Alyssa

2 Actors

• “Terraform” (10 min., 1 female-identifying actor in 20s, 1 male-identifying actorin 20s) – On a terraformed Mars, two coworkers wait to watch a large asteroid hit Earth and argue about the ethics of living on Mars.
  • Published in Chaotic Merge Magazine Issue 3 (1/2022)
• “Truant” (10 min., 1 female-identifying actor in 20s, 1 male-identifying actor in late 20s-30s) – In China, an American drama teacher and her boss butt heads regarding art and education versus profit.
• “Forcefields” (10 min., 1 male-identifying actor, 1 female-identifying actor) – CamBoi69, aka Cam, is the #1 player in a crystal-finding virtual reality game and has just one left to find–until his rival Sara steps on the scene and threatens his crown. However, he might just need her help to get past the forcefields.
• “Talking Ethics Before Ethics Class” (5 min., 2 actors any genderwho are college-age) – A Zoom play taking place at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, where two classmates argue over the ethics of hoarding toilet paper and food.
  • Available on the Zoom Plays database by Project Y Theatre
• “With a Whimper” (5 min., 2 actors any gender, any age) – Two lovers sit just before the end of the world and process that the end is near.
• “Like a Second Mother” (10 min., 1 young adult female-identifying actor, 1 middle-aged female-identifying actor) – A telephone/audio play about a growing rift between one niece and aunt regarding abuse in the family.
• “The Dimension Traveler” (10 min., 2 female-identifying actors in 20s) – A dimension traveler pays one last visit to a world that must end and meets the world’s caretaker.
• “Bloody Hope” (10 min., 1 female-identifying actor in late teens, 1 male-identifying actor 20s-30s) – In the apocalypse, surviving is more than just staying alive: it is getting past guilt too.
• “Another Beer” (10 min., 1 male-identifying actor in late teens, 1 male-identifying actor who is middle-aged) – A son feels he doesn’t live up to his father’s definition of manhood and decides to join the military, much to his father’s dismay.

3+ Actors

• “Savior” (10 min. version) – A amnesiac girl wakes up on a ship after being rescued at sea by a mysterious fisherman. Published in INK Magazine Volume 11 (fall 2016).
• “Red” (5-10 min.) – A queer reimagining of Little Red Riding Hood and how society defines “womanhood.” Published in The Translate Iowa Project’s Boundless volume 1 and also translated into Russian by Irina Kuznetsova (spring 2017).
• “You Too” (10 min.) – A short play and monologue about the proliferation of rape culture by victim-blaming. Published in the Translate Iowa Project’s Boundless volume 3 and also translated into Chinese by Lynn Wang (spring 2019).
• “The God Particle” (10 min.) – In the near future, two scientists experiment on a child to try and find God.
• “Twenty-Three Years Later” (5 min.) – A play remembering Boulder shooting victim Neven Stanisic, for Code Red Playwrights. Available to read on New Play Exchange.
• “297” (5 min.) – Inspired in part by the failed Bill 297 of Iowa, an attempted anti-abortion bill in 2017. An Iowa state senator bursts into an illegal abortion clinic looking for his wife.
• “Thanks for the Second Amendment” (10 min.) – While traveling around the UK, an American and a British person argue about mass shootings, American gun culture, and lack of empathy.
• “The Girls” (10 min.) – Three teenage girls open up at a sleepover at what gnaws at their souls.