Here Comes the Sun
A comedic monologue in ten minutes
After a challenging winter during COVID, a woman celebrates the return of the sun at the Winter Solstice with a tequila sunrise.
Woman: 60’s-80s
Production History: Milibo Art Center, The Lost Years, Colorado Springs, CO, 2025. With Jane Fromme.
Customer Service
A comedy in five minutes
In the midst of a midlife crisis, choir members enter Joy’s crystal store while waiting for their bus to be repaired, changing Joy’s life forever.
Joy: 40s-50s, owns a crystal store
Margot: 30’s+, a choir director
Production History: First produced in Denver, Colorado, by And Toto Too Theater Company for The Play Crawl, 2024. With Abby Apple Boes, Erica Lee Johnson
You’re Okay
A dramedy in five minutes
Shopping incites an anxiety attack that only a friend can help heal.
Woman: Any age, shopping for a dress
Man: Any age, great friend
Production History: First produced in Denver, Colorado, by And Toto Too Theater Company for The Play Crawl, 2023. With Kelly Uhlenhopp, Jeff Jesmer
I Remember Her
A drama in five minutes
A husband will do anything for his wife of 50 years, even if she doesn’t remember.
Wife: 60s-70s, has dementia
Husband: 60s-70s, most loving
Daughter: 30s, comes to visit
Production History:
First produced in Denver, Colorado, by And Toto Too Theater Company for The Play Crawl, 2022. With John Ashton, Erica Borillo, Dana Hart Wright
Onward
A dramedy in ten minutes.
Evelyn must finish painting the house while trying to keep her father from wandering into the street. A visitor brings a pleasant surprise.
Characters:
Evelyn: 30s, Latina, daughter of Hal
Hal: 68, Latino, has dementia
Henry: 16, a boy from the neighborhood
Production History:
Staged Reading
Open Eye Theatre, Margaretville, NY, 2020
Addicted
A 10-minute comedy.
While waiting for a routine doctor’s appointment, very pregnant Sheri and her husband Jack are forced to confront their addictions—at the worst time possible.
Characters:
Sheri (30’s): Eight months pregnant. A control freak and germaphobe.
Jack (30’s): Sheri’s husband. Struggles with an addiction.
Nurse (Any age): African American female, wearing scrubs and a pick in her afro.
Production History:
San Diego Fringe Festival 2016
Liar Liar
A drama in 10 minutes
Thirty-three-year-old Stephen is in a drama-filled relationship with fifty-something Rachael. One of them is lying.
Rachael (50s): A high-strung attorney
Stephen (33): A hunky firefighter
The Man (50s): A man
Production History: World Premiere And Toto Too Theatre Company, 2014.
Image: Susan Lyles and Dylan Rush; Photo courtesy of Brian Folkins
Feng Shui Fever
A 10-minute comedy
What happens when a book on Feng Shui falls into Alice’s desperate hands during a dark night of the soul?
Characters:
Alice (44): An unpublished, desperate writer
Henry (40s-50s): Alice’s husband
Production History:
Six Women Playwright Festival, Colorado Springs, 2014
Bolder Life Festival, Denver, 2013; Winner: Audience Choice Award for Best Play
“A 15-minute romp by Denver’s Nicolette Vajtay leads off a near-farcical jolt that would satisfy any aficionado of Christopher Durang’s or Neil Simon’s plays. In it, a distraught writer (Elizabeth Kahn) faces down her anonymity with a frenzied search for “chi” and other New Age solutions to realign herself with the universe and facilitate a career and personal rebirth. Happily, and in ways only found in romantic comedy, it works.”
Posted by Terry Gibson
Kinked
A 10-minute sexy comedy.
Sydney is terrified of turning sixty. Convinced she’s becoming invisible to men—and to life itself—she’s surprised when a date with Mike takes an unexpectedly kinky turn. As he introduces her to a world far outside her comfort zone, Sydney must decide whether to retreat into the safety of what she knows or take a chance on desire, adventure, and the possibility that her best years may still be ahead of her.
Characters:
Sydney (59): Almost sixty and feels invisible
Mike (60’s): Sydney’s date; he’s a little kinky
Chop
A horror short in ten minutes
Two neighbors prepare delicious creamy beet soup, but the evening turns nasty!
Characters:
Margie (30s-50s): Preparing soup
Sarah (30s-50s): Neighbor to Margie
Production History:
One Night Stand, Denver, 2014
Simmer
A comedy in ten minutes
An empty-nest couple prepares soup as their non-sexual-therapy homework, when the evening turns into a sexy cat-and-mouse game.
Stacy (60s-70s): Mom, grandmother, exhausted by … her husband
Frank (60s-70s): The husband
Production History: One Night Stand,
Denver, 2015
Boil
A drama in ten minutes
Becky is drowning her flu and sorrows in medication and attempting to warm up some soup. Bob comes home with his mistress, wreaking havoc in an already struggling relationship.
Becky (30s-40s): Sick with the flu
Bob (40s): Becky’s cheating husband
Suzie (20’s): The mistress
Production History: Blame it on the Playmakers, Denver, 2014
Up a Tree
A comedy in five minutes
Linda and Joe have known each other since the third grade. All grown up, they discover the surprise of a lifetime.
Linda: 30s-50s, hometown girl
Joe: same age, hometown boy
Production History: First Produced in Denver, Colorado by And Toto too Theater Company for The Play Crawl 2014, with Michael Nuccio, Laura Aducci
Kanoodle
A comedy in five minutes
A reserved conservative woman applies for a writing job in a film office and is dismissed by a smarmy Hollywood producer.
Woman (50s +): A writer
Man (20s-40s): A Hollywood producer
Production History: Theatre Company of Lafayette, CO, 2008
Spinster in Paris
A comedic monologue in 10 minutes
Dorothy begrudgingly sets out on the long flight to her shitty friends’ shitty fourth wedding in shitty Paris.
Dorothy: 60s-80s, the older the better
Production History:
Staged Reading with One Night Stand, Denver, 2018
Staged Reading with Follies Play Festival, Sarasota, FL, 2017
To Elliot
A ten-minute comedy
The early death of a high school classmate brings together three old friends. Even while mourning his death, and perhaps because of his death, new life paths and new loves are discovered.
Characters:
Zoe (29): A dental hygienist
Daniel (30): Unemployed
James (29): Owns a towing company
Production History: Produced with C4-Theatre, Denver – 2008
Between Brothers
A ten-minute drama.
Estranged from their mother, three brothers grow up under their grandmother’s care. When she dies, their mother comes home for the funeral, causing old wounds of abandonment to be ripped open.
Characters:
Daryl (28): Very happy, very gay. In desperate need of approval.
Mitch (26): Joined the Marines at 18. Has left the Marines after returning from Iraq.
Steven (24): A kind, loving young man, somewhat lonely. He speaks with a stutter.
Judith (50s): The boy’s absent mother, who realized late in life that she is gay.
Production History: Produced with NoHo Arts Center, 24 Hours of Madness, 2005