Grant MacDermott

Two men meet at a bar. And one of them asks the other a question. A Reeeeaaaallllllllllllly personal one.

Facing the reality of their son's illness, a couple manages to keep both their child and marriage alive. But when a chance encounter gives birth to an innocent lie, it could unravel everything.

Formerly titled Jasper.

Liz wants to be president of Saxon Boarding school. But Mary gets it instead. Liz hits Mary. Mary moves to have Liz expelled. So Liz declares herself Queen and puts Mary in prison. The school becomes a monarchy. People speak in iambic pentameter. And British accents. Then the murders begin.

When Kevin finds a sexually suggestive video of his teacher, Mr. Douglas, online, Kevin begins to blackmail him. On the night Kevin's ultimate demand is to be fulfilled, they both get more than they bargained for.  

Formerly titled click. dark.

Norman Spectre is a professor at a very liberal liberal-arts school in New England. When he is accused of using a racial slur towards a select group of students his world begins to unravel. As his wife slips into dementia, and he falls in love with his TA Latasha, he tries to clear his name and challenge a narrative about him that has developed independently of the facts of what happened and who he is. The challenges our ideas of what is true versus what we want to be true. And asks us what is equity, what is justice, and what does it mean if we must destroy one person and tell one lie for the greater good?

On a cold day in January, 1882 a young Oscar Wilde ventures to meet an aged Walt Whitman at his home in Camden, New Jersey. What Oscar thinks he wants is an endorsement from his literary idol to help his fledgling lecture series. But when he meets Whitman something within him stirs. Does Whitman have the same feeling? The two men must navigate their wildly differing views on art, life, love, and sex; as well as the social morays of the time. Is this a love that dare not speak its name? Adding to the complexity is that at every turn Whitman's secretary, Perry Digby, interrupts Oscar and Walt as they try to understand one another's. . . nature. Sex, secrets, witticisms, and words whirl around as we investigate the true nature and purpose of art, if anyone can really be who they truly are, and why everyone is always making fun of New Jersey.

When Nora meets a man named Dino and his secret comes out, it threatens the livelihood of her sister Macy, her brother-in-law Clay, and her young nephew. Leaving her with a choice: family or love?

An aging Hollywood star enlists the help of a doctor to perform a procedure he had hoped to have buried in his past: a head transplant. And when the procedure is a success, that's when the real problems begin.

Out of the 20 scenes that make up Shakespeare's Hamlet, Queen Gertrude is only in 7 of them. What is she doing all that time when we don't see her? Using Shakespeare's Hamlet as a framework, the scenes of . . . and then there's Gertrude show us what Gertrude (and Claudius) are up to as Hamlet rages and pontificates.. The play explores how much this divisive and enigmatic character knew, what she truly wanted, and how much power she had as we watch her life hurtle towards its inevitable end. And as the characters thrust towards that eventuality we give a woman who rarely speaks, the room to say her piece.

Sisters Pretty and Schmidty just found out from their mother Claire that they were actually adopted when they were babies. But is it true? Claire is sick with Disease, as is Pretty. But is that a genetic connection or just coincidence? With friends, birth mothers, anthropomorphized illness, and boy band sing-a-longs, this play explores what it means to be family.

The Last Radio Hour is the most famous and illegal podcast in the world. Each week millions tune in to listen to a new guest tell their darkest secret. The podcast's location and staff are never disclosed. The storyteller can't reveal their name or any identifiable information. They simply talk, like any other podcast. The only difference is, after they finish telling their story, they die. The Last Radio Hour is about to hit episode 1,000 and, ladies and gentlemen, it's going to be one you don't want to miss.

Connie is going on a trip and has one last thing to say to her husband before she goes.

Two dogs in a pound ponder life, kibble, belly rubs, and how the hell they're going to get out of their cages.

Linda and Barry have been married a while. Like 45 years a while. It's their anniversary. And Linda has gotten something. . . special. For both of them. If she can only get Barry to agree to it.

Father Hendrik commissions Joseph Geefs to make a statue of Lucifer for his church. But when the statue is sexy he isn't quite sure what to do.

Connie is leaving for a week. It's the longest she's ever been away from her husband, Conrad. She is about to head out the door when she finally says something that has been on her mind for a very long time.

Daisy is sitting getting coffee. Then when a mysterious man approaches her and starts to flirt she gets a lot more than she bargained for.

Three students have an interesting take on Hamlet that helps their teacher deal with who he really is. Like Shakespeare says: to thine own self be true.

In the near future a mother engages a brand new kind of hologram technology to reveal to her long dead daughter a deep dark secret.

A man and wife are at sitting together home for just another dinner. Then all of a sudden wife feels it: Now she has cancer. So they live out the rest of their lives together. Right there. At the dinner table.

Two parents talk about their son's teacher, who has just been accused of having an affair with a fellow student. They just have one question: why not their kid?

A man and woman argue about what to do when their son Billy, who's just in the next room, is found to have made threatening drawings of violence about his school. And while they argue, Billy is up to his own thing.

Two men, Richard, and Dick, meet by chance on a baseball field and watch their sons play a game of baseball that gives them more than they bargained for.

Dave and Francis are stranded on a desert island. They have plenty of food and water. But no woman to keep them company. So the two men. . . improvise.

Sondra is interviewing for a job at Nancy's firm. But Nancy has another job in mind for Sondra: a VERY different job.

Ten-minute play in development.