing, into adolescence. That moment when the giddy joys of childhood becomes tinged with sorrow and the realization that change eventually brings loss.

Handsome heir of a wealthy banking family, Raoul Wallenberg travelled to WW2 Budapest to challenge Adolf Eichmann's deportation of Jews. Good, evil, moral decency and moral baseness struggle against the backdrop of everyday, personal dramas of Hungarian Jews questioning their God’s presence or absence, and asking how to act morally in such an immoral world.

Married for 25 years to Italy’s famous playwright, Antonietta spent the last 40 years of her life in an asylum. Using the inmates as actors, Antonietta, attempts to tell her story, that of a marginalized woman, to an unhearing world. Her effort is, however, prevented by the Director of the Institution who insists on the accepted version of life in the Pirandello household.

MY TOWN. A one-act play. A newspaper reporter refuses to accept the official verdict of a racial murder in his town. His pursuit of the truth takes him to places that challenge his sense of himself and of his town.