Below is a list of the plays available from Just B Cuz Productions. Published plays have appropriate links to the publishers’ websites. Any unpublished works can be found on the New Play Exchange (NPX) or can be requested as a perusal copy from the author by e-mailing alles@comcast.net. Plays are grouped as shown by the below section links.
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Full Length Plays (Adult Audiences) | Full Length Plays (Young Audiences)
One Act Plays (Adult Audiences) | One Act Plays (Young Audiences)
10-Minute Plays / Short Plays / Monologues
FULL LENGTH PLAYS (ADULT AUDIENCES / PERFORMERS)
ACCIDENTAL ROOMMATES
Format: Full-Length Play. Comedy/drama. Two acts. Run time roughly two hours.
Cast: 4F, 1M
Publisher: Independent / Unpublished
Status: NPX / available upon request
Synopsis: After the death of her second husband, 91-year-old CHRISTINE EVIGAN moves in with her estranged 71-year-old daughter EVELYN FOSTER. The comic friction starts immediately as we watch the trials and tribulations of these ACCIDENTAL ROOMMATES.
NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/script/2711712/accidental-roommates
Awards: Robert J. Pickering / J.R. Colbeck Award for Playwriting Excellence, 2024, Runner-Up
BLESS THIS FEST
Format: Full-Length Play. Comedy/farce. Two acts. Roughly 90 minutes.
CAST: 4M, 3F
Publisher: Independent / Unpublished
Status: NPX / available upon request
Synopsis: As Saint Francis of Assisi Parish in the small town of Remus, Michigan, prepares for its annual “Festival of the Saints,” tensions rise, tempers flare, and everything that can go wrong… does. There’s a no-nonsense nun running the pageant, a good-natured priest praying for a promotion, and a few unexpected sparks of romance between the parishioners. All that as the parish scrambles to pull off a minor miracle when a most unexpected visitor arrives. A heartfelt farce about faith, friendship, and finding grace in the chaos.
NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/script/3232710/bless-this-fest
COTTAGE WEEKEND NIGHTMARE
Format: Full-length play. Comedy/horror. Roughly 80-90 minutes. No intermission.
Cast: 4M, 4F.
Publisher: Independent / Unpublished
Status: NPX / available upon request
Synopsis: Longtime friends reunite for a (hopefully) relaxing getaway at a lakeside cottage only to have their plans unravel in unexpected (and comedic) ways. Awkward surprises, bizarre encounters, and escalating tensions send the weekend spiraling into revelations and ridiculousness. As the group confronts external threats and their own buried truths, will their friendship survive the madness? Or are they doomed to the horror of a weekend gone wrong?
NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/script/3256876/cottage-weekend-nightmare
SECOND BANANA
Format: Full length play. Comedy/drama. Two acts. Approximately two hours.
Cast: 5M, 4F.
Publisher: Independent / Unpublished
Status: NPX / available upon request
Synopsis: For over 20 years, former NCAA football player Mike Davis has served as an assistant coach at Maplewood High School to beloved and successful Coach “Bud” Thompson, who sadly and unexpectedly passed away. Mike is subsequently hired as the head coach, and then the “fun” really begins. Mike not only has to satisfy an uptight, anxiety-ridden athletic director but also has to try to collaborate effectively with a newly hired (and slightly controversial) offensive coordinator and a defensive coordinator who just happens to be the son of the former head coach. Beyond that, Mike has to deal with his ex-wife and his estranged son. The latter plays on the team but doesn’t exactly have his dad’s aptitude for the sport. Throw in a star quarterback with troubles of his own, a head cheerleader who is determined to succeed at all costs, and an earnest “water girl” who loves the sport more than any of them and you have the slightly messy recipe for a seriocomic look at living up to expectations, what happens when we don’t, and the complicated relationships between fathers and sons and sons and fathers.
NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/script/2791147/second-banana
THE FINAL FIVE STAGES (OR… ALMOST APOCALYPSE)
Format: Full length play. Approximately 90 minutes. No intermission.
