By Joan Ross SorkinSynopsisTwo strangers have a wacky encounter in the waiting room of a New York City psychiatrist’s office. Is waiting for the doctor worth it? [1M, 1F, unit set]Production HistorySamuel French Off-Off Broadway Play Festival (2003) Greenville...

By Joan Ross SorkinSynopsisSet in the tiger park in Ranthambhore, India, an American woman brings her British husband on safari to see the profligate habits of the tiger to force him to confront the bitter facts of their own family life in hopes of repairing their...

By Joan Ross SorkinSynopsisA staid English teacher’s life takes an unexpected turn when asked to teach a sex education class at a British grammar school. [1M, 1F, unit set]Production HistoryEmerging Artists Theatre, NYC (2003) Short Play Lab, Last Frontier Theatre...

By Joan Ross SorkinSynopsisSparks fly when a street-wise Bronx teen, who has signed on to be a little brother in the Big Brother/Big Sister program, learns that his big brother’s motives may be less then altruistic after discovering that his big brother’s lesbian...

By Joan Ross SorkinSynopsisAn offer by a desperate woman in mid-life to give her unborn child to her brother, a world–class cellist, wreaks havoc on his relationship with his gay partner, a Minimalist painter. Is the offer a gift from the heart or merely a ploy to...

By Joan Ross SorkinSynopsesFive one-acts that explore the Jewish experience with themes ranging from the Holocaust, inter-marriage and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Plays can be mounted together for a complete evening of theatre or individually in an evening of one-acts....

By Joan Ross SorkinSynopsesTen one-act plays in which ordinary people take extraordinary risks to survive in their own environment. The plays comprise an evening of theatre, mounted with an ensemble of actors or individually in an evening of one-acts. [4M, 6F]...

By Joan Ross SorkinSynopsisThe Sacrifice explores man's priorities in matters of love, family, friendship, and faith through a contemporary retelling of the biblical tale, “The Binding of Isaac.” The play revolves around the life of headstrong Claudia Hubbard-Thorne,...

By Joan Ross SorkinSynopsisBe careful what you wish for… Hiccup and a Wink is a gritty, four-character play about hopes and dreams and how far people will go to attain them. Set in a run-down trailer in Chattanooga, TN in the summer of 2007, the play is the story of...

By Joan Ross SorkinSynopsisHamlet in Bensonhurst is a “re-imagining” of Shakespeare’s Hamlet set in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, 1969. It is the story of a young man’s struggle with personal loss in a time of war and domestic upheaval. Harry Schotenfeld, a...