Len Cuthbert

35-minute comedy
High School State Competition Finalist

Upon his daily routine visit for lunch at a favorite restaurant, a patron is thrust into an unpleasant experience where he realizes he's just been killing time. A comedy with an unexpected end.

10-minute Tragedy
A woman visits the workplace of her ex-husband asking him if he switched the ID tags at the birth of their twin girls, of which they each have custody of one child. He uses the circumstance to reveal her true character.

60-Minute Meta Comedy
2021 London Fringe Festival, 2022 Toronto Fringe Festival, 2022 Newmarket International Festival
Published by Original Works in 2023

Two estranged cousins Morgan and Lennox stumble across a strnge historical artifact in the woods, leading them on a metatheatrical journey. When a mysterious FBI Agent appears to collect the item, the tables are turned, and turned, and turned again.

2-hour 2-act comedy drama

Jade has a history of being the victim of abandonment. As a result, she struggles with her relationship to Delilah, Mick and 12-year old Dee-J; the people she is closest to. Her survival mechanism is to be in control of her own life and everyone else’s. But that ability to control is threatened when she faces one of the ultimate difficult decisions in her life. Take a journey with these four characters as they are confronted with Life and Death; Love and Hate; Discovery and Abandonment.

2-hour 2-Act Comedy Drama

A high school drama teacher is approached in the airport waiting lounge by a young lady who says she knows him. Through a series of scenes from the past (Act 1) to the future (Act 2), interwoven with scenes of the present, it is evident that even the least prominent have the potential to impact lives beyond imagination.

90-Minute Canadian / American Historical Fiction
Performed for 800+ in April 2023

On October 30, 1941, American Airlines 1/AM7 was enroute from NYC to Chicago. During the leg from Buffalo to Detroit, it crashed in a farmer's field in Lawrence Station, ON, 20 km South of London.

This new play is about the life stories that were instantly altered by the final flight of the Flagship Erie and the loss of 17 passengers and 3 crew members.

2-hour 1 act original musical

Short of 30 was developed from an award winning 10-minute, 2-character play that is now included with the collection, Reunited Shorts.

Short of 30 takes place at a playground beyond the end of life, where seven posthumous heroes under the age of 30 from World War 2 realize their heroic significance and must decide how to use their remaining youth and passion to inspire and help win the war. The story begins on the heals of WW1 with a surprise ending on the eve of the next, “war to end all wars.”

2-hour 2-act comedy drama musical

Grace Mission is a musical about seven Grade 12 students in their final year of high school. The guys have a band and want to enter a big music contest but need one more guy to compete. The girls want to be part of it but don't have the musical talent, so they think. Enter O'Grady, a new student, the perfect addition to the guys dilemma. But by the time prom night arrives, everything about O'Grady's past, present and future will have created enough chaos to leave everyone pondering the values of life, acceptance, and grace. "At Some Point, Everyone Needs A Second Chance." For information from premiere productions, visit http://www.OnStageLive.ca

SCRIPT includes all professionally written piano (and optional guitar) scores.

1 hour comedy
London Fringe Festival

Place one enigmatic girl and one vulnerable guy in one medium sized locked custodial closet. Add one dominant fiancé. Shake knob three times. Oz in a Clozet. This play, Oz in a Clozet, is a combination of comedic calamity that begins when a guy and girl, strangers to each other, find themselves stuck in the custodial closet of a movie theater. The chaos escalates when the fiancé comes in search of her boyfriend.

THE ANOMALY
A young lady visits her former family doctor for a second opinion

STOLPERSTEIN
Two distinctive girls uncover their parallel lives

OFF THE EDGE
One sister needs attention, the other needs the beach.

RELATIVITY & ME
In a subway station, a young mother meets her great grandmother for the first time.

CRUZAR
Cruzar is the most terrifying yet most satisfying ride. It's the ride you avoid until last.

DEATH OF AN EPITAPH
Two friends discuss the value of words.

OKAY CHARLIE
In a digital world, who's really in control?

15-minute drama
Selected for several Short Play Festivals

In a subway station, a young mother meets her great grandmother for the first time.

10-minute comedy

A young lady visits her former family doctor for a second opinion.

10-minute comedy agender

One of us needs sympathy, the other needs the beach.

6-minute drama using 3-words or less

Two friends discuss the value of words.

