Stephen Sheffer

Stephen Sheffer's full-length plays include Lean-To (off-Broadway, 59e59, NYC), Private Property (Out of the Box Theatrics, NYC), the Toronto International Fringe Festival Patron’s Pick award-winning Back To Mine, Story of Four, and the freshly-penned S.O.S (59e59, NYC). Other plays include the one-acts The Spark (Mastodon/Barrow Group, NYC) and IRMPOV SHOW as well as a stage adaptation of Trey Parker’s Cannibal! The Musical that played for a sold out run at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre. Episodic concepts include: The Innkeepers, Geri Atrick Mayor (Bell Canada), Cockfight, Salmon Elbow, Writing Wrong, Working Title, The Joint, Birth Control and Archipelago (Blue Ant Media). In New York City, producing and performing comedy shows (some scripted, some improvised) continues to be an ongoing...

Stephen Sheffer's full-length plays include Lean-To (off-Broadway, 59e59, NYC), Private Property (Out of the Box Theatrics, NYC), the Toronto International Fringe Festival Patron’s Pick award-winning Back To Mine, Story of Four, and the freshly-penned S.O.S (59e59, NYC). Other plays include the one-acts The Spark (Mastodon/Barrow Group, NYC) and IRMPOV SHOW as well as a stage adaptation of Trey Parker’s Cannibal! The Musical that played for a sold out run at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre. Episodic concepts include: The Innkeepers, Geri Atrick Mayor (Bell Canada), Cockfight, Salmon Elbow, Writing Wrong, Working Title, The Joint, Birth Control and Archipelago (Blue Ant Media). In New York City, producing and performing comedy shows (some scripted, some improvised) continues to be an ongoing activity as well as acting off-Broadway and regionally on stages in the USA & Canada.

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Scripts

S.O.S.

by Stephen Sheffer

Cast Size
5—6
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

A searing dark comedy about survival, connection, and the thin line between corporate synergy and spiritual crisis. When a group of mismatched coworkers embarks on a team-building retreat to the Grand Canyon, things quickly spiral as they're stranded without food under the punishing desert sun. As the temperature rises, so does the tension — until façades melt, secrets spill, and desperate souls are pushed to...

A searing dark comedy about survival, connection, and the thin line between corporate synergy and spiritual crisis. When a group of mismatched coworkers embarks on a team-building retreat to the Grand Canyon, things quickly spiral as they're stranded without food under the punishing desert sun. As the temperature rises, so does the tension — until façades melt, secrets spill, and desperate souls are pushed to their breaking points. Somewhere between sunstroke and salvation, they each come face-to-face with something divine… or maybe just delirium. A haunting, hilarious meditation on what we find when we’re lost.

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LEAN-TO

by Stephen Sheffer

Cast Size
3
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

Three hikers meet at a rustic lean-to shelter and spend a night together in the woods. When they come together around the warmth of a campfire, the spark that ignites between them becomes too hot to handle. The trio fragments but not before they experience the joy of authentic connection. LEAN-TO explores the human desire to connect and the shadow of loneliness that lurks within all of us.

Three hikers meet at a rustic lean-to shelter and spend a night together in the woods. When they come together around the warmth of a campfire, the spark that ignites between them becomes too hot to handle. The trio fragments but not before they experience the joy of authentic connection. LEAN-TO explores the human desire to connect and the shadow of loneliness that lurks within all of us.

PRIVATE PROPERTY

by Stephen Sheffer

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
political,
satire,
science fiction

A pair of mid-career Canadian artists visit an older, wealthy couple they met by chance at a holiday party. The foursome convenes at a house in the woods upstate New York where everyone's inner opportunist comes out to stake their claim. Private Property examines interpersonal exploitation, wealth and the quest for legacy.

A pair of mid-career Canadian artists visit an older, wealthy couple they met by chance at a holiday party. The foursome convenes at a house in the woods upstate New York where everyone's inner opportunist comes out to stake their claim. Private Property examines interpersonal exploitation, wealth and the quest for legacy.