One-Act Plays

Antigone: 3021

Large, flexible cast. Antigone: 3021 is a virtual friendly, futuristic retelling of Sophocles’s tragedy Antigone where the Greek chorus has been transformed into a talk show/news program and the characters communicate via virtual projection

Also available as a full-length.

CLEAN

CLEAN's New York premiere at Looking Glass Theatre's Winter 2010 Writer/Director Forum. Directed by Laura Hirschberg. James Bascomb (Pastor Tom), Erin Neufer (Donna) and Taylor Miller (Harvey) pictured. (Photo: Yoleidy Rosario.)
CLEAN’s New York premiere at Looking Glass Theatre’s Winter 2010 Writer/Director Forum. Directed by Laura Hirschberg. James Bascomb (Pastor Tom), Erin Neufer (Donna) and Taylor Miller (Harvey) pictured. (Photo: Yoleidy Rosario.)

Drama Cast:1 Female, 2 Males Running Time: Approx. 30 min. Harvey and Donna, two recovering alcoholics, surprise each other in a church basement late one night.

Crash Bound

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Originally Produced at The Vital Theatre Company, Vital Signs: A Festival of New Works, May-June 2002 in NYC Pictured: Sarah K Lippmann (Woman), Michael Onorato (Man), Dir. Julie Blumenthal

(written as Nina Waluschka)
Comedy, Cast: 2 females, 2 males Running Time: 40 min.
Love, math and paranoia collide at 30,000 feet. An actress and a statistician find themselves on Flight 214 to Los Angeles via Detroit. Their personalities collide as the pilot quotes Chekhov and the flight attendant insists that she is a seagull.

No Epilogue

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(written as Nina Waluschka)
Drama, Cast: 1 female, 1 male. Running Time: 40 min.
Mike, a struggling poet and cab driver, and Steph, the girl who loves him,debate the causes of a mysterious suicide early one morning on the Brooklyn Bridge.

The Tea Exercise

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Premiere production of THE TEA EXERCISE. at Silver Spring Stage’s 2008 One-Act Festival. Nora Achrati (A) & Megan Rippey (B (dir. Rick Starkweather.)

Drama, Cast: 2 females. Running Time: 20 min. A short drama, which deals with the trials and tribulations of two aspiring actresses. It is an attempt to illustrate everything there is to love, and everything there is to hate about life in the theatre. To request a script or performance rights, please send an email to nina[at]ninamansfield[dot]com.

Pedestrian Casualty: Bronx, USA

PEDESTRIAN CASUALTY: BRONX, USA @ 20% Theatre Co. Twin Cities. Dir: Linsey Cacich. W/ Sarah Broude, Darrail Hughes, Indirahn Egan, Indira Addington, John Egan, Kathryn Fumie, Valarie Falken, Ernest Briggs & Aaron Konigsmark. (photo Megan Engeseth.)
PEDESTRIAN CASUALTY: BRONX, USA @ 20% Theatre Co. Twin Cities. Dir: Linsey Cacich. W/ Sarah Broude, Darrail Hughes, Indirahn Egan, Indira Addington, John Egan, Kathryn Fumie, Valarie Falken, Ernest Briggs & Aaron Konigsmark. (photo Megan Engeseth.)

Drama, Cast: 2 females, 1 male, 5 either. Running Time: 20 min. The events surrounding a tragic accident, in which a teacher accidentally kills a student, are juxtaposed with radio reports of local and global events. The play brings to light some of the issues that are prevalent in urban education. To request a script or performance rights, please send an email to nina[at]ninamansfield[dot]com.