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How The Pimp Saved Christmasby Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A pimp and his three prostitutes sub in for Santa Claus when the big man has a cold one Christmas Eve.
Genre: Animation
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Leiheiby Inky Egwuenu
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2024
When the grandson of a ruthless assassin leader is killed in a U.S. raid, he invokes an ancient blood feud, targeting the President's family while evading a worldwide manhunt.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
21 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Red Card Ransomby Simon Parker
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2024
Andrew Smith is a world famous football player. Waking up inside a locked room with only an outdated phone in his back pocket, it's a race against time to escape.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
9 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
There's Something Behind Door #1by Andrew Tarquinio
Date Posted: 22 Jul 2024
A young man helps his parents clear the squalid apartment of his recently deceased Aunt, finding more than filth waiting for him in the hoarder’s heaps.
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
I Heart Jodyby Doug J Robbins
Date Posted: 20 Jan 2025
A serial killer gets distracted by his favorite sitcom when about to enter a potential victim's home.
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
A Labor of Loveby John Porter
Date Posted: 02 May 2025
A young woman teases her fiancé until she discovers he’s willing to do almost anything to make her happy.
Genre: Romance
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Romance
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Navvies Lamentby John Fraser
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
A man reflects on the meaning of his identity, within a bar that has shape shifted it's patrons
Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Long Momentsby S.C. Smith
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2024
An alcoholic living in a small town stubbornly refuses to change, even when his high school sweetheart returns for their reunion, stirring memories of the life he left behind and the man he used to be.
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Don't Call Me Sirby Brandi Self
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025
Two soldiers discuss love and freedom as they hide in the trenches from murderous, fire-shooting giants who have already claimed the lives of their comrades.
Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Fantasy
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Lockdown Treasureby STEVEN BLOWS
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2024
During a national lockdown caused by a virus pandemic, a curious 12-year-old girl and her persuasive younger brother set off on a hunt after finding a treasure map in their weekly online supermarket delivery.
Genre: Family
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Family
10 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Tequila Slammerby Ray Smith
Date Posted: 04 Jan 2025
When a betrayed husband wakes up from a tequila-fueled car crash with no memory of who he is, he must unravel his identity while evading vengeful gangsters, Russian mobsters, and a relentless hitman—or else become collateral damage in a twisted web of stolen cash and deadly secrets.
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
10 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Down to the Wireby Dexter Williams
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2024
A defiant cop gets involved in a race against time to stop two escaped convicts who have taken hostages on a bus rigged to explode.
Genre: Action/Adventure
21 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
21 pages
Cast Size: 7+ Main/Supporting Roles
SATNAVby Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 30 Dec 2024
A woman's infidelity takes her on an unexpected journey when her scorned husband hacks her car's navigation system.
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
3 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Take A Step Backby Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2024
A late night act of kindness has shocking consequences. Based on a real event.
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Gambling with Bulletsby Carl
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2024
When contract killer and compulsive gambler Alex Viper Cooper" wins 3 million dollars from Mexican Mafia leader Ricardo, he sends his top female assassins to collect, only to discover they've been duped into a deadly plot. As Alex races against time to clear his name, he unveils a web of deception, leading to a final confrontation where debts are settled in blood.
Genre: Action/Adventure
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Boneyardby M.r. Fitzgerald
Date Posted: 12 Jan 2024
After receiving numerous letters from a prison inmate, a renowned children's author agrees to meet him for a conjugal visit.
Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Glue Storyby Ron Brawer
Date Posted: 04 Dec 2024
A secluded bench in an urban park. A chance meeting: two women with secrets. Who’s who? What’s true? And why the glue?
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Suspense/Thriller
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Creepby Dj Robbins
Date Posted: 03 Apr 2025
A creepy man follows a young boy into a gas station, where the boy's seventeen-year-old brother confronts the man.
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
2 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Schrödinger's Momby Phil Abrams
Date Posted: 16 Jan 2024
A man with autism must face the new reality of being parentless, and yet his neurodiverse perspective helps his caretaker discover there’s more than one way to look at life.
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
16 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Hayseeds & Hipstersby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2025
While eating lunch on a park bench, hayseeds Ned and Boomer spot a real-life hipster. Fascinated, they observe him and make fun of him, but they soon learn that things aren't always what they seem. (1 location, 3 characters)
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
8 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Out of Adversityby Elliot Stanton
Date Posted: 02 Nov 2023
The bombs cease, but the battle continues. Only two First World War British soldiers remain from their company, and during a lull in hostilities, deep, personal conflicts between them come to a head.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Now, the Boy is a Manby Anna Maeve
Date Posted: 08 Dec 2024
In a dystopian world where a boy is forged into an experiment of unimaginable horror, a man rises from the ashes of his torment, escaping a labyrinthine facility to confront a shattered, hostile world above—only to discover that the monsters they feared him to be may pale in comparison to what still lurks beyond.
Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Sci-Fi
18 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
The Matt Chatby Benjamin Neuberger
Date Posted: 03 Mar 2024
On the first day of work at his new job, a man's life is turned upside down after his co-worker, who is also named Matt, adds him to a group chat known as "The Matt Chat."
Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
20 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Fun with Wordsby Bernard Antoine Mersier
Date Posted: 20 Feb 2024
Six tales told by a man sitting in the shadows explain how people use words in the wrong context.
Genre: Drama
26 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
26 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Northwoodby John Fraser
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025
The commander of a nuclear submarine must come to terms with a developing threat, while protecting his crew and future with his family as the cold war turns hot.
Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Action/Adventure
11 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
When I Fallby Simon Parker
Date Posted: 06 Jan 2025
James returns to his family home in a wheelchair with his fiancée, determined to undergo a risky operation that could help him walk again
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
17 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
The Shower Sceneby Shane Nolan
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2024
A young and wildly in love couple enjoy a sensual, playful morning. Little do they know, a madman has entered their quaint New Orleans apartment. Silently, he stalks them until they come face to face, separated by nothing more than a shower curtain.
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
6 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Coyote Medicineby Christopher Shotwell
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2024
When Coyote unleashes the spirit world onto his bizarre contestant show, his phantasmic antics may cost him his friendships, girlfriend, and even the show before he can prove he’s no fool but a clever-hearted trickster
Genre: Animation
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Animation
35 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Tide Flashby Steven Burton
Date Posted: 07 Aug 2024
A man has writer’s block, a rip tide threatens his life, and then he discovers inspiration from a teen who shares a story.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Rogue Gambleby Michael Hayles
Date Posted: 21 Feb 2024
A small time punter is hired to back a horse owned by an underworld bigwig, but on his way to the track a chance encounter derails everything.
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Perspectivesby Anthony Cawood
Date Posted: 15 Dec 2024
Two lovers plot a violent act of revenge to escape their abuser, but their shared trauma complicates their path to freedom.
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Openingby Javier Solórzano Casarin
Date Posted: 07 Nov 2023
An old and regretful man waits inside an old train station for someone whom he yearns to meet. He encounters another man, eccentric and inquisitive. The old man begins to suspect that this station is no ordinary place and that the stranger has the answers to what he’s searching for.
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
18 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Murder Inkby Edward Chapman
Date Posted: 20 Aug 2024
After witnessing her tattooist father murdered, his orphaned daughter uses his dying gift to payback his killers in a uniquely creative way.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
13 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Trajan's Dilemmaby Jonathan Fear
Date Posted: 09 Jan 2025
A General persuades the Roman Emperor that the moral cost of sacrificing justice to preserve his legacy is worth unleashing a violent beast of the field.
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
8 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
I Know That I Am Dreamingby Shane Nolan
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2024
A heartbroken man goes to the utmost extreme to hold onto the memories of his lost true love, neglecting himself, and his reality, all to live within the false world he created within lucid dreams just to be with her.
Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Drama
22 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Hellavisionby Jason K. Allen
Date Posted: 13 Jan 2025
On Halloween night, a young man decides to stay home and watch a horror movie on television. Unfortunately he chooses the wrong channel on the wrong night. (Mostly 1 actor, limited dialogue, inspired by 70's horror. Produced writer; see IMDB for credits.)
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
5 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Thirteen Coilsby John Porter
Date Posted: 07 May 2025
A young outlaw prepares for his execution.
Genre: Western
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Western
6 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Treasureby John Alexander Fraser
Date Posted: 24 Jan 2025
A young native American woman must overcome her sensitivities to protect herself when a deranged killer attacks her friends for an underground culinary treasure in a remote forested area.
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Horror
10 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Abel's Promiseby Anthony Crossen
Date Posted: 23 Dec 2023
When a cop learns of his wife's affair with someone close to the family, his only choice to protect his family is outside the law.
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Crime/Murder/Mystery
12 pages
Cast Size: 1-3 Main/Supporting Roles
Prefer Not To Sayby Maroun Rached
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2024
Three people are challenged about how to tackle gender on their company's website (the theatrical version was performed at the 15th Annual Northport One-Act Play Festival).
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
Genre: Comedy
12 pages
Cast Size: 4-6 Main/Supporting Roles
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