Max Reuben

Max Reuben is a Philadelphia-born, Brooklyn-based playwright, director, and teacher who loves big-hearted, humanistic theater that attempts to reduce the amount of existential despair and loneliness in the universe. He’s written, directed, and devised work in a diversity of venues from Ars Nova to the Museum of Modern Art to a very hip apartment in Williamsburg. He’s a proud graduate of Playwrights Horizons Theater School, an undergraduate studio at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he now teaches first-year playwriting. In the summers, he teaches playwriting and devises new plays with the Powerhouse Theater Training Program at Vassar College. MFA: NYU Dramatic Writing.

Max Reuben is a Philadelphia-born, Brooklyn-based playwright, director, and teacher who loves big-hearted, humanistic theater that attempts to reduce the amount of existential despair and loneliness in the universe. He’s written, directed, and devised work in a diversity of venues from Ars Nova to the Museum of Modern Art to a very hip apartment in Williamsburg. He’s a proud graduate of Playwrights Horizons Theater School, an undergraduate studio at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he now teaches first-year playwriting. In the summers, he teaches playwriting and devises new plays with the Powerhouse Theater Training Program at Vassar College. MFA: NYU Dramatic Writing.

Scripts

Then, Of Course, All The Things Happened

by Max Reuben

4
Cast Size
6—30
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
immersive,
melodrama,
movement/physical,
musical,
political,
romantic comedy,
tragedy

Remember when the stray cat died and that time you needed a ride home and the day you met your roommate and the day you said goodbye to your mom? How about that argument about the phone and also the way the printer at work kept jamming and the time you found that thing in your kid’s backpack and – oh man – do you remember writing and sending that email you swore you’d never send?

Then, Of Course, All The Things...

Remember when the stray cat died and that time you needed a ride home and the day you met your roommate and the day you said goodbye to your mom? How about that argument about the phone and also the way the printer at work kept jamming and the time you found that thing in your kid’s backpack and – oh man – do you remember writing and sending that email you swore you’d never send?

Then, Of Course, All The Things Happened is a kaleidoscopic play consisting of dozens of hyper-specific
moments which – when taken together – attempt to get at something true and honest about what it means to be a living, breathing human being in a world surrounded by other living, breathing human beings.

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Bank Holiday

by Max Reuben

4
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
drama,
holiday

Lisa, Boyd, and Grace all went to high school together, but Grace is the only one who moved out of their tiny town like she had always wanted. Years later, for reasons both personal and professional, she’s moved back home and taken a job with her old classmates at the local bank. On the morning of Christmas Eve, as an unexpected snowfall threatens each of their holiday plans, the three find it harder and harder...

Lisa, Boyd, and Grace all went to high school together, but Grace is the only one who moved out of their tiny town like she had always wanted. Years later, for reasons both personal and professional, she’s moved back home and taken a job with her old classmates at the local bank. On the morning of Christmas Eve, as an unexpected snowfall threatens each of their holiday plans, the three find it harder and harder to tiptoe around the real and perceived slights of their shared history.

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Trojans

by Max Reuben

5
Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
drama,
period

During the ninth year of the Trojan war, two exiled soldiers try to decide what to do with the gigantic wooden horse they've found.

During the ninth year of the Trojan war, two exiled soldiers try to decide what to do with the gigantic wooden horse they've found.

Teeth

by Max Reuben

8
Cast Size
2—3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
romantic comedy,
young audiences

A receptionist at a dentist's office has to answer to her angry boss when a large, carnivorous dinosaur shows up in the waiting room and refuses to leave.

A receptionist at a dentist's office has to answer to her angry boss when a large, carnivorous dinosaur shows up in the waiting room and refuses to leave.