Aaron Adair        Chicago, IL  U.S.A.

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Buried in the Bahamas is the story of Nikki, a charmingly unstable young lady who finds winter more exhilarating than life. This short, darkly comedic play requires minimal staging and three actors. It was first performed by the Close Theatre Company of St. Albans in Washington, D.C. Its New York premiere was in June 2010 by NativeAliens Theatre Collective. CAST: 2 F, 1 M
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Dead Cat's Bounce is about a father, home from the hospital with a supply of morphine, who has just enough time to cautiously interact with a family on the edge. This one-act play requires minimal staging and four actors. Winner, Heartland Theatre Company's Emerging Illinois Playwrights Project, March 2008.
CAST: 2 F, 2 M
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The Trouble With Brandon is a short play about a middle-aged couple pondering why their young nephew, Brandon, has stopped attending family events. This 10-minute play requires minimal staging and two actors. Presented in 2008 by New York's NativeAliens Theatre Collective, as part of Short Stories 9, Queer Prime.
CAST 2 M
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Glad Tidings & High Waters is a lighthearted play about hard economic times and two best friends who've always had each other's back. This short play requires 10 minutes, minimal staging and three actors. Produced in June 2010 in Madison, WI, as part of Stage Q's Queer Shorts 5. CAST: 3 M
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American Holiday, a reality TV show like no other, examines themes of gender and beauty with a laugh or two along the way. This 10-minute play requires minimal staging and five versatile actors. CAST: 2 M, 3 M or F
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Room 124 is about a young couple, Manprasad and Madhuri, who experience a difficult night in a roadside motel. This one-act play requires minimal staging and two actors. CAST: 1 M, 1 F
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The Rose Merchant visits a disharmonious couple wrestling with the nature of their maturing relationship after a night out. This very short 7-minute play requires minimal staging and three actors. CAST: 2 M, 1F
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2 + 2 = 5, a lighthearted play about the complexity of ambiguity, requires four actors, 10 minutes and minimal staging. CAST: 1 M, 1 F, 2 M or F
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Finding Ursa Major is the story of three friends parting under the weight of secrets kept, leveraged and revealed. This 10-minute play requires three actors and simple staging. CAST: 2 M, 1 F
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The Everlasting God Stopper, a humorous play about the absurdities of modern-day health care, requires four actors and approximately 10 minutes. Finalist, 2010 D.C. Source Festival. Moderate staging is needed. CAST: 2 F, 2 M
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The Clairvoyant Wife visits a couple wrestling with the here, the hereafter and what lies between. This 10-minute play requires two actors and minimal staging.
CAST: 1 F, 1 M
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Vitamin World is a bawdy farce about a misfit crew of independent filmmakers struggling to get just one scene right. This one act play requires minimal staging and four versatile actors. CAST: 3 M, 1 F
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The Fitting is a humorous, intergenerational battle of the sexes requiring ten minutes, four actors and minimal staging. CAST: 2 F, 2 M
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Full Length Plays

NOTICING VIRGINIA
Noticing Virginia is an Updike-inspired examination of one woman’s search for security in gritty 1990s Chicago. Her journey is marked by calculated decisions and disastrous outcomes. Devotion is shunned, a heartless sort of practicality is embraced, sexuality is leveraged and everything hopeful is quickly lost.

Thank you to New Light Studios for the creative space and solitude that helped bring this story to life.

Cast: 4 M, 2 F
Run Time: 80 minutes
Acts: Two

OAKENRUSH
Oakenrush, an agnostic young man brought home from college to care for his ailing mother, betrays his longtime companion by searching for solace in the arms of another. When finding comfort proves illusive and, at times, agonizing, issues of spirituality and sexuality become the shaky context of an unexamined life.

Cast: 3 M, 2 F, 2 Non-Speaking Roles
Run Time: 90 minutes
Acts: Three

DYSPHORIA
Dysphoria, a state of feeling unwell or unhappy, chases through the mildly surreal, often absurd, world of Nick Hoover as he wrestles with deteriorating health, narrated hallucinations and a manic belief that his son, Billy, is in grave danger.

For Nick, time moves forward as Billy begins a week at a Christian summer camp and backwards in flashes of revolution, war and polarizing politics. His faltering logic and frenzied liberalism, symbolic of today’s oft muddled Democratic Party, culminates in his own gripping leap of faith and the proleptic reverberations of the Iranian Revolution of 1979.

Cast: 6 M, 2 F
Run Time: 90 minutes
Acts: Three

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