Stage Works
Hut, Hut, Hike
A college football star is one bad grade away from losing everything — his scholarship, his endorsements, even his shot at the NFL. The problem? He’s flunking a class he never took seriously: Modern Drama. When he’s paired with a bookish theater major as a last-chance tutor, an unexpected intimacy rewrites the carefully planned playbooks of both their lives. Bridging the worlds of sports and the arts, Hut, Hut, Hike is a sexy, brutal and bittersweet coming-of-age story about ambition, intimacy and fumbling your way toward an identity you can live with.
Cast:
4 (3M, 1W), all college age, but flexible to young-looking 40 (a frame suggests it may be a memory play).
Development:
2026 In the Works-In the Woods Festival, Forestburgh Playhouse.
Recognition:
2026 Finalist – O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.
Ten Minutes On a Bench
A dating app called Ten Minutes On a Bench is the latest match-making craze, placing singles on a park bench to find common ground. The clock is ticking, but there’s no limit to the variety of quirky, sexy, heartbreaking and humane conversations between dozens of characters looking for love. A new speed-dating romantic comedy about first impressions, dogs and cats, drinkers and smokers, impulse and caution, conversation and chemistry. Sharing the universal urge to connect will make you laugh, cringe and cheer.
Set:
A park bench.
Cast:
Flexible up to 35 players, but suggested minimum of 8 (4M, 4W).
Alabama Story
As the Civil Rights movement is brewing, a controversial children’s book about a black rabbit marrying a white rabbit stirs the passions of a segregationist State Senator and a no-nonsense State Librarian in 1959 Montgomery, Alabama. Meanwhile, the story of two childhood friends — an African-American man and a woman of white privilege, reunited in adulthood — provides a private counterpoint to the public events swirling in the state capital. Political foes, star-crossed lovers, and one feisty children’s author inhabit the same page in a Deep South of the imagination that brims with humor, heartbreak and hope. Inspired by true events.
Set:
Flexible unit set.
Cast:
2 white women, one age 50-60s, one age 32; 3 white men, two age 50s-60s, one late 20s; 1 African-American man, age 32.
Recognition:
2014 Finalist – O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.
Hollywood, Nebraska
Two fortysomething actresses have returned to their once-thriving hometown in rural Nebraska. Jane’s in from L.A. to check on her ailing mom, Alma. Andrea’s back from New York City to bury her father. Distracted by two charismatic local men—a handsome widower and a rough-and-ready laborer—the old friends navigate complicated feelings about their careers, love, and loss, leading to an overdue showdown between Jane and her mother. Hollywood, Nebraska is a hope-filled, tears-and-laughter comedy about small towns and big dreams, parents and children, the urge to be creative, and the ache—and joy—of coming home.
Set:
Simple and flexible, suggesting multiple locations.
Cast:
4 women (two in their 40s, one 70s, one teen), 2 men (30s and 50ish).
Why We Go to Florida
In the dead of winter, Henry flies from New York City to Southwest Florida to offer condolences at the funeral of a man he never knew — his late partner’s father. But as the booze flows at the wake, will the widow, Constance, and her grown daughter, Amy, raise a glass to the unexpected guest? Set in 2012, somewhere between the dusk of the worst days of the AIDS crisis and the dawn of marriage equality, Why We Go to Florida is a humor-laced drama exploring guilt and grief, perceptions and prejudices, show tunes, silence and survival.
Set:
One location, with shift to neutral location.
Cast:
2 women (daughter age 50 and mother in late 70s, both white) and 1 man (late 40s, not necessarily white).
Development:
First developed in Pioneer Theatre Company’s Play-By-Play Reading Series and seen around the country in readings and workshops. Presented in Florida Rep PlayLab (2025).
Recognition:
2015 & 2016 Semi-Finalist – O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.
Tennessee Williams Drank Here
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, members of the Hardy family gather to fix the damage to their world-famous Mississippi restaurant. When progressive niece Samantha blows into town with audacious ideas about the future, she further shakes the foundation of the beloved institution. Buried secrets, dubious family mythology and bad behavior are all on the table, threatening the status quo of three generations of Deep South restaurateurs. A toothsome, booze-soaked, three-act drama about heritage, legacy, community and responsibility.
Set:
One location, a restaurant dining room.
Cast:
3 women: 30s, 60s, 70s; 2 men: 30s, 60s.
Developmental History:
Seeking developmental opportunities.
Circa 1976
It’s July 4, 2016, and alumni of Evergreen Elementary School’s class of 1976 have gathered for the 40th anniversary of their graduation from sixth grade. A handful of former classmates in their early fifties — a jock, an artist, a cheerleader, a brain and an overachiever — find themselves in their old music room, where memories of past teachers, tensions and traumas are conjured like half-remembered songs. In the summer before the election of Donald Trump, the concerns of a divided America dovetail with the anxieties of the past to spark an unforgettable reunion that calls into question the Spirit of 76.
Cast:
3 women (Asian age, 52; African American, age 62; Caucasian, age 52), 3 Men (Caucasian, early 50s).
Recognition:
2019 Semi-Finalist – O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.
Seeking developmental opportunities.
Naughty / Nice
A musical. One pianist. Four actors (two men/two women). Twenty or so characters — misfit “kids” who are desperately seeking Santa. Darkly comic. Satiric. Wildly melodic. Not for kids. Music by Gerald Stockstill, lyrics by Kenneth Jones, book by Jones & Stockstill.
Recognition:
A finalist in the National Alliance for Musical Theatre Festival of New Musicals.
