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Plays by this author Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women Emotional Baggage Everything Must Go Finger Food Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays Forty to Life Lives of the Great Waitresses Lush Life No Shoulder War at Home Nina Shengold won the Writers Guild Award for her teleplay Labor of Love, starring Marcia Gay Harden, and the ABC Playwright Award for Homesteaders. Her one-act plays have been produced throughout the U.S. and in Canada, Europe, Asia, and New Zealand; No Shoulder was filmed by Suzi Yoonessi and screened at Tribeca Underground, the Woodstock Film Festival and others. With Eric Lane, Shengold has edited eleven theatre anthologies for Viking Penguin and Vintage Books. Her first novel, Clearcut (Anchor Books, 2005) was chosen as one of the year's best books by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, San Francisco Bay Times, BookMarks and Out.com.

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Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women by Liz Duffy Adams, Robert Alexander, John Augustine, et al. Edited by Erin Detrick Foreword by Broadway casting director Kate Schwabe    $14.95 per book Discover a monologue book like no other. Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women gives you an extraordinary array of cutting-edge new monologues, from comedic to dramatic and everything in between. Unlike other monologue books, the source of every monologue is easily accessible -- each play is available through one website (www.playscripts.com), where you can read nearly the entire published script online for free. Explore the work of today's most celebrated theatrical voices, including Naomi Iizuka, Rinne Groff, Jane Martin, Pulitzer Prize winners Lynn Nottage and David Lindsay-Abaire, and many more! Also in this series: Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens Emotional Baggage by Nina Shengold    Comedy Short, 15-20 minutes 3 females, 4 males (6-7 actors possible: 3-4 females, 3-4 males) $35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays. The secret lives of unclaimed baggage. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays.) Everything Must Go by Nina Shengold    Comedy Short, 15-20 minutes 2 females, 2 either (4-14 actors possible: 2-8 females, 2-6 males) $35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays. A middle-aged woman sells her past - literally - at a yard sale. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays.) Finger Food by Nina Shengold    Comedy Short, 18-25 minutes 1 female, 1 male $35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays. As a Method hand model and a hand-obsessed food photographer shoot an ad, lust for each other sparks in them both. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays.) Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays by Nina Shengold    Comedy/Drama Full-length, 100-120 minutes 5 females, 3 males (8-45 actors possible: 4-22 females, 4-24 males) $75.00 per performance; $9.99 per book NOTE: Each piece in this anthology can be licensed and performed separately. These seven short comedies and dramas provide a lightly surreal romp for actors, who play everything from ex-boyfriends in a police lineup (Forty to Life), to abandoned suitcases (Emotional Baggage), to four women of uncommon zen wisdom (Lives of the Great Waitresses). Together these pieces serve up a satisfying assortment of life experiences that are sometimes mysterious, sometimes hilarious, and always surprising. To purchase this book of 7 plays, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below: Forty to Life Lives of the Great Waitresses Lush Life Emotional Baggage Finger Food No Shoulder Everything Must Go On Lives of the Great Waitresses: "Honest, poignant and insightful... Sweet and satisfying as pie a la mode with a cuppa joe." --Jo Ledingham, Vancouver Courier Forty to Life by Nina Shengold    Comedy Short, 10-15 minutes 2 females, 6 males (6-14 actors possible: exactly 2 females, 4-12 males) $35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays. Susie confronts a police line-up of dating offenders, each one an ex-boyfriend of hers. One of them blames her for breaking his heart when she can barely remembers him. The pair is handcuffed together until things are worked out between them. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays.) Lives of the Great Waitresses by Nina Shengold    Comedy Short, 10-15 minutes 4 females $35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays. Four waitresses, each with her own brand of zen, share the secrets of being one of the greats. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays.) "Honest, poignant and insightful... Sweet and satisfying as pie a la mode with a cuppa joe." --Jo Ledingham, Vancouver Courier Lush Life by Nina Shengold    Jazz drama Short, 10-15 minutes 1 female, 1 male $35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays. On a late-night subway platform, a single woman encounters a homeless street musician, who may or may not be her schizophrenic first love. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays.) No Shoulder by Nina Shengold    Drama Short, 10-15 minutes 2 females $35.00 per performance; $9.99 per book NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays. A surreal late-night encounter between a childless widow and a teenage hitchhiker, who have far more in common than either imagines. (This play can also be performed as part of the full-length play Finger Foods: An Evening of Short Plays.) "Newcomer Nina Shengold (an experienced TV writer) takes top honors with No Shoulder. Shengold unfolds her tale quickly and carefully... The surprise ending is shocking and complete... a miraculous and unforgiving little play." --Michael Eck, Albany Times Union War at Home by Nicole Quinn and Nina Shengold    Ensemble drama Short, 40-50 minutes 4 females, 4 males, 13 either (16-30 actors possible: 4-26 females, 4-26 males) $40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book A group of students in a New York State high school 100 miles north of Ground Zero responds to the events of September 11th, 2001. The text of this ensemble piece was created from journal writings of over 40 students, teachers, and community members in the weeks immediately following 9-11. (All royalties from War at Home will be donated to charity.) "Quinn and Shengold provide an intriguing, youth-oriented look at the events of 9/11 in War at Home, a short play that deserves some legs." --Larry Schwartz, Library Journal

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