Dog Ear: Complete Play List
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Full-Length Plays
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A maid is dead. The floors won't come clean. A woman comes to claim what's hers. But who will clean up the mess?
Denise, anxious to save her marriage, enacts a deception that sets in motion a chain of events that exposed the tenuous nature of her marriage.
A story about two friends and rival artists contemplating middle age, the business and great change.
Backstage and onstage during one evening's performance of a radical re-imagining of DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. Comic/romantic dualities played out in real time.
Stacy is plagued by the ghosts of the two boys who killed themselves in a suicide pact that she was supposed to be part of. How can she move on with her life when she can't leave them behind?
Jorie is taken on a dark ride into New York's underbelly when she gives a homeless man her lover, James' coat. An urban, post 9-11, adaptation of a Grimm fairy tale.
The story of Rip, an artist blinded at the height of his career, and Jane, the woman who comes to take care of him and ultimately makes him the center of her life.
a work in progress
A journey into the underbelly of bartering for your organs…and perhaps for your soul
A story about five friends, race, regret, fashion, divorce and babies. Some people have a lot of issues.
Victims of political imprisonment and torture, given asylum in Las Vegas. Strange lifestyles and strange bonds develop.
It's 1934 and six Polish Jews see the writing on the wall. What to do but escape to the mountains and rehearse a play?
When a Nuclear engineer's life begins to melt down, he struggles to find some way to have an impact, and in nuclear physics, impact is often explosive. Dark Comedy.
Mentally disabled Timmy Moon, clings to his job in a toxic tanning factory, as his one hope of pride and independence.
A world where beauty looks like death and death looks like beauty and the caller on the telephone wants to know, “What’s the dead guy doing on your floor?”
Los Angeles, 1904. Philanthropist Griffith J. Griffith is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife. Brilliant, matinee-idol attorney Earl Rogers creates a novel defense ... that comes back to haunt him.
A thirteen year old girl, Jace, persuades a reclusive thirty-one year old Christmas tree salesman to help her kidnap her hissing mother from the insane asylum.
A young Midwestern transplant to the Los Angeles gay dating scene is faced with choices he never considered before--some more deadly than others.
Mom thinks she has cancer, Dad won't stop screwing around, and Uncle Gary can't kick his coke habit. But when 10-year-old Michael is faced with a problem of his own, will his loved ones get their act together or will Michael have to face his fears alone?
A bride's cold feet, a mother seeking her daughter's saviour and a downtown New York City nightclub that disappears.
An abandoned infant at the sprawling mall's google-plex sparks a search for his mother - and a longing in all those whose lives he touches.
A family drama that examines the value of love, loyalty and history in a time of crisis through parallel stories of people adapting to unforeseen and extraordinary circumstances.
BRIGHT BOY The Passion of Robert McNamara
Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara collapses at a women’s college while attending a memorial service for Dean Rusk.
The History of Fairfax - According to a Sandwich
Woolly mammoths, illegal immigrants, cowboy oil barons, slap fighting movie stars, gun running Zionist gangsters, musical rabbis, and hippie/doctors (or doctoring hippies), as told by the ghost of a stand-up comedian while haunting a deli.
Desire
Personal struggles unfold on a national stage, as demands of Independence re-figure relationships between Imperialists and Nationalists, landowners and peasants, and most explosively, women and men.
A boy, Antonio, and a woman, Lulu, find friendship and refuge in a water pipe high above a city's polluted concrete water bed.
When Lily and Marvin Price's daughters return for the last Passover in their family home, they find that the magic of the Seder ritual is the one thing that will allow them to heal the past and move on with their lives.
John Henry and the Shaker
A new play with songs, based on the legend of John Henry, whose contest with the steam drill is a mile post of industrial revolution lore
Part Two of An American Family Trilogy
Becky's tired of stripping, Little B thinks she's Bjork, and Rose is about to have the Gothiest baby ever. Just another day in the life for the Silversteins. But when Elliot gets gay-bashed, the foundation they've been building as a family is shattered.
A co-adaptation of S. Ansky's classic play about the ghost of a scholar possessing the young girl he loves.
A co-adaptation of S. Ansky's classic play about the ghost of a scholar possessing the young girl he loves.
One-Act Plays
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CIA recruitment in academia. Professor Beverly recruited student Tessa 7 years ago, now they're on their first mission together. Is this a happy reunion?
Two old friends visit the condemned amusement park of their childhood to relive the night that ruined their friendship.
On a break from "technical college" John makes the pilgrimage to his godmother's trialer in the woods.
A young woman consumed by an obsession: she has to find a dead man so she can prove that their love was real.
Ten-Minute Plays
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Travelogue with Viewmaster #47128
A man confronts the collapse of his marriage and his lack of meaning via a holiday slide show.
Beijing, New Year's Day, 2000: an American textile salesman, his wife, and the Decline of the American Empire.
IN THE SHADOW OF THE NORTHEAST KINGDOM
A local woman and her college-senior lover on the eve of his graduation. What makes a good day's work?
MAN MIRACULOUSLY SURVIVES SKYDIVE WITHOUT PARACHUTE
...and wonders if he's immortal -- or already dead.
A bright, 17 year-old video game junkie ticks off security weaknesses, as his gaming buddy grows uneasy.
An adolescent’s rebelliousness turns to tragedy. Now a mother cannot sleep. Can the late night arguments with the daughter who deceived her finally give her the strength to cut the ties to her debilitating grief?
Two friends, finding themselves on opposing sides of a civil war, must choose between loyalty to the past and devotion to a new cause.
Objects Seen in Mirror are Closer than they Appear
A crosscountry custodial battle hits every McDonalds possible as Babe, a Nevada stripper, chases after her ex, trying to get her daughter back.
A couple whose marriage is collapsing finds the only way to communicate is through their dance teacher's lessons in fantasy.
A hairdresser. A stockbroker. Her retarded twin brother. A world where chemicals have twisted nature.
A mother and a daughter. How is it that you can no longer communicate with someone who used to live inside you? Anne and Rachel must find each other again.
The DNA Trail - A Genealogy of short Plays about Ancestry, Identity, and Confusion
That Could Be You
Textile business skullduggery meets upper-class British anti-Semitism at the Ascot Races, circa 1910
Plays for Young Audiences
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4 Virginia Avenue Project Plays
Major league baseball, rock climbing, a cross-country drive, and a rebellious court jester: 4 short plays about how guys deal with each other.
SuperBelle, Enemy of All Shmuckiness
A troubled teen with superpowers discovers her arch-enemy is her own sister.
Plays for Solo Performer
Collective Projects