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10-Minute Plays

Carwash; or In This Town, You Are What You Drive

Carved-Out Light

The Cop and the Casting Director

Model Home

More Precious Than Diamonds

Museum Tour

The Stone Cat

Super 8 Versus Bacara Resort and Spa

The Truth About the Trash in the Trailer

One-Act Plays

The Start of             
Something Real

Full-Length Plays

Silent Night, a high school/Christmas play

I Am Cottonwood, 
an Opera in Words

Coming soon!
   

Short Musicals

April in New York

More Precious than 
Diamonds
the
Musical

Listen to the cast album CD here!

Museum Tour the
Musical
  
New!
Listen to the cast album CD here!

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PLAYS:

CARWASH; OR IN THIS TOWN, YOU ARE WHAT YOU DRIVE

A top movie producer, a newly-arrived small town girl, a wannabe starlet and a colorful carwash cashier cross paths at an L.A. carwash, but which car is whose? And does it really matter? Comedy. (2M, 2F). Published in THE BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS 2010, available here.

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Frytz Mor and Kathryn Taylor








CARVED-OUT LIGHT

Two beautiful vases sit on an art gallery shelf, but why does only one glow from within?  A spiritual play. Dramedy. (2F).

THE COP AND THE CASTING DIRECTOR

An L.A. casting director desperately seeking a cop to cast in her new play tangles with a literal‐minded, newly‐arrived Midwestern transplant. (1M, 1F).

MODEL HOME

A single woman visits an empty Southern California model home and fantasizes about living there, when surprised by a "family" just like the one she had been imagining; Comedy.
(1M, 2F, boy, girl). Published in THE BEST TEN‐MINUTE PLAYS 2007, available here.


MORE PRECIOUS THAN DIAMONDS

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Deborah Png, Fay Gauthier and Marco Antonio Aguilar
A single woman turning 40 can't wait any longer for a Tiffany diamond and visits Tiffany's Beverly Hills with her married friend, where they meet a handsome but nerdy salesman who encourages her to try on an $84,900 ring, which gets stuck; Romantic Comedy. (1M, 2F).
Published in THE BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS 2009, available here. (There is also a musical version and CD; see below)

MUSEUM TOUR

The Old West meets The Twilight Zone when a sophisticated Angeleno visits a Western museum; Comedy. (1M, 2F).
(There is also a musical version and CD; see below)
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Jennifer Pearce, Fay Gauthier and Neil Unger


SILENT NIGHT, a high school/Christmas play (Full length)

A mute teen girl and her L.A. family move to a tiny Midwest town, where they experience culture clash and she finds her "voice" through handbells and Morse Code. Her father also begins to see a widowed teacher in a new light. It all culminates on Christmas Eve...Dramedy. (5M, 6F).

THE START OF SOMETHING REAL

A model home stager invents the perfect man (client) to gear her home decor to, but when he shows up and claims the house, fireworks begin. Romantic comedy. (1M, 1F).

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Lizzie Thrasher and Kenny Johnston


THE STONE CAT

Two neighbors, one isolated and the other overly friendly, test the boundaries of friendship and reality; Comedy. (2F).

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Erin Neimeyer and Alicia Wheeler


SUPER 8 VERSUS BACARA RESORT AND SPA

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Frytz Mor and Jennifer Pearce

A Hollywood producer trying to relax is annoyed by his next-door hotel guest, a sweet small town Southern girl; but is she really just an actress trying to get a part?  Romantic Comedy. (1M, 1F). Published in THE BEST TEN-MINUTE PLAYS 2009, available here.

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TRASH IN THE TRAILER

Two very different L.A. sisters fly to Arizona to help their Great‐Aunt, a stranger, move into a nursing home‐at least, that's the plan...Comedy. (3F).

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Elain Rinehart, Fay Gauthier and Lizzie Thrasher


SHORT MUSICALS:

APRIL IN NEW YORK

The backstage intrigues of an Off‐Off Broadway cast which is rehearsing a musical based on the film "An Affair to Remember". (2M, 3F).


MORE PRECIOUS THAN DIAMONDS: The Musical

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Fay Gauthier and Marco Antonio Aguilar
"Fresh and pretty songs", "memorable tunes and lyrics".  A single woman turning 40 can't wait any longer for a Tiffany diamond and visits Tiffany's Beverly Hills with her married friend, where they meet a handsome but nerdy salesman who encourages her to try on an $84,900 ring, which gets stuck; Romantic Comedy. 
(1M, 2F). Listen to the cast album CD here!

MORE PRECIOUS THAN DIAMONDS: The Musical
charted as Top Album on CD Baby's Show Tunes!
The 3 songs from the musical charted:
#1, 2, 3 on CD Baby's Show Tunes and 
#1, 2, 3 on CD Baby's Musicals/Broadway!

Buy it today!

CD Baby (includes synopsis)
iTunes
Amazon

MUSEUM TOUR:
The Musical
Americana with a Broadway twist! The Old West meetsThe Twilight Zone when a sophisticated Angeleno visits a Western museum; Comedy. (1M, 2F).
Listen to the cast album CD here!

NEW! MUSEUM TOUR: the Musical released on CD Baby
Buy it today!


CD Baby (includes synopsis)
iTunes
Amazon

Picture
Fay Gauthier and Neil Unger. All photos except MORE PRECIOUS THAN DIAMONDS courtesy of Oron Mendel

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