Dominica Plummer

One act. Steph is looking for a new roommate. She’s happy to take anyone at a time of social distancing and decreased mobility. So when the overly friendly Vida turns up on her doorstep, Steph invites her in. Things get complicated when Steph’s boyfriend Jeff arrives unexpectedly, despite quarantine. Soon, he and Vida are “bonding” over probability distributions and stochastic modeling. Desperate to hold on to a new source of income, Steph agrees to a game of Risk where winner takes all. What could possibly go wrong?

Someone has been leaving an origami bee on TABITHA’s schoolroom doorstep for the last 36 days. She’s finally caught WILLOW, one of her students, red handed. WILLOW denies having made the bees, and refuses to say where she found them. TABITHA discovers that when unfolded, each bee contains a word. It’s clearly a message, but from whom? It’s a bad day to be discovering secret messages, when School Inspector PROCTOR is expected any moment to make sure TABITHA’s classroom curriculum is in line with the newly formed federal department of Godly Education.

Think you know where Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol begins? Think again. Turns out the story didn’t really start in Scrooge’s Counting House on Christmas Eve. It all began one Halloween at the Cratchit Home, when Mrs. Cratchit got a most unwelcome letter from her landlord about an increase in the rent.

Written for Playwrights Thriving Secret Santa Title Exchange

JAZZ is flying economy class on the redeye, and trying to sleep. But the antics of MARTHA, the Lady With The Laptop, are keeping him awake. What seems like a casual encounter between strangers on a plane turns into something quite unexpected, and with explosive revelations.

Written for Playwrights Thriving Horror Bake Off Plays 2023

Short. It’s the Battle of the Bands Night at the fictitious Amityville High in Vermont — a time honored tradition when high school seniors show their proud families (and their teachers) what they can do with music. On this particular night, the weather has decided that music deserves a break. The show has been canceled. Only problem is, no one has told the infamous death metal band CÄTERWÄUL, who are currently hiding out in the band room. They are hiding out because they are one, crucial, band member short, and there is a heated debate going on what to do about it.

Written for the Playwrights Thriving 2022 Secret Santa Title Exchange.
Title gifted by the equally gifted Scott Sickles. Scott's plays are on NPX.

Short. Another pandemic play. Sophy, an archeologist, has just flown nonstop from Los Angeles to London. Something is not quite right about the London she has arrived in. She also has a bad conscience about the way she filled in the passenger locator form for the UK government before she left LA. She meets Eddie on the platform of a deserted train station. Soon she is wondering when she is, and why the streets are empty.

Morality play. Death has finally come for Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense, and one of the chief architects of the Iraq War in 2003. But Rumsfeld is not going into the wild blue yonder without a fight. Death may finally have met a match.

Written for Playwrights Thriving Genre shorts, July 2021.

Short. A post pandemic play. Rose and Ally, accompanied by Rose's seven year old son, Leo, are going for lunch at the zoo. Leo is lion mad, so where else do they hang out but the lion enclosure? But before Rose, Ally and Leo can eat, they've got to wait for the lions to have their lunch first. Only problem is, what's on the menu?

Written for Playwrights Thriving February 2021 Food themed shorts

Short. Marcus and Sextus, ghostly Roman legionaries, have been marooned in London for a couple of millennia. Marcus is desperate to return to Rome, but first he has to locate a mysterious stone he lost one drunken night circa AD 60 in the City of London.

Written as a "walking play" for a collection curated by Claudia Haas. You can find Claudia's plays on NPX at: https://newplayexchange.org/users/948/claudia-haas

Short. Thomas Venner, a deeply religious leader of the Fifth Monarchy Men (and a few Women) has won an unexpected victory against the troops of the recently restored King Charles the Second. Convinced that the End of Days is near, and that King Jesus is about to take his earthly throne, Venner takes a moment in a cobblestoned alleyway in the City of London. A time traveling historian and a talking orange cat are waiting for him.

Written for the Playwrights Thriving 2020 Secret Santa Title Exchange.
Title gifted by the equally gifted Scott Sickles. Scott's plays are on NPX.

Short. Three year old Poppy is having trouble sleeping. She knows she's too old to go into her parents' bedroom and wake them, so she's brought an imaginary friend to help sort out the problem that's keeping her awake.

Short. Sarah is getting ready to replant her grandpa’s old hop garden. She is interrupted by Matt, a former friend who has come to make amends for something he did in the past.

Short. Tasha has been given the assignment of interviewing a local hero about 9-11, and she’s found Monty’s name on Google. But Monty refuses to talk about that day, and only after Tasha explains that she has to get an ‘A’ on this assignment, does Monty finally relent. In the ensuing revelations, Tasha discovers the story of not one, but two heroes, and Monty finds a friend he can talk to about the past.

Short. Ex-chemistry professor Samantha makes gifts with a difference, which is why, one Christmas Eve, Santa comes visiting for one of her custom made surprises. But this is one sinister Saint Nick with a hidden agenda, so how can Samantha avoid being part of his nefarious plans?

Short. Diehard Red Sox fan Joe meets the girl of his dreams. He introduces her to his best friend Mike at a game. Mike discovers that Gracie has a terrible secret. He tells Joe that he is going to have to make a choice: the Sox or his girl. Either way, Joe’s choice threatens to break his heart.

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Short. Dusty and Tim are on the brink of launching a major new discovery in the field of "intimate relations" -- but have they invented this chemistry breakthrough for love, or money?

Short. Jack and Mary are planning a second honeymoon. Jack would like to return to the seaside town where they enjoyed their first -- but Mary hankers to visit a very different location. Can Mary convince Jack to consider a trip that doesn't include fish and chips, soccer, and a pint at the pub around the corner?

Short. Ruby needs to leave Jason. Nora is trying to help her. Will Ruby go through with it? And can she leave Mr. Bear behind as well?

Short. An ordinary family sits down to an ordinary dinner, only to be interrupted by a muck-raking journalist.

A young boy is about to race his go kart against his rival Alex -- who always gets the cool stuff.

A neighbor reminisces about Fred, a Vermont farmer.