FULL LENGTH (60 minutes). Eddie and Danny are blue-collar small-town guys. In Act I (1975), Eddie questions his sexuality after an encounter in a public restroom. When he turns to his best friend Danny for help, the toxic nature of their lifelong relationship is revealed. In Act II (1985), both men discover they may have been infected with HIV/AIDS. Can sharing that experience rekindle their friendship? Also included in "Best Friends and Other Plays."

Nine monologues and two-handers about the gay experience, most featuring roles for actors over 30.
(All are available separately.) Includes:
BEST FRIENDS (60-minute two-hander) Act I: Confessing to an incident in a public restroom brings up old secrets and threatens a lifelong friendship. Act II: Two men discover they have been exposed to HIV/AIDS. Can facing that experience together rekindle their broken friendship? Graphic language.
LIFE SUPPORT (10-minute two-hander) The same-sex lover and the homophobic sister of a man on life support meet for the first time.
THE BOYS ACROSS THE STREET (1-page monologue) An older white woman discovers to her dismal that an interracial same-sex couple is moving in across the street.
DAD AND UNCLE MARK (10-minute monologue) An older man remembers what he saw spying through a knothole when he was thirteen.
FOR A MAN YOUR AGE (10-minute two-hander) A gay couple discusses aging, flirtatious baristas, and the National Geographic.
COMING OUT TO UNCLE JAKE (1-minute two-hander) Robert has finally had enough of Uncle Jake's Thanksgiving rants about "people like him."
I INVITED YOUR MOTHER FOR THANKSGIVING (8-minute two-hander) One half of a gay couple is not pleased to find out his mother is coming for Thanksgiving.
WHAT HAPPENED THIS TIME? (5-minute two-hander) The “Klutz of All Klutzes” explains to their long-suffering spouse why their failed attempt to take a box to the trash means a trip to the ER and the pet cemetery.
INTESTATE (10-minute monologue) A 50-year-old gay man loses his partner and everything else to the COVID pandemic.

ONE MINUTE. Robert has finally had enough of Uncle Jake's Thanksgiving rants about "people like him." Also included in "Best Friends and Other Plays."

TEN-MINUTE TWO-HANDER. With their elevator not working, older gay couple Michael and Will find themselves trapped in their high-rise condo, discussing aging, flirtatious baristas, and the National Geographic. Also included in "Best Friends and Other Plays."

MONOLOGUE: 7-8 minutes. Richard, a fifty-year-old gay man, has lost his partner (and everything else) to COVID-19. Performed in 2022 by Magnolia Arts Center in Greenville NC (awarded audience favorite) and in 2021 by Talking Horse Productions in Columbia MO. Published by the "some scripts online literary journal" in Issue 4: Outbreak, 2021. Also included in "Best Friends and Other Plays."

TWO-MINUTE COMEDY for two actors of any age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender expression. The “Klutz of All Klutzes” explains to their spouse why an attempt to take a box to the trash means a trip to the ER and the pet cemetery. Also included in "Best Friends and Other Plays."

MONOLOGUE: 5-6 minutes. A mob attempted to lynch a Negro prisoner in 1880 when Julius August “Gus” Lemcke (pronounced “LEM-key”) was sheriff of Vanderburgh County, Indiana. This monologue is adapted from Lemcke’s own account of this episode in his 1905 published memoir.

Be advised that the “N word” appears twice in this script. Lemcke himself disapproved of the term and makes clear, through his use of quote marks, that it was the mob that was using it to refer to the prisoner.

In this one-man play, a 19th-century steamboat captain tells amusing and harrowing stories of the Civil War on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Adapted from a 1905 memoir by J.A. Lemcke.