Karen Fix Curry

10 minute - An older woman is confronted by her children to give up driving. She realizes they have something else in mind.

Full Length -UPDATED DRAFT -This twist on Bronte and Austen style plays looks deeply into the not so romantic world on 1800's England, where curmudgeon and agoraphobic Professor Bastion has driven off everyone. Mrs. Gates, a once minor member of the nobility has been cast out of society, and desperate, takes a job as Bastion’s housekeeper. These two people help overcome their problems while forging a friendship at a time when friendships between single men and women were considered scandalous.

A Perfect Arrangement takes on these classic literary works by creating at Bronte/Austen world, not through the lens of romance, marriage, and the quest to get ahead in society, but through the struggle to overcome trauma, navigating the class system, and unconventional friendship.

Full Length - A young woman goes to interview a quilting group and finds herself being interviewed for inclusion in their exclusive secret club. Will she join their pay it forward group and help solve her problem?

(An expanded version of the award winning 10 minute dark comedy of the same name, Crazy Quilts. Since everyone kept asking "What happened??" Think Arsenic and Old Lace meets Strangers on a Train)

Full length - When young Irishman Sean Gallagher goes to school in America and brings home an American wife, tensions rise to the breaking point with his sister Mary. Although father Eamon Gallagher is welcoming, Mary's refusal to accept Sean's wife Beth could destroy the family she loves.

Full length - When three sisters reunite for a reunion, they discover they’re all having romance troubles. The recent widow is diving back into the world of dating, the newlywed is worried she has made a mistake yet again, and the youngest has become invisible to her husband. Can they all help each other solve their problems?

10 minute - A young woman goes to interview a quilting group and finds herself being interviewed for inclusion in their exclusive secret club. Will she join their pay it forward group?

10 minute - When a local high school student and a transfer student meet at registration, they learn that they have much more in common than they ever could have imagined.

10 minute - Inspired by interviews with Wendy Wasserstein, this monologue, shines light on her goal of creating real women into plays, with all their problems and frustrations, giving voice to the emerging women's movement at the second half of the 20th century.

Full length - Wendy Wasserstein, writer of “The Heidi Chronicles”, the first woman to win a Tony for best Play, and the Pulitzer for playwriting, comes to life with humor, shining a light on her life, and her goal of creating real women in plays, with all their problems and frustrations, and giving voice to the emerging women's movement at the second half of the 20th century.

10 minute - While riding the ferry, a young woman is befriended by a stranger as she waits for a phone call which will tell her whether or not she will stay or return to her home town. This play has two endings, and the audience can vote for their choice; Manhattan, or Staten Island and home. What will they decide?

Monologue - A healthcare worker tries to cope with the effects of early PTSD due to the pandemic.

One Act - During a bloody battle, the Rowan Knight is terribly wounded, and he is given the gift of invincibility by the Witch of the Westmoreland. But at what price?

One Act - Connie is an artist. At least she keeps telling herself that. Until she is busted in a drug sting operation and finds herself in Arpaio's Tent City, in the hottest summer on record in Phoenix, Arizona. Connie must face the truth about herself, and decide whether it’s too late to reach out to her family for help. Based on a true story.

10 minutes. Jenn and Will are headed to their Mother's wedding. They're supposed to pick something up for their Mother but while on the Staten Island ferry they realize they've lost the paper with all the important info they need to get it. What'll they do now?

One Act - She's lost her husband, her job, and her home. Now Clara must find a way to survive after the economic downturn, by joining the growing group of older Americans in the new economic reality, living out of cars, taking seasonal jobs, and trying to make their way. Clara buys a derelict motorhome, and embarks on her adventure, learning to survive in this new reality.

10 minute “Best friends head home from what was clearly a bad night at the pub. Is it an earth shaking event, or is it the Guinness talking?”

Monologue - Excerpt from Being Wendy Wasserstein (full length). Inspired by interviews with Wendy Wasserstein, this one woman play shines light on her goal of creating real women into plays, with all their problems and frustrations, giving voice to the emerging women's movement at the second half of the 20th century. Here Wendy is being interviewed about her thoughts on her role in women's liberation.

Monologue - This older, wiser, more experienced woman offers her younger sister some advice and help after finding out that she has left her deadbeat husband.

Monologue -Excerpt from Siblings (full length) by Karen Fix Curry

Madge has just learned that her younger sister Paula has decided to leave her husband after almost twenty years together. Madge has been married 8 times, and is a pro at handling breakups.

5 minute - Two close friends, both Jewish, both dealing with the reality that is the 21st century. Miriam's neighbor is a bigoted, insensitive person, and Miriam confides that they are contemplating selling the family home to escape a horrible neighbor.

10 minute - In the highly technical world of aerospace design, women were, and still are, a rarity. In 1993, newly hired Dr. Elizabeth Strong deals with entrenched misogyny on her first day on the job. Based on a true story. Because you can’t make this stuff up.

10 minute - When baking cookies together causes a young couple to snap while in Covid lockdown, their true feelings are revealed.

10 minutes - Nicky, an aspiring actress, idolizes Katharine Hepburn. She wants to meet her so badly she calls her back from the dead. Does Katharine Hepburn's ghost give Nicky the courage she needs to follow her dream?

3 minutes - What will Deanne do when she and sister Brianne unpack at their big overnighter and discover she's forgotten to pack her swimsuit for the big pool party?

Monologue - When a young woman confronts her husband, she realizes her strength to move on from a bad marriage.