FULL-LENGTH DRAMAS

45 Plays for 45 Presidents Music by Rachel Portman, Words by Donna Di Novelli Roles: 1-2F, 3M | DBL FLEX | A tuxedoed narrator presents Nina, a preposterously narcissistic wealthy woman, attended by her butler, a silent maid, and her three children. Nina’s past misbehaviors are interwoven with the present morning when she can’t seem to get the butler to bring her a cruller .

FULL-LENGTH PS DRAMAS

Ada and the Engine

By Lauren Gunderson

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H | Roles: 3W, 3M | FLEX | As the British Industrial Revolution dawns, young Ada Byron Lovelace sees the boundless creative potential in the “analytic engines” of Charles Babbage, inventor of the fi rst mechanical computer. Ada envisions a whole new world where art and information converge .

Alabama Story

By Kenneth Jones

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H | Roles: 2W, 4M | FLEX | In 1959 in Montgomery, Alabama as the Civil Rights movement is fl owering, a controversial children’s book about a black rabbit marrying a white rabbit brings about a reckoning for everyone from political foes to childhood friends . A tale of humor, heartbreak, and hope inspired by true events .

Anon(ymous)

By Naomi Iizuka

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H | Roles: 6W, 5M | FLEX | Separated from his mother, a young refugee called Anon journeys through the United States, encountering a wide variety of people as he searches for his family . Anon must navigate through a chaotic, ever-changing landscape in this entrancing adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey.

Brainstorm

By Ned Glasier, Emily Lim, and Company Three

DPS

H | Roles: 5W, 5M | FLEX | Inside every adolescent brain, 86 billion neurons connect and collide to produce the most frustrating, chaotic, and exhilarating changes . Created in collaboration with neuroscientists, the play is a blueprint to create and perform by drawing directly on personal experiences .

By Kathryn Funkhouser

H | Roles: 3W, 4M | FLEX | Gatsby’s party is over, but Nick Carraway is the one who has to clean up . Armed only with a few enchanted objects and the glittering words of F. Scott Fitzgerald, a shape-shifting ensemble creates the world of The Great Gatsby in this fiercely theatrical adaptation.

Dracula: Mina’s Quest

By Steven Dietz

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H | Roles: 4W, 3M or 3W, 4M | This spirited variation of Dracula moves his intended bride, Mina Murray, to the very center of the story . With theatrical elements and a sweeping narrative, Mina is the primary detective in a mystery where her soul is the count’s ultimate goal.

Everybody

By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

DPS

H | Roles: 9 Any | FLEX | This modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amongst the cast by lottery at each performance) as they journey through life’s greatest mystery—the meaning of living .

From the Mouths of Monsters

By Idris Goodwin

PS

H | Roles: 1W, 1 Any | FLEX | For teenager Michelle, performing at a poetry slam feels impossible until she is offered a mask with the power to remove the wearer’s doubts. But when the mask proves to have other strange powers, Michelle must dig deeper to find her true voice.

Ghostlight

By Stephen Gregg

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H | Roles: 3W, 1M, 15 Any | FLEX | When Garbiela Nettles is inexplicably admitted to Doves Forge Academy, all she wants to do is leave. Garbiela starts to hear sounds that no one else hears and while investigating the sounds, Garbiela uncovers a story that’s both surprising and surprisingly moving.

By Lauren Gunderson

H | Roles: 1W, 1M | Caroline hasn’t been to school in months due to illness, but one afternoon, Anthony arrives unexpectedly with an urgent assignment from their English teacher . As these two let down their guards, this seemingly mundane project unlocks a much deeper mystery that has brought them together .

The Laramie Project

By Moisés Kaufman and the Members

of Tectonic Theater Project

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H | Roles: 4W, 4M | FLEX | The Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie, WY, conducted more than 200 interviews, and constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences in Laramie in the aftermath of Matthew Shepard’s death.

Little Women

By Kate Hamill, Adapted from the novel by Louisa May Alcott

DPS

H | Roles: 6W, 3M | As adulthood approaches, the March sisters must negotiate their private ambitions with society’s expectations. In a war-torn world defined by gender, class, and personal tragedy, Jo March gives us her greatest story: that of her sisters, four dreamers destined to be imperfect little women .

Mac Beth

Adapted by Erica Schmidt from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

DPS

H | Roles: 7W | After school, seven teenage girls convene in an abandoned lot to perform a DIY retelling of Macbeth . As the girls conjure kings, warriors, and witches, Shakespeare’s bloody tale seeps into their reality.

Peter/Wendy

By Jeremy Bloom

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HM | Roles: 3W, 2M, 2 Any | FLEX | In this lyrical, atmospheric interpretation of Peter Pan, Jeremy Bloom strips the familiar story down to its emotional essence. A low-tech, inventive adaptation that will mesmerize audiences of all ages .

By Chisa Hutchinson

H | Roles: 6W, 3M | FLEX | Kia Clark has dreamt of Marisol Feliciano since the start of the school year, but always assumed that she was staunchly heterosexual . While supporting Marisol through a health crisis, the two share a forbidden kiss that starts a fulfilling—but challenging—romantic relationship.

These Shining Lives

By Melanie Marnich

DPS

H | Roles: 4W, 2M | Catherine and her friends are dying; for years they have been exposed to radium paint at the watch factory . These Shining Lives chronicles the strength and determination of women who were considered expendable in their day, exploring their true story and its continued resonance .

They Promised Her the Moon

By Laurel Ollstein

PS

H | Roles: 3W, 3M | FLEX | The first American woman to test for space flight, Jerrie Cobb, steps into an isolation tank for a record-breaking nine hours as her memories unfold before her, from learning to fly a plane as a child to Congressional hearings about the all-female Mercury 13 space program .

Trap

By Stephen Gregg

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HM | Roles: 12W, 10M, 5 Any | FLEX | An incomprehensible event: every person in the audience of a school play falls unconscious—every person but one . As the strands of the aftermath weave together into a dangerous web, it becomes clear that this phenomenon might not be entirely in the past .

Under the Mango Tree

By Carmen Rivera

SR

HM | Roles: 4W, 2M | 12-year-old Lena has been sent to live with her strict, superstitious grandmother in the mountains of Puerto Rico following her parents’ divorce. She spends her days unraveling the mystery of the poisoned mango tree on her grandmother’s property and uncovers clues to the decades-old local myth .