My monologues are used in classes and auditions all over
the world. In the first 10 months of 2005 alone...
Adelaide (Australia) Alexandria (KY) Alexandria (LA) Anderson (CA) Anderson (IN) Atlanta (GA) Bakersfield (CA) Baldwin (LA) Barcelona (Spain) Bartlesville (OK) Bellevue (WA) Bethesda (MD) Blackhawk (IL) Brandon (MB, Canada) Bristol (United Kingdom) Brookline (MA) Brooklyn (NY) Bronx (NY) Calgary (AB, Canada) Casper (WY) Castle Rock (CO) Cedar Rapids (IA) Centennial (CO) Century City (CA) Chandler (AZ) Charlotte (NC) Chico (CA) Chattanooga (TN) Chesapeake (MD) Chicago (IL) Chilliwack (BC, Canada) Cleveland (OH) Cleveland (TN) Colorado Springs (CO) Columbia (SC) Columbus (OH) Creswell (OR) Crownsville (MD) Dahlgren (VA) Danbury (CT) Darlington (United Kingdom) Dayton (OH) Deer Creek (OK) DeForest (WI) Des Moines (IA) Detroit (MI) Doylestown (PA) Dublin (Ireland) Durham (NC) Elizabeth (NJ) Enfield (CT) Frederick (MD) Fremont
(CA) Frisco (TX) Gainesville (FL) Germantown (MD) Glasgow (UK) Glastonbury (CT) Glen Allen (VA) Grandville (MI) Grantsville (UT) Greensboro (NC) Greenwich (CT) Hartford
(KY) Harwood (MD) Hattiesburg (MS) Highland Heights (KY) Houston (TX) Hazel Green (AL) Hollywood (FL) Hopkins (MN) Houston (TX) Indiana (PA) Indianapolis (IN) Invercargill (New Zealand) Irvine (CA) Irving (TX) Irvona (PA) Jacksonville (FL) Jessup (MD) Johannesburg (South Africa) Kalamazoo (MI) Kaysville (UT) Knoxville (TN) Lake Odessa (MI) Lambertville (MI) La Plata (MD) LaVergne (TN) Layton (UT) Leeds (United Kingdom) Liberty (UT) Lincoln (NE) Lincoln (United Kingdom) Little Rock (AK) London (United Kingdom) Long Beach (CA) Los Angeles (CA) Louisville (KY) Lynwood (CA) Mableton (GA) Manchester (United Kingdom) Mannford (OK) Mechanicsville (VA) Medford (MA) Miami (FL) Missoula (MT) Mountain Top (PA) Mountain View (CA) Mumbai (India) Nacogdoches (TX) Newark (NJ) New York (NY) Omaha (NE) Orlando (FL) Overland Park (KS) Oxford (AL) Pago Pago (American Samoa) Parma (OH) Pearland (TX) Peoria
(IL) Perth (Australia) Philadelphia (PA) Phoenix (AZ) Pittsburgh (PA) Pompano Beach (FL) Pontiac (MI) Poolesville (MD) Portland (OR) Port St. John (Canada) Puyallup (WA) Racine (WI) Raleigh (NC) Ramsey (IN) Reno (NV) Richmond (CA) Rodeo (CA) Round Rock (TX) St. Albert (Canada) St. Louis (MO) Sandersville (GA) San Diego (CA) San Jose (CA) San Mateo (CA) Santa Cruz (CA) Santa Rosa (CA) Sarasota (FL) Saskatoon (SK, Canada) Sault Ste. Marie (ONT, Canada) Severn (MD) Shawnee (KS) Shoreline (WA) Sidcup (United Kingdom) Singapore (Singapore) Smithville (MO) Spokane (WA) Springfield (LA) Stroudsburg (PA) Sugarland (TX) Sydney (Australia) Tallahassee (FL) Tamonium (MD) Tampa (FL) Thornton (CO) Tomball (TX) Toms River (NJ) Toronto (ONT, Canada) Tracy (CA) Tucson
