Mark Mulkerin

For a persuasive speech assignment, Billy prepares to deliver "Why I'm a weirdo and why you should like me anyway" to his classmates, but first he must work his way past his ADHD, anxiety, and sadness.

After receiving a devastating diagnosis, a grandmother and widow must decide on how to spend her remaining time.

As their mother's battle with cancer comes to a conclusion, two siblings (one of whom is a magician and skeptic) negotiate their mother's desire to seek questionable care from a psychic con artist.

After nearly getting run down, the pedestrian confronts the driver after correcting a bumpersticker.

One middle-school boy tries to lure back a friend who has self-exiled from their group when the third publically identifies as trans.

A neurodivergent person tries to encourage a neurotypical acquaintance to get beyond virtue signalling and learn to appreciate and value neurodivergence.

A couple argue over whether to evacuate or stay to defend their house against an approaching wildfire when a secret comes out.

When a man's mother-in-law is cryogenically frozen awaiting a replacement clone, he finds himself stuck at his mother-in-law's house struggling against her house's artificial intelligence that isn't very amenable to him.

After two teen sisters wager on the seriousness of the looming threat of climate change, the sisters and other family confront a world unwilling to change and a future with much less promise.

After a nuclear war destroys all life on Earth save cockroaches and blue-green algae, Buddha struggles to get souls reincarnated to keep existence running smoothly.

When a single father encounters a drag queen reading for story hour outside the library's restrooms, misunderstandings and potential conflict looms until the father confesses his true motivations.

Facing dire economic circumstances, a county executive and sheriff meet with a young entrepreneur who offers a lifeline in the form of private prisons. Will the county executive concede to incarcerating friends and neighbors to save the county or will conscience lead to fiscal collapse?

Under a flag lowered to half staff in recognition of an unknown death, one friend struggles to save the other from dark thoughts and despair over a society divided against itself.

Amid the hurly burly of getting the extended family's Thanksgiving dinner on the table, a daughter hears the echoes of her mother as she braves the holiday for the first time as the family matriarch. A Christmas version is also available.

A minister providing pastoral guidance to a person in a crisis of faith navigates human suffering, varieties of venomous snakes, and the theological implications of soda choice.

Unexpectedly ahead of a vote on restricting abortion, a stalwart, conservative politician seeks more specifics when it comes to abortion access while being pressured by a party leader to vote first and ask questions later.

An overweight person who has finally committed to better dietary choices will begin life anew if they can only make it past the sometimes seductive, sometimes pushy checkout rack at the grocery store.

When two mothers compete for their children's benefit on a game show based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, things go very wrong.

A mother with local conservative ambitions attempts to corner her child's history teacher into admitting the Little Rock Nine history assignment is covertly critical race theory and is willing to resort to threats and coercion.

Jordan plans for toasted marshmallows and rekindled passion with Lee go astray when Jordan's overtop enthusiasms uncover Lee's doubts about the future of their relationship.

When Charlie's friends turn to a mysterious Maker in pursuit of each of their versions of success, Charlie struggles to stop them from paying the increasingly high costs.

Timothy's mother-in-law, Augusta, is accidentally stabbed on her birthday by her daughter, Kimberly, and sent off to be cryogenically frozen for several years as a replacement body is grown. With the couple staying in Augusta's home for the duration to be close to the cryo facility, Timothy must contend with Babbage, a not very helpful house artificial intelligence, and Gary, a gig worker, who is frequently summoned to the house while trying to support Kimberly in her grief and maintain his own mental wellbeing. A bad situation becomes worse when Timothy attempts to reset Babbage and instead releases Augusta 2.0.

In the midst of a heatwave that threatens the city's electrical grid and the health and safety of all those relying on air conditioning to survive, Jake struggles to convince his elderly mother, Joyce, to move north to the relative safety of Wisconsin.

Though born among elves, Metamorphic never quite fit in and sets forth to discover where they belong with the Narrator in tow.

After a certain famous superhero team saves the world one more time and breaks up, their former physical therapist struggles to find a new job. A monologue.