| Jonathan Rand has written five of the top six most-produced plays in high schools, according to an independent national survey, including Check Please as the #1 most-produced short play in North America for eight consecutive years. Since writing his first play in 1997, Mr. Rand's scripts have been produced by over 7,000 theaters in all 50 states and in 46 countries, including Kenya, China, Egypt, Cambodia, India, Singapore, Botswana, Korea, Indonesia, Kuwait, Malta, Brazil, Poland, Malaysia, Jordan, Croatia, Uruguay, and Madagascar.
His work has been published by Random House, Dramatics magazine, Playscripts, and Smith & Kraus, and he has been twice honored by the Actors Theatre of Louisville as a Heideman Award finalist.
Mr. Rand is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida.
Official website: www.jonathanrand.com |
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Comedy
Short, 15-20 minutes
9 females, 7 males, 7 either
(4-23 actors possible: 0-23 females, 0-23 males)
$45.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
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$14.95 per book
Looking for the perfect monologue? Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens is here to help. From hilarious comedy to cutting-edge drama and everything in between, an exciting selection of monologues is at your fingertips. 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. From classwork to competitions to auditions, this book has you covered!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
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| "This is an excellent monologue book for middle and high school students with applications for competition as well as use in drama, speech, or English classes." |
| --Terrilyn Fleming, The Midwest Book Review |
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Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
by Liz Duffy Adams, Janet Allard, Yuri Baranovsky, et al.
Edited by Jason Pizzarello
With "Tips for Student Actors" by director Jon Jory |
 
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$14.95 per book
Looking for the perfect scene? Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens is just what you need. From hilarious comedy to cutting-edge drama, this collection offers 40 exciting 2-person scenes with plenty of fascinating characters for young actors. Unlike other scene books, the source of every scene 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. From classwork to competitions to auditions, this book has you covered!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
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| "The acting bug doesn't care what age you are. Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens is a collection of simple yet fun scenes aimed at younger teen actors who want to embrace drama as a hobby or even a potential career. Designed for two actors with themes and times easily doable for any would be teen thespian, Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens is a resource no drama teacher should miss." |
| --The Midwest Book Review |
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Comedy
Short, 25-35 minutes
7 females, 7 males (4-26 actors possible: 2-13 females, 2-13 males)
$45.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Dating can be hard. Especially when your date happens to be a raging kleptomaniac, or your grandmother's bridge partner, or a mime. Check Please follows a series of blind dinner dates that couldn't get any worse -- until they do. Could there possibly be a light at the end of the tunnel?
(See also Check Please: Take 2 and Check Please: Take 3.)
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| "Simply wonderful! One of the best one acts I've judged in several years." |
| --Iowa High School Speech Association |
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Comedy
Short, 25-35 minutes
6 females, 6 males (4-12 actors possible: 2-6 females, 2-6 males)
$45.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Soon after their relationship ends, Guy and Girl are forced by their well-intentioned best friends to plunge back into the dating pool. Unfortunately that pool is filled with foot-reading psychics, frustrated polygamists, and extreme accountants. And pirates. But are the blind dates really that unbearable? Yes. Yes they are.
(See also Check Please and Check Please: Take 3. This play can be read or performed without any knowledge of the other two versions.)
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Comedy
Short, 25-35 minutes
8 females, 8 males (4-16 actors possible: 2-8 females, 2-8 males)
$45.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Best friends Guy and Girl used to be a couple. Desperate to buck singlehood, they decide that even considering their atrocious blind dating track record, it's worth another shot. But after struggling through dates with a wannabe rock star, a vote-starved politician, and the guy who does those intense movie trailer voice-overs, there's the inevitable question: Which is better -- staying single the rest of your life, or suffering through a series of the worst dates in history?
(See also Check Please and Check Please: Take 2. This play can be read or performed without any knowledge of the other two versions.)
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Comedy
Short, 10-15 minutes
1 female, 2 males
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Brad comes home from school one day to find his parents waiting for him, deeply concerned. They have found a secret that Brad stashed away in his underwear drawer: an algebra book. That's right -- Brad has been studying behind their backs, instead of following his parents' strict insistence on sex, drugs, and rock & roll. What unfolds is a parody of all those insufferable after-school specials that made us who we are today.
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| "Sparkles with humor and wit... Rand's genius play create[s] an engaging scene that reveals unexpected twists among an amusing family squabble." |
| --Silver Chips Online |
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Comedy
Short, 30-40 minutes
5 females, 6 males (4-11 actors possible: 2-7 females, 2-7 males)
$45.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Job applicants at Banff Enterprises will do anything to claw their way up the corporate ladder. In a fast-paced series of hilarious interviews, the new recruits try every trick in the book -- from bribery, nepotism, and the Old Boy Network to blackmail, seduction, and mind control.