(AZ) Union (NJ) Valley Springs (CA) Vancouver (BC, Canada) Virginia Beach (VA) Washington (DC) Waterbury (CT) Weirton (WV) Welland (ONT, Canada) Wentzville (MO) West Chester (OH) West Sussex (United Kingdom) West Bloomfield (MI) Westbury (NY) Wheaton (IL) Wilmington (DE) Winston-Salem (NC) Woodinville (WA) Yukon (OK) Yuma (AZ)
STEALING SAXOPHONES FROM HOMELESS PEOPLE
A Bunch of Fives/Street Theatre (Canberra, ACT, Australia), April 2006
YARD
WARS (formerly titled LEAVING THE YARD)
Semifinalist in the Chesterfield Writer's Film
Project (2003)
Secret Rose Theatre (North Hollywood, CA), October 2006
UCLA (Los Angeles, CA), June 2002 (workshop)
UCLA (Los Angeles, CA), June 2001 (reading)
A-BOMB
WEDDING
Heartlande Theatre Company (Birmingham, MI), April 2000
Montgomery Theater Project (Souderton, PA), March 2000
Impact Theatre (Berkeley, CA), October-November 1999
Plutonium Eggplant Theater Company (Los Angeles, CA), May 1998
The Brick Playhouse (Philadelphia, PA), October 1996
City Theater Company (Wilmington, DE), May 1996
Cuyahoga Community College/Erie Playwrights (Parma, OH), winter
1995
The Haverford School (Haverford, PA), November 1994
CRASH POSITIONS
Publication by Brooklyn
Publishers in January 2004
The Samford University production was selected best of festival
as voted by the audience.
City Theater Company Best of the Ten-Minute Play Festival (Wilmington, DE), October 2006
University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), April 2005
Upper Darby Summer Stage (Upper Darby, PA), August 2003
Grove City Theatre Arts Guild (Grove City, PA), May 2003
Rice University (Houston, TX), September 2002
Fishguard High School (Fishguard, Wales, UK), November 2001
Lahore American School (Lahore, Pakistan), February 2001
Samford University (Birmingham, AL), December 2000
Walnut Street Theatre School, (Philadelphia, PA), January 2000
City Theater Company (Wilmington, DE), July 1997
F-STOP
(1 male, 1 female)
Northwestern College (Orange City, IA), December 2000
City Theater Company (Wilmington, DE), July 1998
Philadelphia Dramatists Center (Philadelphia, PA), June 1998
(showcase)
JESUS AT
THE TACO STAND
City Theater Company (Wilmington, DE), July 1999
LAST RIGHT
BEFORE THE VOID
Fire Rose Productions (Los Angeles, CA), January 2004
UCLA (Los Angeles, CA), November-December 2000
City Theater Company (Wilmington, DE), July 2000
Oak Park High School (Kansas City, MO), February 2000
LEAPERS
Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights Playreading Festival (Los
Angeles, CA), September 2004 (concert reading)
City Theater Company (Wilmington, DE), July 2004
MENAGERIE
Publication by Brooklyn Publishers in fall 2005
City Theater Company (Wilmington, DE), July 2005
NEWT GINGRICH
VISITS A RESIDENTIAL YOUTH FACILITY NOT NEAR OMAHA
Publication by Brooklyn Publishers in fall 2004
Finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award
1996 under the title of Newt Gingrich at Boys Town.
