Pete Barry

Pete Barry

Pete Barry is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, director and musician. His short play, Drop (co-written with Michael DeAngelis), was a winner of the 2009 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival. His plays Nine Point Eight Meters Per Second Per Second and The Banderscott were also official selections.

He is a co-founder of the Porch Room and has produced and directed several...
Pete Barry is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, director and musician. His short play, Drop (co-written with Michael DeAngelis), was a winner of the 2009 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival. His plays Nine Point Eight Meters Per Second Per Second and The Banderscott were also official selections.

He is a co-founder of the Porch Room and has produced and directed several collections of short plays, including Five Cornered Thinking at the New York Comedy Club and Burt Reynolds Amazing Napalm Powered Oven and Other Paid Programming in the 2001 New York Fringe Festival. He shared the 2009 NJACT Perry Award for Outstanding Production of an Original Play for Accidents Happen.

Pete lives in the Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania with his wife Jean and his daughters Lia and Violet.

Plays

  • Gravity and Ground by Pete Barry
    Cast: 
    4–12
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    Genre: drama, movement/physical + 2 more
    Genre: drama, movement/physical, political, science fiction
    In the not-too-distant future, a corporate medical doctor is sent to an energy-harvesting space station to solve a PR problem: one of the company's astronauts may be pregnant, and must be convinced to terminate the pregnancy and return to earth.
  • Nick and Nack by Pete Barry
    Cast: 
    10–20
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: christmas, Santa + 3 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, fable/folktale, fantasy, holiday, mystery/thriller, young audiences
    Keyword: christmas, Santa, mystery, comedy, dark fantasy
    Nikolaus of Myra, a.k.a. Nick, a.k.a. Santa Claus, faces an insurrection when a mysterious stranger wanders into his workshop at the North Pole.
  • Thieves by Pete Barry
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: high school, African American + 2 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: high school, African American, meta-fiction, racial issues
    Edrina's a blooming science-fiction writer, and struggles when her white English teacher wants her to write about the "black girl experience". But when her brother Latt comes begging her for help when his new friends leave him holding a stolen laptop, Edrina finds on the computer a short story fitting her teacher's assignment. When she turns it in and the real writer steps forward, an...
    Edrina's a blooming science-fiction writer, and struggles when her white English teacher wants her to write about the "black girl experience". But when her brother Latt comes begging her for help when his new friends leave him holding a stolen laptop, Edrina finds on the computer a short story fitting her teacher's assignment. When she turns it in and the real writer steps forward, an uncomfortable racial comedy of errors ensues.
  • Jehovah by Pete Barry
    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: jehovah's witness, religion + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: jehovah's witness, religion, comedy, dark comedy, artificial intelligence, coding, programming, computers, technology, algorithms
    A Jehovah's Witness strives to redeem himself in the eyes of his wife and his congregation, and ends up having an affair which accidentally helps to usher in the machine apocalypse.
  • The Messages by Pete Barry
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: mystery/thriller, science fiction
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    Keyword: Scary, creepy + 7 more
    Genre: mystery/thriller, science fiction
    Keyword: Scary, creepy, technology, murder, loss, grief, death, ghosts, changelings
    Devon tells the strange story of his friend Steph, and why he has her cell phone.
  • Fight the Bear by Pete Barry
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: comedy
    A precocious eight-year-old argues for her right to fight the bear.
  • Sheeple by Pete Barry
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, political
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    Keyword: sheep, protest + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, political
    Keyword: sheep, protest, banking, wall street versus main street
    Ruben's construction job comes to a screeching halt when Jenny's unique pet stages a silent protest.
  • Life Lessons by Pete Barry
    Cast: 
    3–4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: Lottery, parenthood + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: Lottery, parenthood, fathers, daughters, absurdism
    A father tries to use a lottery ticket dispenser as a teachable moment for his daughter - but life isn't doing him any favors.
  • Power Troop by Pete Barry
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, political + 1 more
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    Keyword: Girl Scouts, Girl Scout Cookies + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, political, satire
    Keyword: Girl Scouts, Girl Scout Cookies, revolution
    Kelli's iron-fisted rule of Girl Scout Troop 16 is toppled by revolutionaries.
  • Dog People by Pete Barry
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
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    Keyword: pets, office + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: pets, office, marriage, dogs
    Ginny and Benedict have a relationship based on mutual admiration and respect...of their dogs. But can their relationship survive their pampered pets' needs?
  • Critical Miss by Pete Barry
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: death, dungeons and dragons + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: death, dungeons and dragons, stages of grief, role play
    A group of D&D players endure the stages of grief as their characters are destroyed before their very eyes.
  • Sticks and Stones by Pete Barry
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    An escalating verbal exchange with a very specific set of rules.
  • Women's Club by Pete Barry
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
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    Keyword: comedy, sexuality + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: comedy, sexuality, gay, Lesbian, Gay and LGBTQ, religion, coming out, bad date
    Two women on a first date gone horribly wrong seek shelter in a megachurch.
  • Engagement by Pete Barry
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: writer's block, Satan + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fantasy, horror
    Keyword: writer's block, Satan, demon, social media, Facebook, Tik Tok, Twitter, comedy horror, exorcism, dark magic
    A flailing writer turns to occult means to exorcise her fear of social media.