FELIX RACELIS.COM • SHORT PLAYS (10 minutes & Others)

  • Actortrap

    Comedy • 2M
    Run time: 9 minutes
    Could     Deathtrap hold any more surprises?  Two actors preparing for the play find out. 

  • Bride of Godzilla

    Comedy • 2M, 2 F
    Run time: 10 minutes
    Jessica and Stanley have a final chance to pitch a film project to a non-nonsense female producer.

  • The Cellophane Closet

    Comedy • 4 M
    Run time: 12 minutes
    Gay housemates prepare to march in the Gay Freedom Day Parade.  They discover that not every gay denizen
    of San Francisco is completely
    out of the closet.  

  • A Christmas Presence

    Comedy • 2 M
    Run time: 8 minutes
    A veteran actor auditions for a role in A Christmas Carol and reads for an up-and-coming young director. But the audition doesn’t go quite as planned.

  • Date ‘N Switch

    Comedy • 2 M, 1 F
    Run time: 10 minutes
    A retired mother asks her gay son for help lining up a date, but plans take an unexpected turn

  • Flipped Out

    Comedy • 3 M, 2 F
    Run time:  11 minutes
    TV anchor Filipina Cynthia Cruz overcame tough challenges to land her job.  But can she prevail over her biggest challenge:  her mother?

  • Forever Fog

    Comedy • 2 F
    Run time:     15 minutes Romance writer Eleanor enlists the ghost-writing talents of her sibling Abigail on her newest venture.  But major changes at her publishing house has forced her to make drastic modifications to her story.  During an intense rewrite, ancient rivalries surface, leading to some wild revelations.
    Notes: Finalist, Theatre Forty One-Act Play Contest

  • Garcon!

    Comedy • 3 M
    Run time:  10 minutes
    Jon introduces his new young conquest, Justin, to his older friend Dan, but remember what they say about best laid plans.

  • Gayer Than Laughter

    Dramedy • 2 M
    Run time:  10 minutes
    A middle-aged gay man extends a special invitation to an older gay friend who’s fallen on hard times.  It’s harder than he ever imagined.

  • Guys in the Wild

    Comedy • 5 M (or 4 M)
    Run time:  9 minutes
    During their weekly pandemic Zoom call, four gay friends in NYC discover that their laptops and devices aren’t the only items they can turn on.

  • Home Again

    Drama • 2 M, 1 F
    Run time 10 minutes
    Moving backward in time, we relive critical moments in the life of a young family that planned poorly. A very short play with a long rippling message, the audience is left to fill in the blanks.

  • House of Sticks

    Dramedy • 1 M, 2 F
    Run time:  12 minutes
    A young social worker's plans go up in smoke when her unhoused client, a former architect, confronts the shelter's major donor. Notes: Finalist, Fire Rose Productions' Second Annual Ten-Minute Play Contest; and Finalist, Sixth Annual Brisk Festival.

  • Love Bomb

    Comedy • 1 M, 1 F, 1 nonbinary
    Run time:  10 minutes
    Ian and Valerie enjoy a post-concert cocktail on date number three.  The evening goes swimmingly until the arrival of one of Ian’s friends, when things take a bizarre turn.

  • Love Me Chicken Tender

    Drama • 2 F
    Run time:  9 minutes
    Two sisters who have lovingly maintained their parents' roadside diner arrive at a life changing decision.
     

  • Mignon

    Comedy • 1 M, 1 F Run time:  10 minutes A young doctoral student hires a call girl with an exotic specialty: reciting 17th century French literature. Foreign language study has never been this much fun.

  • My Shayna Punim

    Drama • 2 F
    Run time:  7 minutes Some unexpected news threatens to disrupt a mother’s plans for a Hanukkah Zoom celebration with her daughter and her family.
     

  • Nectaril’s the Mutts Nuts

    Comedy • 3 F, 2 M, 2 nonspeaking either gender
    Run time:  8 minutes
    Charlotte, daughter of the Queen ant, seeks counseling help as she witnesses her life collapsing around her.