The Haverford School (Haverford, PA), June 1999 (made-for-video)
Jesuit High School (Tampa, FL), 1997-1998 (forensics entry)
Theatre Double (Philadelphia, PA), June 1996 (produced in a
longer version)
PEPPERONI
APOCALYPSE
Publication by Brooklyn Publishers in fall 2004
Chaska High School (Chaska, MN), January 2003
City Theater Company (Wilmington, DE), July 2002
The Meadows School (Las Vegas, NV), March 2002
The Haverford School (Haverford, PA), November 1997
THE WASH
St. Andrew's College (Aurora, ONT), May 2003
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (Whitewater, WI), May 2001
Northwestern College (Orange City, IA), December 2000
UCLA (Los Angeles, CA), November-December 2000
Expanded Arts (New York, NY), August 1997
The Brick Playhouse (Philadelphia, PA), September 1996
City Theater Company (Wilmington, DE), May 1996
ART Institute/Cambridge Cable Television (Cambridge, MA), November
1992 (made-for-video)
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), March 1992
WHATEVER
HAPPENED TO GODOT?
Publication by Brooklyn Publishers in fall 2004
Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights Playreading Festival (Los
Angeles, CA), October 2003 (staged reading)
City Theater Company (Wilmington, DE), July 2003
X MARKS THE
SPOT
Publication by Brooklyn Publishers in fall 2004
City Theater Company (Wilmington, DE), July 2001
AFTER MATH
Publication by Playscripts, Inc. in August 2005
Edgeley High School (Edgeley, ND), November 2006 This production won third place in the North Dakota High School One-Act Competition!
Manassas Park High School (Madison, VA), October 2006
Brandeis Hillel Day School (San Francisco, CA), May 2006
Briarmeadow Charter School (Houston, TX), May 2006
Northbridge Middle School (Whitinsville, MA), April 2006
St. Pius V (Lynn, MA), April 2006
Kennedy Langbank School (Kennedy, SK, Canada), April 2006
Lambton Kent Composite School (Dresdon, ONT, Canada), March 2006
Grove Middle School (Grove, OK), March 2006
Briarwood School (Katy, TX), March 2006
Thurston High School (Springfield, OR), February-March 2006
John Metcalf Junior High (Burnsville, MN), January 2006
Carlisle High School (Carlisle, IA), January 2006
Phillipsburg High School (Milford, NJ), January 2006
Leto High School (Tampa, FL), January 2006
Gulf Coast High School (Naples, FL), December 2005, January 2006
Idyllwild Arts Academy (Idyllwild, CA), December 2005 (concert reading)
Logan High School (Logan, OH), December 2005 and May 2006
Mountain View High School (Tucson, AZ), December 2005 [This group initially performed the play WITHOUT PERMISSION--what else do you call purchasing one perusal copy and mounting a production?-- but my publisher recovered royalties and book costs from them in May 2006.]
Dorman High School (Roebuck, SC), October 2005
Agape Christian School (Hillsboro, OR), May 2005
Edwin
Parr High School (Athabasca, AB), April 2005
BEEF
JUNKIES
Publication by Brooklyn Publishers in fall 2004
Victoria University of Wellington (Wellington, New Zealand), September 2006
Riverside Secondary School (Vancouver, BC), December 2004
Brobdingnagian Players (Ithaca, NY), January-February 2004
City Theater Company (Wilmington, DE), February 2000
Pittsburgh New Works Festival (Pittsburgh, PA), September 1999
BOOKENDS
Winner, Green Theatre (UK) New Playwrights Competition
(1998)
Honorable mention, Moving Arts Premiere One Act Competition
(1997)
Honorable mention, Pittsburgh New Works Festival (1995)
Pomona College (Pomona, CA), November 2002
UCLA (Los Angeles, CA), November 2001
Kitchener Waterloo Little Theatre (Waterloo, ONT), October 2001
Green Theatre Company (New Malden, England), August 1998
City Theater Company (Wilmington, DE), February-March 1997
Cayuga County Community College (Auburn, NY), March 1996
Pittsburgh New Works Festival (Pittsburgh, PA), August 1995
(staged reading)
The Village Gate (New York, NY), January 1994 (showcase)
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), February 1993
DEAR CHUCK
Publication by Eldridge Publishing in spring 2003
Kearney Catholic High School (Kearney, NE), November 2006
Theater in the Woods (Staten Island, NY), March 2006
Mira Loma High School (Sacramento, CA), January 2006
Indian River High School (Chesapeake, VA), January 2006
Lafayette High School (Lafayette, GA), November 2005
Brandeis Hillel Day School (San Francisco, CA), January 2005
Maret School (Washington, DC), November 2004
Lambton Kent Composite School (Dresden, ONT), February 2003
Choate Rosemary Hall Summer Arts Conservatory (Wallingford, CT), July 2001
FROM
SHAKESPEARE WITH LOVE? (fka SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE?)