Cast: 3M, 2F.
Publisher: Independent / Unpublished
Status: NPX / available upon request
Synopsis: In an unremarkable Midwestern town, five actors (and many characters) confront the same extraordinary rumor: the world may be ending. As headlines grow stranger, sirens draw closer, and certainty slips through their fingers, each character wrestles with a different emotional response to the possibility of extinction (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) though not always in that order, and never in the way you expect.
NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/script/3280839/the-final-five-stages-or-almost-apocalypse
THE LOCKE INN
Format: Full length. Two acts. Approximately two hours.
Cast: 3M, 2F.
Publisher: Next Stage Press
Status: Publish date February 2026.
Synopsis: MATT LOCKE lives a great life. He has a funny, beautiful wife – ABBY – and two smart, rambunctious kids – JIMMY and SAMANTHA. He’s trying to run his own bed and breakfast, a lifelong dream of his. He even puts up with the well meaning but annoying next door neighbor TOBY whenever he barges in. However, all is not as it seems, as we learn the secret behind MATT LOCKE’s life and what might bring the Locke Inn crashing down around him.
Publisher: Next Stage Press.
Link: https://www.nextstagepress.com/the-locke-inn/
NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/script/2712377/the-locke-inn
Awards: Dayton FutureFest Finalist, 2025
THE PRINCESS AND THE PINUP
Format: Full length play. Two acts. Approximately two hours.
Cast: 3M, 3F.
Publisher: Next Stage Press.
Status: Publish date March 2026.
Synopsis: It’s 1944 in Brooklyn, and while World War II rages overseas, back on the homefront, aspiring artist May Macy wants to break into the comic strip business. Her sister Ellen has a husband who’s fighting in Europe. Ellen has a precocious 12-year-old son, Billy, who serves as May’s latest inspiration. May’s hoping her reporter friend Johnny Foster will be able to convince his boss Mr. Patson to give her comic strip a chance in his paper, the New York Daily Post. Then, one fateful day, aspiring pinup Betty Bump storms into May’s life and changes everything.
NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/script/2711252/the-princess-and-the-pinup
FULL LENGTH PLAYS (YOUNG AUDIENCES / PERFORMERS)
DANNY TROOPER IN THE LAND OF MODMYTH
Format: Full length play. Three acts. Approximately two hours.
Cast: 26-48. Variable ages and genders. Doubling possible.
Publisher: Independent / Unpublished
Status: NPX / available upon request
Synopsis: For 11-year-old Danny Trooper, it’s a new start at a new school after the devastating loss of his father in an overseas conflict. Danny will quickly make new friends and a few enemies at his new school, but none more important than Janet Starr, who will show Danny a portal into a world where myth is made real and the inspiration for everything that children love exists. Can Danny defend all that is good from the forces of evil and still make it home in time to catch the school bus?
NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/script/2047221/danny-trooper-in-the-land-of-modmyth
DANNY TROOPER IN THE HALL OF VALHALLA
Format: Full length play. Three acts. Approximately two hours.
Cast: 37-42. Variable ages and genders. Doubling possible.
Publisher: Independent / Unpublished.
Status: NPX / available upon request.
Synopsis: It’s been two years (in the “real” world) since young Danny Trooper first discovered ModMyth, the world where the inspiration for everything that kids love and fear exists. Now, it’s time for Danny’s father, the heroic G. I. Maxx, to keep a promise and take him to the “older” realms of mythology, specifically the Norse realms, the Hall of Valhalla, home of Odin, king of the Norse pantheon! Little does Danny know that the old trickster Loki has plans to bring down Asgard, but nothing will be as it seems as the forces of good and evil battle against each other with the multiverse in the balance.
NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/script/2047796/danny-trooper-in-the-hall-of-valhalla
DANNY TROOPER IN THE FORGOTTEN REALMS
Format: Full length play. Two acts. Approximately two hours.
