The Stampistas

2 women, 1 man. Approximately 15 minutes. After working together for over a quarter of a century, one worker realizes that the relationship will never develop as fully as she'd like. Short play written for a challenge: to write a boring play in which the subtext is fraught with all sorts of repressed emotion. Inspired both by memories of Murray Schisgal's The Typists, on which the author worked as property master in its off Broadway production, and seeing bureaucrats doing their job as stampers in an Italian government office in Naples.

Who's Herbert?

2 women, 1 man. All over 65. Runs approximately ten minutes or so. Residents of a retirement facility try to figure out who was married to Herbert, and if that's Herbert or not. Produced at the Senior Theatre League of America meeting, St. Louis, 2006, and at the Spokane Civic Theatre, Spokane, Washington, in May, 2008. Commissioned by Pat Barnett, Salt Lake City Senior Theatre, Utah, and Sarah Worthington, Footsteps of the Elders, Columbus, Ohio.