Short Plays For Young Actors

A collection of fifteen short plays for young adults including works by Thornton Wilder, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and David French.

A collection of thirty-six plays by various authors. Includes full production notes.

Acting scenes for youth featuring clean language and family-friendly, real-life scenarios. Ideal for for stage and screen. A practical approach for training student actors that can be applied immediately in the home and classroom. Positive imagery, social relevance, and civic-mindedness are written into the scenes as subtext.

A collection of 16 plays, classic as well as contemporary, on a wide variety of themes of interest to young audiences and actors.

SOMETIMES YOU JUST GOTTA MAKE YOUR PLAY is a collection of 5 short plays for young performers. Each short play is about a person either choosing or being forced to move out of their comfort zone. In SHARON¿S PLAY, a young married couple finds a way to deal with the loss of their child - Drama ¿ Cast: 2f / 1m. In SOMETIMES YA JUST GOTTA MAKE YOUR PLAY, for the first time in his life a 16-year-old boy must ask a girl for a date -Comedy ¿ Cast: 4m. A 17-year-old boy has to stand up to a bully in ALL PART A GROWIN UP.- Drama - Cast: 6 teenagers - 1f / 5m. In LIFE IN THE HALLWAYS, a teenage girl has to deal with the loss of her best friend - Drama - Cast: 6 teenagers - 1f / 5m. Then, in CARRYING ON, a young man of 20 finds a way to escape an oppressive guardian - Comedy - Cast: 3f / 3m.

Group Scenes for Young Actors contains 32 three to six-person scenes with themes, characters and subject matter specifically tailored to performers age 7-14. Each scene contains emotional arcs and strong endings to challenge actors and keep audiences engaged, contemporary language that doesn't talk-down to kids, and gender-neutral characters to provide ultimate flexibility. These scenes are ideal as short performance pieces and for use in the classroom. Written by award-winning NYC playwright Jessica Penzias and publsihed by Beat by Beat Press, the world's #1 resource for high-quality theatre resources for young actors.

Four short plays for young actors Making Scenes 1 is an exciting selection of plays commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for the BT National Connections festival for young actors in 1995. Each play includes Production Notes, dealing with setting and staging, costume, lighting and casting. Also included are a set of questions and exercises for workshop classes.

Home of the most popular one-act plays for student actors, Playscripts, Inc. presents 15 of their very best short comedies. From a blind dating debacle to a silly Shakespeare spoof, from a fairy tale farce to a self-hating satire, this anthology contains hilarious large-cast plays that have delighted thousands of audiences around the world. Includes the plays The Audition by Don Zolidis, Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit by Jonathan Rand, 13 Ways to Screw Up Your College Interview by Ian McWethy, Darcy's Cinematic Life by Christa Crewdson, The Whole Shebang by Rich Orloff, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Fifth Period by Jason Pizzarello, Small World by Tracey Scott Wilson, The Absolute Most Cliched Elevator Play in the History of the Entire Universe by Werner Trieschmann, The Seussification of Romeo and Juliet by Peter Bloedel, Show and Spell by Julia Brownell, Cut by Ed Monk, Check Please by Jonathan Rand, Aliens vs. Cheerleaders by Qui Nguyen, The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon by Don Zolidis, 15 Reasons Not To Be in a Play by Alan Haehnel