Full-Length: Paul and Adam are surprised by the unannounced arrival of Paul's 15-year-old son Fox. The surprise is that until that moment, Paul didn't know Fox existed.

Part 1 in the “All Together” series.

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Full-Length: Ten years after "All Together Now," Paul and Adam welcome the family back. It's a big occasion: Paul's fiftieth birthday and Fox's engagement party. But there are other things going on that threaten the celebrations, and it's going to be a long weekend in more ways than one.

Part 2 in the “All Together” series.

Full-Length: Fifteen years after "All Together Again," the family gathers to celebrate the life of one of them. For Fox's son P.J. and his boyfriend Will, it's a time of reckoning, and all of the family is facing decisions about the future.

Part 3 in the “All Together” series.

Full-Length: Five years after "All Together At Last," P.J. and Will are planning their wedding when Will finds out about his family history, including his birth name and ancestry. He braces himself to meet his past and his future in the form of his biological father and half-brother.

Part 4 in the “All Together” series.

Full-Length: Mitch and Ben, college-age men, have landed summer jobs working poolside at the Silver Spray, an exclusive resort in the Florida Keys. Since it's the off-season, they're looking forward to a quiet and restful twelve weeks. But when they meet Alex and Miriam, a couple from California, it soon becomes apparent that there are things that go beyond their job description of waiting on the guests, including the complex tapestry of sexual intricacies, subtleties, strategies, and vulnerabilities.

Full-Length: Donny is a successful writer of romance novels living in the Florida Keys with his girlfriend, Anna, a successful realtor.  Both have what they think is their dream life. But then, Bobby Cramer appears.  He is the main character in the novel that Donny abandoned to write romance novels.  Bobby asks Donny: “Why have you left me in the bottom of your desk drawer?  I’d like to know what happened to me.”  Now Donny must choose between Anna and their comfortable life or Bobby and the unknown.

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Full-Length: Sam and Frank Weaver are at their summer home on Lake Michigan for a memorial service for Ruth, Frank's wife and Sam's mother. They are joined by friends and former loves to reminisce about their summers up at the lake. As the day progresses into night and under the influence of good Scotch, some well-kept secrets and memories that would rather be forgotten are revealed.

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Full-Length: Richard and Jeff, once classmates and now teachers at their old all-boys boarding school, meet with Jim, their former teacher who hired them both. Tensions intensify as the three begin a fierce dance culminating in a relentless series of revelations, each more startling than the last.

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Full-Length: Marc Griffin has landed his dream job of teaching English at a prestigious New England private day school. But he soon learns that the expectations of the parents and the students put him to the test, and the toughest lessons he learns are about himself as a teacher and a person.

Full-Length: Dave and Pete Granger, age 17, are twin brothers in rural Ohio in 1970. Dave enlists in the Army as a combat medic and is sent to Vietnam.  Pete goes to Canada to pursue his education in music and avoid the draft.  Over the next five years, their lives are changed forever by the war and the choices each of them has made.

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One-Act: In 1994 at the height of the AIDS epidemic, an HIV/AIDS support group meets in a church basement and embrace the reluctant and frightened parents of an AIDS victim.

One-Act: The usual crowd gathers for coffee at their favorite diner in a small western town until a mysterious stranger enters and engages them in conversation. But who's telling the truth and who's not? And what's the lunch special?

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One-Act: Paul and Adam settle into their new retirement community in South Florida and come to terms with the life that has brought them there.

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One-Act: Alex, a bail bondsman from Las Vegas, is taking Tony, a mob accountant, across country to his new life and identity under witness protection. They spend the night on the side of the road in the middle of the New Mexico desert among the dangers of the desert life, and learn some interesting truths about themselves and each other.

One-Act: At a retrospective exhibit of the works of the late artist Eric Michael Foster, his surviving partner Nick is dealing with his struggle to move on with his new partner while preserving Eric’s legacy. It’s complicated by echoes of the past and the uncertain future.

One-Act: George and Marjorie come all the way from Minnesota to South Beach to meet the man their son Steve is going to marry. Confusion and hilarity ensues.

Ten-Minute: Jared needs to collect a debt from Luke, but there's more to the story than just an unpaid bill.

Short plays ranging from romance to farce.

Ask Me Anything; Any Second Now; Birds of Paradise; Chewie, Get Us Out of Here; The Christmas Commercial Conspiracy; END OF PLAY.; Going There; Goodbye, Bobby; Good Vibrations; Here's Your Sandwich; How About Them Dodgers; Matthew Weaver, Marry Me; The Melatonin Minders; Short Cut in the Cemetery; Stop Laughing Without Me; ‘Til Dough Do Us Part; Twelve Books; Under the August Moon; Viral Love.

Ten-Minute: Four characters are in the waiting room at Characters Equity waiting for their next assignment.

Ten-Minute: The flock gathers for their regular morning meeting to decide the agenda for the day when an unexpected visitor joins them. Will they welcome the new one or turn tail and fly away?

Ten-Minute: The crew of a starship is stranded on a planet where they find themselves being attacked from all sides and above by menacing cliches, supernova-sized plot holes, and hackneyed taglines.

Ten-Minute: Barney and Judy work in an ad agency and have to come up with commercials to sell stuff at Christmas without connecting them to the holiday itself. There's gotta be a way...

Ten-Minute: A play reading at a theatre conference turns from the play and the playwright to drama and intrigue between the respondents, and as time goes by, we learn that the fundamental things may not apply.

Ten-Minute: What looks like a casual conversation on a park bench in Miami is anything but. There's some illicit business going on, and it gets all the more furtive when a cop walks by.

Ten-Minute: John, a man in his sixties, is packing up the last of his father’s books as the family prepares to move out of their “life enriching community.” He is joined by Tim, the spirit of his father at the age of sixteen, and together they remember reading the twelve books in a series that has been in the family for generations.

Seven ten-minute plays follow a father and his two sons through life -- from childhood through the end of one life and beyond -- and can be produced individually or as one full production in chronological order.

A House by the Side of the Road, Blind No. 7, And the Wisdom to Know the Difference, A Moment of Clarity, Favorite Son, I'll Be Here, Good Grief

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Ten-Minute: An elderly father in the early stages of dementia sits with his son as they share memories and truths.

Included in the collection “A House by the Side of the Road - Seven Short Plays About a Family.”

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One-Act: A year after Allen’s death, Philip visits the park in Longmont, Colorado, where a tree has been planted in his memory. There he meets with Allen’s spirit, and they remember their life together.

The collection also includes three other plays — “Last Exit,” “Going for a Walk with Sam,” “Another Park, Another Sunday” — and “Allen’s Big Adventure,” the monologue that inspired it all.

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Monologues for all ages, all genders, for auditions or performance.

Allen's Big Adventure; Another Great Literary Career; Do You Get It; Free! Powerful Muscles Fast!; Hey, Dad; Just A Local; The Last Time You Thought About Me; Quite The Connoisseur; Remember Me?; Sex... I Don't Know; Simple Black Marks; That Goddam Tree; There's Something About a Ginger; What Great Question in Life Do You Answer; You Finally Did it; Zero Sum Game

Eight one-minute plays written for the Miami edition of the One-Minute Play Festivals from 2015 to 2018.

Begging the Question; Planning Ahead; Climate Change; Welcome to Fourbucks; Spoiler Alert; Unforgivable; Gee, Your Butt Smells Terrific; Off the Rails.