60-minute collection of short plays
London Fringe Festival
Published by Dramatic Publishing in 2020

An eclectic collection of 6 short award winning plays about reunions.
(Below a history of individual productions prior to being published by Dramatic Publishing 2020)

BENCHED
Synopsis: Sometimes you need a reminder of why you broke up.
2015: Grand Theatre Playwrights Cabaret, London, Ontario, CANADA
2015: Storefront Theatre, Waxhaw, NC
2016: the Phoenix Stage Company, Oakville, CT
2018: Eagle & Beaver Ensemble, London, UK

THE GIFT EXCHANGE
Synopsis: A woman seeks help from a lawyer who is part of her problem.
2015: City Theatre of Independence, Kansas
2015: London Public Library, London, Ontario, CANADA
2017: Working Title Playwrights, Atlanta, GA

TABLE FOR TWO RENDEZVOUS
Synopsis: A couple with a strangely perfect marriage consider altering their circle of life.
2011: NUFAN Tables & Chairs Festival, Chicago, IL
2012: Luxembourg Play Fest, Luxembourg

YOU, ME. ME, YOU.
Synopsis: We've changed since high school. Especially you.
2015: Smoked Apple Theatre Group, Louisville, KY
2016: Grand Theatre Playwrights Cabaret, London, Ontario, CANADA
2016: Falling Pennies Theatre Company, London, UK
2016: Starlite Players, Sarasota, FL
2017: South Walton High School, Santa Rosa, FL
2019: Playwrights Round Table, Orlando, FL
2022: Translated into Italian, Universita' Roma 3, Rome, Italy
2022: Color Me Queer Festival, TX

DELILAH.
Synopsis: A girl asks her biggest supporter and closest friend to cheer her one last time. The hardest yet.
2011: Rising Sun Performance Company (reading), NYC (People's Choice)
2011: London One Act Festival, London, Ontario (People's Choice Award)
2011: InspiraTO Festival, Toronto, ON (People's Choice Award)
2011: Rising Sun Perfromance Company, NYC
2011: Boxfest Detroit, Detroit, MI
2012: ACME Theatre, Maynard, MA
2012: Blue Slipper Theatre, Montana

LAST DANCE
Synopsis: Two youth discover each other during the last dance.
2017: Geneva Theatre, Geneva, NY
2017: InspiraTO Festival, Toronto
2018: InspiraTO Directors Toolbox
2018: Creative Circuit Studios, San Antonio, TX
2018: University of Alabama Advanced Directing Class, Tuscalosa, AL
2018: Barrington Collective, NYC
2019: Stillwater Fest, Stillwater, OK

REUNITED SHORTS: Collection of above 6 plays
2019: London Fringe Festival, London, Ontario, CANADA

10-minute historical comedy drama
Produced in several festivals
Published in a collection by Dramatic Publishing in 2020

Two youth discover each other during the last dance.

10-minute comedy about transgender
Published in a collection by Dramatic Publishing in 2020

We've changed since high school. Especially you.

10-minute comedy
Published in a collection by Dramatic Publishing in 2020

A couple with a strangely perfect marriage consider altering their circle of life.

10-minute comedy
Published in a collection by Dramatic Publishing in 2020

Sometimes you need a reminder of why you broke up.

30-minute comedy drama
Ideal for school plays

A youth theatre cast are preparing to stage the musical Joseph for a drama contest. Ironically, some of the cast members become jealous of the lead actor, who seems to be favored by the director. When they devise a plan to oust him, the production gets derailed and their chance to compete in the contest is jeopardized.

40-minute collection of 3 short plays
Published by Big Dog Plays

THE MALADROIT ROMEO (10 Minutes) Bob loves Angelina but when it comes to romance, he can be a little inept. Bob’s plan to propose to Angelina in the college library where they first met studying “Romeo and Juliet” goes awry when he forgets his lines and loses the engagement ring.

ENIGMATIC LUCIDITY (10 Minutes) Then as Bob and Angelina settle into married life, they discover that marriage can be, literally, a series of nightmares.

ONE YEAR ONE DAY (15 Minutes) And when the couple reaches their one-year anniversary, not only does Bob forget, but he accidentally surprises Angelina with 1.7 tons of chicken rock instead of concert tickets. But in the end, it may be Angelina who has the biggest surprise of all!

Plays are independent stories but also act as a 3 short scene play. All three plays are 1M; 1F, repeat characters.