Plays
(I'm not making scripts available on line for the moment. So, feel free to Email me for scripts, or to contact my agent)

This Is My Office
Written 2009-2010
Cast of one (One Man)

"When I found out I was chosen, I was over the moon". Granted a nine month residency in an abandoned office space near Wall Street, the playwright Andy Bragen starts his year with bright hopes, but soon finds himself succumbing to doughnuts, lethargy and a paralyzing sense of deja vu. This is My Office is a metatheatrical exploration of fear, gluttony, art and a legacy of failure.

Production at Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep in July 2010. Production at Studio Roanoke in May 2011.

Loop Tape
 Written 2010 - 2011
Cast of eight (6 men, 2 women)

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Developed in the 2011 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Reading in April 2011.

The Dowager
Written 2010 - 2011
Cast of one (One Woman)
Tanya sits for a cat who can't be found, and waits for a pizza that never seems to come.

Ranch Home
 Written 2007-2010
Cast of seven (4 Women, 3 men)

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Commissioned by Clubbed Thumb as part of their Biennial Commission program. Developed with Clubbed Thumb in workshops directed by Jose Zayas and Pam MacKinnon.

Visiting Day
Written 2007-2009
 Cast of two (One man, one woman)

A husband and wife whose child has left for camp move into the child's room. They are alone with each other for the first time in years, rediscovering their relationship and trying to communicate after years of disconnection. In the tradition of Ionesco and Beckett, what at first seems to be a simple play about a marriage becomes an unsettling and gripping dark comedy about two people who love each other to distraction.

Initially developed with Electric Pear Productions. Workshopped at Sewanee: The University of the South in April/May 2009. Workshop with Joanna Adler and Rob Campbell in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace: June 2010. Workshops with A Red Orchid and The Playwrights Center in autumn 2010..

The Hairy Dutchman
Written 2008-2009
Cast of 12-13 (Seven female, five or six male)

Commissioned by the University of Rochester's International Theatre Program, The Hairy Dutchman is a play about tennis, and the history of New York, and love, and singles, and doubles, and faults, and double faults, and courts, and courting, and hairy dutchmen. It's the fourth in my series of Lower East Side plays.

Reading with Babel Theatre Company in January 2009. Production at the University of Rochester in April 2009.



Mother Earth
Written 2006-2008
Cast of Six (Three female, three male)

During a hot New York summer, Leo stews on his stoop, obsessing over the fate of the earth, yet entirely unable to come to terms with his mother's chronic illness. Mother Earth is a comedy that explores neighborhood, activism, community and family.

Round table reading at the Lark Theatre. Reading at Minneapolis' Illusion Theatre. Reading with Page 73 Productions at MTC. Developed in July 2008 at the Playlabs Conference in Minneapolis.

Food Porn
Written 2005-2006
Cast of Five (Three female, two male)

On a snowy night in Columbus, Ohio, aspiring gourmet Maggie Redd prepares the meal of her life, and everything goes wrong.  Food Porn is a brutal comedy about war, doughnuts, and haute cuisine.

Received a workshop production in the Brown/Trinity New Plays Festival 2006, under the artistic direction of Curt Columbus, Bonnie Metzgar and Paula Vogel. The director of the production was Geordie Broadwater. Readings with Minneapolis' Emigrant Theater, and Rattlestick Theater.

Lazy
Written 2002 - 2005
Cast of six (four male, two female)

Jack, a male Aphrodite from somewhere else, lives with a rich family in New York, while working at a pizza place.  Cockeye, ugly, stocky and awkward, from Jack's native land, comes to reclaim him.

10 minute version written in 2002, performed at Tonic, and at the Dramatists Guild. Full-length version included in Soho Think Tank's Sixth Floor Series in December 2004. Readings at the Vortex Theatre, in NYU's hotINK Festival, at the Playwrights Center, and with Rattlestick Theater.

Sweet Dreams of Paris
Written 2004-2005
Cast of six (four male, two female)

Living in a nowhere town, Red Jane dreams of Paris, and Leo promises to take her there. Sweet Dreams of Paris is a dark comedy about fantasies and lies and the desire for a fresh start.

Received a workshop production in the Brown/Trinity New Plays Festival 2005, under the artistic direction of Oskar Eustis, Brighde Mullins and Paula Vogel. The director of the production was Birgitta Victorson.

