Philip Middleton Williams

The script and rights are available through Next Stage Press.

Full-Length: (2015) Part 1 in the "All Together" series. On the morning of Paul’s fortieth birthday, the doorbell rings and in walks Fox, age 15, just off the plane from Santa Fe.  He is Paul's son — a fact Paul did not know until that moment — and he wants to move in with Paul and his partner Adam. This life-changing moment touches the whole family, including Paul’s parents, and in ways no one expected until that morning.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Full-Length: (2020) Part 2 in the "All Together" series. Ten years after "All Together Now," Paul and Adam welcome the family back. It's a big occasion: Paul's fiftieth birthday and Fox's engagement party. But there are other things going on that threaten the celebrations, and it's going to be a long weekend in more ways than one.

Finalist - American Association of Community Theatres NewPlayFest 2025.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Full-Length: (2020) Part 3 in the "All Together" series. Fifteen years after "All Together Again," the family gathers to celebrate the life of one of them. For Fox's son P.J. and his boyfriend Will, it's a time of reckoning, and all of the family is facing decisions about the future.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Full-Length: (2020) Part 4 in the "All Together" series. Five years after "All Together At Last," P.J. and Will are planning their wedding when Will finds out about his family history, including his birth name and ancestry. He braces himself to meet his past and his future in the form of his biological father and half-brother.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Full-Length: (2023) Mitch and Ben have landed summer jobs working poolside at the Silver Spray, an exclusive resort in the Florida Keys. When they meet Alex and Miriam, it soon becomes apparent that there are things that go beyond their job description of waiting on the guests, including the complex tapestry of sexual intricacies, subtleties, strategies, and vulnerabilities.

The script and rights are available through Next Stage Press.

Full-Length: (2002) Donny is a writer of romance novels living in the Florida Keys with his girlfriend, Anna, a realtor, both living their dreams. Then Bobby Cramer shows up.  He is the main character in Donny’s abandoned novel and asks “Why have you left me in the bottom of your desk drawer?  What happened to me?”  Now Donny must choose between Anna and their comfortable life or Bobby and the unknown.

Three monologues are included in The Best Men's Monologues 2019, published by The Applause Acting Series.

The script and rights are available through Next Stage Press.

Full-Length: (2019) Sam and Frank Weaver are at their summer home on Lake Michigan for a memorial service for Ruth, Frank's wife and Sam's mother. They are joined by friends and former loves to reminisce about summers past. As the day progresses — and under the influence of good Scotch — some well-kept memories that some would rather forget are revealed.

Finalist - American Association of Community Theatres NewPlayFest 2024.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Full-Length: (2026) The Simmons family has gathered at their summer home on Lake Michigan to celebrate their father’s 70th birthday. The house is a hundred years old and up for sale. Long-held secrets, sibling rivalries, and generational divides come to light while the family grapples with letting go of the past and embracing change. They have some tough choices to make, including what to do with the faithful old station wagon in the garage.

The script and rights are available through Next Stage Press.

Full-Length: (2020) Set at an all-boys boarding school in New England, Richard and Jeff, former classmates and now teachers, meet in one of their old classrooms to reminisce. Enter Jim, the man who hired them both. Tensions intensify as the three begin a fierce dance culminating in a relentless series of revelations, each more startling than the last.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Full-Length: (2022) Marc Griffin has landed his dream job of teaching English at a prestigious New England private day school. But he soon learns that the expectations of the parents and the students put him to the test, and the toughest lessons he learns are about himself as a teacher and a person.

Full-Length: (1984) Six teenage students and four adult instructors are isolated in the Rocky Mountains on a six-week wilderness survival course. Each has to come to terms with their fears, weaknesses, strengths and instincts, sometimes with chilling and tragic outcomes.

MFA Thesis Project, University of Minnesota, 1977. Revised for production in 1984. Not available for production.

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Full-Length: (2025) On the run from Immigration, Pete and Gordy take refuge in an old house by a quarry pond in northwest Ohio. When Benjie, a deputy sheriff-in-training, tracks them down, the standoff leads to some interesting events that may have something to do with the magic of the house, the land, and the quarry.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Full-Length: (2025) Five years after his abrupt departure from his writing partnership, Scott is reluctantly reunited with his partner, Deke, and their agent, Marvin. Now comfortably settled in his Florida home, Scott has to reconcile with them and his own issues about going back and going on.

The script and rights are available through Next Stage Press.

