Edmund Sabato

Two brothers clash over their different approaches to faith and grief at the funeral service for a third brother.
This script is no longer available. This ten minute play, which was produced after winning a national competition, was adapted from a scene in an early draft of the full length play, Smite Me.

Two Italian brothers are coal miners in West Virginia during Prohibition. Phil quietly saves his money to bring his wife over to join him. Joe enjoys wine, women, and America, and is a constant source of worry for his brother. Together they must deal with a new culture and language, a shady sheriff, a determined landlady, and a violent, jealous resident of their boarding house.

Production notes: Fixed set. Firearms shown. Sound only of gunshots. Two acts. 75-85 minutes.

Helen, still dealing with her own childhood tragedy, is reluctantly pulled into another family’s crisis. A bombing has put J.P. in a coma, killed his father, and exploded the feud between his older brothers, an angry atheist and a priest whose followers may have been involved.

Unlike his brothers, J.P. has never taken life or faith too seriously. But his grief and his own near-death experiences may have changed that. He meets his match when he meets Helen, whose pointed humor spares no one as she wrangles three brothers into dealing with their blind spots and each other.

A rookie female police officer is hazed during her first night shift working the desk at small desert substation in Arizona. Her partner for the evening is a veteran cop who is just trying to kill time until retirement. He tries to share the "wisdom" of his experience while preparing her for hazing yet to come. On her guard, she isn't fooled when the station gets a couple of unexpected visitors. Or maybe she is.

A rookie female police officer is hazed during her first night shift working the desk at small desert substation in Arizona. Her partner for the evening is a veteran cop who is just trying to kill time until retirement. He tries to share the "wisdom" of his experience while preparing her for hazing yet to come. On her guard, she isn't fooled when the station gets a couple of unexpected visitors. Or maybe she is.

This is a 20-25 minute radio play. It may also be staged as a short one-act.

A week before a Congressional election, a young speechwriter is suspended from her job when she discovers the campaign manager’s secret plan to win the campaign. She sneaks back into the campaign office at night to retrieve the evidence she needs to confront the candidate, but is surprised by a janitor. He has his own ideas about her freedom, her career, and the election. Their next decisions could make the difference in a tight race.

Produced by Growden Theatre Company in Philadelphia, 2004.

A ten-minute play about political fear mongering. A new hire at a fringe right wing think tank accidentally encounters the messaging wizard located in their basement hideaway - someone they thought was a myth. They discover the persuasive value of fear and the role it plays in their new job.