Recommended by Steven G. Martin

  • Steven G. Martin: Wanderer

    A ghost story. A story of searching and longing. A bittersweet story. Is there anything more lost than a ghost searching for identity and family? This site-specific play will impact its audience thanks to Graff's skill at crafting characters in need.

    A ghost story. A story of searching and longing. A bittersweet story. Is there anything more lost than a ghost searching for identity and family? This site-specific play will impact its audience thanks to Graff's skill at crafting characters in need.

  • Steven G. Martin: Elvis Dry Humps Nixon

    A fever dream of a comedy that'll leave audiences wondering if they've really seen what just happened on stage. This short play is more than just its scenario, though, as Stubbles creates well-drawn characters at odds with one another, deft dialogue, and comic action.

    A fever dream of a comedy that'll leave audiences wondering if they've really seen what just happened on stage. This short play is more than just its scenario, though, as Stubbles creates well-drawn characters at odds with one another, deft dialogue, and comic action.

  • Steven G. Martin: KODACHROME

    Masterful. Szymkowicz has crafted beautiful vignettes about love, longing, loss, and the inability to communicate these emotions. The dialogue and characters are everyday, but our guide -- the Photographer -- pulls them into sharper, detailed focus so the audience understands them better. This play is heartfelt and humane.

    Masterful. Szymkowicz has crafted beautiful vignettes about love, longing, loss, and the inability to communicate these emotions. The dialogue and characters are everyday, but our guide -- the Photographer -- pulls them into sharper, detailed focus so the audience understands them better. This play is heartfelt and humane.

  • Steven G. Martin: Death of a Chocolate Bar on Good Friday

    This play offers life and death struggles of the funniest kind as a suicidal chocolate bar tries to end it all. If only all characters were as self-aware as Stubbles' Choco and Ice -- they literally know what they're made of, and what they want, in this short comic (and oddly romantic) play.

    This play offers life and death struggles of the funniest kind as a suicidal chocolate bar tries to end it all. If only all characters were as self-aware as Stubbles' Choco and Ice -- they literally know what they're made of, and what they want, in this short comic (and oddly romantic) play.

  • Steven G. Martin: Queen of the Dead

    Wilcox's solo piece offers several perspectives about the myth of Persephone traveling to the Underworld -- daughter's, mother's, lover's, and subjects'. As the performer transforms into the characters, Wilcox provides them tools -- properties that take on different meanings and movement. I really enjoyed the storytelling.

    Wilcox's solo piece offers several perspectives about the myth of Persephone traveling to the Underworld -- daughter's, mother's, lover's, and subjects'. As the performer transforms into the characters, Wilcox provides them tools -- properties that take on different meanings and movement. I really enjoyed the storytelling.

  • Steven G. Martin: BLACK HOLE!!! A One-Minute Play for Kids

    Science is so boring ... until it causes the destruction of the world in only a few moments. All of existence, including Mack trucks, is sucked into a black hole. Thanks, Switzerland. This one-minute play would be wonderfully chaotic and energetic on stage with so many opportunities for actors to shine physically and vocally.

    Science is so boring ... until it causes the destruction of the world in only a few moments. All of existence, including Mack trucks, is sucked into a black hole. Thanks, Switzerland. This one-minute play would be wonderfully chaotic and energetic on stage with so many opportunities for actors to shine physically and vocally.

  • Steven G. Martin: Gentri-Fried Chicken

    A satirical snapshot of insular, blinkered individuals who would dismiss any genuine environment or experience with a sneer and snide comment. Hovanesian's one-minute comedy will make audiences shake their collective heads in disbelief.

    A satirical snapshot of insular, blinkered individuals who would dismiss any genuine environment or experience with a sneer and snide comment. Hovanesian's one-minute comedy will make audiences shake their collective heads in disbelief.

  • Steven G. Martin: Gluttony & Lust Are Friends

    Everyone -- Deadly Sin and Cardinal Virtue included -- has their tipping point. It can feel that day-to-day existence has become a never-ending, tedious rut. Bravo to Weaver to carrying this theme to mythological proportions in this comedy.

    Everyone -- Deadly Sin and Cardinal Virtue included -- has their tipping point. It can feel that day-to-day existence has become a never-ending, tedious rut. Bravo to Weaver to carrying this theme to mythological proportions in this comedy.

  • Steven G. Martin: Everlasting Chocolate Therapy

    Hayet clearly loves and respects Roald Dahl's classic story, and this comedic full-length play is a wonderful nod to the original.

    Like Dahl, Hayet includes fantasy, silly humor and casual cruelty. Hayet also dramatizes life lessons, but the characters in this play sort things out for themselves and become more self-aware, rather than having lessons forced upon them.

    Also, it's a very funny script.

    Hayet clearly loves and respects Roald Dahl's classic story, and this comedic full-length play is a wonderful nod to the original.

    Like Dahl, Hayet includes fantasy, silly humor and casual cruelty. Hayet also dramatizes life lessons, but the characters in this play sort things out for themselves and become more self-aware, rather than having lessons forced upon them.

    Also, it's a very funny script.

  • Steven G. Martin: BBQ (a one-minute play)

    This is robust storytelling that uses minimal dialogue and trusts the audience to infer details. Weaver defines the brothers through their actions -- and there is quite a lot happening in this 1-minute play -- and then unlocks the backstory and the emotion with a single line of dialogue.

    This is robust storytelling that uses minimal dialogue and trusts the audience to infer details. Weaver defines the brothers through their actions -- and there is quite a lot happening in this 1-minute play -- and then unlocks the backstory and the emotion with a single line of dialogue.