Alarm
Michelle wakes up delighted to find her usually exhausted husband Kevin more amorous than usual. It is only when she discovers why the change has occurred that she begins to feel afraid...
Cast: Veronica Bruce, Adam Laupus

Playwright: Paul N Moulton

Hometown: Chicago, Illinois

Current Location: Palatine, Illinois

Paul N Moulton has spent ten fantastic years as a playwright, actor and stage manager in Chicago’s vibrant storefront theater community. His short pieces include Heat, Click (Fat Jimmy theater company), Breakroom, Change, March (Artistic Home Theater), Webernacht (Blatnoi Underground Music Society), and Defense (Second City Theater). Of his full-length pieces, Iron Muse theater company produced Accomplices in 1999 and both American and Start! received stage readings at Chicago Dramatists, where Paul is a member of the Playwright’s Network. He unwinds by writing political satire for a monthly review called “Democracy Burlesque.” Many thanks to his beautiful wife Margaret.

Appetite
Snickers has a problem. She and her friends have all developed eating issues. They feel they have no control over their lives, that they are not listened to, and that their enthusiasm is discouraged by those they love most. Also, they're dogs.
Cast: David Palmer Brown, Veronica Bruce, Dina Kirschenbaum, Adam Laupus, Molly Pope, Karina Richardson, Anna Savant

Playwright: Caren Skibell

Hometown: Dallas, Texas

Current Location: New York, New York

Caren Skibell is a native Texan with a master’s degree in playwriting from New School for Drama. Her plays have premiered in many festivals such as Bailiwick’s Winterfest, and her ten-minute play, Jesus’ Blood won Honorable Mention at FirstStage Hollywood One-Act Contest in Los Angeles. Caren is a graduate of Northwestern University and The Second City Conservatory. While studying at Northwestern she started an improv group that ran for a decade. She has performed on many Chicago and New York stages, including at The New York International Fringe Festival, and she is a member of The Dramatist Guild of America.

Night Before Last
Sacco and Vanzetti have been in prison together for seven years. It is the night before their execution. Surely they know each other inside out. Or do they?
Cast: Adam Laupus, Mark Lindberg

Playwright: Doug Reed

Hometown: Richmond, Virginia

Current Location: Stoughton, Wisconsin

Doug Reed grew up in Richmond, VA and now makes his home in Madison, WI where he does wretched things by day in order to feed his writing habit. Night Before Last is his New York City debut as a playwright. Doug's work has been featured in the Ten by Ten Festival in Carrboro, NC, Transient Theatre in Chicago, Sacred Fools in Los Angeles, Mercury Players in Madison, WI, and many other locations. Doug is also an actor, and can be seen as the waiter in Episode 2 of the popular internet series "Chad Vader".

Normal Is A Country
After experiencing physical and emotional trauma overseas, a young soldier comes home to his mother and tries to mend.
Cast: Adam Laupus, Anna Savant

Playwright: Steven Schutzman

Hometown: San Francisco, California & New York, New York

Current Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Steven Schutzman is a playwright and fiction writer, the author of seven published books and of numerous plays and stories in literary journals including The Pushcart Prize, TriQuarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Third Coast, Scene 4 and the anthology The Art of the One Act. His plays have been produced at New Jersey Repertory, Cleveland Public, Baltimore Theatre Project and Revolution Theatre in Chicago among many others. He is a five- time recipient of Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant Awards and a three-time top-tier finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Center’s National Playwright Conference. His one-act, Tree Man, won first prize in the First Stage L.A. One-Act Contest/2004.

Onus on Us
Millie and Peg's small town is full of dreams for a better future. They dream of unlimited toilet paper and a new Hummer, but for Skylar the dream is about cleaner air.
Do you have to have something before you can save something?
Cast: Dina Kirschenbaum, Karina Richardson, Anna Savant

Playwright: Cheryl Games

Hometown: Youngstown, Ohio

Current Location: Studio City, California

Cheryl Games is an actor, playwright and part-time caddy. Her plays include: Augusta (Paul T. Nolan One-Act Play Award, Writer's Digest Award), Half-Baked, Little Death (Actors Theatre of Louisville 10-Minute Play finalist), Trip Twenty (Greater Columbus Arts Council Fellowship, Best-In-Fest Award), Wedding Date, Devil Strip, Tears for Sale, One On The Way, Practice Round, To Be Confirmed, Onus On Us and Daisies Don’t Grow Where The Sun Don’t Shine. Her plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, Greenville, SC and Columbus, Ohio. Cheryl received an MFA from the Actors Studio Dramatic Arts Program at the New School University in New York.

Peace Talk
"People need to fight as much as they need to talk, or what's the point of talk?” Two very different “Irish” men on violence, ownership and belonging.
Cast: David Palmer Brown, Mark Lindberg

Playwright: James McLindon

Hometown: Schenectady, New York

Current Location: Northampton, Massachusetts

James McLindon graduated from Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He resigned his partnership in a Boston law firm to write plays full time several years ago. In 2007, he will have four full-length and five one-act plays produced in theaters across the country, eight of them world premieres. His play, Distant Music, a finalist for the Kaufman and Hart Prize for New American Comedy, enjoyed three productions this spring, including a sold-out run by the Image Theater in Lowell, Mass. which will be reopened in Boston this October. Dusk (formerly, The Garden of Dromore), which was read at the Ashland New Plays Festival last October, opened in Los Angeles last month and has been optioned for an off-Broadway run. A Brief History of Penguins and Promiscuity will open in Los Angeles in November.

Prospect Park
A little girl takes interest in a young man who shares her neighborhood. On this beautiful day in the park, they both discover things that they took for granted are not as they seem.
Cast: Dominique Fishback, Mark Lindberg

Playwright: Brendan O'Brien

Hometown: Raynham, Massachusetts

Current Location: Brooklyn, New York

Brendan O’Brien, a 22-year-old Massachusetts native, is a graduate of the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has spent more time on the technical side of the arts in recent years, working as a sound technician on such films as Across the Universe, I Am Legend and most recently Afterwords. Although Brendan has directed productions of The Beauty Queen of Leenane and Dancing at Lughnasa, this is the first play he has written, and he is both humbled and excited by the experience.

Upgrade
Kurt Heller is a coach kind of guy. So when he is upgraded to first class and seated next to the fabulous Jeanne Marie D'Argent, he sticks out like a sore thumb. A one-act, with leg room.
Cast: Mark Lindberg, Molly Pope

Playwright: Albert Pergande

Hometown: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Current Location: Orlando, Florida

Albert Pergande writes plays, film and theater reviews in Orlando, Florida for Ink19 magazine and The Orlando Weekly. Upgrade was his first produced play, and reflects his experiences working in a corporate technical job that requires a great deal of travel. He has recently had short plays produced in Orlando, Minneapolis, New York, and Detroit. All of his full length efforts remain undiscovered, but he has been kicking around some ideas for a short film with his drinking buddies.