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  1. Roleplay RE5000

    Roleplay

    Product Code: RE5000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 4m., 5w., 2 any gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 75 min.
    Devised by college students, inspired by real situations and written with humor, honesty and daring authenticity, Roleplay provides a window into the pressures facing college students today. The play follows a year in the life of a diverse group of college students and explores student perspectives on love, sex, power and consent. Roleplay offers a powerful new tool for addressing toxicity and sexual violence on college campuses. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  2. Searchers

    Searchers

    By Laurie Brooks.

    Product Code: S4H000

    • Drama
    • Middle School | High School | College | Community | TYA
    • 6m., 6w., 6 to 25 either gender.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 75 min.
    With humor, conflict and theatricality, a chapter in the lives of three teens unfolds. Sammie’s parents are divorcing. Ben has been in a traumatic car accident that left his mother disabled. And loner Isaac longs to be part of a crowd that secretly makes fun of him. All three characters search for answers as a friendship between them grows. An optional interactive forum between the characters and the audience offers a bonding experience, brainstorming possible solutions to the issues presented in the play. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  3. Twilight Bowl Cover TW2000

    Twilight Bowl

    By Rebecca Gilman.

    Product Code: TW2000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 6w.

      Limited Streaming Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    After graduating from a small Wisconsin high school, Sam heads to college on a bowling scholarship—but her cousin Jaycee’s future isn’t looking as bright. As the young women and their friends face adulthood, their local bowling alley becomes a place to celebrate triumphs, confront challenges and forge new identities. Twilight Bowl questions the blueprint for a successful life and embraces the unknown on the road ahead. Learn More
    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $110/perf

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  4. Treehouse Cover TV6000

    Treehouse

    By Joe Musso.

    Product Code: TV6000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 3w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 85 min.
    Johnny could be a typical 17-year-old boy, hanging out in his treehouse and dreaming of talking to the beautiful Alana, were it not for his insistence that he has the mind of a 53-year-old. As Johnny persists in his claim that he’s an old man in a teenager’s body and conversations in the treehouse become increasingly peppered by the words of the Bard, Johnny grapples simultaneously with adolescence, love and the mind’s ability to heal from great loss. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  5. Aubrey Cover AM6000

    Aubrey

    By Joe Musso.

    Product Code: AM6000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 1m., 1w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Haunted by her role in her lover’s drug overdose death, Aubrey Gagnier, a heroin addict, seeks out Ivan Stillman, a gravedigger and coffin maker. Aubrey believes Ivan can speak with the dead, which he denies. Regardless of his denial, Aubrey implores Ivan to speak with her deceased lover. After Aubrey’s addiction creates chaos in Ivan’s orderly world, Ivan reveals his tragic past. They soon become each other’s best hope not just to survive, but to live. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  6. Dead and Buried

    Dead and Buried

    By James McLindon.

    Product Code: DG9000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 1m., 2w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    Perdue gets a job at the local graveyard, claiming to live with her aunt while searching for her missing mother. But her story begins to fall apart. She is actually living in the homeless shelter; her mother died shortly before she arrived and is buried in the cemetery. Perdue confides that she doesn’t remember her mother’s face and hopes that a photo will prove that she is the woman in Perdue’s oldest memory. But there are no photos, and Perdue must decide how far she’ll go to learn the truth about her mother. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  7. Reunion

    Reunion

    By Gregory S. Moss.

    Product Code: RD6000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • Community | Professional
    • 3m.
    • 110 min.
    Twenty-five years ago, Mitch, Peter and Max were best friends. After a harrowing graduation night, they grew up and grew apart. But tonight is their 25th high-school reunion, and the gang is back together to celebrate and recreate the wildness of their teenage years with a night of exhilarating intoxication and risky behavior. A darkly comic drama, Reunion explores the risks and pleasures of revisiting the past, examines the precariousness of male identity and reveals the fraught and dangerous aspects of male bonding. Learn More
    $10.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  8. The May Queen

    The May Queen

    By Molly Smith Metzler.

    Product Code: MR1000

    • Comedy
    • High School | College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 3w.

      Limited Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 90 min.
    For Jen Nash, being crowned the May Queen of Kingston High School was traumatizing, and she left her hometown shortly thereafter. When she returns under mysterious circumstances 15 years later, Jen takes a temp job at a discount insurance company, and gossip spreads. In this fun, dark and surprising office comedy, Jen fights to be released from the prison of her small town's expectations, abdicate the throne and disclose once and for all who she really is. Learn More
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  9. Qualities of Starlight

    Qualities of Starlight

    By Gabriel Jason Dean.

    Product Code: QHD000

    • Comedy | Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 2m., 2w.

      Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

    • 130 min.
    Theo Turner’s universe explodes when he and his wife travel to the Appalachian South to visit his parents with news of an impending adoption, only to discover that his aging parents are now meth addicts. This award-winning twisted comedy is about the expansion of the universe and the contraction of a troubled family. Learn More
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    Min. Royalty Rate: $90/perf

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  10. Luna Gale

    Luna Gale

    By Rebecca Gilman.

    Product Code: LK9000

    • Drama
    • College | Community | Professional
    • 3m., 4w.

      Limited Livestream Rights Available

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    • 110 min.

    In this heartbreaking and unforgettable tale of love and betrayal, a veteran social worker thinks she has a typical case on her hands when she meets two teenage drug addicts accused of neglecting their baby. But when she places their infant daughter in the care of Karlie's mother, Caroline sparks a family conflict that exposes a shadowy, secretive past—and forces her to make a risky decision with potentially disastrous consequences.

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    $11.95 /script

    Min. Royalty Rate: $120/perf

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