Biography
Don Zolidis, one of the most-produced playwrights in the world, is a former middle school and high school theater teacher. His 140+ published plays have been produced over 25,000 times, appearing in all fifty states, every Canadian province, and more than eighty countries around the world. He’s a member of the Dramatist’s Guild and earned an MFA in playwriting from the Actor’s Studio Drama School at the New School and a BA in English from Carleton College. He splits his time between Austin, Texas and upstate New York, where he lives with his partner and a great border collie.
Plays by Don Zolidis
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10 Ways to Survive Life In a Quarantine (full-length)
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10 Ways to Survive the End of the World
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10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse
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10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse: The Musical!
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2002 - 15 Minutes of Clown Fame
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Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens, Volume 2
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Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women
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Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women, Volume 2
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Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
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Alice's Adventures with Poorly Cooked Cafeteria Seafood
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Winner, Missouri State Readers Theatre Championship (2010)
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Anna and August
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!Artistic Inspiration
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Winner, New Mexico State One-Act Competition, 2008
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The Audition
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#1 Rating, Birdville Festival (2008)
Winner, Kotler Memorial One Act Festival (2009)
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The Audition: The Musical!
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Bad Ideas for Bad Television Shows
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Badger (full-length)
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Badger (one-act)
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The Bells of Charlemont
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Winner, North Dakota State One Act Contest (2009)
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The Bestest Christmas Ever in Texas
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Billy Shakespeare's Christmas Extravaganza and Traveling Freak Show
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The Birds: A Modern Adaptation
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Bobby Wilson Can Eat His Own Face
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The Bold, The Young, and The Murdered
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Breaking the News
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A Bright Swarm of Beetles
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The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon (full-length)
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The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon (one-act)
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Winner, Virginia State One-Act Competition (2008)
Winner, Missouri State Readers Theatre championship (2008)
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The Bullying Collection
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Chemical Bonding (or Better Living through Chemistry)
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The Christmas Machine
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A Christmas Scarol
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The Christmas Tree Thief
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Clausarella
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1968 - Coming Home
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Container of Sharks!
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The Craving
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Crushed
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Current Economic Conditions
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Edgerton New Play Award (2012)
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Deadline
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The Devil in Sherman Marsh
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Dr. Funk's Christmas Explosion (With Demolition Derby Following)
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Driver's Test
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Dystopia! The Hungry Maze Game of Divergent Death
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The Election
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The Elf Rebellion
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Elsewhere (alternate version)
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Elsewhere
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Emily Brontë, Teenage Necromancer
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Employees Must Wash Hands... Before Murder
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Empowered: How One Girl Scout Nearly Destroyed the World's Economy
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Feed the Whales: The Saga of the Boy Band Oreo
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Founding Fathers (Mothers)
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1993 - The Fount of Inspiration
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Friday Night Sprites
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Game of Tiaras (full-length)
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Game of Tiaras (one-act)
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Grandma Remembers Something
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The Greek Mythology Olympiaganza (full-length)
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The Greek Mythology Olympiaganza (Iliad! Iliad! Iliad!)
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State Runner-Up, South Carolina Middle School One Act Competition (2009)
Regional Champions, South Carolina (2009)
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The Greek Mythology Olympiaganza (one-act)
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Winner, Missouri State Readers Theatre Competition (2011)
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The Hamlet Thrill-ma-geddon (full-length)
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The Hamlet Thrill-ma-geddon (one-act)
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Help Desk
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High School Musi-pocalypse
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The Holiday Channel Christmas Movie Wonderthon
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An Honorary Elf
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How to Get Away with a Murder Mystery
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How to Get into College
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Humbletown: The Greatest Town on Earth (full-length version)
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I Heard You Were Dead
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1985 - I'm Pretty Sure This Is Your Fault
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The Importance of Being Earnest in a Pandemic: A Stay-At-Home Play
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It's a Wonderful Magical Miracle on Christmas Street
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It's not you, it's me
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Juliet and This Guy Romeo
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1955 - Lassoing an Angel
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Little Women 2: Wrath of the Undead
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Long Live Love
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Lord of the Choir
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1944 - A Love Letter to Ma
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Mall Santa Saves the Day
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The Matchmakers
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Math
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Miles and Ellie
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Miss Beth
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Miss Polly's Institute for Criminally Damaged Young Ladies Puts on a Show
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"1" rating, Birdville Theatre Festival
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The Monologue Show (From Hell) (full-length version)
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The Monologue Show (From Hell) (one-act version)
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The Most Amazing Christmas Play Series in the Entire History of the World
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The Murderous Mansion of Mr. Uno
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Mutually Assured Destruction: 10 Plays About Brothers and Sisters
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2015 - Mutually Assured Destruction
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My Little Titus Andronicus
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Nerdbullies and Other Strange Creatures
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1977 - A New Hopeless
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The Norse Mythology Ragnasplosion (full-length)
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The Norse Mythology Ragnasplosion (one-act)
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Noses Off
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The NSA's Guide to Winning Friends and Influencing People
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The One-Act Play Disaster
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Oz
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Power Line
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The Radio Play Disaster
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The Refugee Women
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The Rehearsal
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Return of the Script
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Revenge of the Gingerbread Boy
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Santa Claus Might Not be Coming to Town
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Santa-Napped
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Santa vs. The Garden Gnomes
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Scared Silly
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The SeussOdyssey (full-length)
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Silent, but Deadly
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A Simpler Time
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Snappy's Happy Half-Hour
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Space Princess Wars (full-length)
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Spy School
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Squad Goals
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Stage Parents
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The Staggering Heartbreak of Jasmine Merriwether
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1936 - A Star is Almost Born
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Suzie Scrooge
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The Tell-Tale Farce
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That's Not How I Remember It
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The A.I. Play
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The Bugs
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The Cryptid Survival Guide
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The Mystery of the Missing Letter
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The Price
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This Side of Heaven
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A Tiny Miracle with a Fiberoptic Unicorn
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Too Fabulous to Fail
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The Trial of Santa
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The True Meaning of Halloween
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An Unspeakable Triumph of Supreme Brilliance
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1922 - Very Very Cold Feet
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Zoodate
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