Plays

The Café on Main is an original stage play that explores the complexities, heartbreak, and beauty of love in all its forms. Set in a cozy, timeless café on Long Island, the story unfolds around “the prime table,” where the café’s worldly and insightful proprietor becomes a quiet observer of the human condition. Through a series of intertwining vignettes and conversations, guests come and go — lovers meet for the first time, relationships unravel and rekindle, and strangers become confidants — each revealing a different facet of connection, longing, and what it means to truly care for another person.

Inspired by the classic song “Moon River,” this intimate and lyrical production is a heartfelt meditation on the passage of time, the people who shape our stories, and the enduring power of love. With its relatable characters, emotionally resonant writing, and universal themes, The Café on Main invites audiences to slow down, listen, and reflect on their own journeys of love and loss.

• Cast Size: 5 Characters, three males, two females.
• Genre: Melodrama / Romantic Comedy
• Awards / Recognitions: 2024: Selected Delray Beach Playhouse Playwrights Festival for “The Café on Main.”
• Featured Locations:
  • 2025: “The Café on Main” Arts Garage, Delray Beach, Florida.
  • 2025: “The Café on Main” ” Manhattan Repertory Reading Room
  • 2024: “The Café on Main” Delray Beach Playhouse

Visits With Libby chronicles the beautiful relationship between a legendary African American leader—The Mother of Delray—and the young, elected official she mentors. Some people are children by blood, some are children by love. This play explores the power of love and why it’s important for leaders to seek the wisdom of elders. Inspired by the Langston Hughes poem “Mother to Son.”

• Cast Size: One male, one female
• Genre: Drama

Say My Name tells the story of a tragic shooting outside a school dance and how violence impacts some forever, while the rest of society moves on. Say My Name is a powerful play, a haunting and deeply relevant drama for our times. Developed with dramaturgy by Working Title Playwrights in Atlanta.

• Cast Size: Three males, two females.
• Genre: Drama

An exploration of art and journalism and the unique challenges that musicians and reporters face in a world of disposable songs and listicles. 2 a.m. Battle Creek takes place in a bar after a performance by a has-been former teen idol named Ben Walker. The play explores artistic fear, courage, today’s landscape for media and music and family history that often haunts us.

• Cast Size: One Male, One Female.
• Genre: Biography / Drama / Musical
• Featured Locations: 2025: “2 a.m. Battle Creek” Manhattan Repertory Reading Room

Ferryman is a Maine-based play, exploring the healing powers of a lake where a variety of characters come to heal. Drawn mysteriously off the beaten path to a picturesque lake in rural Maine, the characters find peace and each other by stepping out of their lives for a moment in time.

• Cast Size: Four characters, three males, one female.
• Genre: Drama

Set in a Pittsburgh apartment, two adult children come back to help their mother pack a lifetime of memories after their father passes away. A play about love, expectations, family, loss and healing. No Getting Over You is both familiar and loving.

• Cast Size: Two females, two males
• Genre: Drama

A short version of the full-length exploring love, wanderlust and the magic of Moon River.

• Cast Size: 5
• Genre: Drama / Romantic Comedy

What happens when a boxer is knocked out seconds before he’s about to become a champion? How are people affected when dreams are within reach, only to be snatched away in an instant. Jaws’ Redemption tells the story of a boxer who comes home to confront his loss and the possibilities of re-invention.

• Cast Size: Four Characters, Two Male, Two Female
• Genre: Drama

Two high school sweethearts reunite 20 years later on the bleachers of their old high school football stadium. Both characters are broken by failed love and disappointing careers. Can they find that old spark of optimism that they once found in each other?

• Cast Size: Two characters, one male, one female.
• Genre: Drama

Five friends meet for dinner at an Italian restaurant to discuss their careers, their dreams, their despair, their successes and their disappointments a decade after earning their MFA’s.  Simmering resentments, jealousy, pride and affection all manifest over pasta and wine.

• Cast Size: 5 characters, two males, three females.
• Genre: Comedy
• Featured Locations: 2025: 10 Years MFA-fter” ” Manhattan Repertory Reading Room

Two strangers meet at a scenic overlook facing a lighthouse in romantic Cape Elizabeth, Me. One is there to heal from a brutal divorce, the other is there to meet an old flame who doesn’t show up. Can they find peace, love and understanding again?

• Cast Size: Two characters, one male, one female.
• Genre: Drama

A pilot and a teacher, both recently diagnosed meet at a support group and bond over their diagnosis as they struggle with how to live with a tough diagnosis that costs one his wings and the other her identity.

