Amy Crider

A monologue. A female comic tours the country with her Hillary Clinton act, during the 2016 campaign, leading up to the eve of the election.

A full-length monologue. An arrogant journalist locks himself in the bathroom to drink and rant, on a journey to hell and back, after a painful exchange with his daughter the day after the 2024 election. This was written within a month of the election.

A high school senior must decide whether to join a class-action lawsuit over an AI company stealing art work. A touching portrait of the relationship between a student and her art teacher. A cool element is that the act of their drawing is projected for the audience in real time.

In post-Roe Texas, a woman running for office is forced to reunite with the daughter she gave up for adoption, someone she never wanted to see again, while a pregnant woman suffers complications of a pregnancy.

A brother and sister alternate telling their story as the sister searches for her missing twin brother. Inspired by the current polarization of society, the liberal sister struggles to understand how their relationship fractured. 45 minutes.

A 30-minute monologue. As a man has his final interview with the doctor upon leaving a psych ward, he reflects on where it all went wrong.

A 30-minute one-act, two hander. A mother and son experience an art exhibit throughout their lives in an eternal Now.

An adaptation of the award-winning novel Disorder. A murder mystery about a bipolar college student.

A modern Dracula story, 45-minute monologue.

A teen-aged girl can save her father from a financial crisis if she makes a great sacrifice.

A young Black detective is partnered with the latest technology: a robot. When she learns that this "perfect" computer is programmed with human flaws, including racial profiling, she questions everything she valued.

Pamela, a university professor, is stressed-out planning her crusty mother's 80th birthday party and facing whether to go on anti-anxiety medication. She meditates to calm herself. Struggling with her overbearing mother and pompous husband, a pesky invasive raccoon is the last straw. But an unexpected connection with her young niece during a meditation session spins her in a new direction.

The biggest Trump election night party in 2016: The one at Vladimir Putin's house.

When the lead voice actor of a Saturday morning cartoon show dies a scandalous death, Chuck, the head writer, wants to give him a heroic send-off on the show. But it's against FCC regulation for a character to die on a Saturday morning cartoon (this is a real regulation). O'Neill and Princess Grace semifinalist.

Three freshman girls in high school befriend a robot who has joined their class, and the class bully is redeemed. Winner of the Tennessee Williams One Act Play Contest. Available for licensing from TRW.
Note: there is adult language.

A young woman gets a new job working with a psychologist to study human behavior on social media. At first it's fun to see who likes and shares cute cat videos. But things take a dark turn when they're assigned to create a political action group whose members seem to be disappearing.

A full-length monologue. Charlie Johnson is a 75-year old small town Midwesterner. One day he dips a Madeleine cookie in his coffee at Starbucks, and his snooty daughter-in-law gives him a little lecture on Proust.
Determined to prove he's no dummy, he decides to read all of Proust. He then reflects upon the epic and his own life, as he ponders how to "live right" and get close to his estranged daughter.

Maybe we'd all be happier in simpler times...like 9000 BC. A family finds out.

Two years after Orson Welles' famous War of the Worlds broadcast, he and HG Wells happened to be in Texas at the same time. Orson comes to HG's hotel room to ask a favor on a rainy night, but HG is still furious over Orson's prank. Available for licensing from TRW.
Nominated for the ATCA/Steinberg Award.

When a young nurse is found dead in a psych ward, the patients must hold themselves together to solve the mystery. A realistic view of psych wards based on personal experience.

A female DA copes with the case of a serial killer who runs for president from jail, while her teen-age daughter
runs away to figure things out.

Dom and Suzy have just moved into a new apartment, when an annoying sound coming in bothers Dom. The sound drives him to the edge of madness. Then he notices that when Suzy sits in a certain corner, the sound goes away. He'll do anything to keep her in that corner, even sell his soul. As Suzy stays ensconced in her corner, the play becomes increasingly surreal, as she turns into an object of worship and horror.

Casey is a shy, withdrawn college student who meets a young man with a theory: insanity is caused by a virus that's spreading around the globe. As she observes the crazy world around us, embodied by her news-obsessed grandmother, she starts to think he is right. But as Alan becomes more obsessed with his theory, Casey is forced to break out of her shell to be the friend he needs.

It's August, 1916. The famous Irish poet William Butler Yeats has come to Normandy to pace on the beach with the revolutionary Maud Gonne, considered Ireland's Joan of Arc. He has wanted to marry her for 30 years, and the Easter Uprising has just made her a widow. Can he convince her at last, or will he finally let her go?

A farce in the style of Aristophanes. Leda is captured in the war between Athens and Sparta and sold into slavery. One day in the market, a soldier seduces her claiming to be Zeus in disguise, then goes off, leaving her pregnant. Her Master notices her condition and orders her to "expose" (abandon to die) the baby when it's born. She says she can't do this, because the baby's father is Zeus. The Mayor gets wind of this and thinks a child of Zeus born in Athens would be great publicity for his re-election, while the High Priest is terrified Hera will punish them and orders Leda into exile. Everyone is trying to control Leda's fate, but with the help of Socrates, Leda outwits all of Athens to gain her freedom and have a happy ending.

An adaptation of legends from ancient Ireland. Has many characters, good for a large drama department, with many strong female roles and a lot of stage combat.

An old lesbian history professor is in conflict with her partner's daughter about how to handle her partner's dementia. (10 minute)