| Stephen Belber. Stephen Belber's plays include Geomtery of Fire, (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Fault Lines, (Naked Angels/Cherry Lane); A Small, Melodramatic Story, (LAByrinth Theater Company); McReele, (Roundabout); Match, (Broadway, Tony nomination for Frank Langella); Tape, (Naked Angels, NYC/LA/London); The Laramie Project, (Associate Writer); Carol Mulroney, (Huntington Theater); One Million Butterflies, (Primary Stages); Drifting Elegant, (Magic Theater); The Transparency of Val, (Theater Outrageous, NYC); The Wake, (Via Theater, NYC); Through Fred, (Soho Rep); and The Death of Frank, (Araca Group, NYC). As a screenwriter, he wrote Tape, directed by Richard Linklater, starring Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke (Sundance; Berlin); The Laramie Project (Associate Writer) for HBO Films, (Sundance, Emmy nomination for screenwriting); and Drifting Elegant, directed by Amy Glazer. He also wrote and directed his first feature, Management, starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn and Woody Harrelson, which premiered at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival and is due out this spring. Among other projects, he is currently developing a screenplay based on McReele, for Will Smith's Overbrook production company. TV credits include Rescue Me and Law & Order SVU, (staff writer). He has received commissions from Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons, The Huntington Theater, Arena Stage and Philadelphia Theater Company. |
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Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
by Keith Aisner, Robert Alexander, Tanya Barfield, Stephen Belber, et al.
Edited by Erin Detrick
Foreword by Broadway casting director Kate Schwabe |
 
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$14.95 per book
Discover a monologue book like no other. Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men 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, Mac Wellman, Tanya Barfield, Jordan Harrison, Tony Award winner David Henry Hwang, and many more!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens
Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
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Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
by Liz Duffy Adams, Robert Alexander, John Augustine, Stephen Belber, et al.
Edited by Erin Detrick
Foreword by Broadway casting director Kate Schwabe |
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$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
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Comedy
Short, 15-20 minutes
2 males
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 1.
Two actors prepare for their roles...and end up confusing it all with their actual lives. Which gets tricky as far as Sri Lanka, intense machismo, and loud self-importance are concerned.
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Comedy
Short, 10-20 minutes
3 females, 2 males
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 2.
People seek faith, love and congruity in a church; but it's not easy when you're forced to wiggle and prance and dance.
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Comedy/Drama
Various durations
Various cast requirements
$9.99 per book
NOTE: This book contains 10 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
With a diverse blend of themes, styles, and cast requirements, Great Short Plays: Volume 1 contains ten extraordinary comedies and dramas. From two actors confusing their roles with their actual lives (Big Ole Washing Machine by Stephen Belber), to the inner thoughts of two terror-stricken subway riders in New York City (Moving Shortly by Sheri Wilner), to a marriage reconciled with puppet therapy (The Rebirth of Beautiful by John Walch), these collections deliver a little bit of everything in half the time.
To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Big Ole Washing Machine
Bloody Thanksgiving
Christmas Breaks
Good Night, Valsetz
Here and Now
Margo at Sea
Moving Shortly
Patriot Act
The Rebirth of Beautiful
Two Guys Moving Heavy Stuff
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Comedy/Drama
Various durations
Various cast requirements
$9.99 per book
NOTE: This book contains 10 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
With a diverse blend of themes, styles, and cast requirements, Great Short Plays: Volume 2 contains ten extraordinary comedies and dramas. From the oldest living human with exactly ten minutes left before the end of the world (The Last Woman on Earth by Liz Duffy Adams), to marital advice from Mohandas Gandhi to a truck driver (Gandhi Goes Fishing by Al Sjoerdsma), to ethical discord involving world hunger and cat food (Aisle 17B by John Walch), these collections deliver a little bit of everything in half the time.
To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Aisle 17B
But Who's Counting
A Free Man in Paris
Gandhi Goes Fishing
God Like a Jumpstart
The John Philip Sousa Workshop
The Last Woman on Earth
The Lessons of My Father
The Miracle of Chanukah
Views
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Comedy/Drama
Various durations
Various cast requirements
$9.99 per book
NOTE: This book contains 10 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
With a diverse blend of themes, styles, and cast requirements, Great Short Plays: Volume 4 contains ten extraordinary comedies and dramas. From an American innocent's confrontation with government wiretapping (Listeners by Jane Martin), to an iconic detective's night dressed as Santa Claus (A Holmes Family Christmas by Judy GeBauer), to a woman interviewing applicants for the position of full-time lover (Passive Belligerence by Stephen Belber), these collections deliver a little bit of everything in half the time.
To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Double Date
Forward Motion
Hell and Back
A Holmes Family Christmas
Lights Out
Listeners
Oh, the Humanity
Passive Belligerence
Photographs from S-21
Temptation
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Comedy/Drama
Various durations
Various cast requirements
$9.99 per book
NOTE: This book contains 10 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
With a diverse blend of themes, styles, and cast requirements, Great Short Plays: Volume 5 contains ten extraordinary comedies and dramas. From the ultimate pick-up line (Men Suck by J. Holtham), to a Restoration-style comedy about Aphra Behn (Aphra Does Antwerp by Liz Duffy Adams), to a summit of ex-wives at an open-casket funeral of their nearly-naked ex-hippie ex-husband (Invitation to a Funeral by Julie McKee), these collections deliver a little bit of everything in half the time.
