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DANA VITATOE (1963 - )
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Dana Vitatoe - moved to Los Angeles after studying Theater and Communications at Kent State and Cleveland State Universities in Ohio. He had been a member of The Zeitgeist Theater Company for 15 years, contributing to the company as a director, producer, actor and Playwright-in-Residence. He has had 32 productions of his nearly 70 written plays produced in the Los Angeles area, including 2 short films based on his stage works. Dana began writing at an early age, and wrote his first play in 1980. In 1987, "The Absurdity of Argument" was the first of his plays to be produced. He has produced over a dozen theatrical productions and has directed over 40 plays. Dana's latest work produced in December of 2010 was "24 By One: An Evening of One-Page Plays" at The Hollywood Fight Club Theater. Dana created his production company Shipwrecked Productions in 1988, and continues to pursue his various careers in the entertainment industry. He lives in Los Angeles.
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24 By One: An Evening of One-Page Plays 32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays Absurdity of Argument, The AndyLitaJosephina Angel of Mercy Angry Lesbian Poets, The Battlestrip Break Break-Up, The Bullpen #2, The Bullpen, The Castle Duel Couple of Guys. . ., A Dead Man Laughing Dilemma Dinner for One Don, The Double Barrel Dyslexic Duel, The Family Razor Feeling Inadequate Flying Fear For the Realm Full Moon in Vegas Funny (Wo)Man Walking Gay Fight Club Good Cop, Bad Cop Good Guys, Bad Names Greener Grass Hillbilly Trilogy, The Hitman-Hit Inside the Extra's Studio - Female Inside the Extra's Studio - Male Iz-She Job Interview, The Lesbian Fight Club License Revoked Mail Order Bride Mick and Mish Mother Mr. Excess Mr. Excess in Vegas North Star Off With Her Head On Her Majesty's Licence Bureau One-Man Mutiny Permanent Vacation Pharmacy Guy Phobic Principle Difference Rorschach Test Senior's Tour, The Shakespearean Waiter, The Shipwrecked Shipwrecked! A Children's Play with Music Shootin' Blanks Shotgun Wedding Slick and The Slab Some Rules Stadium Dogs Stream of Unconsciousness T.S.A. T&A Toyota Cowboys Vegan Bust Wet T-Shirts With Friends Like These. . . Wolf Dreams X-Mas with Slick and The Slab Yakini, Warrior Queen of Nubia24 By One: An Evening of One-Page Plays
Synopsis:
Act One 1. Battlestrip 2. For The Realm 3. The Don 4. Dinner For One 5. Vegan Bust 6. Inside The Extra's Studio 7. Funny Woman Walking 8. Dilemma 9. Rorschach Test 10.The Dyslexic Duel 11.On Her Majesty's Licence Bureau 12. Good Guys, Bad Names Act Two 1. Lesbian Fight Club 2. One-Man Mutiny 3. The Break-Up 4. The Job Interview 5. Off With Her Head 6. Flying Fear 7. License Revoked 8. Mail Order Bride 9. The Shakespearean Waiter 10.Feeling Inadequate 11.Tsa T & A 12.Wet T-Shirts
Notes:
24 plays Also used in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
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Music:
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Genre:
One-Page Plays
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 5 Other: 0
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Top of Page32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays
Synopsis:
Act One 1. Battlestrip 2. For The Realm 3. The Don 4. Gay Fight Club 5. Dinner For One 6. Vegan Bust 7. Inside The Extra's Studio - Male 8. Funny (Wo)Man Walking 9. Dilemma 10.Rorschach Test 11.The Dyslexic Duel 12.Mick And Mish 13.Stadium Dogs 14.Flying Fear 15.On Her Majesty's Licence Bureau 16.Good Guys, Bad Names Act Two 1. Lesbian Fight Club 2. One-Man Mutiny 3. The Break-Up 4. The Job Interview 5. Off With Her Head 6. A Couple Of Guys. . . 7. License Revoked 8. Mail Order Bride 9. The Shakespearean Waiter 10.Wolf Dreams 11.Inside The Extra's Studio - Female 12.Dead Man Laughing 13.Toyota Cowboys 14.Feeling Inadequate 15.Tsa T & A 16.Wet T-Shirts
Notes:
Compilation of plays from 4 One-Page Play Festivals And the evening entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays." Plus 5 un-produced plays.
