Lenny Hort

Lenny Hort is a member of the Dramatists Guild and of the Forge play development lab at Hudson Theatre Works. He is a veteran of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, where his musical PIRATES IN THE GAZEBO! won a BMI Foundation Award for outstanding creative achievement. His short A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT MY POWERS was voted Best Play at the Equity Library Theater of New York Virtual Play Festival. His plays including CHEMISTRY DATE, GRAVE OFFENSE, JULIUS C-SPAN, and ORIGIN STORY have been featured on radio, YouTube, and Zoom, and produced in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Texas, and Washington State. He has written 12 published books with combined sales of over 500,000 copies.

Lenny Hort is a member of the Dramatists Guild and of the Forge play development lab at Hudson Theatre Works. He is a veteran of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, where his musical PIRATES IN THE GAZEBO! won a BMI Foundation Award for outstanding creative achievement. His short A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT MY POWERS was voted Best Play at the Equity Library Theater of New York Virtual Play Festival. His plays including CHEMISTRY DATE, GRAVE OFFENSE, JULIUS C-SPAN, and ORIGIN STORY have been featured on radio, YouTube, and Zoom, and produced in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Texas, and Washington State. He has written 12 published books with combined sales of over 500,000 copies.

Scripts

America's Christmas Tree

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

A tradition gets started when a Jewish secretary who knows nothing about Christmas trees volunteers to obtain one for the newly-opened Rockefeller Center back in 1933.

A tradition gets started when a Jewish secretary who knows nothing about Christmas trees volunteers to obtain one for the newly-opened Rockefeller Center back in 1933.

Chicken Dance

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Two contrasting Jewish immigrant families raise chickens and children over three generations.

Two contrasting Jewish immigrant families raise chickens and children over three generations.

Ornament of Heaven

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Two women, one an ancient priestess, one a contemporary astronomer, discover what may be the same comet more than four thousand years apart.

Two women, one an ancient priestess, one a contemporary astronomer, discover what may be the same comet more than four thousand years apart.

Forces of Nature

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Nine short comedies present mostly female characters personifying chemical elements, celestial bodies, tectonic plates, and other scientific phenomena in genres ranging from detective story to dating show to women’s wrestling smackdown.

Nine short comedies present mostly female characters personifying chemical elements, celestial bodies, tectonic plates, and other scientific phenomena in genres ranging from detective story to dating show to women’s wrestling smackdown.

Three Weird Daughters

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Three daughters of a witch who tempted Macbeth must decide how to carry on their mother’s legacy. What should they tell Prince Donalbain about their troubled vision of his future?

Three daughters of a witch who tempted Macbeth must decide how to carry on their mother’s legacy. What should they tell Prince Donalbain about their troubled vision of his future?

Twelfth Nightmare: A Thirteen-minute Tragedy of Errors

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Each mistakenly believing the other has drowned, twin sisters disguise themselves as boys and plot bloody vengeance on the brothers each blames for her sister’s death.

Each mistakenly believing the other has drowned, twin sisters disguise themselves as boys and plot bloody vengeance on the brothers each blames for her sister’s death.

Parallel Parking

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

A ghostly image in the backup camera disturbs a father-daughter lesson in parallel parking.

A ghostly image in the backup camera disturbs a father-daughter lesson in parallel parking.

Rip Van Winkle

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Washington Irving put the US on the literary map with “Rip,” the oldest American story still widely read. Lazy, good-natured, justifiably henpecked Rip passes out after drinking a ghostly brew and awakens to find his colonial world changed to the United States and his friends long gone. This adaptation asks what new wonders Rip might discover if he dozed for 250 years and woke in the 21st century. Rip often felt...

Washington Irving put the US on the literary map with “Rip,” the oldest American story still widely read. Lazy, good-natured, justifiably henpecked Rip passes out after drinking a ghostly brew and awakens to find his colonial world changed to the United States and his friends long gone. This adaptation asks what new wonders Rip might discover if he dozed for 250 years and woke in the 21st century. Rip often felt out of place in his own time. How will he find a place in ours?

The Ghost on Saturday Night

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Based on the popular book by the author of the Newbery Medal-winning THE WHIPPING BOY, this madcap Wild West ghost story portrays a resourceful orphan’s transformation from outcast to hero. Nothing ever happens in Foggy Gulch until Professor Pepper rides into town promising to raise the ghost of a long-dead outlaw—live on stage. Opie, a twelve-year-old runt who earns money guiding folks through the fog, is...

