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JONATHAN RAND (1980 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Jonathan Rand has written three of the top ten most-produced plays in North American high schools, according to the annual survey conducted by the Educational Theatre Association. In the 2007-2008 season,Check Please: Take 2 ranked 5, Hard Candy ranked 2, and Check Pleasetopped the list as the 1 most-produced short play for the fourth consecutive season. Since writing his first play in 1997, Mr. Rand's work has been produced by over 3,800 theaters in 34 countries. Mr. Rand's writing is featured in The Best Stage Scenes 2004, The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2005, The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2006, The Best Stage Scenes 2007, The Best Stage Scenes 2009 (Smith & Kraus), Dramatics magazine, and Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays (Random House). His comedy Drugs Are Bad was selected by the Actors Theatre of Louisville as a Heideman Award finalist in the 2003 National Ten-Minute Play Contest. Mr. Rand is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, and lives in New York City. Official website: www.jonathanrand.com
Plays by Jonathan Rand
Action News: Now With 10% More Action! | ||
| 1st Produced: | Golden West High School, Visalia, CA | 03 Nov 2010 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #118938 | |||
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Genre: | short comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 9 | ||
Parts other: | 7 | |||||
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Synopsis: | Welcome to WOMG Action News, the most trusted news program since the invention of trust, news, and programs. Join lead anchors Babs Buttlebee and Jim Pickles as they usher us through tonight's top stories -- from adorable killer puppies, to Apocalypse status updates, to an old man grumbling about Email YouTubes. Tune in to WOMG Action News! Or don't and suffer the consequences. . . | |||||
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Check Please | ||
| 1st Produced: | Barrington Community Theatre (Barrington, RI, United States) | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104587 | |||
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Genre: | 25-35 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | 7 males, 7 females (4-26 actors possible: 2-13 males, 2-13 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Dating can be hard. Especially when your date happens to be a raging kleptomaniac, or your grandmother's bridge partner, or a mime. Check Please follows a series of blind dinner dates that couldn't get any worse -- until they do. Could there possibly be a light at the end of the tunnel? (See alsoCheck Please: Take 2 and Check Please: Take 3.) | |||||
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Check Please: Take 2 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lake Braddock Theatre / International Thespian Festival (staged reading) (Lincoln, NE, United States) | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61328 | |||
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Genre: | 25-35 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | 6 males, 6 females (4-12 actors possible: 2-6 males, 2-6 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Soon after their relationship ends, Guy and Girl are forced by their well-intentioned best friends to plunge back into the dating pool. Unfortunately that pool is filled with foot-reading psychics, frustrated polygamists, and extreme accountants. And pirates. But are the blind dates really that unbearable? Yes. Yes they are. (See also Check Please andCheck Please: Take 3. This play can be read or performed without any knowledge of the other two versions.) | |||||
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Check Please: Take 3 | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Odyssey/ Spartanburg School District 7 (Spartanburg, SC, United States) | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #90877 | |||
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Genre: | 25-35 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 8 | ||
Parts other: | 8 males, 8 females (4-16 actors possible: 2-8 males, 2-8 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Best friends Guy and Girl used to be a couple. Desperate to buck singlehood, they decide that even considering their atrocious blind dating track record, it's worth another shot. But after struggling through dates with a wannabe rock star, a vote-starved politician, and the guy who does those intense movie trailer voice-overs, there's the inevitable question: Which is better -- staying single the rest of your life, or suffering through a series of the worst dates in history? (See also Check Please andCheck Please: Take 2. This play can be read or performed without any knowledge of the other two versions.) | |||||
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Check, Please | ||
| 1st Produced: | Barrington Community Theatre (Barrington, RI, United States) | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28827 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Running time: 20-40 | |||||
Synopsis: | Dating can be hard. Especially when your date happens to be a raging kleptomaniac, or your grandmother's bridge partner, or a mime. Check, Please follows a series of blind dinner dates that couldn't get any worse -- until they do. Could there possibly be a light at the end of the tunnel? | |||||
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Drugs Are Bad | ||
| 1st Produced: | Golden West High School Theater Arts (Visalia, CA, United States) | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28828 | |||
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Genre: | 10-15 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 2 males, 1 female | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Brad comes home from school one day to find his parents waiting for him, deeply concerned. They have found a secret that Brad stashed away in his underwear drawer: an algebra book. That's right -- Brad has been studying behind their backs, instead of following his parents' strict insistence on sex, drugs, and rock & roll. What unfolds is a parody of all those insufferable after-school specials that made us who we are today. | |||||
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Hard Candy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stanton College Preparatory School (Jacksonville, FL, United States) | 1997 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #28829 | |||