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Various
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One-Page Plays
Parts:
Male: 8 Female: 6 Other: 0
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Top of PageAbsurdity of Argument, The
Synopsis:
After spending the weekend together in bed, Mort and Kaleena get into a relationship ending argument over something funny and trivial. Mort's friend Chuck comes by to try to get the two lovers back together.
Notes:
Part of the L.A. Fringe Festival. Is used As several scenes in the film "Take the Bullet."
1st Produced:
Mise-En-Scene Theater in North Hollywood, CA 20 Aug 1987
Company:
Mise-En-Scene Theater Company
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Two-Act Romantic Comedy
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: 0
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Top of PageAndyLitaJosephina
Synopsis:
The physical embodiment of creativity is a disheveled slacker who can't seem to finish any project he works on lately. His creative "demon" talks to him about what he needs to be at his creative best. He is given a young assistant to act as his muse to help him with his creative and physical needs. But when she turns out to be more creative than he is, his ex is brought in to balance the two of them and their creativity, but the two women decide that he is no longer the creative genius that the demon thought he was and decide that he has to go in a rather gruesome way.
Notes:
Part of An evening of plays entitled "Express Line."
1st Produced:
Arena Stage, Carpet Company In Los Angeles, CA 15 Sep 1988
Company:
Monsters of Theater
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Genre:
One-Act Comedy/Drama
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: -
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Top of PageAngel of Mercy
Synopsis:
A female assassin shows up at the office of a dying man on his last day of work. He has hired her to kill him but is having second thoughts.
Notes:
Staged Reading And filmed As part of the Roulette Film Group's series of short films.
1st Produced:
Play shot as a short film 25 Jul 2003
Company:
Roulette Films/Shipwrecked Productions
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Music:
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Genre:
One-Act Drama
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 0 Other: 0
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Top of PageAngry Lesbian Poets, The
Synopsis:
3 Lesbian Poets profess their love of women and distaste for men while a male heckler in the audience eggs them on. After they bait him into coming onstage they handcuff him and terrify him to the reality of his boorish behavior.
Notes:
Part of the evening of works for the L.A. Fringe Festival entitled "Rosemarie's Thunderbush Cafe."
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA 12 Jun 1999
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
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Music:
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Genre:
One-Act Comedy
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 3 Other: 0
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Top of PageBattlestrip
Synopsis:
A cheating boyfriend must win a game of "Strip" Battleship in order to redeem himself in his girlfriend's eyes. But as his ships sink and he loses more and more clothes, he starts to believe that she is the one ultimately cheating.
Notes:
Part of the Zeitgeist Theater Company's 3rd Annual One-Page Play Festival evening of plays. Also part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
The Morgan-Wixson Theatre, Santa Monica, CA 19 Nov 1998
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
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Music:
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Genre:
One-Page Un-Romantic Comedy
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: 0
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Top of PageBreak
Synopsis:
2 female friends deal with the jerks in their lives, and then one of them takes matters into her own hands, leading to one of the jerk's untimely demise.
Notes:
Frank Roel wrote the play, Dana Vitatoe helped. Part of An evening of theater entitled "Crime Scenes."
1st Produced:
Metropole Theatre Works, Hollywood, CA 19 Nov 1996
Company:
Milagro Productions
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One-Act Drama/Comedy
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: 0
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Top of PageBreak-Up, The
Synopsis:
A woman tries to break it off with her strange, slightly deformed boyfriend, only to find that he is one of the richest men in the world!
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays." Roles Are 1 man And 1 woman with A waiter, who can be Any gender. Is used As A scene in the film "Take the Bullet."
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One-Page Un-Romantic Comedy
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: 1
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Top of PageBullpen #2, The
Synopsis:
Straight men who perform sex in gay porno movies talk about their experiences on the show "Gay for Pay." A new guest and his S&M wife visit the show and get into a fight with one of the other regular "macho" guests when the macho guy insults the new guests' wife.
Notes:
Written by Dana Vitatoe And Darrell Fusaro. Staged Reading.
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA Apr 1999
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One-Act Comedy
Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 2 Other: 0
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Top of PageBullpen, The
Synopsis:
Straight men who perform sex in gay porno movies talk about their experiences on the show "Gay for Pay." When one of the men seems to enjoy his work to much, the other "macho" guys heckle him.
