Pandemic Pancake
by Lindsay Price
How will you respond to this evolving new world?
- About 35 minutes
- 34 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Play Scripts for Schools featuring SEL
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is a construct intended to provide students with the skills to confront challenges, build resilience and demonstrate empathy for others. These plays are great to use with your students to introduce SEL or deepen their understanding and awareness.
Paper Thin
by Lindsay Price
An upwardly mobile couple creates a Tuesday night diversion.
- About 10 minutes
- 1 M + 1 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Passing Period Purgatory
by Christian Kiley
Sometimes the hardest part of school is getting from one class to the next.
- About 25 minutes
- 15 Any Gender + 1 Non-Binary
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 26 pages
Patience Chose A Party
by Lindsay Price
A sharp, comedic glimpse into the chaos of high school life, where every choice feels like the end of the world—but might just be the start of self-discovery.
- About 35 minutes
- 5 M + 6 F + 10 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 31 pages
The Pauper Princess
by Holly Beardsley inspired by Mark Twain
A retelling of Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper.
- About 75 minutes
- 10 M + 28 F + 34 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 71 pages
Pay Phone
by Bradley Hayward
When a teenager loses his cell phone, he has no choice but to use... a pay phone.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 M + 1 F + 1 Any Gender
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
Power Play
by Lindsay Price
The realities and the stereotypes of school violence. Not just the school shooting, but harassment and bullying. Violence is about power. So is high school.
- About 55 minutes
- 2 M + 3 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 38 pages
Pressure
by Lindsay Price
Four teenagers struggle with pressures. The Refugee, the newbie, the perfectionist and the less than perfect. Everything comes to a head the week before prom.
- About 45 minutes
- 4 M + 10 F, Plus Ensemble
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 35 pages
Pressure: Competition Version
by Lindsay Price
Intersecting stories reveal teens under relentless pressure to achieve, belong, and be perfect, while they are still figuring out who they are and what it means to feel safe and seen.
- About 35 minutes
- 4 M + 8 F + 2 Any Gender, Plus Mob
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 29 pages
Pretty Girl Plain Girl
by Lindsay Price
Tara tries to convince her best friend not to enter a beauty pageant.
- About 10 minutes
- 2 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
Puzzle Pieces
by Krista Boehnert
An exploration of teen issues through a series of monologues. The characters speak frankly about their fears, their futures, and their day to day life.
- About 45 minutes
- 1 F + 4 Any Gender, Optional Ensemble
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 20 pages
Puzzle Pieces: Competition Version
by Krista Boehnert
A group of teens piece together who they are and who they are becoming, revealing their fears, dreams, and defining moments through raw, interconnected monologues.
- About 35 minutes
- 1 F + 4 Any Gender, Plus Optional Ensemble
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 19 pages
Quippage
by Lindsay Price
A boy and girl trying to date try to fill the spaces in conversation.
- About 10 minutes
- 1 M + 1 F
- Simple Set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
A Recipe of Me
by Kate Kilpatrick
Heartfelt stories about a family told through recipes.
- About 30 minutes
- 3 M + 7 F + 9 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for Middle Schools
- 23 pages
Red Rover
by Christian Kiley
A young girl is pulled out of her history class to go to the hospital where she discovers she has cancer. She befriends Lucy (who is chemotherapy personified) and she and Lucy prepare to take the disease.
- About 20 minutes
- 1 M + 3 F + 12 Any Gender, Doubling Possible
- Recommended for High Schools
Red Tee
by Lindsay Price
It’s time for role call. Who are you?
- About 35 minutes
- 1 M + 5 F + 6 Any Gender + 1 M or F + 1 Trans Man + 1 Non-Binary, Expandable to 29
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
- 35 pages
The Redemption of Gertie Greene
by Taryn Temple
Is Gertie really what everyone calls her: a freak, strange, stupid, clumsy, and mean?
- About 55 minutes
- 4 M + 4 F + 8 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
- Simple set
- Recommended for Middle Schools
- 37 pages
The Redemption of Gertie Greene: Competition Version
by Taryn Temple
A competition-length adaptation of The Redemption of Gertie Greene by Taryn Temple
- About 30 minutes
- 4 M + 4 F + 8 Any Gender, Easily Expandable
- Simple set
- Recommended for Middle Schools
- 23 pages
Same Room, Different Story
by Claire Broome
This powerful vignette play uses one set to explore the vast range of teen experiences that can unfold within the same four walls.
- About 70 minutes
- 7 M + 7 F + 15 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 67 pages
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Same Room, Different Story - One Act Version
by Claire Broome
This powerful vignette play uses one set to explore the vast range of teen experiences that can unfold within the same four walls.
- About 35 minutes
- 7 M + 7 F + 5 Any Gender
- Simple set
- Recommended for High Schools
- 36 pages