Ellen Davis Sullivan

In this 10-minute play, when a worker in a lab begins knocking on wood, her supervisor worries about her recently-acquired superstition. Does it mean she’s lost her commitment to science? Or that she’s gained a power more alarming than that?

A girl from the future visits Ruth Handler, creator of the Barbie doll, looking for help she believes only Ruth can give. Ruth is skeptical, but listens and in the end is deeply affected by what the girl reveals.

In this 10-minute play, a stranger shows up blowing a bleating vuvuzela, and a grumpy resident gets grumpier until he's challenged in his prejudices and learns he has more in common with a neighbor than he expected.

In this monologue, a control person whose pandemic dreams are making her feel out of control has her first ever appointment for therapy. As it is 2020, her appointment is a video call. Can she be helped not to dream?

When Lilith shows up in the Garden with her consort Samael, Adam and Eve's peaceful co-existence gets lit - and the fireworks are just beginning.

Ten-minute. Included in the compilation Walking Plays. An aging sculptor visits the grave of his teacher and mentor, Maud Morgan at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He's seeking a sign of her approval of his latest idea, but Maud’s bird spirit provides him with direction he fights until Mount Auburn itself effects a change he can’t resist.

Ten-Minute: When an elf and a very strange tree clamber through a window, a surprised homeowner refuses to help with their holiday problem. Is she the spirit of another holiday or just a weary suburbanite with her own seasonal issues?

Mattie and Herm blame their daughter Jenny’s drug death on her friend Curt, but when Curt shows up at their home each evening at dusk, the couple struggle to open themselves to a new way of dealing with their grief.

Ten-minute: in March, 2020, two nurses volunteer to work in an ER caring for COVID19 cases. The night before they're about to start, one gets cold feet. Facing their own mortality reveals their true feelings for each other.

In this ten-minute play, a woman learns her partner told a joke at work that could create a volatile situation. She wants him to make things right. He refuses to admit he's done anything wrong.

In this comic one-act, a golfer on a reality TV show checks into a plastic surgery clinic for a simple procedure to improve her chances of winning. After a screwball mix-up, the golfer comes to a life-changing realization: Mom doesn't always know best.

Ten- Minute: When Little W, a novel by Louisa May Alcott, finds herself on the Classics for Kids shelf at the library, she tries to hide from the grubby fingers of kids who browse her, but don’t read. Her neighbors, White F and Kristin L, suspect Little W has more than one story to tell.

10-minute: A Jewish grandmother gives her granddaughter a surprising gift, but it isn’t what’s in the box that makes the present mean so much.

Ten-Minute: When Boston arts matron, Isabella Stewart Gardner finds herself in the Pantheon of Anthem Protesters, she tries to convince Tommie Smith and Colin Kaepernick that she's the mother of their movement, but they aren't having any of it.

Ten-minute: A couple is forced to contend with bitterness and anger along with their grief as they write their daughter's obituary.

5-minute: A woman is outraged when she finds her brother is about to go to their mother’s funeral in a Hawaiian shirt. What he reveals about their mother puts his decision in a different light.

When Emily, a 21st century artist is visited by her muse, the Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp, each woman is challenged, Sophie in her beliefs and Emily in her art.

Ten-Minute: When a cranky ram refuses to meet the new farmer, it takes his loving ewe and a yapping border collie to get him to do what he must.

ONE ACT: With their mortgage upside down, Mom and Dad search for jobs, not easy to do in a world where youth trumps experience. Their children cope in their own ways: fifteen-year-old Jenny goes in for world-class pouting, while thirteen-year-old Kenny shows surprising survival skills.

ONE ACT: The Glass Cliff is based on a true story of a woman executive on Wall Street. After the crisis of 2008 decimates the women of Wall Street, a financial newscaster searches for the former CFO of Klein Brothers, who disappeared after Klein went bankrupt. The reporter is filming a documentary “Women of the Street” and needs to include the woman who did everything right, who sacrificed all but her femininity to succeed, and still could not make it on Wall Street. Could Erica have prevented her own fall or was she pushed off the Glass Cliff? That’s the question that spurs Gina to trace Erica by interviewing her former boss, husband and co-workers. When Gina finds Erica, the two women negotiate a different kind of deal.

Ten-Minute: A young entrepreneur makes her pitch to an experienced investor. Does she know enough to get a loan? Or does she know a little too much?

Ten Minute: At dawn on Christmas Day, Lucy calls her husband Sam to come help her right the lawn decorations that have been smashed during the night. Sam, a Jew, moved out two weeks before after finding evidence of what he views as his wife's infidelity. Can this couple find a way to spend the holidays together for the sake of their children? Or for their own sakes?

Ten Minute: When December weather strands a baritone at an airport gate, he gets a bit of holiday help from a small man and a gruff gate agent whose heart may have been moved by spirits unseen.

Ten-Minute: The Mayor is suspected of taking bribes. State troopers are searching her home. She insists on staying despite her chief aide’s advice. When the troopers start to take things out, nothing can hold the Mayor back.