Spuyten Duyvil
Written 1997-2008
Cast of four (Three male, one female)

Faced with demanding relationships and difficult ambitions, Buddy Starlight and Lisa Martinez are struggling to keep their heads above water. Their only hope, they soon find out, lies in each other; but to keep this hope alive, both of them must come to terms with their dangerous desires and appetites: appetites that have come to define their identities, but that also threaten to tear them apart.

Under the title, "In Spite of The Devil", "Spuyten Duyvil" received a workshop production in July 2008 at Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep. In 1998, it received a reading at the Mint Space in New York City, directed by Jason Moore. The cast included Abigail Lopez and Michael Chernus. The script was a finalist for a Princess Grace Award in 1999. More recently "Spuyten Duyvil" was developed at the 2004 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. In 2004, it received readings with LAByrinth Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and the Underwood Theater.

243
Written in 1998 - 2002
Cast of seven (four male, three female)

243, explores questions of race, class and gentrification on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where I grew up and still live. It is the story of a Puerto Rican mother and her troubled son, and the mother's involvement with a white man from across the street. Most of the play takes place on a city stoop, and the context is that of a changing neighborhood

2003 New Voices Fellowship from Ensemble Studio Theatre. Reading at EST, November 2003, directed by Jamie Richards. Finalist for Nuestras Voces Competition at Repertorio Espanol. Reading in October 2004, directed by James Abar.

Greater Messapia
Written 1999-2000
Cast of eight (four male, four female)

In Elmhurst, Queens, the last Messapian family tries to find a bride for its only son before he turns eighteen. Will he make it to altar or face a ritual beheading? Is the next door neighbor truly out to erase the Messapians from the earth? And can anyone make it across Roosevelt Avenue alive? A wild comedy about assimilation and ethnic identity, Greater Messapia explores the immigrant experience from an entirely unexpected angle.

In August 2000, "Greater Messapia" received a reading at The Flea Theatre in New York, directed by Anne Kauffman. It was a finalist for the 2002 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. It received a staged reading at Queens Theatre in the Park, February 2003, directed by Davis McCallum. A showcase production of "Greater Messapia", opened on March 18, 2004 at Queens Theatre in the Park. Jonathan Silverstein directed.



Mosesville
Written in 2002
Cast of seven (five male, two female)

Mosesville, a black comedy, takes place in a crumbling vertical city-state run by the aging autocrat Robert Moses. A rebellion brews in Mosesville’s subterranean depths, with plagues bubbling up from down below. When Robert Moses abdicates, Helen of Mosesville, Robert's long forgotten daughter, is forced to choose between revolution and the mantle of state, between her convictions and her family, between love and power.

Much of "Mosesville" was written while Andy was part of the Lark Playwrights Workshop. The first public reading was held at the Nagelberg Theatre, at Baruch College, in May 2003. It was directed by Ron Orbach. Reading at NYU Tisch as part of the hotINK festival, January 2004, directed by Davis McCallum.

Formaldehyde
 Written 1995 - 1997
Cast of five (three male, two female)

Formaldehyde centers on Charlene, a precocious 12-year-old girl in Mississippi who is captivated by her science experiment: the effects of formaldehyde on the growth of bacteria and on the decay of dead tissue. Although she soon learns that growing and dying are aspects of life that defy the controlled processes of her experiment, she also finds that she can have some command over them: by acting on her own talents and desires, she is able to transform the lives of those around her and take hold of her own future.

"Formaldehyde", written under the tutelage of the playwright Tina Howe at Hunter College, was the winner of the John Golden Prize, and the Zarkower Award at Hunter, and received a staged reading in 1996, directed by Nancy Rhodes. Subsequently, it was a finalist at Trustus in South Carolina,at Theatrefest in New Jersey.. In 1998, it received a staged reading at the 14st Street Y in New York as part of the "First Look Series". The reading was directed by Nancy Rhodes, and had a cast that included Julia McIlvaine, Jason Katz and Joshua Wolf Coleman.

 

SHORTER PLAYS INCLUDE:
Unfinished Business: 45 minutes (2w, 2m)
Game, Set, Match: 5 - 10 Minutes (there are shorter and longer versions) (1m)
Oneonta: 10 minutes (2w)
Mooshu: 10 minutes (3m, 2w)
Homeless Earth: 10 minutes (1m, 1f)