Cast: 6M, 4-6F, 3E. Additional ensemble parts possible. Doubling possible.
Publisher: Independent / Unpublished.
Status: NPX / available upon request.
Synopsis: DAN TROOPER is just your normal 25-year-old trying to live a normal life. He’s got a promising job, a beautiful fiance’, and overall a pretty comfortable existence. (If he can just remember to call his mother on occasion.) However, all that is about to be fractured as Dan is unexpectedly confronted by the adventures he had in childhood, adventures he can’t seem to remember for some reason. But he needs to, or all of reality itself may be at stake. The adventure continues in DANNY TROOPER IN THE FORGOTTEN REALMS!
NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/script/2047796/danny-trooper-in-the-hall-of-valhalla
THE FINAL VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN KIDD
Format: Full-length play. Two acts. Roughly two hours.
Cast: 17-18. 9M, 8F. Doubling possible.
Publisher: Independent / Unpublished.
Status: NPX / available upon request.
Synopsis: Eight years ago, the unthinkable happened and the world forever changed. Now, the children of the earth sail the seven seas in majestic ships. Some sail for the light, others stay in the dark. Captain Alexander Kidd is going to use his “last great adventure” to find out what can be done about the state of the world. He and his crew on the Sea Sparrow will face great danger, not the least of which comes from the crew of the Black Thunder, lead by the Dread Pirate Declyn. Will Captain Kidd be able to make the greatest discovery ever? Or will he go down with the ship? Find out in the exciting adventure for all ages, THE FINAL VOYAGE OF CAPTAIN KIDD!
NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/script/3201965/the-final-voyage-of-captain-kidd
AWARDS: Aspiring Playwrights Contest 2025, East Valley Children’s Theatre, Runner-Up
THE LAST KID IN THE UNIVERSE
Format: Full-length play. Two acts. Roughly ninety minutes.
Cast: 14-39. Variable ages and genders. Doubling possible.
Publisher: Next Stage Press — Published
Status: Available now
Synopsis: Adventure, comedy, and sci-fi for young audiences.
ONE ACT PLAYS (ADULT AUDIENCES / PERFORMERS)
4/20: A STONER CAROL
Format: One act play. (Roughly 20 minutes.)
Cast: 5M, 1F, 1E
Publisher: Independent / Unpublished
Status: NPX / available upon request
Synopsis: Eli is ready to celebrate 4/20… National Stoner Day. Or is he? He is about to be visited by three… spirits… of a sort. Will he be able to find the true love of the bud in his heart?
NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/script/3213391/420-a-stoner-carol
ONE ACT PLAYS (YOUNG AUDIENCES / PERFORMERS
BIG TOP BARRY
Format: One act play. (Roughly 30 minutes.)
Cast: 2M, 4F, 5E
Publisher: Lazy Bee Scripts
Status: Available
Synopsis: In the 1930’s, the famous Linguini Brothers Circus travels from town to town, thrilling people with its fabulous acts. Chief among them is the great lion, Lionel, whose roar thrills and chills crowds wherever he goes. Lionel’s young son, Barry, unfortunately, cannot roar like his dad, and he needs to find what he can do to be a “star” on his own. He’ll make friends with a miming monkey named Marceau, a pygmy elephant named Chendra, and a sad clown named Canio, as they all try to find their own “star talent” to perhaps be the next circus star.
NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/script/2047793/big-top-barry
TEN MINUTE PLAYS / SHORT PLAYS / MONOLOGUES
28 DAYS LATER (WITH APOLOGIES TO ALEX GARLAND)
Format: Short play. Approximately 1-2 minutes.
Cast: 1M, 1F
Publisher: Independent / Unpublished
Status: NPX / available upon request
Synopsis: A PLAYWRIGHT reaches the end of a very long journey… 28 days, to be exact. His SPOUSE is ready for it to be over as well, but for very different reasons.
NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/script/3223453/28-days-later-with-apologies-to-alex-garland