Jeff Stolzer

A and B are self-quarantining at home during the pandemic. The tension of having to spend so much time together leads them to argue about things mundane and serious. The surreality of the situation and the heightened stakes also highlight how different their personalities are and threaten the future of their relationship.

SAM AND RICK is a two character play that recounts the true story of the unlikely friendship between acclaimed author Samuel Beckett and Rick Cluchey, an inmate in San Quentin Prison who was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. A prison production of Beckett's masterpiece WAITING FOR GODOT changed Cluchey's life, leading him to start a drama workshop for inmates that brought him considerable acclaim and eventually the commutation of his sentence and parole. Released from prison, Cluchey founded a theater company for ex-cons and eventually made his way to Paris, where he met Beckett. A long friendship and numerous creative collaborations ensued. This is a remarkable story of individual redemption and the transformational power of theater.

A married couple gets a lot more than they bargained for after winning the bidding on an abandoned storage locker that they hope contains something extremely valuable.

STORAGE LOCKER garnered Third Place in the 2014 Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence competition. It was a Semifinalist in the 2014 Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte nuVoices Festival and the 2015 Wordsmyth Theatre New Play Reading Series.

After his landlord triples the rent, Henry Cohen, a Polish-Jewish refugee from World War II, refuses to close his small barber shop in Los Angeles and retire. Instead, he raises prices and hires a second barber, Isaac Roth, a widower who lives in the neighborhood, and business improves. But Henry’s wife Ruth, an Auschwitz survivor originally from Romania, grows suspicious of Isaac after he seems vague about the details of his past and eventually confronts him about his personal history, unearthing long-buried secrets that change their lives forever.

SURVIVORS received the 2009 Arts Club of Washington National Playwriting Award, was a finalist for the 2014 Colonial Players Promising Playwright Award and garnered Second Place in the 2014 Jewel Box Theatre Playwriting Competition. It was twice a Finalist in the Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition (2009, 2010) and was a Semifinalist for the 2013 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the 2010 Princess Grace Playwriting Award and the 2009 Playwrights First Award.

After spending a drunken night with NFL quarterback NOAH WOODWARD, cocktail waitress KAYLIE ROBBINS rebuffs his sexual advances the following morning and discovers that his romantic pillow talk was manipulative and insincere. Upset by his deceit and lies, she leaves. But they will meet again – first in her attorney’s conference room and then in a court of law – after she accuses him of a serious crime.

UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT was a Finalist for the 2014 Woodward/Newman Drama Award.

An embittered, wheelchair-bound actor writes a stirring autobiographical play about his disability that deeply moves his agent, attracts the attention of Broadway’s biggest producer and introduces him to a beautiful, wheelchair-bound actress. But he faces difficult choices and compromises to actually get the work mounted on the Great White Way.

PARALYZED was awarded Third Prize in 2015 Ohio State-Newark New Play Contest. It was a Finalist for the 2015 NEWvember New Play Festival and a Semifinalist for the 2015 McLaren Memorial Comedy Play Writing Competition.

POWER PLAYS is a full-length comedy-drama that follows a modern Everyman named Mark through a series of episodes, from young adulthood to middle age, that force him to seize or relinquish power. These darkly-comedic scenes witness Mark struggling with his love life; tangling with some of America's hot-button political issues (gun ownership, sexual harassment in the workplace and NSA spying); wrestling with his sexuality; and dealing with unresolved issues that he had with his late father. In despair about the seemingly cursed nature of his life, Mark eventually discovers that the key to happiness has nothing to do with power…and everything to do with compassion.

Los Angeles, California, 2003: Desperate to keep her nontraditional family together, a single mom marries the foreign-born boyfriend of her gay brother so the boyfriend can get a green card. But unexpected events and unforeseen romantic entanglements threaten to tear the family apart.

THE TRIALS OF MOLLY GREENBERG was a Semifinalist for the 2010 Lionheart Theatre Make the House Roar Prize and received Honorable Mention in the 2012 Ohio State-Newark New Play Contest.