Based on the popular book by the author of the Newbery Medal-winning THE WHIPPING BOY, this madcap Wild West ghost story portrays a resourceful orphan’s transformation from outcast to hero. Nothing ever happens in Foggy Gulch until Professor Pepper rides into town promising to raise the ghost of a long-dead outlaw—live on stage. Opie, a twelve-year-old runt who earns money guiding folks through the fog, is thrilled when the Professor gives him complimentary tickets to the ghost raising. But there are some big surprises when the Professor opens the coffin of Crookneck John, leaving Opie to thwart a bank robbery after most of the town stampedes off in panic.

Origin Story

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Superhero Expanding Universe and her sidekicks, the four fundamental Forces of Nature, emerge from the Big Bang to confront the threat of Entropy.

Superhero Expanding Universe and her sidekicks, the four fundamental Forces of Nature, emerge from the Big Bang to confront the threat of Entropy.

Chemistry Date

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Dating show host Iona Bond tries to find the chemistry between Chlorine and Sodium.

Dating show host Iona Bond tries to find the chemistry between Chlorine and Sodium.

Dear Daughter Moon

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Moon admires the lovely green on her mother’s surface, but how can she ever host life of her own? This Zoom-friendly play features half a billion years of letters between two familiar characters forced to maintain a quarter million miles of social distance.

Moon admires the lovely green on her mother’s surface, but how can she ever host life of her own? This Zoom-friendly play features half a billion years of letters between two familiar characters forced to maintain a quarter million miles of social distance.

Indigo

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Indigo confronts Violet outside the boardroom of Rainbow, Incorporated.

Indigo confronts Violet outside the boardroom of Rainbow, Incorporated.

Mass Extinction Squad

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Two rival detectives interview possible witnesses and suspects including the Asteroid Belt, the Chicxulub Crater, and the element Iridium as they try to solve the mystery of who or what bumped off the dinosaurs.

Two rival detectives interview possible witnesses and suspects including the Asteroid Belt, the Chicxulub Crater, and the element Iridium as they try to solve the mystery of who or what bumped off the dinosaurs.

Smackdown

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

The North American and Pacific Plates face off in a women’s wrestling smackdown.

The North American and Pacific Plates face off in a women’s wrestling smackdown.

Chez Biosphere

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Rival chefs [photo]Synth[esis] and [fun]Gus as well as their boss, Mother Earth, crack under the pressure of interviews for a Food Web Network profile on their unique eatery, Chez Biosphere.

Rival chefs [photo]Synth[esis] and [fun]Gus as well as their boss, Mother Earth, crack under the pressure of interviews for a Food Web Network profile on their unique eatery, Chez Biosphere.

Interviewing DNA

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Fashion journalist Janetta Sist interviews Dena, the design genius behind the designer genes, just as things start heating up at Chromosome Corporation headquarters.

Fashion journalist Janetta Sist interviews Dena, the design genius behind the designer genes, just as things start heating up at Chromosome Corporation headquarters.

Rock Musical

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Can long-suffering manager Crystal reunite Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic, the greatest rock group of all time?

Can long-suffering manager Crystal reunite Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic, the greatest rock group of all time?

Grave Offense

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

A boy disturbs the ghost of an angry teenage girl when he unwittingly urinates on her unmarked grave.

A boy disturbs the ghost of an angry teenage girl when he unwittingly urinates on her unmarked grave.

Julius C-SPAN

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Is Rome ready for a woman war correspondent? The Ides of March are looking like a slow news day until Claudia Platina happens upon one of the biggest scoops ever.

Is Rome ready for a woman war correspondent? The Ides of March are looking like a slow news day until Claudia Platina happens upon one of the biggest scoops ever.

A Little Something About My Powers

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

A retired teacher interviews to become a superhero.

A retired teacher interviews to become a superhero.

Returning Aunt Renata

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Two young cousins accompany their grandmother aboard the Staten Island Ferry to scatter Great-Aunt Renata’s ashes on the seventy-fifth anniversary of her childhood arrival from Italy.

Two young cousins accompany their grandmother aboard the Staten Island Ferry to scatter Great-Aunt Renata’s ashes on the seventy-fifth anniversary of her childhood arrival from Italy.

The Sphinx Speaks

by Lenny Hort

Synopsis

Murderous monster or playful pussycat? The Sphinx tells her side of the Oedipus story.

Murderous monster or playful pussycat? The Sphinx tells her side of the Oedipus story.