Full-Length: (2020) Dave and Pete Granger, age 17, are twin brothers in rural Ohio in 1970. Dave enlists in the Army as a combat medic and is sent to Vietnam. Pete, a piano prodigy and gay, goes to Canada to pursue his education in music and avoids the draft. Their parents -- Hal, a veteran of the Korean War, and Deb, a nurse -- are left to deal with the consequences of their sons’ actions and their future as a family. Over the next five years, their lives are changed forever by the war and the choices each of them has made.

Premiered at LAB Theater Project, Tampa, Florida, April 28, 2022.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Full-Length: (2024) Friends gather at their summer place on Grand Traverse Bay in Michigan on July 20, 1969. But there’s more going on besides the first moon landing. For some, it’s the beginning of a new life, and for others, it’s a time to examine how this group of entitled young adults process the death of one of their own in the war in Vietnam and the everyday hypocrisies that are a foundation of their way of life. One small step, indeed.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Full-Length: (2023) At a retrospective exhibit of the works of the late artist Eric Michael Foster, his surviving partner Nick is dealing with his struggle to move on with his new partner while preserving Eric’s legacy. It’s complicated by echoes of the past and the uncertain future.

Finalist in the Utah Shakespeare Festival Words Cubed 2025.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

One-Act: (1994) An HIV/AIDS support group meets in a church basement and embraces the reluctant and frightened parents of an AIDS victim.

Commissioned by Northern Michigan Planned Parenthood for World AIDS Day 1994.

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One-Act: (2020) The usual crowd gathers for coffee at their favorite diner in a small western town until a mysterious stranger enters and engages them in conversation. But who's telling the truth and who's not? And what's the lunch special?

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

One-Act: (2024) As they wait to be selected for jury duty, Chuck and Barry discuss the state of the justice system and how the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth can be an illusion.

Finalist, Nomad Theatre Order in the Court 2025.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

One-Act: (2020) Alex, a bail bondsman from Las Vegas, is taking Tony, a mob accountant, across country to his new life and identity under witness protection. They spend the night on the side of the road in the middle of the New Mexico desert among the dangers of the desert life, and learn some interesting truths about themselves and each other.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

One-Act: (2015) George and Marjorie come all the way from Minnesota to South Beach to meet the man their son Steve is going to marry. Confusion and hilarity ensues.

Published in the "Love is Love is Love" anthology by the Protest Plays Project in 2017.

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Ten-Minute: (2026) Two unemployed men sit on a park bench and discuss the past, the present, and what to do with all the free time they now have.

Written for the 2026 Playwrights Thriving Playwright's Delight.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Ten-Minute: (2021) Jared needs to collect a debt from Luke, but there's more to the story than just an unpaid bill.

Scripts and production rights are available through ArtAge Publications’ Senior Theatre Resource Center.

Ten-Minute: (2014) Paul and Adam settle into their new retirement community in South Florida and come to terms with the life that has brought them there.

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Ten-Minute (2025): John visits the niche where his late lover Herb's ashes are buried with the hope of invoking the Three Wishes to bring him back. But to his horror, things don't go as he wishes.

Inspired by "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs for the 2025 Playwrights Thriving Frighteningly Inspired series.

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Ten-Minute: (2026) Hilarity ensues when Carole arrives to spend the winter in Miami and meets an unexpected guest, Nigel, who mistakes her for the cleaning lady. It gets more confusing when Jerry, a cop, shows up looking for her son Kevin to detain him for running an illegal Air BnB, but is that why he's really there? And who's coming to Thanksgiving dinner?

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com

Ten-Minute: (2025) Tom and Jerry are enjoying a day at the beach. Do you hear what I hear?

Written for the 2025 Playwrights Thriving Secret Santa Title Exchange.

The script and rights are available through Next Stage Press.

Collection: (2020) These seven ten-minute plays follow a father and his two sons through life -- from childhood through the end of one life and beyond -- and can be produced individually or as one full production in chronological order. The collection includes A Moment of Clarity which was a finalist in the City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting in 2017.

A House by the Side of the Road
Blind No. 7
And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
A Moment of Clarity
Favorite Son
I'll Be Here
Good Grief

Included in "A House by the Side of the Road - Seven Short Plays About a Family" published by Next Stage Press.

Ten-Minute: (2020) Clyde and his sons Steve and Dan sit on the back porch on a summer evening listening to the Detroit Tigers play baseball on the radio and learn that you don't have to play the game to be in it.

Also included in Extra Innings: Ten Plays About Baseball from Next Stage Press.