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| "An almost perfect high school one-act... It's got a large, flexible cast, it allows actors to go a little wild and it's hilarious." |
| --Stephen Gregg, author of This is a Test |
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Comedy
Short, 20-30 minutes
30 either (7-230 actors possible: 1-225 females, 5-229 males)
$45.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Want to know the easiest way to make it through the grueling abyss known as high school? A group of student agents infiltrate an assembly to demonstrate their secret tips and tricks, ranging from legally changing your name to get around roll call, to using Tom Cruise to help memorize science terms. High school will never be the same.
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Comedy
Short, 35-45 minutes
13 females, 8 males, 27 either
(12-60 actors possible: 0-60 females, 0-60 males)
$45.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
In the fairy tale criminal justice system, the characters from fairy tales and nursery rhymes are represented by two separate yet equally ridiculous groups: the fairy tale police who investigate fairy tale crime, and the fairy tale district attorneys who prosecute the fairy tale offenders. These are their stories.
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Comedy
Short, 15-25 minutes
5 females, 12 males, 7 either
(8-35 actors possible: 4-27 females, 7-30 males)
$45.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Want to perform a classic play too offensive for your high school? Then the ScriptCleaner5000 is the product for you! Sit back and relax as Cynocorp representatives Shelly and Tom present sample scenes from plays that have been treated with this exciting new technology. Wipe away that dirty David Mamet profanity! Violence in Shakespeare? Gone. And what about those pesky sex scenes? The ScriptCleaner5000 has got you covered!
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| "Brilliant comedy... The audience did not stop laughing until the play was over." |
| --Student Voice (California) |
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Comedy
Short, 20-30 minutes
8 females, 8 males (7-16 actors possible: 4-8 females, 4-8 males)
$45.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Two friends discover an incredible online simulator that shows them exactly what their future college roommate experiences will look like. Yet after a few minutes with a raging narcoleptic, a world-class procrastinator, and a children's party clown, it may be time to seriously consider living alone.
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Murder mystery parody
Full-length, 80-90 minutes
58 either (22-58 actors possible: 0-58 females, 0-58 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
One murder, twenty suspects. Who killed Mysterious Host? Could it be Respected General? What about Wealthy Dowager? Or maybe it was Santa Claus. The mystery unfolds as Inexplicably Omniscient Inspector takes on the most thrilling and baffling murder case in the history of thrilling and baffling murder cases. (A one-act version of this play is also available.)
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| "Killer fun! It's 'Clue' on crack." |
| --Patch (Pennsylvania) |
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Murder mystery parody
Short, 40-50 minutes
7 females, 5 males, 36 either
(12-48 actors possible: 0-48 females, 0-48 males)
$45.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
One murder, ten suspects. Who killed Mysterious Host? Could it be Respected General? What about Wealthy Dowager? Or maybe it was Santa Claus. The mystery unfolds as Inexplicably Omniscient Inspector takes on the most thrilling and baffling murder case in the history of thrilling and baffling murder cases. (A full-length version of this play is also available.)
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| "Killer fun! It's 'Clue' on crack." |
| --Patch (Pennsylvania) |
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Comedy
Short, 15-20 minutes
17 either (8-17 actors possible: 0-17 females, 0-17 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Today you will be one of many star witnesses in the most controversial trial the world has ever seen: America sues the entire concept of unsolicited junk email. Tension mounts as we hear testimonies from a Nigerian prince, a debt reducer, and a purveyor of life-changing, body-enhancing pills. The fate of America's inboxes lies in the hands of a single jury...
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| "Comedy is easy to pick up, yet hard to master. Random Acts of Comedy is a collection of assorted plays that range in many types of humor from outright parody to twisting of classics to meta humor on the art of theatre. For anyone seeking to teach their students the art of humor, [this] is quite the excellent source for inspiration." |
| --Midwest Book Review |
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Comedy
Short, 35-45 minutes
18 females, 15 males, 17 either
(15-50 actors possible: 0-50 females, 0-50 males)
$40.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Due to budget cuts there will only be a single session of Drama One for the entire school year -- and the class will only last 20 minutes. To make matters worse, the students are required to perform an entire Shakespeare play for a schoolwide assembly during a time slot of only 10 minutes. Under the direction of the egomaniacal Mrs. Gunnysack, the beginner students must pull together for the fastest, cleanest, lowest-budget rendition of Romeo and Juliet the world has ever seen, complete with a makeshift balcony, interpretive dance fight sequences, and an Elizabethan hip-hop dance party that would even make P. Diddy shake his tailfeather with Shakespearean pride.
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