Samuel French, Incorporated

An aspiring actress gets seduced into the world of "adult modeling" by a smooth photographer. When her life is ruined, the question remains, who is at fault?Author: Eric BogosianPublisher: Samuel...

Axoloris is set in an imaginary future in which humans rely heavily on virtual reality and robots. Five young friends are preparing for Earth Day, which is now also a celebration of Axoloris - a...

Two short stories by David Rabe come to life in this collection. In Danny Looks Back - based on Rabe's short story Things We Worried About When I Was Ten - an adult Danny Matz ruminates on his...

Jeanine is determined to improve her life. With sex. With dance. With new hobbies, like horticulture. But self-improvement is hard. Reclaiming your dreams is hard. And personal hygiene is really,...

A year after a school shooting claimed the life of his wife, Mr. Y finds himself teaching in the same classroom where the tragedy occurred. While being interviewed for the school yearbook, Mr. Y...

To cope with the absence of her father, neglect from her mother, and ridicule by her classmates, eighth grader Shelby Hinkley has put all of her time and energy into the only thing that matters in...

Jasper is lost in the living world. When you're failing classes, kicked off the swim team, and your family is on the skids, life can feel like it's going to hell. Yet, in all the disappointment,...

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are back on the case! An investigation into the Bohemian king's stolen letters cascades into an international mystery filled with spies, blackmail, and intrigue. With...

An adaptation of Sarah Ruhl and Max Ritvo's 2018 epistolary book, Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship, this intimate, poetic play explores the relationship between Sarah and her former...

A theatrical retelling of the little-known Medusa origin story. Before she was one of the greatest mythical monsters of all time, Medusa was a kind, beautiful sea nymph in Athena's service...

In the New Normal, two sisters face a big tech dystopia. Sunlight, founded by a boy genius, has expanded during the Pause, bringing every corner of our lives InLight. Now folk hero Professor Lin...

As the nation's leading short play festival, the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival fosters the work of emerging writers, giving them the exposure of publication and representation...

Polly Porter, famous 1970s gospel singer of the group Polly Porter & the Praise His Name Singers, has gone on up to heaven. Her daughter, Caroline, has come home to Savannah, Georgia, to pack up Miss...

For Pete the Cat, life is an adventure no matter where you wind up. So the minute the groovy blue cat meets The Biddles, he gets the whole family rocking. That is, except for young Jimmy Biddle, the...

Based on the Photo Memoir Pictures from Home by Larry Sultan In the 1980s, Larry Sultan spent a decade photographing and interviewing his parents, Irving and Jean Sultan, and unearthing the memories...

Meet Kenneth, a thirty-eight-year-old bookstore worker who spends his evenings sipping mai tais at the local tiki bar. When he's suddenly laid off, Kenneth finally begins to face a world he's long...

Rez Politics - Drama, 2 boys - In a field in Montana, two ten-year-old boys are fighting over their perception of one another's mixed-race heritage. Gerald comes from Black American Indian heritage,...

Simmering between two Puerto Rican sisters is a family tension that finally comes to a boil. Forced to confront the reality of their father's rapidly declining health, Renata and Caridad clash over...

Inspired by the real-life journey of the author's mother (Reina Quijada) from El Salvador to the U.S., and by L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Somewhere Over the Border embraces the...

Williamson, West Virginia has been aptly nicknamed "Pilliamson" as long as the Attridge sisters have called it home. In the wake of their mother's overdose, the two sisters have taken very different...

Can an altered past lead to a better future? A touching story of fate, second chances and accepting what we can't change. Jasmine Starr-Kidd is a 12-year-old computer genius who can hack into the...

Below by Malena Pennycook (2 women) - After losing her home to a California wildfire, Anara joins her cousin for a shocking marine expedition. A surrealist short that interrogates the sense we'll...

In a small Russian city hundreds of miles from the capital, three sisters with big dreams - and the men who love them - struggle to manifest their hopes for the future against a tide of constant...