Publication by Eldridge
Publishing in spring 2003
Commissioned by the Walnut Street Theatre Outreach Program under
the title Shakespeare in Love?
Inter-Lakes Jr/Sr High School (Meredith, NH), July 2006
Reeves Middle School (Olympia, WA), June 2006
Aberdour Players (Aberdour, Scotland, UK), June 2006
Brandeis Hillel Day School (San Francisco, CA), May 2006
Central Bucks West High School (Doylestown, PA), November 2005
South London Theatre (London, UK), March 2005
Owen J. Roberts Middle School (Pottstown, PA), February 2005
Silver Stage High School (Silver Springs, NV), January 2005
Paisley School District #11 (Paisley, OR), November 2004
Barnstable Comedy Club (Barnstable, MA), June 2004
BB Productions (Blackpool, UK), May 2004
John H. Pittman High School (Turlock, CA), May 2004
Christian Outreach School (Hillsboro, MO), May 2004
Kings Wood School (Romford, UK), March 2004
Tadpoles Youth Theatre (Devon, UK), September 2003
Camp Kingswood (Bridgton, ME), August 2003
University of North Dakota (Grand Forks, ND), December 2002
Reedsburg Area High School (Reedsburg, WI), November 2002
Janus International Theatre (Leuven, Belgium), April 2001
Tinker Air Force Base (OK), September 2000
Oak Park High School (Kansas City, MO), April 2000
Kingswood Regional High School (Wolfeboro, NH), March 2000
Walnut Street Theatre Outreach Program (Philadelphia, PA), October-December
1999
NOW YOU
SEE ME
Publication by Brooklyn Publishers in fall 2004
Bowbells High School (Bowbells, ND), November 2006
City Lights Youth Theatre (New York, NY), February 2006
Parkland HS (Winston-Salem, NC), 2005
The Ninth Grade Academy (Cleveland, GA), 2005
Tourtellotte Memorial HS (Thompson, CT), 2005
Wilson Hall Middle School (Grove Hill, AL), 2005
Newport High School (Bellevue, WA), March 2001
Oak Park High School (Kansas City, MO), October 1999
Choate Rosemary Hall Summer Arts Conservatory (Wallingford,
CT), July 1999 (workshop)
PLAY'S
END (fka FOREPLAY)
Publication by Brooklyn Publishers in winter 2005
Runner-up , Moving Arts Premiere One Act competition (1997)
Selected for "Best of IT" at the Brick Playhouse
Larkin High School (Elgin, IL), January 2005
Lyman High School/International Thespian Competition, (Longwood,
FL), January and April 1998
Moving Arts (Los Angeles, CA), November-December 1997
The Brick Playhouse (Philadelphia, PA), March and June 1997
ROADKILL
(2 males, 25-30 minutes)
Staged reading at the Philadelphia Dramatists Center (Philadelphia,
PA), spring 1998
THANK YOU FOR FLUSHING MY HEAD IN THE TOILET AND OTHER RARELY USED EXPRESSIONS
Riverdale High School (Murfreesboro, TN), November 2006
Napoleon High School (Napoleon, MI), November 2006
Socorro High School (El Paso, TX), November 2006
Springfield Academy of Arts and Academics (Springfield, OR), November 2006
THIS MAGIC
MOMENT
City Theater (Wilmington, DE), February 2001
TICKING
Larkin High School (Elgin, IL), January 2005
TWISTING
CAROL
Christopher Columbus High School (Miami, FL), December 2004
Women in Theatre (North Hollywood, CA), December 2002 (reading)
Cassville Middle School (Cassville, MO), December 2002
The Haverford School (Haverford, PA), November 1998
THE WHITE PAGES
Publication by Brooklyn Publishers in fall 2004
Semifinalist in Marshall University's Play Works competition.
