One-Acts Scripts

This page collects the scripts for the one-acts we have produced in recent years. This way, you can get a feeling for what one-acts can be like -- but don't let them stifle your creativity: write what needs to be written, not what other people have needed to write in the past!

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2008 One-Acts

• Nil Combustibus Pro Fumo, by Cameron, Kuznetsov, and Quaney
• Punctuality, by Anna Waldman-Brown
• Keep Climbing, by Sally Peach
• Observer and Subject, by Alice Tao

2007 One-Acts

• Incendiary Evidence, by Rony Kubat G
  Directed by Emilie Slaby
• Vice Play, by Sally Peach
  Directed by Danbee Kim '09
• Square One, by Justine Spingler
  Directed by Usman Akeju '08
• Happily Ever After, by Shelly Manber '08
  Directed by Yuri Podpaly G

2006 One-Acts

• Roommates, by Hubert Pham
  directed by Ashley Micks '09
• Black Boxes, by Adam Love '07
  directed by John Glowa '07
• Seventy7, by Rony Kubat G and Emilie Slaby
  directed by Adam Love '07

2005 One-Acts

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• Outside Room 943, by Kayla Jacobs
  directed by Catherine Havasi '03
• The Barren Tender of a Poet's Debt, by Jonathan Reinharth
  directed by Ashley Micks '09
• [Untitled], by Usman Akeju directed by Jeff Klann '01
• The Cruelest Month, by Sunny Wong
  directed by Tess Diduch '06

2004 One-Acts

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• The Trouble with Dating an Artist, by Amy Fisher
  directed by Jonathan Wolfe
• On The Fritz, by Nancy Keuss and Aaron Tan
  directed by Betsy Eames
  assistant directed by Aaron Tan
• Arlo, by Whitney Erin Boesel
  directed by Jeff Klann

2003 One-Acts

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• If the Crazy Man is Right, by Amy Fisher
  directed by Kuuipo Curry
• Maxwell's Equation, by Nancy Keuss
  directed by Dimie Poweigha
• Tug of War, by Aaron Moronez
  directed by Whitney Erin Boesel

2002 One-Acts

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• Satellite, by Whitney Erin Boesel
  directed by David Roe
• One Down, by Dan Katz
  directed by Adam Glassman
• Spring, by Chen-Hsiang Yeang
  directed by Masha Kamenetska

2001 One-Acts

Archive page with a link to the Tech's review

• Crush, by C. Scott Ananian and Whitney Erin Boesel
  directed by Julia Zeitlinger
• Super Funtastic World, by Dan Katz
  directed by Brandy Evans
• Unfocused, by Anand Sarwate
  directed by Deb Lui and Jenn Miller
directed by Edmund Golaski

2000 One-Acts

Archive page with a link to the Tech's review

• The Reception, by Erin Lavik
  directed by Edmund Golaski
• A Head For Ganesh, by Anand Sarwate
  directed by Adam Glassman
• Playing to Win, by Damian Isla
  directed by Deb Lui

1999 One-Acts

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• No Soup on Sundays, by Whitney Erin Boesel
  directed by Jeff Klann
• Next, by C. Scott Ananian
  directed by Jeffrey Barrett
• Imprisoned, by Viengvilay Oudonesom
  directed by Teresa Hernandez

1998 One-Acts

Archive page with photos

• Tights, by Thomas Cork
  directed by Matthew Norwood
• Beat Furrer, by Eddie Kohler
  directed by Rony Kubat
• Rose Leaves, by Erin Lavik
  directed by Jacqueline Kirtley

1997 One-Acts

Archive page with photos and a link to the Tech's review

• Edgewordwise, by Anand Sarwate
  directed by Jeremy Butler
  
• Auditions, by Rob Marcato
  directed by Rony Kubat
  
• Triple Fable, by Eddie Kohler
  directed by Monica Gomi