A pompous playwright doesn’t seem to really hear what people are saying about his play.The previous week a play had been read at the theater company, but the play was so long there was no opportunity for discussion. So, it’s being held now. But, in addition to the pompous playwright, only two people show up for the discussion – the moderator and the director of the play, whom the playwright doesn’t quite recognize.
Presented as part of the Misconceptions line-up of one-act plays.

A very observant Jew is stressed out because of his profession – flight controller.He is angry at his God for feeling this way. He gradually works out his feelings as he begins, unknowingly, to speak in verse.
Performed as part of the one-act program, Private People In Public Places, at the Lonny Chapman Group Repertory Theatre, and also in the Misconceptions line-up.

Why is someone measuring the dimensions of a park bench?A homeless man sleeping on a park bench is awakened by a younger man who wants to measure the bench dimensions because he must find another bench just like it to meet the terms of the will of the man he thinks was his father. But who is his true father?Measuring has been performed several times, once by the American Renegade Company, and as part of the Misconceptions slate of one-act plays, all performances in North Hollywood, California.

The room where the woman’s husband has his office

In this monologue play, a very meek wife addresses her completely unresponsive husband.
She tells him that she doesn’t feel she’s getting enough of his attention and that she knows about his affairs.

Will the romance between two “plain” looking people break up?

Both characters are in bed, eyes closed. Finally, Martin rises and delivers a long speech in which he rates both himself and his girlfriend Marlene on physical attractiveness, using a 1 to 10 scale. Finally he returns to bed and closes his eyes. Then Marlene rises and comments on what he said. He then gets up and they argue about what each of them said about themselves and each other. Do they ever get back into bed with each other?

This play was performed as part of Bedroom Secrets, Fire Rose Productions’ show of one-act plays, North Hollywood, CA.

Who has been killing the pigeons at the park?When the pigeon lady arrives at the park she realizes that the pigeons that usually frequent the park are gone. The man sitting on the bench says he doesn’t know what happened. The detective shows up and tells the two that the pigeons have been killed, poisoned by cyanide. The mystery finally is justly resolved by the end of the play.This play was performed as part of the Misconceptions productions.

A man recovering from a heart attack is reluctant to resume sex, much to the chagrin of his attractive and eager wife.

This play was the basis of my full-length play, SEX IS GOOD FOR YOU! In this one-act comedy Al had a heart attack while making love with his wife. Now he’s reluctant to engage in bedroom behavior. Sheila, his eager wife, wants to. Badly!

Arnold, an awkward ill-dress man is rebuffed trying to pick up Deborah, a very sophisticated attractive woman at the coffeehouse. Linda, an equally nerdy woman, overly melodramatic, turns up and the two nerds sit down at a nearby table, where Deborah can overhear. Deborah determines that the others at one time were a couple living together. Linda has the remnants of a black eye, which Deborah assumes was given to her by Arnold. So, who does Arnold end up with? Or does he end up with anyone?

In this monologue play a woman recalls her abusive childhood where she was beaten by her father right in this park after she had gotten lost. Earlier in the current day she had taken her grandniece to this park, and Mindy became lost. Once Mindy has been located the angry grandaunt must now deal with her.The Hole has been performed as part of the Misconceptions slate of one-act plays in North Hollywood, California. It was also a semi-finalist in the Secret Rose 10-minute Play Contest.

A little girl calls for her policeman dad when two trash scavengers refuse to pay for the lemonade she served them.

Two men scavenging trash on a scalding hot day buy homemade lemonade from an 8 year old girl. When they complain about her charging an outlandish price, she calls for her father, a policeman. The policeman sides with his daughter, and the trash guys must decide what to do.
Semi-finalist in the Secret Rose 10-minute Play Contest.

An odd behaving woman interrupts an actor while he’s rehearsing his monologue.Bill is rehearsing his monolog about how he never got enough attention from his important father. An odd woman interrupts him several times. After a while the woman chastises him for talking so badly about his father. It turns out that the woman is his mother, who, later, confesses to him what it was like for her being married to that man.This play was a semi-finalist in the Secret Rose 10-minute Play Contest.

Which eleven year old will win this year’s spelling bee, officiated by a pompous judge?The regional spelling bee is down to two remaining contestants, both eleven year olds. The judge, a pompous English professor, presents the words the contestants need to spell. One contestant seems to get all simple words, the other gets longer, more obscure words. Who wins?

Today is a special day for a schoolteacher, when she meets the owner of a toy company that makes toy guns.

A schoolteacher and an owner of a toy company meet at a coffeehouse. Today is the anniversary of her son being killed by a gunshot fired by another student at his school. One of the products the toy company makes is toy guns.

Toys was performed as part of the Misconceptions slate of one-act plays, and also was performed in Lake Arrowhead, California.

Unity is highly unusual in that each speech consists of just one word.
The husband has left cash on a table. The doorbell rings and the husband lets in a sultry woman. She arouses him with an erotic massage as he tells her his wife is away on vacation. They’re just getting into it when the front door opens, and we hear another woman’s voice announcing, “Home”.Semi-finalist in the Secret Rose 10-minute Play Contest. Also, later performed as part of Fire Rose Productions’ show, Bedroom Secrets.

What’s her life really about?In this monologue play a former child star, now working as a coffeehouse waitress, reflects on her life, and the possibilities for her return to stardom.

Waitress has been performed as part of the Misconceptions slate of one-act plays./br>

1 M, 1 F (any ages)
15 minutes
1 M, 1 F (any ages)
15 minutes

A man just knows just how to behave so he can interest a woman in going to bed with him. His ways are intentionally very subtle. They seem to be working.

The two characters seem a heck like Albert Einstein and an older Marilyn Monroe.

Two kids interrupt their game of Marco Polo to befriend a man at the pool about the same age as their divorced mother.

A rich woman, making her annual trip west and staying at the motel, is told by the owner that he’s in the process of selling it. But he has other ideas.

Two serial killers have been doing their work in the area. Two characters meet outside the motel. Is one a serial killer, or both, or neither?<</br?/td>.

Suicide is discussed. Will one or both go ahead with it?

An obnoxious customer takes forever to decide on his order.

2 seniors meet on a blind date. He’s interested in ultimately having sex. Is she?

One actor seems to have problems following the rules of improv acting. The other actor tries to set that first actor straight,

It’s between games of a doubleheader, and the Peacocks were just clobbered in the first game. The Coach is exasperated.

A woman returns home from work convinced that just about everybody at work hates her.

The two characters are Godot and Amanda’s husband from The Glass Menagerie. They are there to discuss forming an organization of characters described but never actually appearing on stage.

A playwright’s play is been read over Zoom when an intruder somehow breaks into the session