Jerrold Rabushka
For a more complete synopsis of the plays below, as well as a look at other available plays, visit his Web site and click on “Plays For Rent.” Empty Closets A comedy about a coming out workshop where … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Playwrights
Roy Proctor
The Hollow Two 73-year-old gay men – one out of the closet in West Hollywood, California, the other closeted in a small town in North Carolina, are reunited at their 55th high school reunion. It has been more than 50 … Continue reading →
Frank Anthony Polito
Frank is a playwright and actor. He has appeared in Fourth Unity’s “Unity Fest” (NYC), Doric Wilson’s A Perfect Relationship (NYC), and corpus christi (D.C.). BFs! Originally produced as Band Fags! by New Conservatory Theatre Center in 2013, … Continue reading →
Duncan Pflaster
duncanpflaster.com Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants: A Big Epic Naked Shakespearean Fairy Tale Play Good King Kartoffelpuffen gives his kingdom to his oldest son Tater, and marries off his other children for peace and political gain. However, his youngest son, … Continue reading →
Brian C. Petti
E-mail: bcpkid@gmail.com Website Masquerade Long-time partners Hersh and Mario prepare for a surprise costume party to “celebrate” their younger friend Doug’s HIV positive diagnosis. “A 21st century version of ‘The Boys in the Band.’ Petti’s play is a much-needed and … Continue reading →
Joey Pelletier
Where Moments Hung Before When Jasper Kelly, a gay man in his early 30s, died, Morgan has her brother’s memorial service on the same night as her daughter Lucy’s birthday party. While she hopes to fill everyone with a sense … Continue reading →
Nick Pelino, Jr.
Lizbeth of Maplecroft, The Later Life of Lizzie Borden The famous woman acquitted of killing her father and stepmother, has taken a new name, a new home, and now lives in seclusion with her spinster sister Emma and the many … Continue reading →
Robert Patrick
Winner of Robert Chesley Lifetime Award for Gay Playwrighting, and author of “Temple Slave,” the only book about the origins of gay theatre by a participant. Bread Alone In a tiny trailer house in the isolated temporary mining-town … Continue reading →
Gordon Osmond
The Scales A contemporary drama drawn from today’s headlines about personal and professional struggles within the legal profession. “The Scales offers some of the best writing heard in any performing medium in years.” – Brad Bradley, Manhattan Mirror (NYC) Grand … Continue reading →
Rebecca L. Nesvet
The Shape Shifter Dr. Gilbert Chesnet “diagnoses” 18-year-old Alice Barbin (played by a woman) as a biological male, triggering for both of them a strange journey through the labyrinth of their gender-segregated, name-obsessed society. While Barbin embarks upon a Kafkaesque … Continue reading →
