Full Length Plays
*Script available for download at www.newplayexchange.org
The Unusual Life of Ida Mae Couciero*
Drama/Comedy Cast: 3 Un-produced A modern day young woman finds herself inhabiting the body of an illegitimate girl in Victorian England and struggles to find her way to the one place she feels she belongs -- Brooklyn. |
Cranium Fandango*
Drama/Comedy Cast: 3 Un-produced. Woodward/Newman Award Finalist Androsia, a professor of anthropology, develops a strange speech disorder that eventually threatens to destroy her life. |
The BoShines*
Drama/Comedy Cast: 4 Un-produced A hippie love story from Puerto Rico to Woodstock to a Vermont commune -- ending fifty years later as Bo and Shine find themselves in a trailer park wondering what to do. 
Famine Plays*
Drama Cast: 9 Produced: Yale Cabaret, Cucaracha Theatre, Under One Roof, Theatre of Note A diverse group of characters struggle to survive as catastrophic climate change envelopes the U.S. and civilization unravels around them. 
Rodents & Radios
Drama Cast: 7 Produced: Cucaracha Theatre (Best Play List - Mel Gussow, NY Times) Published: Sun & Moon Press A kaleidoscopic collage of disparate characters on their individual journeys, ranging from a Romanian tennis pro to a radio talk show host. |
Chili Buttons*
Play with Music - Drama/Comedy Un-produced An aging rock star appearing in a theatrical biography detailing her infamous life and career, appears to have reached the end of the road but finds a new perspective. 
A Vast Wreck
Drama Cast: 8 Produced: Cucaracha Theatre, Theatre of Note A mutated mix of Wilder's "Our Town" and Ibsen's "Peer Gynt". 
Days on Earth*
Drama/Romance Cast: 4 Readings: Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Stage & Film, Cherry Lane Theatre, Yale School of Drama A romance between an idealistic socialist and a committed hedonist that spans the decades between World War One and the first landing on the moon. |
Musicals
Les Funky Sisters Fantastique*
Musical Comed/Drama Cast: 7 (minimum) Unproduced Wanda, a celebrated Christian rock star, finds herself in love with a "godless black lesbian". 
Surf City
Musical Comedy/Drama Cast: 8 (minimum) Workshop produced at The National Theatre Conservatory, Denver Center Theatre A totally righteous melt-down of Puccini's opera, Turandot. 
Call Me Rita
Book by Kerry Muir, Music & Lyrics by Richard Caliban Musical Drama Cast: 8 (minimum) Un-produced A psychological thriller that chronicles the journey of aging movie queen, Rita Hayworth, mandated to the psych ward where she's forced to confront her troublesome past as a young flamenco dancer in her abusive father's vaudeville act. |
the Girl from Ipanema
Musical Drama Cast: 8 (minimum) Workshop produced at The National Theatre Conservatory, Denver Center Theatre A Brazilian spin-off of Bizet's famed opera, Carmen. 
MoM - A Rock Concert Musical
Musical Comedy/Drama Cast: 5 Produced: New York Int'l Fringe Festival (Outstanding Musical), and many subsequent productions including The Actor's Playhouse and Geva Theatre Center. Five middle aged suburban moms start up a band just for laughs and unexpectedly become -- a phenomenon! 
Lost Shanghai
Book & Lyrics by Richard Caliban & Angel Lam, Music by Angel Lam Musical Drama/Romance Cast: 10 Un-produced A fateful romance set in the glamorous underworld of Shanghai, "The Paris of the Orient", in the turbulent days leading up to the revolution. |
Bunasta
Musical Drama
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Musical Drama
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TV Pilot
MoM Rocks
1 hour pilot episode. Comic drama Five middle aged suburban moms start up a band just for laughs and unexpectedly become -- a phenomenon! A Rock & Roll comic drama based on the hit play, MoM -- A Rock Concert Musical, which won Best Musical at the New York International Fringe Festival. A mix of Parenthood, Desperate Housewives and Vinyl. |
One Act Plays
Je Ne Sais Quoi
One Act Comedy Cast: 2 Un-produced Everything goes wrong during the performance of a romantic comedy, including the accidental death of the lead actress. And so -- her understudy steps in. |
Gladiator
One Act Drama Cast: 3 Produced: Cucaracha Theatre, Act One Festival -- Met Theatre, and many university productions. Published: Smith & Kraus A journalist is taken hostage by the convict he is interviewing. |