Jason Pizzarello

(ten-minute play) Leroy and Dee are on an awkward second date when they get some "assistance" from an intimacy coordinator named Tommy who may or may not be done with his pizza.

It's opening night of a brand-new mystery play, but just as the killer is about to be revealed, the body of the play's director falls onstage instead. In that moment, the theater becomes an active crime scene, and everyone from cast to crew to even the audience becomes a suspect. But how is the intrepid detective supposed to find the killer when everyone and their mother (literally) has a motive to want the demanding director gone? "This Murder Was Staged" is a fast-paced, backstabbing, backstage comedy.

FULL-LENGTH. A mother and son - both veterans of the forever war in Afghanistan - struggle to reintegrate into the civilian world and mend their broken relationship. Jake signed up to follow in his mother’s footsteps, but doesn’t get what he expected when he returns home to confront everything, and everyone, that's been waiting for him.

FULL-LENGTH. When a beloved lost cat is found by a deranged couple in Florida, the cat’s real owners will do whatever it takes to win her back...especially if it involves a machete. A dark comedy about class, adopted families, our obsession with pets, and why indoor cats and outdoor cats never get along.

A tap at a chamber door, and the beat of a hideous heart evoke the very best and creepiest of Edgar Allan Poe. So when Poe sets out to keep his stories alive from beyond the grave, an otherworldly radio studio proves just the thing. Wandering spirits gather to play the roles in Poe's most classic works, from The Cask of the Amontillado to The Fall of the House of Usher. But the grim master of the macabre is a little new to radio. What's all this about commercials? And why is a skeptical cemetery cat sticking around for all these stories? Draw the audience's imagination into the delicious gothic atmospher with this flexible piece for audio or onstage performance.

FULL-LENGTH. When Frank gets an unexpected call from his estranged daughter Kat, he has to step up to the plate and find a way to get her out of a drug deal gone bad. Unfortunately things continue to go bad, and then worse. Kat was hoping Frank would be able to use his prior connections as a fixer for the mob to fix their fix so she could enjoy the rest of her Spring Break with her girlfriend Hailey. But Frank isn't the fixer he used to be, Hailey has alternate plans, and Kat is desperate for anything resembling stability. She'll have to settle for a reconciliation and a dance with a pink bear.

One-act. A modern twist on the classic Cassandra story, we follow cheerleader and high school senior Cassie as she attempts to thwart a tragic fate. Prom is approaching, which Cassie is dreading because of a dark and deadly premonition. Is it possible for to convince her friends she's not nuts and avoid the inevitable? Published by Stage Partners.

FULL-LENGTH SHORT PLAY COLLECTION. A birthday for a man who doesn't know his age. A song that taunts a desperate prisoner. A storm bearing down on an unusual roadside motel. A couple finds them all in a mysterious book, said to be cursed, called... The Continuum Tales. In the spirit of The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror, this genre-bending collection of seven short plays explores weird, futuristic, and haunting worlds eerily similar to our own. Filled with strange and humorous tales of technology gone wrong, nightmares of the mind, and what happens when we let our fears get the best of us, this modern sci-fi collection is sure to entertain. Published by Playscripts.

Travel around the world and explore forgotten myths and unusual legends in eight fast-paced and hilarious tales! Guided by a band of players, the audience is transported from the ancient Far East, where a hero must kill a giant centipede to save a dragon king, to the Russian countryside, where a poor orphan must defeat three witches who stole his grandfather's eyes. Always quirky, and sometimes bizarre, these eight tales are filled with magic, mystery, and morals.

FULL-LENGTH. It's 10:49pm and two couples -- Anna and Diego, and Tim and Keri -- are taking the same R train to Forest Hills, Queens. They've all just been to the same wedding, but they haven't spoken in five years -- and as their subway ride progresses, we learn that there's more than that silence fueling the space between them. This R train-ride takes place in the future, in the wake of a climate related event called the Surge -- but the characters are still living their lives, dealing with the litany of mundane and monstrous problems that confront ordinary people, apocalypse or not. Through the spiky specificity of its characters and the careful narrative revelations, this play asks: is this a great time to be alive? Is being alive enough?

FULL-LENGTH. The residents of the small town of Bethel are facing a crisis: Their beloved park has been sold out from under them and it's sending their lives into a tailspin. In nine interconnected vignettes, sixteen locals grapple with the loss of jobs, homes, and spouses, but find love, courage, and forgiveness as the park magically transforms through four seasons of the year in a single day. From a tired security guard trying get home to her kids, to a young mayor in over his head, to a nostalgic fisherman who can't seem to catch anything, everyone takes a fall... and picks themselves up again. Bethel Park Falls draws a group of complex, fascinating, funny people together into one poignant story about the spaces where communities connect. Published by Playscripts.

10-minute play. Harold and his sister experience a reconciliation through a metaphysical exploration of time. Heroes must always return home. Those on the receiving end reunite or relive the loss over and over again without reality, as it was, ever really sticking - in time, in space, in dimension.

FULL-LENGTH. A young man with grandiose notions of being a famous theater director decides to stage a production or Chekov's Three Sisters in his living room—the only place theater is still real and alive—and if it’s good enough, he believes, the audiences are bound to find it. In the end, although their attempted staged Three Sisters is an utter failure, they end up acting out a ridiculous version of the play’s plot in real life.

Originally developed in the The Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, directed by Lila Neugebauer (Sarah Benson, Artistic Director).

A post-9/11 coming-of-age story about a group of young men in Army Basic Training who suspect a fellow soldier of being a terrorist. Under the influence of society’s culture of fear, the new soldiers are thrust into an environment of inevitable violence and war, and face a Muslim comrade with suspicious behavior. Their reaction moves from doubt and taunting to increasing intolerance and to a final explosion of violence. Ultimately a study of the psychology of terrorism, the play examines the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions under duress, and between morality and immorality.