Plays for Children and Teens


Brave Little Tailor, The

Will the Royal Tailor capture the Scary Thieves...or die trying?

After the Royal Tailor kills three with one blow, the Queen decides that she is the perfect person to drive some Scary Thieves out of the kingdom...

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| 18 minutes | 11 females, extras |


Bully Game, The

Bullying hurts.

It's the hottest game show at your school! Three bullies compete to see who can do the best job of abusing their victim...

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| 15 minutes | 2 males, 3 females, 1 either gender |


Cinderella in Middle School

What happens when everybody's favorite princess goes to middle school?

Poor Cindy. She wants to attend the big dance like her stepsisters, but she’ll never finish her chores in time...

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| 20 minutes | 3 males, 7 females, extras |


Clean-Up Cantata

Teamwork is always a good idea. Even when it comes to toilet papering.

Mr. Wilson, a high school band teacher, tries to determine the students responsible for toilet papering his house...

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| 7 minutes | 2 males, 2 females, extras |


Coming Home

If Mom and Dad drink, why shouldn't their teenage son?

Chris comes home after curfew with alcohol on his breath. Stacy, his mother, is furious...

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| 6 minutes | 1 male, 1 female |


Dance, The

Heather spent her whole life dancing...until a car accident took it all away.

Heather, a skilled ballerina since she was a little girl, recently suffered a horrible accident that left her confined to a wheelchair...

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| 9 minutes | 1 male, 2 females |


Emperor’s New Clothes, The

A pair of snobby middle schoolers take the place of the emperor in this contemporary fairy tale.

The school bullies are bored. Shoving kids into lockers just isn’t as much fun as it used to be...

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| 15 minutes | 4 males, 6 females |


Father’s Day

After a lifetime of abuse, is forgiveness possible?

It's been many years since Jack was abused by his father. But today, on Father's Day, he can't help remembering the pain.

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| 6 minutes | 1 male, 1 recorded voice |


Frog Prince, The

Ugly is only skin deep, but kindness lasts forever.

A snotty Princess wants nothing to do with the palace pond’s resident Frog...

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| 8 minutes | 2 males, 1 female |


Grasshoppers and the Ants, The

"Hard work pays off!"

In this hilarious retelling of Aesop's Fable, three Li’l Ants are tired of working to store food for the winter...

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| 12 minutes | 3 males, 4 females |


Happily Ever After

Everybody wants a Happily Ever After. If you're a Big Bad Wolf, it's just a little hard to find.

When the Big Bad Wolf's son shows up at the Grimm Brothers' office, he only wants one thing—a happy ending for the story of his life...

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| 30 minutes | 4 males, 7 females, extras |


Hide and Seek

A death in the family and a looming graduation cause a teen to reflect on her own mortality.

Mandy, a high school junior who should be studying for the SAT with her friends, only wants to play "Hide and Seek"...

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| 10 minutes | 1 male, 2 females |


Jerry’s Kids

Greg doesn't usually make fun of kids who are "different." But for Jerry, he'll make an exception.

Jerry, a mentally handicapped high school student, is taking silly pictures of Greg, who is trying to befriend him...

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| 5 minutes | 2 males, 1 female |


May Bear

The scars of sexual abuse can last a lifetime.

Lyla, a teenage girl, relates the story of how she was molested at age six.

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| 4 minutes | 1 female |


Past Tense

Sex always transforms teen relationships--and not for the better.

A teenage guy meets his girlfriend “the morning after” they have slept together for the first time...

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| 8 minutes | 1 male, 1 female |


Popular George

The price of popularity is higher than it looks.

This school year, George has decided that he'll do anything to be popular—even pick on other kids...

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| 7 minutes | 1 male, 1 female |


Responsibility Rash, The

Some things are so important that you have to keep working on them, even when you feel like quitting.

George is positive that something as boring as math can't possibly be important, so he resolves not to do his homework...

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| 12 minutes | 1 male, 1 female, 1 either gender |


SafeSex Man

An over-the-top comedy about why sex is worth waiting for.

Rob, a high school student and certified “Horny Little Devil,” tries to talk his girlfriend Amy into a “date” that has huge potential for trouble...

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| 6 minutes | 2 males, 1 female |


Senior Trip

Confession may be good for the soul, but it doesn't erase the consequences.

Scott Anderson, who had a reputation as a troublemaker in high school, returns to his old principal’s office after graduation...

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| 8 minutes | 3 males |