Included in "A House by the Side of the Road - Seven Short Plays About a Family" published by Next Stage Press.

Ten-Minute: (2020) Clyde and his sons Steve and Dan spend a morning in Blind No. 7 at Erie Marsh duck-hunting, telling dad-jokes, and being together.

Included in "A House by the Side of the Road - Seven Short Plays About a Family" published by Next Stage Press.

Ten-Minute: (2020) Clyde stops by to see Dan on visiting day at the treatment center.

Included in "A House by the Side of the Road - Seven Short Plays About a Family" published by Next Stage Press.

Ten-Minute: (2016) Clyde, in the early stages of dementia, sits with Dan as they share memories and truths.

City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting 2017 finalist.

Included in "A House by the Side of the Road - Seven Short Plays About a Family" published by Next Stage Press.

Ten-Minute: (2020) Dan and Steve are waiting to visit their father who is in hospice care. As they sort through the arrangements, they sort through their relationship, bracing themselves for what's coming next.

Included in "A House by the Side of the Road - Seven Short Plays About a Family" published by Next Stage Press.

Ten-Minute: (2020) Dan spends some time with the spirit of Clyde in the woods where they used to go bird-watching.

Included in "A House by the Side of the Road - Seven Short Plays About a Family" published by Next Stage Press.

Ten-Minute: (2020) Dan stops by the forest to visit Clyde and meets his new lifelong companion. He's an attractive young man named Grief, and he and Dan are going to get to know each other very well.

Scripts and production rights are available through Next Stage Press.

Collection: (2024) Four plays and a monologue about the life and times of Allen J. Pfannenstiel (1964-2018). The plays include "A Tree Grows in Longmont," a one-act; "Allen's Big Adventure," the monologue that was the inspiration for "A Tree Grows in Longmont," followed by "Last Exit," "Going for a Walk with Sam," and "Another Park, Another Sunday."

Included in "A Tree Grows in Longmont and Other Plays About Allen" published by Next Stage Press.

One-Act: (2019) A year after Allen’s death, Philip visits the park in Longmont, Colorado, where a tree has been planted in his memory. There he meets with Allen’s spirit, and they remember their life together.

Included in "A Tree Grows in Longmont and Other Plays About Allen" published by Next Stage Press.

Monologue: (2019) Memories come flooding back as a spouse says goodbye to his soulmate.

Included in "A Tree Grows in Longmont and Other Plays About Allen" published by Next Stage Press.

Ten-Minute: (2013) Moving day for Malcolm was supposed to bring closure to his fifteen years with Arnold. But as they pack up the house, the memories come back and they finally come to terms with what led up to this day. Or do they?

Included in "A Tree Grows in Longmont and Other Plays About Allen" published by Next Stage Press.

Ten-Minute: (2021) Allen, Sam, and Philip meet up at a park in the spirit of remembering good times and the last time they were together.

Included in "A Tree Grows in Longmont and Other Plays About Allen" published by Next Stage Press.

Ten-Minute: (2020) Allen and Jill, two spirits, meet up every Sunday at the park to talk about life, the universe, the meaning of life, and peaches.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Ten-Minute: (2025) Fred has reached his retirement as a high school teacher. His co-worker Johnny asks him what he is going to do with all that free time. Well, Johnny, the answer may surprise you.

Written for the 2025 Playwrights Thriving Shared Title Challenge.

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Collection: (2020) Short plays ranging from romance to farce.

Ask Me Anything; Any Second Now; Birds of Paradise; Chewie, Get Us Out of Here; The Christmas Commercial Conspiracy; END OF PLAY.; Going There; Goodbye, Bobby; Good Vibrations; Here's Your Sandwich; How About Them Dodgers; Matthew Weaver, Marry Me; The Melatonin Minders; Short Cut in the Cemetery; Stop Laughing Without Me; Things I Learned While Careening Toward the Center of the Universe; ‘Til Dough Do Us Part; Twelve Books; Under the August Moon; Viral Love.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Ten-Minute: (2006) Martin, desperate to get a job, arrives for his interview. There he meets Steve, who launches into a series of questions that soon become intimate, harrowing, and twisted. Can Martin do the job, but more importantly, why does Steve want to know what kind of underwear he is wearing?

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Ten-Minute: (2020) Four characters are in the waiting room at Characters Equity, waiting for their next assignment..

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Ten-Minute: (2024) The flock gathers for their regular morning meeting to decide the agenda for the day when an unexpected visitor joins them. Will they welcome the new one or turn tail and fly away?

