Shorter, Faster, Funnier

Shorter, Faster, Funnier
Author: Eric Lane
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2011-05-03
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0307743357

This cornucopia of comedy showcases works by major playwrights and emerging young writers, with casts of all sizes and diverse and challenging roles for actors of every age and type. You’ll discover such colorful characters as a businessman free-falling from a plane, an embittered sword swallower, a punkish girl skateboarder, and retirees in post-apocalyptic Siberia, alongside plays that unleash the humor in high school reunions, alien invasions, office cubicle farms, and even post-Katrina New Orleans. Perfect for actors, students, theater lovers, and comedy fans, Shorter, Faster, Funnier covers the spectrum of humor, from slyly witty to over-the-top outrageous. Rob Ackerman ● Billy Aronson ● John Augustine ● Pete Barry ● Dan Berkowitz ● Adam Bock ● Eric Coble ● Philip Dawkins ● Anton Dudley ● Christopher Durang ● Liz Ellison ● Halley Feiffer ● Peter Handy ● Jeffrey Hatcher ● Amy Herzog ● Mikhail Horowitz ● David Ives ● Caleen Sinnette Jennings ● Ean Miles Kessler ● Dan Kois ● Eric Lane ● Drew Larimore ● Warren Leight ● Mark Harvey Levine ● Elizabeth Meriwether ● Michael Mitnick ● Megan Mostyn-Brown ● Mark O’Donnell ● Nicole Quinn ● Wayne Rawley ● Theresa Rebeck ● Jacqueline Reingold ● Laura Shaine ● Nina Shengold ● Jane Shepard ● Edwin Sanchez ● Samara Siskind ● Daryl Watson ● Barbara Wiechmann ● Mary Louise Wilson ● Garth Wingfield ● Gary Winter ● Elizabeth Wong ● Dana Yeaton

Doubletalk

Doubletalk
Author: Bill Majeski
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1990
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

Professional level satirical dialogues excellent for drama competitions.

Women's Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny

Women's Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny
Author: Alisha Gaddis
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1495002020

(Applause Acting Series). Never before has a monologue book been written completely by people who are actually funny for a living. This incredibly hysterical, cutting-edge collection of monologues will give an actress the extra bang she needs to land the perfect comedic role. Women's Comedic Monologues features 60 monologues by writers and comics who have written for or performed on Chelsea Lately , Carson Daly , The Tonight Show , Last Comic Standing , Comedy Central Stage, and many more. This book is the answer to the comedic monologue needs of female actors everywhere!

A Feminine Ending

A Feminine Ending
Author: Sarah Treem
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2008
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 057365235X

Full Length, Dark Comedy 3m., 2f. Various, Unit set Amanda, twenty-five, wants to be a great composer. But at the moment, she's living in New York City and writing advertising jingles to pay the rent while her fianc , Jack, pursues his singing career. So when Amanda's mother, Kim, calls one evening from New Hampshire and asks for her help with something she can't discuss over the phone, Amanda is only too happy to leave New York. Once home, Kim reveals that she's leaving Amanda's father and

Pramkicker

Pramkicker
Author: Sadie Hasler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2016-05-25
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1474292534

Meet Pramkicker. "I am the Edith fucking Piaf of the empty womb." (She kicked a pram.) "Je ne regrettay fucking rien." An unflinching look at what it means to be a modern woman.

Baby with the Bathwater

Baby with the Bathwater
Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1984
Genre: American drama
ISBN: 9780822200840

THE STORY: As the play begins Helen and John gaze proudly at their new offspring, a bit disappointed that it doesn't speak English and too polite to check its sex. So they decide that the child is a girl and name it Daisy--which leads to all manner

The Loman Family Picnic

The Loman Family Picnic
Author: Donald Margulies
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1994
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822206842

THE STORY: The setting is a new luxury high-rise apartment with Spanish décor in Coney Island, the home of a middle-class Jewish family struggling to put up a good front even though continually short of cash. The father, Herbie, who sells lightin