Notes:
Written by Dana Vitatoe And Darrell Fusaro. Staged Reading.
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, Audra Lindley Theater, North Hollywood, CA Nov 1998
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One-Act Comedy
Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 1 Other: 0
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Top of PageCastle Duel
Synopsis:
An evil Lord duels to the death with the young swordsman whose parents the man has killed.
Notes:
Staged Reading.
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA Nov 1999
Company:
Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
One-Page Comedy
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 0 Other: 0
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Top of PageCouple of Guys. . ., A
Synopsis:
A couple of guys sit at an outdoor restaurant on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, checking out women and commenting about them in their own one-word styles. They are joined by 2 other buddies, who also speak in their own one-word sentences and one of the men breaks the unwritten guy code.
Notes:
Staged Reading. Part of the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA Jun 2003
Company:
Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
One-Page Comedy
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 0 Other: 0
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Top of PageDead Man Laughing
Synopsis:
An obnoxious comedian is facing a Mexican Firing Squad and relentlessly tells bad jokes to the Captain and assistant who help with his firing squad demise.
Notes:
Staged Reading. Part of the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA Dec 2007
Company:
Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One-Page Comedy
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: 0
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Top of PageDilemma
Synopsis:
A male and female clown meet and exchange looks. Finally they swap a lollipop and a water bottle and become friends.
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
One-Page Clown Comedy
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: 0
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Top of PageDinner for One
Synopsis:
A man and woman meet on a first date. She is displaying odd behavior by distracting him and stealing his food.
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays." Also used in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays." Is used As A scene in the film "Take the Bullet."
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
One-Page Comedy
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageDon, The
Synopsis:
A young hit man is called in by his older "boss" to account for his massive bungling of several recent "jobs." He is ordered to remove his sunglasses and wear his prescription glasses, to the young, near-sighted assassin's chagrin.
Notes:
Written by Dana Vitatoe And Darrell Fusaro.. Part of the Zeitgeist Theater Company's 3rd Annual One-Page Play Festival evening of plays. Also part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
The Morgan-Wixson Theatre, Santa Monica, CA 19 Nov 1998
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
One-Page Parody
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 0 Other: 0
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Top of PageDouble Barrel
Synopsis:
A husband arrives home in the Appalachia Mountains to find that his wife believes his favorite hunting dog has rabies. She wants him to shoot the dog and put it out of its misery, but he refuses, thinking that the dog may not have the deadly disease. After his drinking buddy arrives, they drink beer, tell funny stories and cut cards to see who is going to end the continuously barking dog's rabid life.
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "Warning: Excessive Farce." Became the first play in the Full-Length Comedy "The Hillbilly Trilogy"
1st Produced:
The Burbage Theater, West Los Angeles, CA 02 Oct 1994
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One-Act Comedy
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: 0
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Top of PageDyslexic Duel, The
Synopsis:
In the year 1800, two men meet on the field of honor outside a party after one of them insults the other man's wife. The arbiter of the fight has some peculiar quirks about the upcoming duel, and finally the two men must take matters into their own hands.
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
One-Page Comedy
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 0 Other: 0
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Top of PageFamily Razor
Synopsis:
The Balentine Family goes through several life-altering crises when one of the families' pregnant daughters escapes from the detention home she is at and one of the sons gets into drugs and guns in Cleveland, Ohio circa 1980.
Notes:
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1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA 10 Mar 2000
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
Full-Length Family Drama
Parts:
Male: 7 Female: 5 Other: 0
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Top of PageFeeling Inadequate
Synopsis:
After making love for the first time, a man makes the mistake of asking his female lover how many men she's been with.
Notes:
Part of the Zeitgeist Theater Company's 4th Annual One-Page Play Festival. Also part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays." Is used As A scene in the film "Take the Bullet."
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA 09 Dec 1999
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
One-Page Un-Romantic Comedy
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: 0
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Top of PageFlying Fear
Synopsis:
Two pilots sit in the cockpit of a commercial jetliner and argue because the co-pilot is afraid to fly! The pilot tries to talk his frightened companion into flying the jet.
Notes:
Written by Dana Vitatoe And John Isbell. Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays." Was written for 2 men but was performed with 2 women. Can be done in Any combination.
