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Samara Siskind
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Samara Siskind
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  • Bar Mitzvah Boy
  • Blind Date
  • Great Short Comedies: Volume 1
  • Great Short Comedies: Volume 2
  • The Unusual Suspects
  • Samara Siskind is a Florida based actress and playwright. Her full-length play, Fell in Love with a Girl was critically acclaimed and nominated for a Carbonell Award as well as a South Florida Curtain Up Award for Best New Work. Ms. Siskind has written three other full-length plays; Missing Jane, Conception, and Dog-Eared, as well as several published children's plays including I Was a Teenage Prom Queen, Don't Touch That Dial, Little Play of Horrors, Remember When, and Swingset. Ms. Siskind's work has also been published in Plays, the Drama Magazine for Young People, and will be featured in Volume II of Young Women's Monologues from Contemporary Plays. Ms. Siskind holds a BFA in Regional Theatre from Webster University's Conservatory of Theatre Arts.
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    Great Short Comedies: Volume 2
    by Steven Dietz, Paul Dooley, Winnie Holzman, Rolin Jones, et al.
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    Comedy
    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.

    Fast and funny, this volume contains ten short comedies that will split your side as you roll down the aisle busting a gut. From four young businessmen handling delicate negotiations over whether to like girls (Controlling Interest by Wayne S. Rawley), to a series of love notes between a husband and wife (Post-Its (Notes on a Marriage) by Winnie Holzman and Paul Dooley), to a pair of girls headed on a road trip with the prom queen in a laundry bag (Ron Bobby Had Too Big a Heart by Rolin Jones), this collection will make audiences laugh till it hurts.

    To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:

  • Blind Date by Samara Siskind
  • Controlling Interest by Wayne S. Rawley
  • Dorothy and Alice by Itamar Moses
  • Left to Right by Steven Dietz
  • Please Have a Seat and Someone Will Be With You Shortly by Garth Wingfield
  • Post-Its (Notes on a Marriage) by Paul Dooley and Winnie Holzman
  • The Proposal by Paul Siemens
  • Ron Bobby Had Too Big a Heart by Rolin Jones
  • Saving Face by Richard Keller
  • There Shall Be No Bottom (a bad play for worse actors) by Mark O'Donnell
  • "Great Short Comedies: Volume 2" by Steven Dietz, Paul Dooley, Winnie Holzman, Rolin Jones, Richard Keller, Itamar Moses, Mark O'Donnell, Wayne S. Rawley, Paul Siemens, Samara Siskind and Garth Wingfield.


    Great Short Comedies: Volume 1
    by Adam Bock, Matt Casarino, Adrienne Dawes, David Lindsay-Abaire, et al.
      More Info Add to Cart
    Comedy
    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.

    Fast and funny, this volume contains ten short comedies that will split your side as you roll down the aisle busting a gut. From a blue-collar family coming to terms with their absurd prejudices (How We Talk in South Boston by David Lindsay-Abaire), to three co-workers figuring out the intricacies of being men (Three Guys and a Brenda by Adam Bock), to a Yo' Mama showdown with the Clarence Thomas High School Dozens Team (Snap by Daryl Watson), this collection will make audiences laugh till it hurts.

    To purchase this book of 10 plays, click "Order this play" above. To perform an individual play, click on its title below:

  • Bar Mitzvah Boy
  • Failing the Improv
  • The Fortune Cookie
  • Heritage, Her-i-tage, and Hair-i-tage
  • How We Talk in South Boston
  • Miss Kentucky
  • Snap
  • Three Guys and a Brenda
  • Who's a Good Boy?
  • Yes, Mamet
  • "Great Short Comedies: Volume 1" by Adam Bock, Matt Casarino, Adrienne Dawes, David Lindsay-Abaire, Tuan Phan, Samara Siskind, Werner Trieschmann, Daryl Watson, Allison Williams and Anthony Wood.


    The Unusual Suspects by Samara Siskind   More Info Add to Cart
    Comedy
    Full-length, 90-95 minutes
    8 females, 6 males (14-28 actors possible: 8-16 females, 6-12 males)
    $75.00 per performance; $8.99 per book

    One crime. Four high school students. And one angry principal. This hilariously action-packed comedy caper unites four unlikely students who may not have a lot in common on the surface. But they do share one thing -- utter animosity towards the man who's haunted their high school years. Will they get their revenge?
    "The Unusual Suspects" by Samara Siskind. The Unusual Suspects, Blalack Middle School Theatre, Carrollton, Texas (2010).


    Blind Date by Samara Siskind   More Info Add to Cart
    Comedy
    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 Great Short Comedies: Volume 2.

    Love is blind...or is it? Marcia is looking for love; Ted taps in. Will it be a match made in heaven, or a case of the blind leading the blind?


    Bar Mitzvah Boy by Samara Siskind   More Info Add to Cart
    Comedy
    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 Great Short Comedies: Volume 1.

    Thirteen-year-old Samuel Rosenbaum is finally a man. It's the day of his Bar Mitzvah and he's survived reading the Torah, ballroom dancing, and crazy relatives...but will he be able to get the girl?
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