About the Plays:

Some great pieces for scene work or performance.

The acclaimed Samuel French Off Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival in Manhattan (commonly referred to as OOB) is America's leading short play festival. The annual OOB Festival originated in 1975 and has since attracted US and international short plays that may be up to 15 pages in length from countries like Canada, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.

Off Off Broadway Festival Plays, 38th Series is a collection of short plays selected by a panel of judges that included New York playwrights, artistic directors, and industry leaders as the most important plays of the 38th OOB Festival. Winning authors include: Mark Swaner, Lisa Kenner, Ross Howard, Mira Gibson, Thomas M. Atkinson, and Arlitia Jones.

Reality Play by Mark Swaner
An actor explores and questions the authenticity of reality television by appropriating its essential elements in the form of a "play." (Cast: 2 women, 2 men).

Tattoo You by Lisa Kenner
When two women from the same town, yet with very different backgrounds, re-connect in the bathroom at their 20th high school reunion, their troubled past breaks the cool veneer of the present. Some scars don't fade away. (Cast: 2 women).

Frisky & The Panda Man by Ross Howard
This is a big interview. A big deal. The End. Animal conservationist Dr. Ogden has spent most of his life pandering to pandas. But lately they've been dropping like flies and now there's just one panda left. Her name is Frisky and really she's been nothing of the sort, which has always secretly suited Dr. Ogden. Motivation and crimes of passion are revealed in this interrogation of lost love, a lost world and the case of the last panda. (Cast: 3 women, 3 men).

Old Flame by Mira Gibson
When a woman runs into her ex-boyfriend in a grocery store, life collides with what really matters. (Cast: 2 women, 2 men).

Dancing Turtle by Thomas M. Atkinson
Dancing Turtle invites the audience into the inner life of a girl – damaged at birth – that is both painful and glorious, as she navigates the first longings of adulthood during a Native American stomp dance at a local Appalachian Festival. (Cast: 3 women, 1 man).

Tornado by Arlitia Jones
Hoping to pick a good team, a man tries to buy his son his first football uniform. (Cast: 2 men).