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
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Genre:
One-Page Comedy
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: 2
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Top of PageFor the Realm
Synopsis:
The Queen of Ancient Nubia's servant warns her of her husband's (the commanding General of her armies) impending assassination attempt. She doesn't believe the servant, but takes a dagger from her just as the husband arrives to talk of his latest peace negotiations with the warring Romans. He admits that he offered her up as a peace offering, and then they fight when he tries to collect her head as a trophy for the enemy.
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays." Also used As the climactic scene in the Full-Length Classical Tragedy "Yakini, Warrior Queen of Nubia."
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
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Genre:
One-Page Drama
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 2 Other: 0
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Top of PageFull Moon in Vegas
Synopsis:
A love-struck man meets the object of his affection for a secret lunch at a roadside restaurant. He professes his love for her and she must decide whether she should stay in her loveless relationship or join him for a road trip to Vegas to get married.
Notes:
Part of the evening of One-Act plays entitled "Shrinks And Smiles."
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA 23 Mar 1999
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
One-Act Romantic Comedy/Drama
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: 0
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Top of PageFunny (Wo)Man Walking
Synopsis:
A Convict is being put to death by electric chair, all the while cracking lame and insulting jokes aimed at the Priest and Technician that attend him/her.
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays." The role of the Convict can be performed by A man or woman.
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One-Page Comedy
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageGay Fight Club
Synopsis:
Men meet for a bare-knuckled fisticuff-fest, but things take a turn when the rules are announced to some of the first-time fighters.
Notes:
Part of the Zeitgeist Theater Company's 4th Annual One-Page Play Festival. Also part of the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA 09 Dec 1999
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
One-Page Parody
Parts:
Male: 6 Female: 1 Other: 0
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Top of PageGood Cop, Bad Cop
Synopsis:
A man is a probable witness to a brutal murder and is interrogated by 3 no-nonsense homicide detectives. But the man is hiding more than he lets on and the interrogation gets more heated after their female boss wants them to get a murder confession out of the suspect.
Notes:
Part of An evening of theater entitled "Crime Scenes." Used As the basis for the screenplay Good Cop, Bad Cop.
1st Produced:
The Metropole Theatre Works, Hollywood, CA 19 Nov 1996
Company:
Milagro Productions
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Genre:
One-Act Drama
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 1 Other: 0
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Top of PageGood Guys, Bad Names
Synopsis:
Three friends try to pick up women at a bar with disastrous results. They never get past introducing themselves before the trouble starts with the intended female companions, and having crude names they unintentionally shoot themselves in the foot every time.
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays." Is used As A scene in the film "Take the Bullet."
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Top of PageGreener Grass
Synopsis:
A poet has two muses: his wife and his mistress. After letting both down, they decide to join forces and leave him to his own devices. Love, lust, betrayal and redemption, all set to poetry!
Notes:
Part of An evening of theater entitled "Shadow Plays."
1st Produced:
Metropole Theatre Works, Hollywood, CA 14 Aug 1997
Company:
Milagro Prod./Shipwrecked Prod./Loan Star Productions
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One-Act Poetry Comedy/Drama
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Top of PageHillbilly Trilogy, The
Synopsis:
Part 1: Double Barrel: Arley arrives home to find that his wife Red believes his dog has rabies. She wants him to shoot the dog. After his buddy Lester arrives, they cut cards to see who will shoot the continuously barking dog. Part 2: Shootin' Blanks: Red's "loose" sister Rusty visits and talks Red into having Arley get a vasectomy, while Red wants Arley to get the dog neutered. Lester arrives and takes a liking to Rusty, even though she has a "reputation." Part 3: Shotgun Wedding: With a menacing bobcat on the loose, Red and Arley make Lester "marry" the pregnant Rusty. When they try to take her to the hospital when she goes into labor, they can't leave as the bobcat attacks once again. They bring her back into the house to have her baby.
Notes:
Full-Length Comedy with the three One-Acts "Double Barrel," "Shootin' Blanks" And "Shotgun Wedding."
1st Produced:
- Feb 2001
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Top of PageHitman-Hit
Synopsis:
A young man named Eddie breaks into the house of a gun-toting older man named Max. Eddie is held at gunpoint, and says that he is looking for Max's daughter, whom he claims to have a relationship with. Max thinks that Eddie is there to kill him, as he worked for various people and companies that would want him dead, now that he has a terminal illness and feels that they think he might decide to "confess some of his sins." But Eddie turns out to be more than the old gunslinger bargained for as the two square off to see who is the better hitman.
