Ten-Minute Plays

Matthew Schmidli and Richard Gorell

Mountaineers

A young man challenges the mountain to prove his courage. He finds paranoia a more daunting foe.

Mountaineers had its world premiere at the Fringe Shorts Festival at the Off Center Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri in 2009.

Directed by Bill Rogers

Cast

Matthew Schmidli, Richard Gorell, Nicole Hall

Richard Gorell and Jack McCord

04

A man in urgent need of blue skies and sea breezes learns about Homeland Security.

04 had its world premiere at the Fringe Shorts Festival at the Off Center Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri in 2009.

Directed by Bill Rogers.

04 was also presented as a staged reading at the Fishtank Performance Space during a Martin Tanner Monday in September, 2011.

Directed by Paul E. Orwick

Cast

Richard Gorell, Jack McCord

Jack McCord and Nancy Eppert

The Birthday Check

Mother is a man’s best friend so long as she remembers to sign the check.

The Birthday Check had readings at the Westport and Blue Springs branches of Prospero’s Bookstore during May, 2011.

Cast

Nancy Eppert, Linda Levin, Jack McCord

Feisty’s Choice

Free will or fate? Feisty confronts the perfect mystery on a dark and dreadful night.

Feisty’s Choice had readings at Prospero’s Books in Kansas City, Missouri in May, 2011 and at The Fishtank Performance Space during a Martin Tanner Monday performance in September, 2011.

Cast

Aaron Smithson, Tim Ahlenius, and Jack McCord