10-Minute Plays

2025 Valdez Theatre Conference Ten-Minute Play Slam directed by Jay Stevens
A comic standoff between a graceful swan and a very determined duck. (Cast: 2F)

Heideman Award Finalist
Premiere: Makor Center, NYC
2025 Valdez Theatre Conference Fringe Festival
A mismatched romance strikes up on the subway. (Cast: 1F/1M)

- In "2026 Best Men's Stage Monologues" (upcoming)
Edited by Debbie Lamedman, Smith-Kraus Books
- Premiere: New Circle 2025 Fall Short Play Festival
with Richard Hughes & Greg Kowlessar
A car, a lot of snow, and a lasagna lead to an unexpected encounter. (Cast: 2M)

Published in: 
- The Best 10-Minute Plays 2021 (Smith & Kraus) LINK
WCSU production directed by Pam McDaniel WATCH 
Four stories, told as monologues, converge in downtown Manhattan. (Cast: 2F/2M)

The Wallis Annenberg Center in 
Reckoning, a short play festival LINK
Premiere: HERE, NYC
Published in: 
- Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays (Vintage) LINK
- An Anthology of Contemporary American Plays (English & Chinese) 
A play about the bond between brothers. Set during the AIDS epidemic, Eddie tries to get his brother Rob to speak after the loss of his partner. (Cast: 2M)

Published in: 
- The Best 10-Minute Plays 2022 (Smith & Kraus) LINK
- Take Ten II: More 10-Minute Plays (Vintage) LINK
- An Anthology of Contemporary American Plays (English & Chinese)
Heideman Award Finalist
Premiere: Orange Thoughts, NYC
A young man enters a confessional with a startling announcement, “I have killed someone.” A taut, unsettling confrontation with the Priest ensues. (Cast: 2M)

Published in: 
- The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2022 (Smith & Kraus) LINK
Premiere: Western Connecticut State University
As Ray and Bailey work, they discuss various subjects ranging from: was Shakespeare depressed when he wrote Hamlet to the danger of making assumptions. (Cast: 2M)

Published in The Actor's Book of Gay & Lesbian Plays (Penguin Books, 10-minute version) LINK
Heideman Award Finalist
Premiere: Westbeth Arts Center, NYC
The story of two queer waiters at a Republican fundraiser.
Basis of the short film starring David Drake, Tim Deak, John Kelly and Lisa Kron. (Cast: 2M)

Published in Shorter, Faster, Funnier (Vintage) LINK
Heideman Award Finalist
Premiere: Center Stage, NYC
A young couple transforms an abandoned building into a theater. (Cast: 1F/1M)

(10-minute version) 
Heideman Award Finalist
Premiere: Actors & Writers
A lyrical piece about a young man who visits his aging parents in Brooklyn. (Cast: 1F/2M)

2024 Jewish Plays Project’s Ten-Minute Play Festival produced with Berkshire Theatre Group – Semi-finalist
Premiere: HERE, NYC
Rob and his boyfriend Earl must uncover the past so they can begin to move forward. (Cast: 2M)

Published in Plays for Two (Vintage Books) LINK
Heideman Award Finalist
NYC 15-Minute Play Festival Semi-Finalist
Premiere: Turnip Theater & Old Globe Theatre
A short comic drama about two teenage misfits stumbling into adulthood. (Cast: 1F/1M)

Published by Dramatists Play Service (full-length version) LINK
Scene 1 is the original 10-minute play
Premiere: Vital Theatre Co. & Samuel French Best Short Play Festival - directed by Daisy Walker
‘IN 10’ festival of plays with strong roles for young women - Finalist
When Molly drives up to her job at the farm stand in a brand-new convertible that her dad gave her, Carrie is blown away by his generosity. But for these two teenage girls, nothing is as it seems. (Cast: 2F)

Published in Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays (Vintage) LINK
Heideman Award Finalist
Premiere: Makor Center, starring Melissa Leo
A woman’s worst nightmare is realized when her blind date sends his surly teenage daughter in his place. (Cast: 2F)

Published in Under 30: Plays for a New Generation (Vintage) LINK
Premiere: Circle in the Square Downtown, NYC
A garbage man and a musical theater actor connect more than they imagined. (Cast: 2M)

Heideman Award Finalist
An old farm table facilitates a magical family reunion. (Cast: 3F/1M)