Notes:
Staged Reading And filmed As part of the Roulette Film Group's series of short films. Re-titled "High Midnight" for the filmed version.
1st Produced:
Play shot as a short film 21 Aug 2003
Company:
Roulette Films/Open to the Public Productions/Shipwrecked Productions
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Top of PageInside the Extra's Studio - Female
Synopsis:
Parody of a famous talk show as a host asks a "famous" female extra to regale the audience with tales of being an extra. (Or "background ar-teest", as she calls it!) The students in the audience can't believe that someone would want to be an extra and ask her scathing questions like "how can she look at herself in the mirror?"
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays.". Written by Dana Vitatoe And Darrell Fusaro
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
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- -
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Top of PageInside the Extra's Studio - Male
Synopsis:
Parody of a famous talk show as a host asks a "famous" extra to regale the audience with tales of being an extra. (Or atmosphere, as it's called on the set!) The students in the audience adore and worship the guest and ask him how he learned how to be "a face down, frozen body in the movie "Titanic?"
Notes:
Written by Dana Vitatoe And Darrell Fusaro. Part of the Zeitgeist Theater Company's 3rd Annual One-Page Play Festival evening of plays. Also part of the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
The Morgan-Wixson Theatre, Santa Monica, CA 19 Nov 1998
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
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One-Page Parody
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Top of PageIz-She
Synopsis:
Two loveable losers eye women and joke about life while sitting on the beach. When two hot women sit next to them, they discuss plans to ask the women out, while the women discuss plans to not go out with losers like those guys. They all bond when they watch other beachgoers and comment on their obvious problematic physical attributes.
Notes:
Written by Dana Vitatoe And Elias Stimac. Part of the evening of plays entitled "Warning: Excessive Farce.". Became the opening scene in the Full-Length Comedy "Slick And the Slab"
1st Produced:
The Burbage Theater, West Los Angeles, CA 02 Oct 1994
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
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Top of PageJob Interview, The
Synopsis:
A person is elated with news that they may be getting a new, lucrative job. But things change quickly when the man doing the interviewing starts imitating Yoda, the Jedi Master.
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays." Written for 2 men but was performed with 1 man And 1 woman.
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
- -
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Top of PageLesbian Fight Club
Synopsis:
Women meet for a bare-knuckled fisticuff-fest, but things take a turn when the rules are announced to some of the first-time fighters.
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
- -
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Top of PageLicense Revoked
Synopsis:
A suave British Secret Service Agent of world renown loses his License to Drive, Boat and Fly in Mississippi when the car he is driving turns into a boat then flies away during a high-speed chase! He tries to dissuade the uptight woman working at the License Bureau to change her mind with promises of lunch and romance, but she thinks he is bribing her and challenges him to a contest of arm-rasslin'.
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
- -
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Top of PageMail Order Bride
Synopsis:
An older man brings his young Mail-Order Bride into his remote cabin in the Alaskan wilderness. Much to her chagrin, they don't have much in common.
Notes:
Part of the Zeitgeist Theater Company's 5th Annual One-Page Play Festival. Also part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays." Is used As A scene in the film "Take the Bullet."
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA 26 Oct 2000
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
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Top of PageMick and Mish
Synopsis:
Two men dress in the locker room of a gym after playing a game of racquetball. They discuss their opponents, music and women as they dress for the rest of their day.
Notes:
Staged Reading And part of the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA Dec 2007
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
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Top of PageMother
Synopsis:
A young woman relives the last day of her life before madness sets in, and the events that lead to her breakdown. Her mother silently rocks in a rocking chair, never commenting while watching her with a ghostly stare.
Notes:
Staged Reading.
1st Produced:
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. Jun 1985
Company:
-
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Top of PageMr. Excess
Synopsis:
A man with a turrets-type reaction to certain words and phrases meets with his friend in a cafe, waiting for the friend's girlfriend and a blind date for his afflicted pal. When the women arrive, the blind date turns out to be more than they bargained for.
