Greg Lam

FULL-LENGTH: The Earth has become uninhabitable. The last escape ship from Earth (Seattle, to be exact) arrives to its new home planet centuries after all the others. The pilots are not prepared for what they find there.

LAST SHIP TO PROXIMA CENTAURI asks us to examine 21st Century America through the lens of futurist neo-colonialism, 2000 years after the end of Must See TV.

NOTE: There is a version adapted to Zoom readings as well as the stage script. Inquire with author.

The full script is available at https://www.broadwayplaypublishing.com/the-plays/last-ship-to-proxima-c…. You may also request a perusal copy at greg.lam.writing@gmail.com.

A 20 page sample is available on NPX.

FULL LENGTH - What would happen to our world if anyone could choose to remix and rewrite their memories and personalities?

Rich and Gretchen seem to have the ideal marriage, until they learn that it was manufactured by a mysterious biotech company which installed it into their brains. Because they can no longer afford this service, the company must repossess their improvements.

REPOSSESSED explores questions of identity, morality, and authenticity amidst a world of rapidly changing technology and the ethics that come with it.

REPOSSESSED is published by Broadway Play Publishing in paperback and electronic versions. (https://www.broadwayplaypublishing.com/the-plays/repossessed/) Perusal copies available upon request to author. A 20 page sample is available on NPX.

Full audio production available in Podcast form by The Parsnip Ship: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-parsnip-ship/e/63173050

Hear an excerpt of the play with playwright interview here: https://www.bostonpodcastplayers.com/bpp-season1/

FULL LENGTH - What would it be like to witness two geniuses at work?

Silent Comedy legends Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton worked together only once, on Chaplin's last movie before being exiled from the United States. For the deeply autobiographical Limelight, Chaplin cast the down on his luck Keaton to play a small part in his nostalgic story of an old comedian doing one last performance. This play imagines what it might have been like on that set while exploring the lives of these two titans of cinema.

CHAPLIN AND KEATON ON THE SET OF LIMELIGHT explores the tension between the desire to entertain and the need to fight for a greater world in politically dangerous times. What responsibilities does an artist have beyond bringing a smile to the face of an audience?

FULL-LENGTH COLLABORATION - Co-written by Robin Booth, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Leah Halper, Greg Lam, and Sophia Naylor. Edited by Sinjin Jones. Inspired by Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus".

A free adaptation of Mary Shelley's seminal classic horror story. This version takes the monster tale from the 1800’s to the modern day to the farthest reaches of space.

A SERIAL SERIES OF 10-MINUTE PLAYS: The participants of a competitive reality show similar to but legally distinct from "Survivor" are recording the finale on a secluded island when news of a catastrophic event reaches them. Now, on this remote island, this reality show cast and crew are forced to actually survive.

TREACHERY ISLAND is a series of short satirical plays written for the dialogue-only format of The Pulp Stage in Portland, OR (Dialogue only, no props, costumes, or actions). A delicious mashup of reality TV, backstage drama, and science fiction.

10 MINUTE- A couple on a hike find their special plans interrupted by a succession of time travelers, each with a different message from the future.

INTERVENTIONS is a funny, fast paced romp about time travel, romance, and the consequences of decisions. Because time travel is hard, but parenting is harder.

10 MINUTE - Taylor is excited to bring her girlfriend home to meet her folks for Christmas. There's just one thing that they need to talk about beforehand. The Santa thing.

THE SANTA THING is a fun holiday homecoming comedy for people who never stopped believing

10 MINUTE - As Act 5 nears it's close, and Juliet prepares to meet her fate, a mysterious stranger appears with a startling revelation that will change everything.

A take on Shakespeare that's ready for its own universe.

10 MINUTE - K’Plekh Rranmawr Demands Your Attention!!!

COLLECTION OF 10-MINUTE PLAYS - Interdimensional visitors. Zombie Invasions. Alien Worlds. Time Travel. BUILDING WORLDS is a collection of seven 10-minute science fiction plays by Greg Lam. Plays include Golden Record, The Big Crossover, The Ones Who Adapt, Life in the Hard Drive, The Product is For Sale, This Year, and Interventions.

The plays in this collection have been produced by theatres including The Pulp Stage, Other World Theatre, Pork Filled Productions, Wishing Wind Creations, AND Theatre Co., Boston Theatre Marathon, Asian-American Playwright Collective, Brisk LA Festival, Pork Filled Productions, and many more.

