Science Plays

Start Where You Are

Parker enters Ames house, cussing about President Trump for his EPA budget cuts. These cuts have laid him and thirteen other employees off, but they also represent the loss of hope for institutional combats to[…]

Lily’s Porridge

This play is set in a drought stricken, African village. Debra has just returned from a foraging trip for baobab fruit but has unfortunately returned with nothing.

The Big Chief

Kevin, a Native American Indian, is extremely proud of his gas-guzzling SUV that he has named, “The Big Chief”. He crosses paths with a biker whom seems to do be doing nothing wrong.

Single Use

Val and Mitchell match on a dating site and decide to meet up at a local diner. Val quickly jumps into the discussion of global warming and sustainability.

For the Gulf Coast

This play forms a relationship between the effects of climate change and the way in which two lovers are dealing with those effects.

You Should Know Better

A husband and wife sit on their large sofa discussing plans for their upcoming weekend venture to a beach island. The husband informs the wife that the trip must be cancelled due to island flooding,[…]

El Toro Sagrado at the Car Repair Shop

Wilma patiently awaits in a service shop while her car is being tuned up. Steve, the service rep, sits at the counter and discusses the business and nonstop aspect of life that they are both[…]

Swing Among the Stars

A man nervously awaits his wife’s departure to Mars. She was chosen as one of the colonists for the ninth colony on Mars.

The Project Hope

Dr. Hope and her observer have worked on what they call “The Hope Project”. When humans come to participate in the experiment, they are required to recall and think about their first memory of the[…]

Homo Sapiens

Two homo evolutis’ (fictional classification of future humans) see homo sapiens for the first time in a park with a special exhibition on these creatures. Character A and Character B treat these homo sapiens just[…]

Brackendale

Brackendale follows two bald eagles as they circle a garbage dump looking for food and discussing the effects of climate change.

F3S and Purple Feldspar

An African American couple, Jeris and Andre, venture into their garden after a tornado has torn through their small town. Jeris is extremely agitated by the strange purple plant he finds growing in his garden.

Recovery Mission

Three hunters are navigating the open waters of northern Canada in search of moose to provide meat for their families. What could go wrong?

American Nightmare

A middle eastern gentlemen, Sheik Nabil, meets the young Ryan O’Reilly, son of a United States senator, to sign a contract. Once this document is signed, an unknown object will be shipped to the United[…]

Mosquitoes

Alice is a scientist. She lives in Geneva. As a Large Hadron Collider starts up in 2008, she is embarking on the most exciting work of her life, searching for the Higgs boson particle.

End Days

Sixteen year old Rachel Stein is having a bad year. Her father hasn’t changed out of his pajamas since 9/11. Her mother has begun a close, personal relationship with Jesus.

String Fever

In this comedy, which starred Cynthia Nixon and Evan Handler Off-Broadway, Lily juggles the big issues: turning forty, artificial insemination and the elusive scientific Theory of Everything.

Whose Life Is It Anyway?

A brilliant battle of wits takes place in this extraordinary play. Ken Harrison, a successful sculptor, is paralyzed in a car accident and kept alive by support systems in a hospital.

Slide Glide the Slippery Slope

Now in their mid-thirties, a farm twin and a city twin come to meet for the first time since infanthood. How is family defined? What is the “perfect” child? The talking sheep explains all.

Secret Order

William Shumway, a young, idealistic cellular biologist with a brilliant new idea for curing cancer, is recruited from a relative obscurity to Hill-Matheson, a major cancer research institute, by its charismatic director, Bob Brock, with[…]

Tesla’s Letters

The two-act, 4-character stage play set in 1997 in the Balkans is about an American who sets out to find Nikola Tesla’s doomsday device only to discover that a machine is not required.

Tooth and Claw

Reptile specialist Schuyler Baines – “the Savior of Giant Tortoises” and the first female director of the Charles Darwin Research Station – arrives in Galapagos full of ideas and idealism.

The Explorers Club

The prestigious Explorers Club is in crisis: their acting president wants to admit a women and their bartender is terrible. True, this female candidate is brilliant, beautiful, and has discovered a legendary lost city, but the[…]

Children of the Sun

Protasov, detached and idealistic, wants only to immerse himself in chemical experiments to perfect mankind. He’s more or less oblivious to the voracious advances of the half-crazed widow Melaniya and his best friend’s unrelenting pursuit[…]

Boy

Inspired by a true story, Anna Ziegler’s Boy explores the tricky terrain of finding lover amidst the confusion of sexual identity, and the inextricable bond between a doctor and patient.

The Other Place

Just as Juliana Smithton’s research leads to a potential breakthrough, her life takes a disorienting turn. During a lecture to colleague at an exclusive beach resort, she glimpses an enigmatic young woman in a yellow[…]

Fast Company

Mable Kwan is the best gifter that ever lived. She taught her sons H and Francis to be the best roper and fixer around. When youngest daughter Blue puts together the con of the decade,[…]

Calculus

The play treats the historical controversy between Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz over the development of the infinitesimal calculus.

Dark Matter

Maxine Clerk is a physicist chasing after the mysterious dark matter and energy that make up 95% of our known universe. As a rival colleague undermines her efforts, her personal life also begins to unravel.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Adapted from Bill Bryson’s award-winning science book, this 45-minute play depicts a funny, fast, bumbling race for knowledge. Einstein, Newton, Curie, and Darwin lead you through a little bit of everything to prove that science[…]