Notes:
Written by Dana Vitatoe And Rod Sweitzer. Part of the evening of works for the L.A. Fringe Festival entitled "Rosemarie's Thunderbush Cafe."
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA 09 Jun 1999
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
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Top of PageMr. Excess in Vegas
Synopsis:
A man playing Blackjack in Las Vegas goes through various turret's type tics as he hits on hands he shouldn't, but ends up winning, much to the dismay of the dealer and other players at the table.
Notes:
Written by Dana Vitatoe And Rod Sweitzer. Staged Reading.
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA Oct 2000
Company:
Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
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-
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One-Page Comedy
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Male: 6 Female: 1 Other: 0
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Top of PageNorth Star
Synopsis:
In 1951 at Christmas time during the Korean War, 3 men stuck behind enemy lines after escaping from a Chinese Prison camp in Korea, share their letters from relatives and hopes of avoiding recapture and returning home.
Notes:
Staged Reading.
1st Produced:
The Burbage Theater, West Los Angeles, CA Nov 1994
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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One-Act Christmas Drama
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Male: 4 Female: 0 Other: 1
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Top of PageOff With Her Head
Synopsis:
In the 1700s, an obnoxious female comic is sentenced to death by beheading in France for insulting the Queen and "doing a spit-take into the King's face." The Sheriff and Executioner can't get her beheaded quick enough as she insults them and everyone within earshot.
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
- -
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Top of PageOn Her Majesty's Licence Bureau
Synopsis:
A suave British Secret Service Agent of world renown loses his Licence to Kill when he is over his legal limit by 2 kills! He tries to dissuade the uptight woman working at the Licence Bureau to change her mind with promises of romance in Switzerland and France.
Notes:
Part of the Zeitgeist Theater Company's 6th Annual One-Page Play Festival. Also part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
The Morgan-Wixson Theatre, Santa Monica, CA 15 Nov 2001
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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One-Page Parody
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: 0
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Top of PageOne-Man Mutiny
Synopsis:
A man writes in his logbook while making a solo circumnavigation of the world in a small sailboat. His sanity seems to be slipping away as he reveals his trials and tribulations in his letter and tries to find the "mutinous crew" hiding onboard.
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
- -
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One-Page Comedy
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Top of PagePermanent Vacation
Synopsis:
Tourists and staff mingle and hook up at a remote, tropical island retreat.
Notes:
Written by Dana Vitatoe And Elias Stimac. Staged Reading. Play rewritten And became the comedy "Slick And The Slab."
1st Produced:
The Zeitgeist Theater, West Los Angeles, CA Jun 1995
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
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Full-Length Romantic Comedy
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Male: 5 Female: 4 Other: 0
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Top of PagePharmacy Guy
Synopsis:
Whatever ails you, the Pharmacy Guy has got it! (And tried it!) Customers at a drug store ask questions of the PG, and he delivers instructions and advice with drill-sergeant abrasiveness and embarrassing volume.
Notes:
Part of An evening of plays entitled "Pre-Natal Plays V."
1st Produced:
The Burbage Theater, West Los Angeles, CA 23 Aug 1994
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Top of PagePhobic
Synopsis:
Two men, one named Chris, the other Terry, meet on a mistaken blind date, each thinking the other was a woman. They decide to stick it out and "have a drink" just to hang out to prove they are secure in their manhood, but can't get past the fact that they feel duped into a blind date with a man.
Notes:
Part of the One-Act evening of plays entitled "Night of Obliquity."
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA 2001
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
-
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Male: 2 Female: 3 Other: 0
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Top of PagePrinciple Difference
Synopsis:
A professional woman sits at her hotel bar after a convention. The bartender talks her up and asks her to come back to his place after he gets off for the evening. She tells him that she's a virgin and is waiting for her wedding night. He can't believe it and they debate about the pros and cons of adult virginity and if waiting is ultimately the best solution.
Notes:
Written by Dana Vitatoe And Elias Stimac. Part of the evening of theater entitled "Bar None." Became A scene in the Full-Length Comedy "Slick And the Slab"
1st Produced:
The Zeitgeist Theater, West Los Angeles, CA 17 May 1995
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
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One-Act Comedy/Drama
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageRorschach Test
Synopsis:
A female Doctor gives an astronaut candidate a series of bizarre Rorschach tests.
