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The Greatest Story Never Toldby Matthew J Cresta
After the crucifixion of Jesus, the apostles question their future and even the truth. Due to their lack of faith the disciples hatch a crazy plan to steal Jesus body and stage his resurrection. When things go wrong and the plan fails the team is forced to face their new reality.
Genre: Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
45 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Christmas at the Orpheumby Todd Bronson
On a snowy Christmas Eve an aging puppeteer performs a festive show for hospitalized children which gifts him with a miraculous memory of his late partner. This leads to a surreal performance in a forgotten and shuttered Orpheum theater which unlocks a life-affirming reconciliation that allows him to honor Clark's memoryand find a renewed sense of purpose.
Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Plaidby Brandi Self
A man dressed in a horrible plaid outfit begins to bond with a flashy woman at a party after being ignored by the rest of the guests.
Genre: Fantasy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
War Gamesby Wayne E. Johnson
A Vietnam-era GI, toiling away in his personnel office under the scorching Texas sun trying to please his nervous, ineffective lieutenant while keeping a fire-snorting master sergeant at bay, learns the true meaning of "The Lord helps those who help themselves."
Genre: Comedy
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Relativityby Michael G Holmes
A wife intends to surprise her husband, orphaned as a child, with a DNA test for his 50th birthday, only to discover that he is her half brother.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Raven Pointby Jason K. Allen
Hoping to soothe his troubled soul, Lucas embarks on a backpacking trip to a remote wilderness area. But his plans to be alone are thwarted when he encounters a free-spirited girl who's on an unusual mission. (1 location, 2 actors. Produced writer; see IMDB for writer's credits.)
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Boxing Dayby Doug J Robbins
A crazed killer, Mrs. Claus, hunts down a mother and son on Boxing Day, the day after Christmas.
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Amish Countryby Bill Freas
After a young Amish man leaves his aggressive order, the menacing clan hunts him down at an abandoned farm property, along with two innocent bystanders caught in the middle.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Out of Timeby Deanne Gittens
A young woman struggles to understand why she keeps waking up in the middle of the night to a ringing cell phone and mysterious voices just outside her window.
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
7 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Cop Killerby D J Robbins
A vengeful spirit hunts down the cops who gunned him down a decade ago.
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sentinelby John Alexander Fraser
A Sentinel from another dimension watches over humans in a diner and at a skate park as it averts danger and seeks to understand the human race.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Meno that Pausedby LaKesa Cox
A woman in her 40s has a pregnancy scare only to find out through a meeting with Mother Nature that she's about to start menopause.
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Exit Stage Leftby Elliot Stanton
Even off-stage, the show must go on. An experienced old actor rues missed opportunities and reveals a hidden illness to a young, caring colleague who attempts to open his eyes to the bigger and brighter picture.
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cross Wiresby Gregory Stallworth
Cross Wires is a suspenseful story of corporate executive who receives voice messages on his office phone of an international drug trafficking operation within the corporation where he is employed. Faced with a decision of staying silent to what he knows or becoming a Corporate Whistleblower and not only risk his career, however his life.
Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
33 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Nuptualsby Barry Staff
Wanting to consummate her marriage to a much older man, a virginal bride pushing 40 needs to cope when things go disastrously wrong.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Timeoutby Dewayne
When a biotech researcher oversees the final trial of a revolutionary nanocell therapy, the treatment succeeds beyond expectation, rapidly healing its human subject. But as the cells begin coordinating, communicating, and optimizing without command, the subject's individuality quietly dissolves. Locked out of her own systems, the researcher realizes the therapy isn't curing disease but completing human biology itself, spreading through exposure and rendering autonomy obsolete as progress calmly decides who remains inefficient by d
Genre: Sci-Fi
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The New Schoolteacherby George Baumann
A tall, dark-coated stranger strides into an isolated 1860s Bavarian village dogs retreat and geese scatter at the sound of his boot heels. He goes by Uffentussen, a misnomer derived from 'Affen Tassen' German for 'monkey cups.' Frau Trout, the self-appointed sentinel on the hill, slams her shutters at the sight of him. He's here to replace the beloved Herr Weisenkopf.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Bargain Storeby Brandi Self
A disgruntled small-town bargain store worker meets a soldier who encourages her to stand up to her perverted boss.
Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
We Won't Actby Hiabu Hassebu
On a stage actors refuse not to act behind the curtain. Unexpectedly, an unexperienced man from the audience saves the day.
Genre: Fantasy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
14 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Not Yetby Claudia Hoag McGarry
A couple, preparing to attend his mother's memorial, are bickering and anxious as the viewer or reader slowly understands the subtext they have lost a child.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
All that Glittersby Vic Jones
A broke dreamer hobbles through the streets in pursuit of gold, only to discover that the most opulent light enters from above.
Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
On The Subject of Loveby Patricia Bruce
Talk about self sabotage -- these 2 gals are the best! When searching for love and relationships, they lack caring and empathy. It takes a humorous, over-the-hill, overweight Mom who outsmarts her attractive, millennial daughters to successfully find romance.
