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Liz Duffy Adams is a New Dramatists alumna (2001-2008) and a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award, a Will Glickman Playwright Award, a Frederick Loewe Award in Music Theatre, a Weston Playhouse Music Theater Award, and a commission from Children's Theater Company, Minneapolis. Her work has been written, produced, or developed at the Humana Festival, The Women's Project, Portland Center Stage, Portland Stage Company, Syracuse Stage, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Millay Colony for the Arts, New Georges, Shotgun Players, Moxie Theater, Clubbed Thumb, and Crowded Fire Theater, among other places. Publications include Poodle With Guitar And Dark Glasses in Applause's "Best American Short Plays 2000-2001," numerous short plays and monologues in anthologies from Heinemann and Smith & Kraus, and several plays published by Playscripts, Inc. Ms. Adams was profiled in American Theatre magazine's December 2004 issue. BFA: NYU's Experimental Theater Wing; MFA: Yale School of Drama. |
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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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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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Restoration comedy in verse
Short, 12-15 minutes
2 females, 1 male
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 5.
Antwerp, 1660. Aphra Behn -- Englishwoman, poet, spy, and soon to become the first professional female playwright -- is flat broke and waiting to meet her contact and ex-lover, the double agent William Scot. She must use all her wiles and wit -- and a dalliance with the landlord's daughter -- to pay off her inn bill and get safely back to London. A brief Restoration-style comedy in rhyming couplets.
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Post-apocalyptic comedy
Full-length, 100-105 minutes
3 females, 3 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Post-apocalyptic wilderness was never funnier. Follow the adventures of Zetta Stone, a traveling performer, and her companion Dog (a young man undergoing a voluntary species demotion) as they wander through the former northeastern United States. Zetta, Dog and their little troupe are on their way to a gig in China, assuming they can find it...and survive the journey. A theatrical, darkly comic variation on the classic doomsday genre, with five original songs.
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| "Peppered with astonishing and exhilarating eruptions of storytelling and wondrous plays within the play." |
| --Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle |
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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
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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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Humana Festival 2006: The Complete Plays
30th Anniversary Edition
by Liz Duffy Adams, Adam Bock, Eric Coble, Dan Dietz, et al.
Edited by Adrien-Alice Hansel and Julie Felise Dubiner
Foreword by Marc Masterson |
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$19.95 per book
NOTE: This book contains 10 plays. To perform any of the plays, each must be licensed separately.
Humana 2006: The Complete Plays collects all ten plays produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville during the 30th anniversary season of the Humana Festival of New American Plays. The seven full-length plays and three ten-minute plays in this anthology encompass many of the most eclectic and exciting new voices in theater today -- from a technology-reliant man learning to listen to a planet on the verge of apocalypse (Natural Selection); to a left-leaning American citizen's doomed chance to give the President an earful (Listeners); to a group of Depression-era men who put on a fundraiser, and in the process find themselves transformed by more than just the ladies' costumes they don (Act A Lady). Alternately painful, subversive, hysterically funny, and poignant, these plays ask you to engage with characters and worlds you think you know, and then look again with new eyes.
To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:
Three Guys and a Brenda by Adam Bock
Natural Selection by Eric Coble
Low by Rha Goddess
Act A Lady by Jordan Harrison
Sovereignty by Rolin Jones
Listeners by Jane Martin
Hotel Cassiopeia by Charles L. Mee
The Scene by Theresa Rebeck
Six Years by Sharr White
Neon Mirage by Liz Duffy Adams, Dan Dietz, Rick Hip-Flores, Julie Jensen, Lisa Kron, Tracey Scott Wilson, and Chay Yew
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| "If you have any doubt that regional theatre in America is vital and thriving, then you missed this year's Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky." |
| --Newsweek |
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Science fiction comic-drama
Short, 10-12 minutes
2 females, 1 male (3 actors possible: 1-2 females, 1-2 males)
$30.00 per performance; $9.99 per book
NOTE: This play is part of an anthology called Great Short Plays: Volume 2.
It's the year 2509, exactly ten minutes before the end of the world -- and the Oldest Living Human, a 512-year-old Earthling, refuses to evacuate. Can the Captain of the last transport and her Lunatic adjunct persuade the memory-choked old woman to leave her home?
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Neon Mirage
by Liz Duffy Adams, Dan Dietz, Rick Hip-Flores, Julie Jensen, et al. |
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Comedy
Short, 45-55 minutes
3 females, 2 males (5 actors possible: 0-5 females, 0-5 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
Four late nights, five lost souls, one poodle gone Elvis. Above an after-hours club in an urban art slum, a painter loses control of her brush, a romance writer loses control of her heroine, an ESL teacher loses control of the to-be verb, a neighborhood activist turns into a migratory sea bird -- and a photographer called Jerry is not what he seems. A dark rhapsodic comedy about the perils of living by formula.
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Comi-threnody
Full-length, 75-90 minutes
3 females, 5 males
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
A scientist in flight from a terrifying truth she's only glimpsed. A twelve-year-old superhero in flight from her ordinary life. A goddess on the lam from boredom, and a trio of Russian brothers on a musical mission. Eight strangers face the end of the universe one night on a train in America, hurtling along a comic-poetic collision course with time, history, and a supernatural climax.
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| "Adams gets us where we want to go. With a comedic and mellifluous verbosity, she plumbs the metaphoric depths of her setting. A playful derailment of American dreams and apocalyptic nightmares." |
| --San Francisco Bay Guardian |
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