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
- -
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Top of PageSenior's Tour, The
Synopsis:
Three old, retired boxers meet in a cafe, arranged by their old manager to discuss and debate coming out of retirement to form a "Senior's Tour" for boxing.
Notes:
Part of the One-Act evening of plays entitled "Night of Obliquity."
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA 2001
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Top of PageShakespearean Waiter, The
Synopsis:
A Shakespearean Themed restaurant is the scene of swordfights, poisoning, hysterical mayhem and death when a husband comments to his wife and the waiter named Hamlet about his undercooked meal.
Notes:
Written by Dana Vitatoe And Rod Sweitzer. Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
- -
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Top of PageShipwrecked
Synopsis:
Two men are stranded on a deserted island some years after WWII, on a Thursday. They go through their day by fishing, using each other as bait, playing games and dreaming of the day when they get rescued.
Notes:
-
1st Produced:
Theatre Palisades, Pacific Palisades, CA 11 Dec 1987
Company:
Theatre Palisades
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- -
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One-Act Farce
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Male: 2 Female: 0 Other: 0
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Top of PageShipwrecked! A Children's Play with Music
Synopsis:
Two men are stranded on a deserted island with a bird that comes by to visit and sing songs with them. They go through their day by fishing, (using each other as bait,) playing games, looking at clouds, avoiding a menacing (singing) shark and dreaming of the day they get rescued.
Notes:
A play with music for young children.
1st Produced:
Haugh Performing Arts Center, Citrus College, Glendora, CA 08 Jul 1989
Company:
Premiere Pals
1st Published:
- -
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-
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One-Act Children's Comedy
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Top of PageShootin' Blanks
Synopsis:
The "loose" sister of a married woman unexpectedly visits her married sister and talks her sister into having her husband get a vasectomy so that she won't get her pregnant anymore. Meanwhile, the wife wants the husband to also get the dog neutered, so that he will stop getting all the other dogs in the hollar pregnant. When his drinking buddy arrives, the older man takes a liking to the younger woman with the "reputation."
Notes:
Staged Reading. Is the second play in the Full-Length Comedy "The Hillbilly Trilogy."
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA Aug 1999
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
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-
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Top of PageShotgun Wedding
Synopsis:
A menacing bobcat has trapped the 4 occupants in the house up in the hollar in the Appalachians. The married couple make the older man "marry" the pregnant younger woman, then they try to take the woman to the hospital when she goes into labor but can't as the bobcat attacks once again. They bring her into the house to have her baby, as there is not enough time to get her down the mountain to the hospital.
Notes:
Is the final play in the Full-Length Comedy "The Hillbilly Trilogy."
1st Produced:
- Feb 2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
- -
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One-Act Comedy
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Top of PageSlick and The Slab
Synopsis:
Two loveable losers, Slick and The Slab, meet two hot women, Bambii and Ramona, on their second to last day of vacation on a tropical island. The two couples hook up after dinner and dancing, then break it off the next day because the women have just arrived and the men are leaving, stopping the chances of any meaningful relationships.
Notes:
Written by Dana Vitatoe And Elias Stimac. Staged Reading.
1st Produced:
The Zephyr Theater, Hollywood, CA May 1996
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Full-Length Romantic Comedy
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Male: 3 Female: 2 Other: 0
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Top of PageSome Rules
Synopsis:
A man brings a woman he picked up at a bar into his hotel room. She agrees to have sex with him, but has rules that go with the bargain. He decides that he has some rules of his own, as they negotiate the terms of their upcoming tryst.
Notes:
Staged Reading. Became A scene in the Full-Length comedy "Slick And The Slab."
1st Produced:
The Burbage Theater, West Los Angeles, CA Mar 1995
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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One-Act Romantic Comedy
Parts:
Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: 0
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Top of PageStadium Dogs
Synopsis:
Two men stand in line for hotdogs at a baseball game. The one friend tells his buddy outrageous tales that annoy the two other men standing behind them in line.
Notes:
Staged Reading And part of the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA Oct 2002
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
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Music:
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One-Page Comedy
Parts:
Male: 4 Female: 0 Other: 0
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Top of PageStream of Unconsciousness
Synopsis:
A biker finds himself alone and changed in a deserted rural area, trying to piece together the events that led him to this situation. He sees a wrecked motorcycle and the body of a man that looks a lot like he used to, and figures out that he may no longer be a part of this world.