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Genre: | 30-40 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 6 males, 5 females (4-11 actors possible: 2-7 males, 2-7 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Job applicants at Banff Enterprises will do anything to claw their way up the corporate ladder. In a fast-paced series of hilarious interviews, the new recruits try every trick in the book -- from bribery, nepotism, and the Old Boy Network to blackmail, seduction, and mind control. | |||||
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How To Succeed in High School Without Really Trying | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lincoln High School (Manitowoc, WI, United States) | 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #104588 | |||
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Genre: | 20-30 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 30 either (7-230 actors possible: 5-229 males, 1-225 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Want to know the easiest way to make it through the grueling abyss known as high school? A group of student agents infiltrate an assembly to demonstrate their secret tips and tricks, ranging from legally changing your name to get around roll call, to using Tom Cruise to help memorize science terms. High school will never be the same. | |||||
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Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit | ||
| 1st Produced: | Altaloma High School (Rancho Cucamonga, CA, United States) | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #90876 | |||
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Genre: | 35-45 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 13 | ||
Parts other: | 8 males, 13 females, 27 either (12-60 actors possible: 0-60 males, 0-60 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | In the fairy tale criminal justice system, the characters from fairy tales and nursery rhymes are represented by two separate yet equally ridiculous groups: the fairy tale police who investigate fairy tale crime, and the fairy tale district attorneys who prosecute the fairy tale offenders. These are their stories. | |||||
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Least Offensive Play in the Whole Darn World, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Northridge High School (Dayton, OH, United States) | 2004 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51439 | |||
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Genre: | 15-25 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 12 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | 12 males, 5 females, 7 either (8-35 actors possible: 7-30 males, 4-27 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Want to perform a classic play too offensive for your high school? Then the ScriptCleaner5000 is the product for you! Sit back and relax as Cynocorp representatives Shelly and Tom present sample scenes from plays that have been treated with this exciting new technology. Wipe away that dirty David Mamet profanity! Violence in Shakespeare? Gone. And what about those pesky sex scenes? The ScriptCleaner5000 has got you covered! | |||||
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Murder in the Knife Room (full-length version) | ||
| 1st Produced: | McDonough High School (Charles County, MD, United States) | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #90878 | |||
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Genre: | 80-90 min Murder mystery parody | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 58 either (22-58 actors possible: 0-58 males, 0-58 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | One murder, twenty suspects. Who killed Mysterious Host? Could it be Respected General? What about Wealthy Dowager? Or maybe it was Santa Claus. The mystery unfolds as Inexplicably Omniscient Inspector takes on the most thrilling and baffling murder case in the history of thrilling and baffling murder cases. (A one-act versionof this play is also available.) | |||||
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Murder in the Knife Room (one-act version) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Kents Hill School (Kents Hill, ME, United States) | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #90879 | |||
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Genre: | 40-50 min Murder mystery parody | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 7 | ||
Parts other: | 5 males, 7 females, 36 either (12-48 actors possible: 0-48 males, 0-48 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | One murder, ten suspects. Who killed Mysterious Host? Could it be Respected General? What about Wealthy Dowager? Or maybe it was Santa Claus. The mystery unfolds as Inexplicably Omniscient Inspector takes on the most thrilling and baffling murder case in the history of thrilling and baffling murder cases. (A full-length versionof this play is also available.) | |||||
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People vs Spam, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Cibola High School - Drama (Yuma, AZ, United States) | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51440 | |||
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Genre: | 15-20 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | 17 either (8-17 actors possible: 0-17 males, 0-17 females) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Today you will be one of many star witnesses in the most controversial trial the world has ever seen: America sues the entire concept of unsolicited junk email. Tension mounts as we hear testimonies from a Nigerian prince, a debt reducer, and a purveyor of life-changing, body-enhancing pills. The fate of America's inboxes lies in the hands of a single jury. . . | |||||
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Romeo To Go | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lake Braddock Theatre / International Thespian Festival (reading) (Lincoln, NE, United States) | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #60359 | |||
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Genre: | 35-45 min Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 15 | Female | 18 | ||
Parts other: | 15 males, 18 females, 17 either (15-50 actors possible: 0-50 males, 0-50 females) | |||||
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Synopsis: | Due to budget cuts there will only be a single session of Drama One for the entire school year -- and the class will only last 20 minutes. To make matters worse, the students are required to perform an entire Shakespeare play for a schoolwide assembly during a time slot of only 10 minutes. Under the direction of the egomaniacal Mrs. Gunnysack, the beginner students must pull together for the fastest, cleanest, lowest-budget rendition of Romeo and Juliet the world has ever seen, complete with a makeshift balcony, interpretive dance fight sequences, and an Elizabethan hip-hop dance party that would even make P. Diddy shake his tailfeather with Shakespearean pride. | |||||
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