10-Minute Plays

2025 Valdez Theatre Conference Ten-Minute Play Slam directed by Jay Stevens
A comic standoff between a graceful swan and a very determined duck. (Cast: 2F)

The Wallis Annenberg Center in 
Reckoning, a short play festival LINK
Premiere: HERE, NYC
Published in: 
- Take Ten: New 10-Minute Plays (Vintage) LINK
- An Anthology of Contemporary American Plays (English & Chinese) 
A play about the bond between brothers set during the AIDS epidemic. Eddie tries to get his brother Rob to speak after the loss of his partner. (Cast: 2M)

Heideman Award Finalist
Premiere: Makor Center, NYC
2025 Valdez Theatre Conference Fringe Festival
A mismatched romance strikes up on the subway. (Cast: 1F/1M)

- In "2026 Best Men's Stage Monologues" (upcoming)
Edited by Debbie Lamedman, Smith-Kraus Books
- Premiere: New Circle 2025 Fall Short Play Festival
with Richard Hughes & Greg Kowlessar
A car, a lot of snow, and a lasagna lead to an unexpected encounter. (Cast: 2M)

Published in Plays for Two (Vintage Books) LINK
(10-minute version)
Heideman Award Finalist
NYC 15-Minute Play Festival Semi-Finalist
Premiere: Turnip Theater & Old Globe Theatre
A short comic drama about two teenage misfits stumbling into adulthood. (Cast: 1F/1M)

- 2026 Valdez Theatre Conference Fringe Festival
- New Circle Stonewall Night reading, June 2026

On an August night, neighbors take to their kayaks to watch the full moon rise. When two lonely souls meet, is romance in the air or will they chart an unexpected course? (1F/1M)

Published in: 
- The Best 10-Minute Plays 2021 (Smith & Kraus) LINK
WCSU production directed by Pam McDaniel WATCH 
Four stories, told as monologues, converge in downtown Manhattan. (Cast: 2F/2M)

Published in: 
- The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2022 (Smith & Kraus) LINK
Premiere: Western Connecticut State University
As Ray and Bailey work, they discuss various subjects ranging from: was Shakespeare depressed when he wrote Hamlet to the danger of making assumptions. (Cast: 2M)

Published in: 
- The Best 10-Minute Plays 2022 (Smith & Kraus) LINK
- Take Ten II: More 10-Minute Plays (Vintage) LINK
- An Anthology of Contemporary American Plays (English & Chinese)
Heideman Award Finalist
Premiere: Orange Thoughts, NYC
A young man enters a confessional with a startling announcement, “I have killed someone.” A taut, unsettling confrontation with the Priest ensues. (Cast: 2M)

Published in The Actor's Book of Gay & Lesbian Plays (Penguin Books, 10-minute version) LINK
Heideman Award Finalist
Premiere: Westbeth Arts Center, NYC
The story of two queer waiters at a Republican fundraiser.
Basis of the short film starring David Drake, Tim Deak, John Kelly and Lisa Kron. (Cast: 2M)

Published in Shorter, Faster, Funnier (Vintage) LINK
Heideman Award Finalist
Premiere: Center Stage, NYC
A young couple transforms an abandoned building into a theater. (Cast: 1F/1M)

(10-minute version) 
Heideman Award Finalist
Premiere: Actors & Writers
A lyrical piece about a young man who visits his aging parents in Brooklyn. (Cast: 1F/2M)

2024 Jewish Plays Project’s Ten-Minute Play Festival produced with Berkshire Theatre Group – Semi-finalist
Premiere: HERE, NYC
Rob and his boyfriend Earl must uncover the past so they can begin to move forward. (Cast: 2M)

Published by Dramatists Play Service (full-length version) LINK
Scene 1 is the original 10-minute play
Premiere: Vital Theatre Co. & Samuel French Best Short Play Festival - directed by Daisy Walker
‘IN 10’ festival of plays with strong roles for young women - Finalist
When Molly drives up to her job at the farm stand in a brand-new convertible that her dad gave her, Carrie is blown away by his generosity. But for these two teens, nothing is as it seems. (Cast: 2F)

Published in Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays (Vintage) LINK
Heideman Award Finalist
Premiere: Makor Center, starring Melissa Leo
A woman’s worst nightmare is realized when her blind date sends his surly teenage daughter in his place. (Cast: 2F)

Published in Under 30: Plays for a New Generation (Vintage) LINK
Premiere: Circle in the Square Downtown, NYC
A garbage man and a musical theater actor connect more than they imagined. (Cast: 2M)

Heideman Award Finalist
An old farm table facilitates a magical family reunion. (Cast: 3F/1M)