Doug Rand is a playwright, publisher, and former evolutionary biologist living in Washington, DC. His plays include The Idiot and the Oddity, a parody of ancient Greek theatrical classics and winner of the first-ever Thespian Playworks program; another one-act, The Auditioners; Peter Pan and Wendy, a new adaptation of the J.M. Barrie novel; and Plan B, Lights Out, The Concorde Fallacy, and The Rock, all Heideman Award finalists in the Actors Theatre of Louisville's National Ten-Minute Play Contest.
With C. Denby Swanson, he developed the play Everything So Far, which has toured the state of Texas with Troupe St. Stephen's. With composer Adam Levitin, he wrote the book and lyrics for Small World Order, a musical romp through an America utterly conquered by Disney.
His articles have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Dramatics magazine, Regeneration Quarterly, The Blogging of the President, The Annual Review of Entomology, and Nice Job: The Guide to Cool, Odd, Risky, and Gruesome Ways to Make a Living. He is chairman and co-founder of Playscripts, Inc., a publishing house for new plays. |
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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, 35-45 minutes
11 females, 3 males (3-14 actors possible: 0-14 females, 0-14 males)
$40.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
This audition was supposed to be simple: prepare one classical monologue and one contemporary monologue. But when this challenge is taken up by a beauty queen, a stand-up comic, a slam poet, an Esperanto-speaking mime, and a parade of other crazies -- most of whom insist on doing the same Lady Macbeth piece very badly -- what's a director to do?
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Comedy
Short, 10-15 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 3.
Julie is a dating coach who trains her clients to give every date a second chance. Veronica is a dating coach who trains her clients to be utterly mercenary. Now Veronica is Julie's dating coach, and these duelling philosophies are head to head. Will Julie listen to her biological clock, or follow her heart? What does that even mean?
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 60-80 minutes
8 females, 2 males (8-30 actors possible: 6-28 females, 2-24 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Loosely adapted from a 9th grade biology textbook, Everything So Far is a whimsical interweaving of several impossible stories -- a Dinosaur looking for her lost egg, a Biologist with dark intentions, a Fly with 24 hours to live, the three Fates, the All Chimp Runaway Lab Monkey Band, and a narrator, Peter, who has recently died but finds his way back in time to the moment of his most perfect peace.
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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 3 contains ten extraordinary comedies and dramas. From a Chanukah miracle at a North Dakota airport (The First Night of Chanukah by Sheri Wilner), to a couple living their entire marriage during a ten-minute drive (The Yellow Line by Kira Obolensky), to a day in the life of an all-American family on a top-secret Army base (School of the Americas by J. Holtham), 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:
A Backward Glance
The Concorde Fallacy
The First Night of Chanukah
Information
School of the Americas
Sovereignty
White Trash
Wildlife
The Yellow Line
A Young Housewife
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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
Short, 35-45 minutes
18 females, 11 males, 10 either (15-50 actors possible: 6-46 females, 4-44 males)
$35.00 per performance; $7.99 per book
In order to earn her stripes as a full-fledged deity, Polaris (a demi-goddess) must help Protagonis (the loser kid brother of Odysseus) understand the core social problems of Ancient Greek culture -- including lust, suicide, vengeance, and death by Clorox. With the help of a bunny-hopping Chorus, this fast-paced parody journeys from the divine halls of Mount Olympus, to the blood-soaked courts of Creon and Agamemnon, all the way to the Isolated Nether-Island of Infamous Evil Greek Women.
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It's a Wonderful Life adapted by Doug Rand
from the screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra, and Jo Swerling |
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Comedy/Drama
Full-length, 90-110 minutes
18 females, 18 males, 15 either
(20-70 actors possible: 6-35 females, 5-35 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
This faithful, fast-moving stage adaptation of the classic film features fluid scene changes, reasonable set requirements, and scores of beefy roles, particularly for women. It's not only a joyful Christmas tale -- it's the gorgeous love story of George and Mary Bailey, a vivid portrait of the Greatest Generation, a descent into the darkest hour of a man trapped by circumstance, and a powerful meditation on what makes a meaningful life.
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Comedy
Short, 10-15 minutes
1 female, 1 male, 1 either (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 4.
Business partners Jeremy and Kate can't afford to miss their next deadline -- and then the power goes out. Ginny the intern investigates the cause: A broken circuit? A blackout? A massive, unprecedented solar flare? How would they know if the sun had exploded, and everyone had only eight more minutes left on Earth?
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Comedy/Adventure
Full-length, 75-90 minutes
7 females, 6 males, 13 either
(16-40 actors possible: 2-20 females, 3-20 males)
$75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book
Rediscover the loopy fun and the darker corners of J.M. Barrie's original novel with this faithful, fast-moving, and easy-to-stage adaptation. When the carefree and careless Peter Pan flies into the nursery of the Darling home, Wendy follows her instincts for maternity and adventure, bringing her little brothers along to the magical Neverland to take care of the motherless Lost Boys. Soon the Darling children are swept into Peter's deadly battle with Captain Hook and his mostly-fearsome pirate crew. With so much excitement, why ever go home again...?
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| "...not only a beautiful and stirring piece of theater, but also an homage to the homespun, human-scaled magic that makes theater unique." |
| --Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
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