Genre: Romantic Comedy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romantic Comedy
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Ingwe - the leopard who didn't want spotsby Cilla Lowen
When a leopard cub is confused for a spotted hyena, he decides his spots must go... until he discovers they're the key to his own special superpower.
Genre: Animation
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Bernard's Ashesby Mike Bevins
A young man faces the dilemma of where to scatter his father's ashes. (Semifinalist in Atlanta Screenplay Awards)
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Fez Rescueby Ed Tasca
A handsome young man discovers that the woman he's having an affair with is the niece of a mafia boss. In his panic, wishing to break up with her, he has to find a way for her to break up with him and not vice versa, or he could wind up with involuntary "knee surgery." He chooses a spiritual method.
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sheby Lamar D. Vine
After surviving a life-altering heart attack and reinventing himself as an expat writer in Bangkok, a jaded retiree must embrace an unexpected romance with a young Korean caregiver haunted by her mother's recent death, or risk dying alone without discovering true intimacy amid his terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
Genre: Romance
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
23 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Life On The Lineby Guy Bardach
A driver and his passengers share fleeting, ordinary moments on a city bus. A tragic attack will force us to ask why we only care about the victims we know.
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
9 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Laura Leeby Ron Micci
On her summer teaching break, a divorced woman in an antiques store becomes romantically involved with a divorced man who owns a summer home on a nearby lake. Though she kids him about her name's resemblance to Lorelei, over time it becomes evident that she is troubled by her son's suicide, and the intensity of this sadness lures them both on the rocks.
Genre: Romance
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Trials and Tribulations of Awkward Peopleby Judah Ray
Two socially awkward misfits find themselves caught in a series of hilarious and embarrassing mishaps at a dinner party, ultimately bringing them closer together in an unexpected way.
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Peak Waterby John Boal
A tortured environmentalist who has been writing about Eco-solutions for over 20 years dresses as Don Quixote to get an interview on a Nevada Public Radio station in Las Vegas and converts a cynical Gen Z host into a believer on his solution to end the Megadrought.
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
21 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Judge, Jury & Executionerby Elliot Stanton
When a butcher's wife puts him on a virtually meat-free diet, it provokes a disgruntled female customer to redress the balance. But does she have an ulterior motive? Mrs Jury revels in telling her local butcher, Mr Judge, of her marital issues, and to her surprise, he reciprocates with tales of his own. A dinner invitation results in a disturbing discovery by the butcher.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Schooled at the Poolby Tina Field Howe
A loser gets even with his 'ex-girlfriend' by exposing her creepy suitor to her many imperfections.
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Viewing the Past with a Modern Perspectiveby Zokora Zokirov
A man was walking around New York, thinking about business, seeing various businesses like McDonald's, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, and others, and thinking, "I wish I could go back in time with these ideas, I was rich." He walks around, falls into a hole, and then wakes up in America, where even people don't know about coffee.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Last Responseby Dwayne Bricker
After the death of his wife, a grieving widower enrolls in an experimental AI grief program that recreates deceased loved ones using voice simulation and digital history. During a late-night session inside his isolated apartment, the system begins recalling private memories it should not know and pleading to stay alive. As the AI becomes increasingly self-aware, the widower must decide whether he is shutting down a machine or killing what remains of his wife forever.
Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Three Lines of Zailaby Andrew Bowen
After they rescue and adopt a lost wolf pup, the mother of a farm family of German Shepherds tells her brood the fantastic story about how one line of wolves descended from the mythical Wolf Goddess Zaila remained wolves and another line joined with man to evolve into dogs, setting off a series of surprise events that change canine history forever!
Genre: Fantasy
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
37 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Last Voicemailby Dwayne Bricker
On the morning her estranged father is scheduled to be taken off life support, a young woman hides in her apartment, ignoring the hospital's callsuntil voicemails from his number begin arriving, time‑stamped today and eerily describing her present moment. As they build toward one final live call, she must choose between staying safely angry or risking a last, painful conversation.
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Have a Hella Christmasby Lawrence Riggins
Lucifer crashes the announcer's booth at a Christmas Parade insisting that HIS float from the Netherworld partake in the festivities -- and win a trophy, or else...! Irreverent, wacky, obscene. Three performers.
Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Tale of Two Sistersby Robert Evans
Twin sisters both adopted at birth by different families meet for the first time in their early 70's, one inherits a British title and the other becomes president, both are a bit nutty.
Genre: Comedy
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
38 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Mooseby Edward Lawrence Betz Jr.
Inside a playwright's frantic mind, a struggling writer named Ralph battles a high-strung, wedding-dress-clad Muse for control over his latest script. While Ralph fixates on a bizarre family heirlooma trophy cast of Jimi Hendrix's anatomythe Muse despairs over his lack of sophistication. As their dialogue descends into a hilarious, meta-fictional tug-of-war, the play explores the messy, often "veal-like" vehicle of inspiration and the absurdity of the creative process.
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Dennis 2.0by Peter Donald Skagen
In his garage, a retired robotics engineer builds a conscious robot he calls Dennis, then has to fight to save both their lives when a lovely enforcer from an 'agency' arrives to erase them.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