To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Aphra Does Antwerp
The Beauty Inside (one-act)
Doppelganger
Everything Else
Going Out
Invitation to a Funeral
Joan of Arkansas
Letting Billy
Love
Men Suck
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Comedy
Short, 10-20 minutes
3 males
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 5.
Three restaurant guys seek love amidst the clutter of food cans, life, manhood and rope.
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$18.95 per book
NOTE: This book contains 25 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
Since 1989, New York City's Naked Angels has collaborated with some of America's most beloved playwrights to create exciting, topical plays for their time-honored tradition: the Issues Project. The short plays within this collection respond to resonant themes from gun control to the environment, faith to human rights.
Naked Angels Issues Projects features the innovative writing of today's top playwrights, including Pulitzer Prize finalists Theresa Rebeck, Craig Lucas, Lee Blessing, Warren Leight, Will Eno, Kenneth Lonergan, Jon Robin Baitz, and many more.
To purchase this book of 25 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
187 by Jose Rivera
After The Deer Hunter by Nicole Burdette
Baby Gators by Pippin Parker
Baby Steps by Geoffrey Nauffts
Beauty Runs On Light Feet by Kenneth Lonergan
The Bully Composition by Will Eno
Coq Au Vin by Jon Robin Baitz
Damaged Goods by David Marshall Grant
The Dying City by Christopher Shinn
Four Monologues by Jon Robin Baitz
Fruits and Nuts by Ned Eisenberg
La Familia by Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Love by Daniel Reitz
The Only Other Option by Patrick Breen
A Passion Play by Pippin Parker
Pay-Per-Kill by Warren Leight
Reagan in Hell by Lee Blessing
Sex with the Censor by Theresa Rebeck
Shadow Day by Steven Dietz
Snuff by Frank Pugliese
Szinhaz by Itamar Moses
Throwing Your Voice by Craig Lucas
To Be Human by Stephen Belber
True To You by Kenneth Lonergan
What We're Up Against by Theresa Rebeck
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Comedy
Short, 15-20 minutes
1 female, 2 males
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 4.
Gail is interviewing two men simultaneously for the same job. Dan is an avowed pacifist, prone to falling into a state of full-body limpness at the slightest provocation. Jeff, on the other hand, has something of a violent streak, bordering on the psychopathic. It's extremely difficult for Gail to tell which applicant is better qualified for her very particular purposes...
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Drama
Short, 45-50 minutes
1 female, 2 males (1-3 actors possible: 0-3 females, 0-3 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
On July 4, 1976, Sam died from a stab wound while his pregnant girlfriend and her lover looked on. Each of the three reveals their perspective on the event, revolving around unresolved questions: By whom was Michelle pregnant? Who plunged the steak knife into Sam's heart?
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Comedy
Short, 45-60 minutes
3 males
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Three men search for Steve, wonder who He is, think about God, die.
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Drama/Comedy
Full-length, 60-75 minutes
2 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Two men seek Fred. Is one of them Fred? Is Fred dead? Why does one of them have a phallic rock? Is manhood a myth?
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Drama
Short, 8-10 minutes
2 males
$30.00 per performance; $18.95 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Naked Angels Issues Projects: Collected Plays.
Politicians talk art and artists talk politics, but no one says who they really are in this meta-theatrical play that explores the boundary between truth and lies.
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Trepidation Nation
a phobic anthology
by Keith Josef Adkins, Stephen Belber, Hilary Bell, Glen Berger, et al. |
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Drama/Comedy
Full-length, 80-100 minutes
12 females, 11 males (4-23 actors possible)
$75.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: Each piece in this anthology can be licensed and performed separately.
We all have instinctive fears -- but what if a fear becomes inexplicable, illogical, and just plain weird? Then you're dealing with a phobia, one of those most extreme and fascinating of terrors. Actors Theatre of Louisville asked 16 frighteningly creative playwrights to find inspiration in real phobias, and the resulting collection of pieces might prove that not only is fear humankind's oldest emotion, but it's also one of our silliest, most serious, and stage-worthy.
To perform the entire collection, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual piece independently, click on its title below:
The Gallows Monologue from Sidney Ryan's 'Gunpowder and Blood' by Glen Berger
The Message by Hilary Bell
Down to Sleep by Victoria Stewart
Cobra Neck by Keith Josef Adkins
Seal Skin by Erik Ehn
I Am Not Alone by Richard Dresser
The Joys of Childhood by Kirsten Greenidge
Octophobia by James Still
Hold This by Sheila Callaghan
Naked Lunch by Michael Hollinger
Normal by Cusi Cram
Euxious by Bridget Carpenter
I'm Here for You by Warren Leight
Safe by Gina Gionfriddo
Phobophobia by Julie Marie Myatt
Yes by Stephen Belber
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Drama
Short, 45-50 minutes
1 female (1-9 actors possible: 1-3 females, 0-6 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
A woman searches for her ideal in an elusive yachtsman, who compels her on a lonely quest across America to regain his mysterious love.
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Comedy
Short, 5-10 minutes
1 male
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Trepidation Nation.
Through flowers and public disrobing, a man strives to turn his fear into love.
This piece is part of Trepidation Nation, an anthology of short plays. To perform this piece independently, click "Order this play" above. To perform this piece as part of the full-length collection, go to Trepidation Nation.
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