FULL LENGTH - DAWN and ALYSSA are both Freshman college students who are in a long distance relationship with one another. DAWN is at the University of Washington in Seattle. ALYSSA is at NYU. They talk to each other via video chat. They talk about the things that a young couple a bit uncertain in their feelings might talk about long distance.

They don’t know that within a week the entire world will turn upside down.

Written collaboratively by Nate Beyer, Caitlin Cieri, Katie Doyle, Ken Green, Scott Kremer, Donald Loftus, Colleen Porter, and Irene L. Pynn via a 3 hour, 10 minute google doc session and performed via Zoom five hours after the beginning of writing. Proposed and overseen by Greg Lam

10 MInute - One needs to go. The other is there and can't leave.

MINI-COLLECTION: For some reason, whenever I have occasion to write a one-minute play, they almost invariably turn out to be the among the most depressing things I’ve ever written. There are nine of them so far included in this mini-collection. Read them if you dare if you need a good kick in the teeth. Read my 10 minute plays for something more fun and lighthearted.

The Plays & Corresponding Levels of Despair:
1. The Award Winning Movie About a Normal White Person Who Observed Something Bad Happen to Someone Else and Who Feels Kind of Bad About It (Despair level: 3.5/5)
2. My Friend Audrey (3/5)
3. My Life With the Box (3/5)
4. Saving Democracy (4/5)
5. The Last Position (5/5)
6. What Happens When You Research Practically Anything in This Country (5/5)
7. One Minute Complaint (2/5)
8. Meeting Your Maker (3/5)
9. Seven Ten (3/5)
10. Stage Whispers (3/5)
11. Disorientation (5/5)

TEN-MINUTE: Noir meets The Street. Everyone knows that sunny days cast dark shadows. Everyone has enemies, even seemingly harmless pet rocks. Can The Street's grouchiest trashcan residing detective find out what happened to Rocky in time for it to host the Rock Music Festival? Or will he come afoul of The Street's little red monster power broker? This play brought to you by the letter "I", for "Investigation".

10 MINUTE - Vincent must decide on whether or not to serve his prison sentence using a new, experimental method.

10 Minute - Abigail and Gunnar are going on a walk through the woods on a first date. In a clearing in the woods, they both unveil a dark secret to each other.

10 MINUTE - 2020. Plague. Riots. Fires. Getting to work on time.

10 Minute Podcast Script - An alien marauder abducts a college professor and insists that he (or she) explain works of classic literature or else the alien invasion will begin in earnest. A series of script for an ongoing podcast about classic literature and alien invasion.

Episode 1: Frankenstein
Episode 2: A Christmas Carol
Episode 3: Oedipus Rex

TEN MINUTE - In the first day back at school after their holiday break, the kids learn that there are more gift receiving options if they just broaden their horizons.

A lighthearted play about our different holiday traditions.

10 MINUTE - The relationship of two siblings is threatened by the reappearance of an obnoxious ventriloquist's dummy named Maisie. Co-authored by Walt McGough.

THE TROUBLE WITH MAISIE is an outrageous look at the perils of relationships, familial, human, and otherwise.

10 MINUTE - Two friends have their day interrupted by the sudden arrival of an alien object.

A suite of bite-sized plays about dim sum.

10 MINUTE - In 1962, a couple feverishly pack to escape a coming doom- When a knock on the door is heard. They prepare themselves for the worst, but it turns out it's just their neighbors who haven't seen the evening paper... yet.

THE FALLOUT is a 10 minute character driven comedy/drama commissioned, conceived, written and performed within 24 hours as part of the 2016 Fresh Ink Mad Dash, co-written by Dylan Charles. It's a play where an incoming disaster reveals another personal disaster hidden from sight.

10 MINUTE - An Asian-American woman living in Iowa has to entertain her mother and her mother's new very loud and very Caucasian boyfriend who are coming for a visit.
HAPPY DAUGHTER is a witty and frazzled 10 minute meditation about the rocky relationship between the generations of Asian-American women in America.

10 MINUTE - A couple is unprepared when the Son of God drops by for tea.

10 MINUTE - A takeout food delivery during quarantine leads to a heated exchange between delivery guy and homeowner.

COLLECTION OF 10-MINUTE PLAYS - Eight 10 minute plays by Greg Lam collected into one volume suitable for a full-length showcase.

Eight short, funny, touching, weird, and surprising short plays that have been produced around the world. Featuring ventriloquists, household furniture, large social rodents, boxing cornermen, Santa believers, and superstitious baseball fans.