Mathews High School (Mathews, VA), October 2006
Lidgerwood Public School (Lidgerwood, ND), October 2005
Twin Beach Players (Chesapeake, MD), October 2005
Greenwood Friends Middle School (Millville, PA), May 2005 (concert reading)
Strake Jesuit College Preparatory (Houston, TX), April 2004
Golden Players (Golden, BC, Canada), April 2001
Colonial Playhouse (Aldan, PA), January 2001
Armour High School (Armour, SD), January 2000
City Theater Company (Wilmington, DE), February-March 1998
Offstage Theatre (Charlottesville, VA), September 1997
The Attic Theatre Center (Los Angeles, CA), February-March 1997
YOU'RE
NEXT (fka REPLAY)
Larkin High School (Elgin, IL), January 2005
The Haverford School (Haverford, PA), June 1999 (made-for-video)
Lyman High School/International Thespian Competition, (Longwood,
FL), January and April 1998
West Chester & Barleysheaf Players One Act Festival (Exton,
PA), July 1995
BEN
Third place finalist, Weinberger Playwright Residency Competition
(OH, 2003)
Semifinalist for PlayLabs, Playwrights' Center (MN, 2002)
Finalist in the Charlotte Rep new play competition (1996)
Honorable mention in the Artistic and Literary Resources (CA)
competition (1995).
Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey (Madison, NJ), June 2002
(concert reading at the John Harms Center)
Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey (Madison, NJ), May 2001 (reading)
Various readings at the Philadelphia Dramatists Center
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), February 1992
COLLISIONS
IN AIR AND SPACE
Semifinalist in the InterAct New Play Festival (2000-2001)
American Concert Theater (Philadelphia, PA), February 2000
(staged reading/excerpts)
DAY ONE
Choate Rosemary Hall Summer Arts Conservatory (Wallingford,
CT), July 2000 (workshop)
MILK AND
COOKIES
Syzygy Theatre Group (Los Angeles, CA), March 2006 (concert reading)
American Concert Theater (Philadelphia, PA), March 2001 (staged
reading)
Various readings at City Theater Company (Wilmington, DE)
NEVERLAND
Publication by Original Works in spring 2006
Semifinalist in the Chesterfield Writer's Film Project
(2003)
Semifinalist in the InterAct New Play Festival (1999-2000)
The New Works Company (Los Angeles, CA), June 2003 (staged
reading)
Black Dahlia Theatre (Los Angeles, CA), December 2001 (reading)
City Theater Company (Wilmington, DE), May 2001
SHINING
SEA
Semifinalist for the Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting
Award (2003)
Finalist in the InterAct New Play Festival (2002)
Ensemble Studio Theatre - LA (Los Angeles, CA),
March 2004 (concert reading)
Greenway Court Theatre (Los Angeles, CA), March 2004 (concert
reading)
Echo Theater Company (Los Angeles, CA), October 2002 (reading)
UCLA (Los Angeles, CA), May 2002 (workshop)
WAR OF THE
BUTTONS
"Siggy" (which can be found on the monologue
page) is published as part of Audition Monologs for
Student Actors II (ed. Dr. Roger Ellis) by Meriwether
Publishing Company.
Semifinalist in the International Student Playscript Competition
(2001), associated with the National Student Drama Festival
(UK).
The Haverford School (Haverford, PA), February 1999 (workshop)
