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Meby  John Armond
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A burned-out young man sent to a retreat to "reset his mind" begins to unravel when fellow patients vanish, forcing him into a chilling confrontation with his own darker self.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
27 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Poet Dancerby  Steven Burton
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A female choreographer observes a male stranger with a walking disability and then discovers his musical talent which leads to mutual inspiration.

Genre: Artistic
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Boxing Dayby  Doug J Robbins
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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
Dennisby  Doug J Robbins
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A ventriloquist dummy named Dennis enslaves its owner and the owner's daughter, and next tries to enslave the grandson as well.

Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Norman: The Dog Who Didn't Mean Toby  Paul Millward
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A scruffy terrier's misadventures lead him from the pound to an unlikely home with a gentle giant, told with warmth, humour, and a dog's-eye view. (Multi-Award Winner)

Genre: Animation
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Heads Upby  Elliot Stanton
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While waiting to be interviewed for the top job outside the outgoing headmaster's office, an arrogant traditionalist confidently belittles his rival for the jobonly to discover that the calm woman he's dismissed holds a far more powerful advantage than he ever imagined.

Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Mediterraneanby  Kenneth M. Kielty
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The Mediterranean is a script in the Bar Whores Trilogy. Set in NYC, a middle level mafia guy stops into an Italian restaurant in the late evening for a drink. The bar is empty except for a bar tender and a beautiful young woman. He falls for her immediately. Her life story is intriguing, but is she real?

Genre: Romantic Comedy
24 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Sweet Loveby  Pablo Cesar Mendez
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Lovers meet, spiraling up and down a relationship pulled for drugs; in a nightmare, what is real, and what is not sinking down their passion through unknown blind alleys .

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
War Scarlettby  Niagara Ross
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After returning from the war, Scarlett tries to start a new life, but the accidental killing of a drunken bully in a bar sets off a chain of events that forces her to become a soldier again-this time in her own country.

Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Who Are Youby  Bohdan Irytsiuk
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After a successful man suffers a devastating loss, his reality begins to fracture, forcing him to question his identity and whether the life he's living still belongs to him.

Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hollywood or Bustby  Iris Mangual
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After the death of her husband, a sharp-tongued, seventy-year-old widow ditches her overbearing kids and drives cross-country to Hollywood in a convertible-determined to finally become a star, armed with nothing but sass, stubbornness, and a suitcase full of dreams.

Genre: Comedy
25 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tammy In Hellby  Apostolos Kouroumalis
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Cheerleader saves small town USA after being bitten by Cerberus after a hazing goes awry and Hell on Earth is let loose.

Genre: Other
30 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Alien Dreamby  Steven Burton
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A teenage girl has a dream about instantly becoming a teenage boy caused by an accidental Alien invasion.

Genre: Sci-Fi
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Legacyby  Jeffrey Stackhouse
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A young black priest takes a life-changing opportunity at a convent dating back to the birth of New Orleans and discovers secrets that shake his sanity as much as his faith. -- WINNER Best Short Screenplay

Genre: Horror
28 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Voicemailby  Dewayne
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After losing his daughter, a withdrawn father survives by repeatedly calling her phone just to hear her voicemails. When an unheard message reveals her quiet faith and plea for him to keep living, he must confront his grief and his distance from God. The Voicemail I Can't Delete is an intimate, faith-based drama about loss, surrender, and the courage to step back into life without letting love disappear.

Genre: Drama
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Tapeby  Bari K. Willerford
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A young female gymnast and a tough as nails football player sit at a sports table waiting to get tapped. What do they have in common?

Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Something in the Waterby  Brandon Rhiness
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When a group of hungover friends wakes up to a city-wide emergency alert warning of contaminated water, they must survive a descent into animalistic madness as the thirst for water turns into a hunger for flesh.

Genre: Horror
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Two Minutes Till Midnightby  Dwayne Bricker
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When a hard‑driving paramedic is thrown into a two‑minute time loop before a deadly gas explosion in a crumbling apartment building, she keeps dying and snapping back to the same moment in her ambulance. Each reset reveals a leaking basement line, a panicked tenant with a faulty light switch, and a trapped teen upstairs, forcing her to make one brutal, strategic sacrifice to break the loop and save the most lives.

Genre: Sci-Fi
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
I Have Seen the Future (It is Murder)by  Ron Brawer
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In the dinosaur era, an alien space ship refrains from destroying Earth to give the planet an opportunity to evolve. A day later -- thousands of years in Earth time -- they return to find "the ills that flesh is heir to": wars, mass murder, rape, plagues, ecological disasters... a good time to pull the plug.

Genre: Sci-Fi
7 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Disc Golf Warriorsby  Curtis D. Engle
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Cast aside by society and united only by disc golf, a group of retirees is shaken when terrorists disrupt their weekly ritual. Over the course of a single afternoon, an evangelist's unyielding faith forces each of them to confront past failures, present fear, and whether redemption comes from restraint. or decisive violence.

