Students at a women’s college stage their own version of “Cyrano de Bergerac,” experimenting with men’s roles and power. Full of poetry, song, improv comedy, sword fights, as well as explorations of gender roles, body image, and homophobia.

Finalist, 2001 Jane Chambers Award.

       Two-Act: 95 min.

       11-13F ensemble cast

       1M: 20s

Three unconventional sisters meet in a Reno motel after the sudden death of their colorful, gambler father, Albert. As they go through his effects and make funeral arrangements, they also try to make sense of their past and their own spiky relationships — with the kibitzing ghost of Albert looking on.

Winner, Gilmore Creek Playwriting Competition, Ohio Arts Council Artists Fellowship.

       Two-Act: 1 hr. 50 min.

       3F: 20-30s

       1M: 50s

Lesbian couple Marla and Joey have hit a bad patch. Marla begins an intense Buddhist meditation practice that soon has her living half-time on her knees. An off-beat comedy about relationships and change.

Winner, Festival Prize, All-England Theatre Festival.

       One-Act: 55 min.

       2F: 20-40s

A feminist writers circle is thrown into crisis when Alicia, exhausted and blocked, asks for help with a “ritual of transformation,” burning all her manuscripts. Alternately furious, supportive, silly, and sad, four diverse artists struggle together with the limits of creativity, friendship, and the special obstacles they face as women.

Winner, Sappho’s Symposium.

Honors, Jane Chambers Award.

       One-Act: 55 min.

       4F, diverse age/ethnicity preferred

A young, lesbian couple defends their urban home purchase to a brother from the ’burbs.

       One-Act: 10 min.

       2F

       1M

Continually consumed with anger, Jackie gets a startling diagnosis from her therapist-shaman, Doctor Yin-Yang: her aura indicates she has been inadvertently feeding an ancient vampire goddess. A poetic comedy.

       One-Act: 20 min.

       2-4F

A smoky, lesbian bar. A mysterious noir angel. When Mira meets Jewell, her matchmaking friends can’t understand the heart-pounding attraction. And can those be real wings on her black leather jacket? A poetic comedy.

       One-Act: 10-min.

       4F – or – 3F, 1M

Lust and laughter on the fjords: a married woman pines for her long-lost, lesbian sailor in this campy parody of Ibsen’s classic.

       One-Act: 20 min.

       5F

       1M (cross-gender possible)

An offbeat personnel recruiter enumerates the benefits of signing with an outrageous temp agency for artists, queers, and misfits whose motto is “Acme … if I care?”

Published in Even More Monologues for Women by Women.

       One-Act: 15 min.

       1F or 1M

A lesbian mother faces the literally unspeakable: shall she give up her tongue, in new transplant surgery, to her son, who is losing his?

Published in The Actor’s Book of Gay & Lesbian Plays.

       One-Act: 15 min.

       1F

Charlie, a bisexual poet, recounts her nightmare: standing outside a women’s club, awaiting interrogation by threatening bouncers on her sexual preferences and loyalties. A dark comic look at our slippery identities.

Published in Anything That Moves.

       One-Act: 10 min.

       1F

A middle-aged woman’s first face-to-face meeting with a female cyber-colleague brings rueful surprises.

Published in Blithe House Quarterly.

       One-Act: 15 min.

       1F

Maddie wants to meet women in the worst way; the oh-so-political Rina insists that the very worst way is in a bar. But are the “Good Lesbian Seal of Approval” alternatives any better? A comic rant.

Published in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 1998.

       One-Act: 10 min.

       1F

Stood up by her lover in a theatre lobby, a woman suddenly comes to grips with the relative privileges in her life.

Published in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 1997.

       One-Act: 10 min.

       1F

Magda, a goth style performance poet, explains her obsessive attraction to zombie grrrls.

Published in Even More Monologues for Women by Women.

       One-Act: 10 min.

       1F