THE TROUBLE WITH MAISIE (co-written by Walt McGough), WHEN JESUS DROPS BY FOR TEA, THE SANTA THING, STICK AND MOVE, INTERVENTIONS, CHAIR AND BIKE MAKE A DATE, NAKED ARE THE MOLERATS, and GAME SEVEN

ONE ACT - A sweet but hapless and dimwitted suitor wants to win the hand of the feisty and intelligent Princess Talia, and so he must complete several daunting quests. He has no chance, unless the resourceful princess gives him a hand without his knowledge.
THE DOWRY OF PRINCESS TALIA is a sly and irreverent 20 minute children's play for children of all ages that takes old tales and turns them topsy turvy. It is a fractured fairy tale featuring gentle giants, woebegone witches, and dragons who'd rather play than spit fire.

10 MINUTE - A woman is thrown for a loop when she asks her girlfriend's mother for permission to marry her daughter. She discovers that her future mother-in-law is not quite as progressive as she had assumed.
GIVEN AWAY is a sly and barbed 10 minute comedy exploring the hidden depths of people you assume to be on your side.

10-MINUTE: Alien creatures invade Earth and begin the distasteful task of assimilating with the locals. They might be interdimensional coldblooded spineless parasites, but they have standards.

A version of this was originally written for the LA RHONDA project by Wishing Wind Creations

TEN MINUTE PLAY

Dude

10 MINUTE - Two explorers sift through the ruins of a failed civilization: Earth's.

TEN MINUTE - A couple prepare for their first housewarming party at their new house. They are not prepared for the type of neighbors that arrive. A spooky tale of hospitality, horror and hors d'oeuvres.

TEN-MINUTE - An exercise bike tells the neighboring office chair what it really thinks of it, before it's too late.

10-MINUTE: A superhero goes onto a cable news show to defend their rather proactive actions.

10 MINUTE: People wait in a very long line that doesn't move for a very long time. We find out why.

15 MINUTE - Red Sox fans watching an important playoff game must watch their every move lest their actions bring back luck to their team. OCTOBER is a 15 minute comedy examining the irrational rational belief that comes with being a sports fan.

Note: This play was based on the 2004 Red Sox. There is also an updated version of this play adapted to the 2016 Cubs' season.

TEN-MINUTE: Many years after the incident, Eve returns to the Garden, only to find it abandoned.

10-MINUTE- A pair of naked molerats discuss their place in the colony over a lovely snack.

TEN MINUTE - Medusa tells a Scribe her side of her story. INTERVIEW WITH A GORGON is a dramatic reimagination of the Medusa myth which goes beyond her frightening mask.

Developmental draft.

10-MINUTE - In 1920's Boston, two gents sit in the stands at Fenway Park. The game isn't going their way, but the two friends have more to discuss.

10 MINUTE - A couple on their first date learn that when the date is on, it's always good to have someone in your corner.

STICK AND MOVE is a fast and funny 10 minute play about the dating scene. It's rough out there, so keep your guard up.

This play is now published. Please see the published script link for a copy.

10-MINUTE - When the daily word game you're obsessed with matches you up with another single who scores the same as you did.

10 MINUTE - An adaptation of a Japanese folk tale about a boy traveling who likes to draw cats when he finds himself alone in a strange house... with walls begging to be drawn upon.

TEN MINUTE - A denizen of the sea sets out to gain revenge for wrongs done to his family. His friend doesn't think that's a good idea.

10 MINUTE - A sci-fi heroine takes a journey into a strange new world... Earth!

CROSSOVER FICTION is a 10 minute Sci-Fi romp which asks what happens when the ulimate barrier is breached, the boundary between fiction and reality.

10 MINUTE:
The Product Is For Sale
You Will Buy This Product
Do Not Ask Any Questions
Our Operators Are Standing By

10-MINUTE: A couple argues on New Year's Eve about each other's differing perceptions of the dangers around them, and the responsibility they expect from one another. A short cut through a park brings a test of these issues.

10 MINUTE PLAY: A quarantining couple find a pair of dimension hopping refugees who crash land in their living room. A Zoom sci-fi comedy in which we learn the grass is not always greener on the other side of reality.

ONE-MINUTE: Two people are kneeling. Hands behind their head. They talk about how they came to be there.

ONE MINUTE - Basically what the title says

ONE MINUTE - In which YOU must save democracy! All you have to do is clap.

ONE MINUTE - A woman undergoes an entire relationship with a box in one minute.

ONE MINUTE - In which the movie designed to win awards wins an award.

ONE MINUTE - Two pins and a ball psyche themselves up for their inevitable confrontation.

ONE MINUTE - A playwright laments about play submission requirements.

The similarity of this and any actual submission opportunity is purely coincidental