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Play Scripts for Schools featuring Student directors

The Date

by Steven Stack

Demons on a date are never good.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 2 M + 2 F
  • Virtual Performance
  • Recommended for High Schools

The Date

by Steven Stack

Demons on a date are never good.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 2 M + 2 F
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools

David and Delaney's Guide to the Perfectly Nifty Prom

by Steven Stack

David and Delaney have been planning for the perfectly nifty prom since they were 6, and everything was going according to plan... until Delaney died. Will the day be saved by a well-manicured ancient burial ground?

  • About 13 minutes
  • 1 M + 2 F
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools

Distance Learning

by Christian Kiley

A play about trying to survive and thrive in a virtual classroom.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 13 Any Gender
  • Virtual Performance
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools

Double Click

by Bradley Hayward

Young love blossoms when two teenagers flip open their laptops and start chatting.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 1 M + 1 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools

ellenalicemonajune

by Colleen Neuman

Ellen, Alice, Mona, and June share those uncomfortable truths that only close friends can tell each other.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 4 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools

Fight Over Fuchsia

by Lindsay Price

A fight over a blouse at the bargain low bargain big bargain sale fractures a friendship.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 2 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools

Fireworks

by Bradley Hayward

A couple of teenagers in love look up at the night sky and wait for colorful explosions to dance among the stars.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 1 M + 1 F
  • Recommended for High Schools

Franz Kafka Cancels His Cell Phone Plan

by Kirk Shimano

A modern absurdist play that puts elements from three of Franz Kafka’s works into the context of the everyday absurdities of our 21st century lives.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 5 Any Gender
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 17 pages

Friend Request

by Bradley Hayward

Thanks to a series of ill-fated friend requests, a doctored photo of a student spreads like wildfire among a group of teenagers.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 3 M + 4 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools

The Girl on the Side of the Road

by Steven Stack

Cal and Jane end up stranded on a dark and lonely road. They make the unfortunate decision of helping a girl who only wants to get home to Mother.

  • About 15 minutes
  • 1 M + 3 F
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools

Girls and Boys

by Lindsay Price

A football player freaks out when his math tutor turns out to be a girl.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 1 M + 1 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools

Hairball

by Lindsay Price

A light vignette play about our obsession with hair. Flexible casting.

  • About 25 minutes
  • 3 M + 5 F, Expandable to 14M+27F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 27 pages

Hamlette

by Allison Williams

Hamlet is played by a girl in this twisty-turny comedic interpretation of the classic Danish tale.

  • About 30 minutes
  • 1 M + 1 F + 3 Any Gender, Expandable to 13
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 20 pages

Have You Heard?

by Krista Boehnert

This monologue-based play explores what happens when rumours and secrets spin out of control. What makes a secret more powerful: when it's true or a lie?

  • About 45 minutes
  • 2 M + 3 F
  • Simple Set
  • Recommended for High Schools
  • 24 pages

Heirlooms

by Steven Stack

Tara and Dane find themselves in possession of the legendary “hook hand” and learn that “finders keepers” is not always what it’s cracked up to be.

  • About 10 minutes
  • 1 M + 2 F
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools

Help! My Class Is Overrun By…

by Lindsay Price

Eight quick classroom comedies throw middle school students into absurd crises, from indoor rainstorms to zombie classmates, offering flexible staging and roles for casts of all sizes and skill levels.

  • About 80 minutes
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for Middle Schools
  • 111 pages

Horror Movie 101: Failing Can Be Deadly

by Steven Stack

A collection of five hauntingly humorous tales.

  • About 55 minutes
  • 5 M + 16 F, double and triple casting possible
  • Simple set
  • Recommended for High Schools & Middle Schools
  • 53 pages