Notes:
Part of An evening of plays entitled "Express Line."
1st Produced:
Arena Stage, Carpet Company In Los Angeles, CA 15 Sep 1988
Company:
Monsters of Theater
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One-Act Drama
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Top of PageT.S.A. T&A
Synopsis:
2 men and a woman go through an airport security checkpoint when traveling to Las Vegas, without their clothes but hopefully with their dignity intact.
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays." Is used As A scene in the film "Take the Bullet."
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
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Music:
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One-Page Comedy
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 3 Other: 0
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Top of PageToyota Cowboys
Synopsis:
Herding cows is different these days! Cowboys sitting around a campfire break into song to cheer up one of their own because his air-conditioner is out on his truck, and he has to ride with one of the other cowboys in their pickup truck.
Notes:
Part of the Zeitgeist Theater Company's 4th Annual One-Page Play Festival. Also part of the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA 09 Dec 1999
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One-Page Cowboy Musical
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageVegan Bust
Synopsis:
A husband arrives home after a night out watching football with his buddies. His wife accuses him of breaking their vegan pact together and accuses him of eating meat. He counters with hilarious tales of strippers, drinking, fights and hookers. He is dismayed to find out that she knows more about the final score than he does, and may have broken another pact of theirs. Their marriage pact!
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
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One-Page Un-Romantic Comedy
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageWet T-Shirts
Synopsis:
4 women have different reactions to their friend including them in a wet t-shirt contest while on vacation. But the contest turns out to be something different than the normal water-fest!
Notes:
Part of the evening of plays entitled "24 by One: An Evening of One-Page Plays," And in the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays." Is used As A scene in the film "Take the Bullet."
1st Produced:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater, Hollywood, CA 07 Dec 2010
Company:
Hollywood Fight Club Theater/Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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One-Page Comedy
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 5 Other: 0
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Top of PageWith Friends Like These. . .
Synopsis:
On the eve of a man's wedding, his two buddies talk to him about one of the buddies sleeping with the impending groom's mother, much to his dismay.
Notes:
Staged Reading. Is used As A scene in the film "Take the Bullet."
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA Sep 2002
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
- -
Music:
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Top of PageWolf Dreams
Synopsis:
A man visiting his psychiatrist appears to be having someone else's dreams. He tells the Dr. about "huffing and puffing and blowing" 2 houses down, because they are made of straw and wood, but can't seem to blow down the house made of brick.
Notes:
Staged Reading. Part of the compilation "32 By One: A Compilation of One-Page Plays."
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, James Whitmore Theater, North Hollywood, CA Jun 2002
Company:
Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
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Music:
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One-Page Comedy
Parts:
Male: 3 Female: 0 Other: 0
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Top of PageX-Mas with Slick and The Slab
Synopsis:
Two loveable losers eye women and joke about life while sitting on the beach at Christmas time. When two hot women sit next to them, they discuss plans to ask the women out, while the women discuss plans to not go out with losers like those guys. They all bond when they watch a parade of strange beachgoers and comment on their obvious problematic physical attributes.
Notes:
Written by Dana Vitatoe And Elias Stimac. Part of the "Christmas in L.A." evening of Holiday Plays.
1st Produced:
Whitmore/Lindley Theater Center, Audra Lindley Theater, North Hollywood, CA 18 Dec 1998
Company:
The Zeitgeist Theater Company
1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One-Act Christmas Comedy
Parts:
Male: 8 Female: 5 Other: 1
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Top of PageYakini, Warrior Queen of Nubia
Synopsis:
Queen Yakini of Ancient Nubia battles with assassins, her meddling mother-in-law, (the Queen Mother) the General of her armies (also her husband) and the invading Roman Legions of Caesar Augustus. Filled with doubts and fears, she must overcome her own foibles to defend her land against invaders from within and without. Set 5 years after Antony and Cleopatra's demise in Ancient Egypt, Nubia to the south and Rome, this Classical Tragedy blends fact and fiction together in a Shakespearean-like play for a mostly African cast.
Notes:
Table read At AFI. Written like A Shakespearean Tragedy in Five-Acts.
1st Produced:
American Film Institute, Hollywood, CA Apr 2011
Company:
Shipwrecked Productions
1st Published:
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Full-Length Classical Tragedy
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