Joseph Sexton

full length - 89 pages - Act 1 - Erin and Ted have set out on the road in their converted van in an attempt to attract notice and become social media influencers. Ted quickly becomes disillusioned with van life and searches for other amusements. All the while, his mother keeps checking in. Away from the campsite, out in the woods, he finds drugs, alcohol, sex and gambling, and befriends a man known as the Stranger. The Stranger keeps feeding Ted whatever he wants and all the while running up Ted’s tab. When the debt grows to a point where the Stranger knows he can manipulate him, he calls it in. When Ted can't pay, the Stranger demands that Ted either work in the tent (Brothel) or recruit someone (Erin). Ted promises to settle with the Stranger and later that evening, the Stranger comes around Ted's campsite to collect. Things happen and Ted ends up killing both the Stranger and Erin. - Act 2 - Ted runs home to his mother with the intention of ending it all. He arrives only to find that the Stranger is somehow not dead and has rented his room. Ted's father passes and Ted's ex girl-friend Karen (played by the same actor as Erin but in a wig) shows up to re-kindle their lost romance only to discover an undeniable attraction to the Stranger. As fate would have it, it is both the Stranger's and Karen's birthday. Mother decides to throw them a birthday party while Ted prepares to end it all. Once Ted has prepared his mother for life without him, they start the birthday party and as they finish the birthday song Ted ends it all and the Stranger assumes Ted's position as Ted's mother's son.

Full length - 91 pages- Jane’s father Karl has pushed his family to be exactly like he wants them to be and all the while maintaining a front of complete normalcy, but Jane’s love for a clown and Karl’s love for his therapist has upset their world and set Jane on her way to devising her own life.

Full length - sample text available - 4 short stories intertwined around the theme of love and deception. An aunt shares a scary story and then the truth with her nieces; a man steals to keep his lover but his latest conquest might be more than they can handle; a man with perfect recall remembers the woman he fell in love with and three siblings meet once again in a hospital waiting room.

10 minute short - Ted can't escape his mother's phone calls

10 minute Short - Jerry takes it in stride when Helen tells him that she has been seeing someone else.

Oliver Socket is a real speed demon who fantasizes that he is a race car driver. As a result, he is currently serving a minimum of 20 years for a reckless driving incident that killed two children. Today is his first attempt at parole. He sits center stage in an ill-fitting shirt and tie and tells his story.

Four space aliens sent to Earth to make contact and guide humanity to the next level, arrive and adopt the form of the locally predominant species. Unfortunately, due to a miscalculation, they find themselves as cattle in a rancher’s herd sporting a distinctive blue coloring. The rancher, believing this to be some sort of hoax, fails to see the significance of their arrival and sends them off with the other cattle, cutting their mission short.

Anna lives in a top floor apartment which she shares with her father. She is 35. He is 60. Her mother died 25 years ago in the triangle shirtwaist fire. Tata (Polish for Poppa) is getting too old to work and he has labored in NYC for 30 years after immigrating with his wife from Poland. Anna is their only child. Anna sits just inside the apartment window when she sees a man sketching her and the surrounding buildings from the bridge.

short comedy - COVID RESTRICTION BURNOUT (CRB) - Peter shares his therapy with 2 women at an outdoor cafe.

WINNER - Audience Choice Award - 2022 Chain One Acts Festival - Melissa is ready to get away for the weekend and party. Rick is prepared to declare his love and sacrifice himself to marriage. Ellen, an almost 40 year old adjunct professor is pregnant and just wants to end it. This is the story of two women’s long drive through the regulations and restrictions on women’s health care to a place where Ellen can have her choice and ultimately they find the true meaning of friendship and what love really is.

FINALIST - Secret Theater Winter One Act Festival 2020 - A middle aged, developmentally disabled man's mother dies and he must adjust to his new surroundings through his artwork, superman toys and imaginary conversations with his momma.

A man with perfect recall remembers the key relationship of his life.

short play, one act - Three siblings (16f, 20f, 24m) meet in a hospital waiting room as their mother advances into her final hours. Her slow decline has left them frustrated and impatient to move forward with their lives and they all desire to escape but they differ in their methods. One sibling experiments with drinking, another pursues success, and the other indulges in fantasy. Can they come together as a family or has the loss of their mother torn them apart forever?