Alexis Martin

Alexis Martin is a multi-disciplinary artist as well as an award-winning playwright based in Upstate New York. She has directed her own original works in both staged readings as well as the full productions.

Her first play, Old Money, New Habits, was originally produced as a one-act by the Oswego Players in 2024 after being a first place winner in their 2023 Donald J. McCann One-Act Playwriting Contest.

A little while later, the full-length version was fully produced for a one-night-only performance in 2025 at the Redhouse Arts Center upon receiving a Support for Artists Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Alexis continues to write 10 minute plays, one-acts and full-lengths of many different genres.

She continues to perform on the stage when not at her desk and has...

Alexis Martin is a multi-disciplinary artist as well as an award-winning playwright based in Upstate New York. She has directed her own original works in both staged readings as well as the full productions.

Her first play, Old Money, New Habits, was originally produced as a one-act by the Oswego Players in 2024 after being a first place winner in their 2023 Donald J. McCann One-Act Playwriting Contest.

A little while later, the full-length version was fully produced for a one-night-only performance in 2025 at the Redhouse Arts Center upon receiving a Support for Artists Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Alexis continues to write 10 minute plays, one-acts and full-lengths of many different genres.

She continues to perform on the stage when not at her desk and has had the great pleasure of performing at regional theaters such as Syracuse Stage and the Redhouse Arts Center.

Alexis Martin is a Syracuse Stage Artistic Ambassador, a proud member of the Armory Square Playwrights and of the Dramatists Guild of America.

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Scripts

The Anniversary Dance

by Alexis Martin

Cast Size
2—3
Genre
drama

During the Anniversary Dance, a bartender and one of the wedding attendees discuss the trivial and rigged systems of the dance's tradition.

During the Anniversary Dance, a bartender and one of the wedding attendees discuss the trivial and rigged systems of the dance's tradition.

Old Money, New Habits (Full Length)

by Alexis Martin

Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
farce,
mystery/thriller,
parody/spoof

Lord Edward Eldemire Esquire has suddenly passed and left his trusted butler the duty of carrying out his last will and testament. Unfortunately, that means that the butler now has the great displeasure of meeting Esquire's sole inheritors: his first cousins, Percival and Monty Davies, along with their new wives, Penelope and Felicity. However, the very fact that these suspicious couples are the only ones with...

Lord Edward Eldemire Esquire has suddenly passed and left his trusted butler the duty of carrying out his last will and testament. Unfortunately, that means that the butler now has the great displeasure of meeting Esquire's sole inheritors: his first cousins, Percival and Monty Davies, along with their new wives, Penelope and Felicity. However, the very fact that these suspicious couples are the only ones with such inheritance... one must begin to ponder if such a coincidence could ever truly take place? One murder. Two brothers. Three doors. Fours suspects. And maybe some port… Who killed Edward Eldemire Esquire?

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Old Money, New Habits (One-Act)

by Alexis Martin

Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
farce,
mystery/thriller,
parody/spoof

Lord Edward Eldemire Esquire has suddenly passed and left his trusted butler the duty of carrying out his last will and testament. Unfortunately, that means that the butler now has the great displeasure of meeting Esquire's sole inheritors: his first cousins, Percival and Monty Davies, along with their new wives, Penelope and Felicity. However, the very fact that these suspicious couples are the only ones with...

Lord Edward Eldemire Esquire has suddenly passed and left his trusted butler the duty of carrying out his last will and testament. Unfortunately, that means that the butler now has the great displeasure of meeting Esquire's sole inheritors: his first cousins, Percival and Monty Davies, along with their new wives, Penelope and Felicity. However, the very fact that these suspicious couples are the only ones with such inheritance... one must begin to ponder if such a coincidence could ever truly take place? One murder. Two brothers. Three doors. Fours suspects. And maybe some port… Who killed Edward Eldemire Esquire?

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A Christmas Peril (10 Minute)

by Alexis Martin

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
holiday

A brand new community theater company is putting on the classic Dickens tale, "A Christmas Carol"... or they're trying to... This group has never put on a show, only has access to an elementary school cafetorium to put it on and most of their cast has gotten sick and bailed. So now their cast is made up of three performers (one being their stage manager) and they open tomorrow! Tensions are high to say the least...

A brand new community theater company is putting on the classic Dickens tale, "A Christmas Carol"... or they're trying to... This group has never put on a show, only has access to an elementary school cafetorium to put it on and most of their cast has gotten sick and bailed. So now their cast is made up of three performers (one being their stage manager) and they open tomorrow! Tensions are high to say the least and will any of it even be worth it?

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