About the Play:

Theater Masters is dedicated to nurturing, developing, and producing the work of the next generation of American playwrights on a national scale. Each year, Theater Masters hosts a national 10-minute playwriting competition among the MFA students at the top MFA Playwriting programs across the country.

This collection of stellar 10-minute plays, Theater Masters' Take Ten Vol. 5, is comprised of the following plays:

B-Storm is a ten-minute play by Ava Geyer: Sex sells. Even when you're selling chocolate syrup to little kids, unfortunately. New York ad execs are forced to confront past wounds and current crises when their new campaign hits a little stickily close to home. (Cast: 1 female, 2 male)

Open Venas is a ten-minute play by Exal Iraheta: In this comedic clash of cultures and generations, only-child Amelia must combat her meddling mother and grandmother when they invade her honeymoon to guarantee that she fulfills her “responsibility” to carry on the bloodline. (Cast: 3 female)

My Yellow Is Yours, Your Red Is Mine is a ten-minute play by Keyanna Khatiblou: Two Iranian-American sisters attempt to celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, for the first time since their family immigrated to the U.S. (Cast: 1 female, 1 male)

Suckers is a ten-minute play by SP O'Brien: Vacation has ended. All the children are back to school. These three elementary school teachers need a cigarette. Kill Me. (Cast: 3 female)

Will Be Live is a ten-minute play by Micah Ariel Watson: Imani, Clara and Mia bask fully in their womanhood after a party. But in an instant, joyful reminiscence becomes a plea for the value of Black lives.

Not Only Is Everyone As Wonderful is a ten-minute play by Celeste Yim: In a near-future department store where any purchase is a voice-automated command away, a young adult going through a breakup is opened to the opportunity of finding love again by the possibility of a shiny new crush. (Cast: 4 female, 1 male)