Bryan Starchman
BRYAN STARCHMAN graduated from UCLA with a BA in English and taught high school literature, drama, and film studies in Mariposa, CA for 20 years. His 25 plays have been produced over 3000 times in all 50 states and 15 countries. Since 2020 his short fiction has been featured in The Saturday Evening Post and in the literary journals After Dinner Conversation, In Parentheses, Scribble, Apricity, The Write City Magazine, Some Scripts, The Olive Tree Review, New Plains Review, Avalon Literary Review, The Good Life Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, The Fox Paw, 100 Word Story, and Litro. In May 2025 he will complete his Master’s in Writing from Johns Hopkins. He now teaches English at Chatham High School and lives with his wife and best friend Geraldine in both Bloomfield, New Jersey and Achill Island, Ireland.
Still Stuck at Home
Comedy by Bryan Starchman
36 pages
Minimum 4 m, 2 w, 2 flexible, 1 offscreen voice. Maximum 9 m, 7 w, 2 flexible, 1 offscreen voice.
Join this hilarious family as they struggle to endure being stuck at home – together! How many family game nights can teens endure? How are the pets holding up? Can mom convince the kids to do their schoolwork or will they be doomed to a fifth year of high school? How do first dates and book clubs work while social distancing? And really, who is strong enough to endure more than one Dad joke?
This show is perfect at providing both laugh-out-loud humor as well as flexibility in stagin...
Shalloween
Comedy by Bryan Starchman
24 pages
4 m, 4 w, extras
Two unpopular high school students, Sam and Alexandra, find themselves with nothing to do on Halloween, until they're suddenly called to come to a costume party given by the most popular kids. Since they have been invited at the last minute, our unlikely heroes must improvise their costumes. They decide to disguise themselves by cross-dressing so they can find out what the popular kids really think about them. The already awkward heroine dresses up as a thug from the Bronx and the geeky boy puts on a secondhand prom dress and a blonde wig to disguise himself ...