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Ten-Minute: (2020) The crew of a starship is stranded on a planet where they find themselves being attacked from all sides and above by menacing cliches, supernova-sized plot holes, and hackneyed taglines.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Ten-Minute (2022): It's Memorial Day weekend. Barney and Judy work in an ad agency and have to come up with commercials to sell stuff at Christmas without connecting them to the holiday itself. There's gotta be a way...

Written for the 2022 Playwrights Thriving Secret Santa Title Exchange; title from Christopher Jean Soucy.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Ten-Minute: (2020) A play reading at a theatre conference turns from the play and the playwright to drama and intrigue between the respondents, and as time goes by, we learn that the fundamental things may not apply.

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Ten-Minute: (2021) Sam and Gary, best friends since grade school, graduate from high school, meet up again ten years later, and wonder what might have been. Can they go back to where they were? Does that ring a bell?

Written for the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive 2021.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Ten-Minute: (2020) Donny finally finishes the novel he started years ago, but typing "The End" doesn't mean the end of the story, especially when the main character doesn't want to leave just yet.

An epilogue to "Can't Live Without You."

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Ten-Minute: (2020) Mike and Ron meet up at their 20th high school reunion and discuss their very different ideas of a "normal" marriage until karma drops in on the conversation.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Ten-Minute: (2013) Joel has a bad case of writer's block that brings on strange visions of pouncing cats, Edward Albee, and his wife Liz delivering his lunch.

Inspired by a George Booth cartoon in The New Yorker.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Ten-Minute: (2023) What looks like a casual conversation on a park bench in Miami is anything but. There's some illicit business going on, and it gets all the more furtive when a cop walks by.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Ten-Minute: (2024) At the estate sale of a stately old home, three pieces of furniture reminisce about their lives and times together and wonder what will become of them.

Written for the Desert Playwrights' Retreat 2024.

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Ten-Minute: (2020) Two playwrights meet for coffee. Hilarity ensues.

Included in "40ish Short Plays about Matthew Weaver, compiled by Matthew Weaver."

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Ten-Minute: (2023) It’s very late on Christmas Eve and all Steve wants is a good night’s sleep. But three spirits in the form of Ludwig van Beethoven, Carl Reiner, and W.C. Fields have other plans, so let the dreams begin.

Written for the 2023 Playwrights Thriving Secret Santa Title Exchange. Title by Jacquelyn Priskorn.

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Ten-Minute: (2020) What starts out as a romantic rendezvous for Joe and Carol takes a wild turn.

Written for the 2020 Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive.

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Ten-Minute: (2021) An eager playwright with a powerful message meets with a producer, but the meeting doesn't go as planned.

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Ten-Minute: (2024) Marvin and Paige are at the gate waiting to board their flight home for the holidays under the helpful care of Shelly, the gate agent. But when the flight is cancelled and there are no more flights on Christmas Eve, they share a little about their expectations and why they're not so excited about spending the time with the family.

Written for the 2024 Playwrights Thriving Secret Santa Title Exchange. Title by Monica Cross.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Ten-Minute: (2020) During the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, Joel and his fiance Paul stop by the coffee shop run by Joel's ex, Mike, and find themselves quarantined on several levels.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Ten-Minute: (2024) John, a man in his sixties, is packing up the last of his father’s books as the family prepares to move out of their “life enriching community.” He is joined by Tim, the spirit of his father at the age of sixteen, and together they remember reading the twelve books in a series that has been in the family for generations.

Rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Five-Minute: (2021) Sam and Doug, friends in life, reunite as spirits somewhere in Eternity.

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One-Minute: (2020) Two people prepare to take the next step in their relationship during a time of uncertainty and social distancing.

1MPF Coronavirus Play Project, March 2020.

Collection: (2022) Monologues for auditions and performance.

Allen's Big Adventure; Another Great Literary Career; Do You Get It; The Crush; Free! Powerful Muscles Fast!; Hey, Dad; Just A Local; Last One Standing; The Last Time You Thought About Me; Quite The Connoisseur; Remember Me?; Sex... I Don't Know; Simple Black Marks; That Goddam Tree; There's Something About a Ginger; What Great Question in Life Do You Answer; You Finally Did it; Zero Sum Game

The scripts are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Monologue: (2018) Donny is a best-selling romance novelist who writes under the name of Amanda Longington. He is talking to a character in his first novel.

An excerpt from "Can't Live Without You." Published in The Best Men's Monologue 2019 by the Applause Acting Series.