  • New Business

    Comedy • 2 M
    Run time:  8 minutes
    Roger and Ben, longstanding members of an organization in decline, discuss momentous new business.

  • Overdue

    Drama • 3 M
    Run time: 9 minutes
    A Vietnam army Vet visits his librarian son to take care of some unfinished business. Their encounter yields surprises for both.

  • Peanut Butter

    Comedy • 2 M, 3 F
    Run time:  12 minutes
    Family jealousies upend a leading Chinatown family’s celebration plans.

  • The People’s Prada

    Comedy • 1 M, 1 F
    Run time:  9 minutes Arabella decides it’s time for reluctant stepson Victor to spread his wings.

  • Post-Matinee Tristesse

    Dramedy • 2 M
    Run time:  12 minutes A flamboyant academic pulls out all the stops attempting to hold on to a young waiter with a mind of his own.

  • Re-play

    Comedy • 1M, 2 F
    Run time:  13 minutes
    A producer attempts his own brand of role-play therapy to deal with ghosts from his past, and hits pay dirt when he meets a gutsy surrogate mother.
     
     

  • Rock You We Will

    Drama • 2 M, 1 F,  or  1 M, 2 F
    Run time:  8 minutes
    A mother brings her troubled teenage son to a therapist for help.  With the aid of an experimental chair the son connects with the source of his angst, but at a significant cost.
     

  • SHHH!

    Comedy • 1 M, 1 F
    Run time:  12 minutes
    Neurotic library clerk Barry has a crush on co-worker Leslie, who, in turn, is enamored of a macho biker. Barry tries to entice Leslie into a date, with hilarious results.

  • Silver Linings

    Dramedy • 1 M, 2 F
    Run time:  10 minutes
    A widower meets with his two adult daughters to share some important life news, and finds it harder than he imagined.

  • Tel Aviv Take-off

    Comedy • 2 F
    Run time:  9 minutes
    A Southern matron visits her son who’s studying in Tel Aviv, and makes his university an offer that’s hard to refuse.  But did we say she’s got an agenda?

  • Tough Sell

    Dramedy • 1 M, 1 F
    Run time:  9 minutes
    A former Broadway leading man whose career is rapidly fading visits his longtime publicist and gets an unexpected surprise.

  • Tofurkey Dinner

    Comedy • 2 M, 3 F
    Run time:  10 minutes
    An eccentric couple invites the family over for Thanksgiving dinner with a twist:  tofurkey instead of turkey.  However, it’s not the only thing that upends this holiday tradition.

  • Uncommon Threads

    Drama • 2 F
    Run time:  12 minutes
    Wary of a snobbish museum staffer's motives, an African American retiree withdraws her quilt submission until she discovers they have more in common than just their ethnicity. Notes: Winner, First Place, Fire Rose Productions' First Annual Ten-Minute Play

  • UpLyfted

    Dramedy • 1 M, 1 F
    Run time:  7 minutes
    A Lyft driver, who’s recently experienced a life changing event, picks up a very special customer who’s ill prepared for some unsettling news.

  • What Would Barbie Do?

    Dramedy • 2 F
    Run time:  10 minutes
    An ambitious young college reporter discovers there’s more to a beauty contest than looks alone when she interviews an alumna vying for Miss Asian California.

  • When You Phish Upon A Star

    Comedy • 2 M, 3 F
    Run time:  23 minutes
    Rocked by revelations that her kiss with Prince Florian was nonconsensual, Snow White embarks on a new adventure to explore her origin story and to possibly become a real human herself. Pinocchio, the Mad Hatter, and other fairy tale personalities appear to help Snow White on a wild new journey of self-discovery.

  • The Wizard of Bras

    Dramedy • 2 M
    Run time:  10 minutes
    As an older gay man recovers from a heart attack, an old boyfriend and well-wisher appears and shakes things up.

  • Woof!

    Dramedy • 1 M, 1 F
    Run time:  12 minutes
    Lack of work has forced Chet’s grown daughter Lainie to move back home to regroup. With the help of a hand puppet, Chet musters the courage to confront his daughter about her dubious Internet sex surrogate business.