Genre: Action/Adventure
32 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Telltale Snoreby  Gregory George Sarno
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Dark comedy inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"; wife, driven mad by her husband's vociferous snoring, resorts to desperate measures to cure her sleeplessness.

Genre: Comedy
22 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Firewoodby  Gary A. Edwards
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FIREWOOD - is a comedic short play small cast about an entertainer who gets fired twice from an ageist, racist, homophobic theme park run by a tyrannical, paranoid boss with a Napoleonic complex who makes money exploiting young girls and boys aspiring to be actors.

Genre: Comedy
15 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Pale Maleby  Robert M. Tartell
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A young couple's Central Park Airbnb vacation turns into a real nightmare on their first trip to The Big Apple.

Genre: Comedy
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Doppelgangerby  John M Grace
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A chance subway encounter with the twin of a woman from his past turns a brief commute into an emotional reckoning.

Genre: Romance
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Solitude in Well-beingby  Daniel Gaina
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When an old colleague forces a grieving, agoraphobic physicist out of his automated smart-home, he discovers too late that the outside world he feared has already ended.

Genre: Sci-Fi
14 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
The Passionby  Susan Pattishall
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Jean Smitty, an American teacher in socialist China, whose perspective is shaped by her prior reading of a Korean War era memoir by a priest expelled for teaching Christianity, invites her student Zhi Chang to share his essaya poignant, layered account of losing his beloved Meilin Hao to the Red Chinese Youth Party, and the brutal aftermath.

Genre: Other
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The California Lifeby  Arianna Zufelt
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When a young girl is kidnapped by a serial killer, a rookie detective must race against time to find her before she becomes his next victim. When the rookie detective finally finds the young girl. He called her parents that he has her in the police station safe and sound and ready to go home now. 20 years later the girl moved to California and got a job. And she lived her life there.

Genre: Animation
9 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Macyby  Larry E. Coleman
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A little girl channels the spirit of a murdered woman to exact revenge on the person who killed her.

Genre: Horror
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Scarecrowby  Doug J Robbins
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Trick or treaters think a scarecrow is just a Halloween Decoration, until they find out that its machete really can cut 'em up.

Genre: Horror
1 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Scarecrowby  Doug J Robbins
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Margo cheats on her boyfriend and meets a grizzly demise at the hands of a fake version of the scarecrow killer, but her killers meet the real scarecrow killer, and all hell breaks loose.

Genre: Horror
4 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Trash Dayby  Rodney A Myers
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Love Stinks, especially when you find it on Trash Day.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Seat of Deathby  Andrew McGivern
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After narrowly escaping execution at the hands of ISIS, a teenage boy struggles to move on with life in a war-torn environment of terror and continued mortal danger.

Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Cut Baitby  Michael Dean Meyers
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Stinging from betrayal, a fiery young woman pursues gruesome punishment for a cocky young man and his wimpy buddy after she discovers he's shared an intimate photo of her on his group chat. Hell hath no fury, and friendship hath no boundary.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Creepby  Glenn Forbes
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Exhausted after moving into her new home, a young woman's evening bath arouses a supernatural spirit with pesky carnal thoughts.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Blue Moon Over Corriganvilleby  Mark Laing
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A group of rockabillies, convinced by an aging barfly to take him to an old movie ranch to reunite with his childhood love, find themselves on a magical journey.

Genre: Fantasy
30 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Frequencyby  KS PUNITHAKUMAR
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After buying his dream car, a struggling wedding photographer is haunted by a mysterious radio that forces him to obey terrifying supernatural commands, uncovering a deadly curse where every photograph brings him closer to becoming its next victim.

Genre: Horror
45 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Symbols of a Lifeby  Rochelle Potkar
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Three people come to terms with the aftermath of a plane crash: an embittered MOTHER who wasn't happy with her son and his family and wanted to leave them; a competent ATC OFFICER who undergoes gruelling interrogations; and a FISHERMAN in whose waters the plane fell.

Genre: Drama
25 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Let The Lights Go Outby  Bobbie Burgess-Tatum
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A family's secret is about to be unlocked and it just may end the world.

Genre: Horror
15 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Terrible Tillyby  Frank J Dellipoala
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When three friends trespass on a legendary abandoned lighthouse, "Terrible Tilly," they uncover a cargo of genetically modified "Asian Murder Hornets" intended to cripple the nation's food supply. With a tsunami closing in and the swarm released, they must survive the night to sound the alarm.

Genre: Action/Adventure
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Wellness Checkby  Dwayne Bricker
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When Maya receives a late-night text from her mother warning, "Don't let him in," a calm police officer knocks seconds later, claiming he's there for a wellness check. Trapped alone in her apartment, Maya must decide whether the man outside her door is a real cop, a predator using authority as camouflage, or something far worse before politeness, fear, and one thin door become the only things keeping him out.

Genre: Suspense/Thriller
19 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
 
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