A flight around the Grand Canyon. Appropriate for Zoom.

It's a twister. Time to take shelter. But Gayle has other ideas. She wants to go to Oz.

Aliesha intends to replant the entire state of New Jersey. Part of the States Collection of very short plays from every state in the USA.

A maybe once-in-a-lifetime trip to the beach. Part of a collection of fifty short plays taking place in every state in the USA.

A poet and a duck meet on a bridge in Milwaukee. Appropriate for Zoom.

SYNOPSIS: Anne Frank’s family and Heinz Geiringer’s family were neighbors in Amsterdam. After both Heinz and Margot were “called up” to work in a Nazi Labor camp, they went into hiding at roughly the same time. Anne Frank left a diary showing the difficulties of growing up in hiding. Heinz Geiringer left over twenty paintings and a book of poetry which show us both his hope for the future and the terror of the time. Heinz loved the arts. A trained musician, Heinz turned to painting and poetry to utilize his time. He painted on tea towels, pillowcases and any surface that he could find. During the play, we witness his artistic growth through his paintings, poetry and his sister’s remembrances. The paintings vary from a nostalgic love of the life he once led to the fears that were now part of his everyday existence. . From the tender age of fifteen to seventeen, Heinz created a body of work that exists to this day. After liberation, Otto Frank formed a close friendship with Fritzi Geiringer and Eva. As the survivors of their respective families, they understood each other. When Otto was given Anne’s diary, Fritiz (Mutti) and Eva set out to recover Heinz’s (and Pappy’s) paintings. The paintings are housed in the Dutch Resistance Museum. Fritzi married Otto Frank and they dedicated their lives to bringing Anne Frank’s diary to the world. Today, Eva Schloss travels the world as a speaker of peace and tolerance. She works to bring her brother’s artistry to the world and to celebrate her brother’s art. The play covers the power of art under unconscionable circumstances and how art is part of our collective humanity to cope, to heal and to hope. The play uses projections of Heinz's paintings for the set.

Culled from the full length version for schools. Mixed media. SYNOPSIS: Anne Frank’s family and Heinz Geiringer’s family were neighbors in Amsterdam. After both Heinz and Margot were “called up” to work in a Nazi Labor camp, they went into hiding at roughly the same time. Anne Frank left a diary showing the difficulties of growing up in hiding. Heinz Geiringer left over twenty paintings and a book of poetry which show us both his hope for the future and the terror of the time. Heinz loved the arts. A trained musician, Heinz turned to painting and poetry to utilize his time. He painted on tea towels, pillowcases and any surface that he could find. During the play, we witness his artistic growth through his paintings, poetry and his sister’s remembrances. The paintings vary from a nostalgic love of the life he once led to the fears that were now part of his everyday existence. . From the tender age of fifteen to seventeen, Heinz created a body of work that exists to this day. After liberation, Otto Frank formed a close friendship with Fritzi Geiringer and Eva. As the survivors of their respective families, they understood each other. When Otto was given Anne’s diary, Fritiz (Mutti) and Eva set out to recover Heinz’s (and Pappy’s) paintings. The paintings are housed in the Dutch Resistance Museum. Fritzi married Otto Frank and they dedicated their lives to bringing Anne Frank’s diary to the world. Today, Eva Schloss travels the world as a speaker of peace and tolerance. She works to bring her brother’s artistry to the world and to celebrate her brother’s art. The play covers the power of art under unconscionable circumstances and how art is part of our collective humanity to cope, to heal and to hope. The play uses projections of Heinz's paintings for the set.

In 1940, a young Iowa farm girl picked the name of a pen pal out of a hat: Anne Frank. Their correspondence was brief but heartfelt. The play highlights the lives of four young girls as they come of age during the same time period but in vastly different circumstances. While Nina and Jeannie dream of escaping their Iowa farm home, Anne and Margot long for a world where they could live without restrictions and hate.
Recently adapted for a zoom platform.

I had a silly attack and wrote a one-minute play about a cat. It's always all about the cat. Super easy to do with zoom or social distancing.

Fourteen year-old Miranda dwells in the past. Any past – as long as the world is prior to her father’s death 2 years ago. Reeling from her mother’s remarriage, Miranda spends a week with her great aunt and acquaints herself with an ancestor from her father’s past – the Russian Polar explorer Otto Schmidt.

In the confines of Elsie’s apartment, Miranda travels back and forth to the North Pole gleaning information about the nature of the universe, loss and ever-lasting presence. As Miranda visits Otto in the past, Elsie is struggling to maintain the equilibrium she is barely holding to since her sister’s death. Trying to keep her crushing anxiety at bay, Elsie tries to give Miranda remembrance and closure.

But Miranda will have none of it. She turns to the stars and devises a physics theory that she thinks will bring her face-to-face with her father one more time. But it's problematic - in order for it to work you need to travel faster than the speed of light. During her debates with Otto about the origins of the universe, Miranda carves a way to bring her back into the world.

Giancarlo has died. Anna and Emilia run to Tess’s side to help her through this difficult time. But Tess is amazingly calm. Is the make-up of a family blood? Bones? Pasta and opera? If you’re Italian – it probably is.

The play was written to address the waste of “fine wine” actresses (over 40) that are too often absent on the stage these days.

Gary is sent to help Lucy plant a forest. But the forest is planted and Lucy needs art – fast-food art – to keep the deer from eating her fledgling-forest. This could be the last forest planted in Minnesota because the forest really wants to move into Canada. A tale of climate change and clinging to hope. Ten-minutes.

EVA blurts out that she would like JAKE to kiss her and all goes topsy-turvy with recollections of childhood and a possible love found – and lost.

Two ornaments on a Christmas tree are terrorized by a kitten. A short holiday play for teen actors. Easy to do via zoom and with social distancing.

A mother proudly shows her daughter all the "back-to-school" stuff she bought her. Very, very, very short play.

A short play about a catcalling snowman and the woman who tames him.

The memorial service for CLARA and LAUREL’s mother is done. The last guest has left and LAUREL and CLARA are now picking up the last pieces of comfort they can muster in their newly-orphaned world.

Karma on the street. Another very, very short play.

After the Red Lake school shooting, five teenage survivors do an impromptu healing service. The play is part of the Code Red Playwrights Project.