The script and rights are available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Monologue: (2026) Remembering that first crush that awakens with the intensity that would linger forever.

Monologue: (2020) The mother of a soldier in the Army in Vietnam in 1970 talks with her husband about what keeps her awake at night.

An excerpt from "The Sugar Ridge Rag." Included in the Best Women's Stage Monologues 2023 published by Smith & Kraus.

Monologue: (2022) Mike tells us how he learned that big biceps don't make you a superhero.

The script is available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Monologue: (2021) A son remembers his father who died from Covid-19.

Written for The Covid Monologues: 54 Writers Respond to the Pandemic. The script is available through Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble.

Monologue: (2022) Kenny, a local guy, shares an honest moment with the summer people up on Lake Michigan.

An excerpt from "Cooler Near the Lake." The script is available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Monologue: (2006) Steve mercilessly grills a prospective employee about his highly sensitive new job.

An excerpt from "Ask Me Anything." The script is available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Monologue: (2018) Bobby, a character in a romance novel written by a man under a female name, wants to know why he has not been in any more of the writer’s novels.

An excerpt from "Can't Live Without You." Published in The Best Men's Monologue 2019 by the Applause Acting Series.

Monologue: (2022) Alex explains why he only drinks a certain brand of water.

An excerpt from "Tucumcari Tonite!" Included in the Best Men's Stage Monologues 2023 published by Smith & Kraus.

Monologue: (2021) My left ankle reminds me of a moment that left a scar.

Written for the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive 2021. The script is available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Monologue: (2019) Fox is a fifteen-year-old boy meeting his biological father for the first time. They are getting acquainted, and Fox has some rather interesting views on growing up.

An excerpt from "All Together Now," published by Next Stage Press.

Monologue: (2021) An English teacher at an exclusive prep school addresses the class as he is packing up to leave after his contract was not renewed.

An excerpt from "A Good Year." The script is available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Monologue: (2021) Larry, a white heterosexual homophobe, reacts to "A Tree Grows in Longmont."

Written for the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive 2021. The script is available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

Monologue: (2023) Fond recollections about a boy named Sean with that special something.

An excerpt from "Cabana Boy." Included in the Best Women's Stage Monologues 2024.

Monologue: (2018) Bobby, a character in a novel, appears and confronts the writer and the characters in the romance novel his writer has created while leaving him languishing in a desk drawer.

An excerpt from "Can't Live Without You." Published in The Best Men's Monologue 2019 by the Applause Acting Series.

Monologue: (2023) Saying goodbye to a loved one and wishing them well on their next big adventure.

An excerpt from "A Tree Grows in Longmont" published by Next Stage Press and included in the Best Men's Stage Monologues 2024.

Monologue: (2021) Dave Granger, an Army medic at a MASH in Vietnam, is home on leave in Sugar Ridge, Ohio, in June 1974. He talks about one night on duty.

An excerpt from "The Sugar Ridge Rag." Included in the Best Men's Stage Monologues 2023 published by Smith & Kraus.

Eight one-minute plays written for the Miami edition of the One-Minute Play Festivals from 2015 to 2018.

Begging the Question
Planning Ahead
Climate Change
Welcome to Fourbucks
Spoiler Alert
Unforgivable
Gee, Your Butt Smells Terrific
Off the Rails

The script is available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

One-Minute: (2014) How do you pull off the perfect proposal?

South Florida One-Minute Play Festival, 2015

The script is available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

One-Minute: (2014) Even the best-laid plans can hit a roadblock.

South Florida One-Minute Play Festival, 2015

The script is available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

One-Minute: (2015) Cold enough for you?

South Florida One-Minute Play Festival, 2016

The script is available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

One-Minute: (2015) Ordering a coffee is complicated.

South Florida One-Minute Play Festival, 2016

The script is available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

One-Minute: (2016) Hey, let's go to the movies!

South Florida One-Minute Play Festival, 2017

The script is available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

One-Minute: (2016) You had one job...

South Florida One-Minute Play Festival, 2017. Fast and Furious VIII, StageLeft, Spokane, WA, 2021

The script is available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

One-Minute: (2017) Sam and Ben meet up at the dog park and exchange pleasantries.

South Florida One-Minute Play Festival, 2018

The script is available at www.pmwplaywright.com.

One-Minute: (2017) Riding the Miami Metrorail has its moments.

South Florida One-Minute Play Festival, 2018

The script is available at www.pmwplaywright.com.