• Cast Size: Two characters, one male, one female.
• Genre: Drama

A young widower withdraws from the world when his wife is killed in a senseless street crime. His mother and best friend try to help him cope as he continues to meet with his late wife on the fire escape of their apartment.

• Cast Size: Four characters, two males and two females.
• Genre: Drama

A family tries to heal after they lose a little boy who was collateral damage in a targeted assassination.

• Cast Size: Four characters, one male, three females.
• Genre: Drama

A young couple meets an older couple in an unforgettable restaurant. Life lessons, common history, dreams, magic, and comedy are on the menu.

• Cast Size: Five characters, three males, two females.
• Genre: Comedy
• Awards / Recognitions: 2025: Semifinalist “Make Me Laugh” Playwriting Competition presented by Broken Arts Entertainment for “Time Table.”  Over 300 entries. (winners not yet announced)
• Featured Locations: 2025: “Time Table.” ” Manhattan Repertory Reading Room

Inspired by the classic Beatles song, For No One tells the story of a romance in reverse: from loss of interest to the excitement of early love.

• Cast Size: Two characters, one male, one female.
• Genre: Drama

An abridged version of the one-act. Is there life after an MFA?

• Cast Size: Five characters, two females, three males.
• Genre: Comedy / Drama / Satire

An award winning 10-minute play about the aftermath of a tragic shooting. Press Conference was acquired by TinyScriped.com. For production rights please contact Tinyscripted.com.

• Cast Size: 3
• Genre: Political / Tragedy / Young Audiences
• Awards / Recognitions:
  • 2025: Tiny Scripted acquires “Press Conference” for international distribution.
  • 2025: Winner:  Brave Stories Playwriting Festival Boxland Media, Worthington, Ohio for “Press Conference.”  Over 500 entries from all over the world.
• Featured Locations: 2025: “Press Conference.” National streaming broadcast by Playzoomers.

A mercurial billionaire entrepreneur hires someone without any experience to disrupt the energy drink business. A comic romp with some lessons in business.

• Cast Size: Three characters one female, two males.
• Genre: Comedy

A middle aged woman decides to have one last affair with a much younger man. A comedy about straying, staying and pop psychology.

• Cast Size: Two females, one male.
• Genre: Comedy / Farce

Two young professionals gather at the home of their mentor to say goodbye to her. A play about love, friendship, death, hope and how to carry on a legacy.

• Cast Size: Four characters, two females, two males.
• Genre: Drama / Fantasy

A couple must decide whether and how to move on after loss, with an assist from beyond. Is there love after love?

• Cast Size: Three characters, one male, two females.
• Genre: Drama
• Awards / Recognitions:
  • 2025: Semifinalist 10 for 10 Playwriting Contest by NY based Scene 24 Productions close to 300 entries for “Love After Love.” (Winners not yet announced)
  • 2025: Winner 10-Minute Play Festival West Milford Players, West Milford New Jersey. Over 300 entries for “Love After Love.”
  • 2025: Selected Delray Beach Playhouse Playwrights Festival for “Love After Love.”
• Featured Locations: 2025: “Love After Love.” Delray Beach Playhouse.

A play inspired by the Langston Hughes poem.

• Cast Size: Two characters, one female, one male.
• Genre: Drama

A man returns to Portugal to find the love of his life. A short treatise on longing and the road not taken.

• Cast Size: Two characters, one male, one female.
• Genre: Drama

A golden retriever and a chihuahua guard a house and wait for their people to come home while learning why they need each other.

• Cast Size: Two characters, either male or female.
• Genre: Comedy / Satire / Young Audiences

A woman says goodbye to a love and a life at a bus station on her way to St. Cloud.

• Cast Size: Two characters, one male, one female.
• Genre: Drama

In 1975, Barry Manilow, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel met in a Philadelphia diner (true story). 50 years later they reunite and discuss their journeys.

• Cast Size: 3
• Genre: Fantasy

A short play (10 minutes) about the winter poet Edna St. Vincent Millay spent in Delray.

• Cast Size: 2
• Genre: Drama

A 10-15 minute monologue about how a lunch with someone you admire can change the trajectory of your life.

• Cast Size: 1
• Genre: Drama

A short monologue that talks about a special place that Native Americans refer to as a sit spot. A place where all that exists is you and nature.

• Cast Size: 1
• Genre: Poem / Meditation