Short Plays

Dinner at the End of the World
1 W, 3 M (Has Also Been Produced as 2 W, 2 M and 4W)
(15 Minute Play)
The Apocalypse is nigh and the Four Horsemen are about ready to have their final meal together before the end at the only restaurant still open. A Denny’s in Moscow, Idaho. What happens when the harbingers of the End of Days get cold feet?

Produced at The Naked Stage’s 24 Hour Theatre Project, 2008
Produced at New Theatre’s Miami 1 Acts Festival, 2012
Produced by Lost Girls Theatre as a part of Micro Theater Miami’s Festival,
2015
Reading at Primal Forces, 2018

Keith Richards Reaction

“Andie Arthur’s clever Dinner at the End of the World was full of so many literary, religious and historical references that its wee gestation time was mind-boggling.” — Christine Dolen, Miami Herald, on the first 24 Hour Theatre Production

Choose Your Own Adventure: The Lost Chapter
2 W, 2 Any
(10 Minute Play)
Nora Smith was an ordinary woman with an ordinary job. One day she rediscovers her favorite choose your own adventure book from her childhood… and finds herself in multiple fantastical worlds. Except she still can’t find the words to let Josephine Heyer, her crush in HR, know that she likes her.

Produced at Theatre Lab’s Overnight Theatre Project, 2017
Reading at Theatre Lab’s New Play Festival, 2017
Reading at Primal Force, 2018
Reading at City Theatre,
2019
Reading at City Theatre,
2020

She Flies with Her Own Wings
3 W, 1 M
(10 Minute Play)
Michelle, an awkward teenager, confesses her devotion to her physics teacher at the school dance. It doesn’t go well… in some very unexpected ways.

Produced at Theatre Lab’s Overnight Theatre Festival, 2018
Reading at the Siren Series at Arts at St. Johns, 2018

With Great Cos-Play Comes Great Responsibility
3 W, 1 M
(10 Minute Play)
Samantha, a cos-player in a magnificent TARDIS dress, runs into trouble with her girlfriend when she fails to stand up to a homophobic comment.

Reading at The Dana Plays
Reading at Lost Girls Theatre’s The Future is Female Festival

Dueling Edwards
2 W, 2 M
(10 Minute Play)
Edward Rochester (from Jane Eyre) and Edward Cullen (from Twilight) battle for the mind and affection of a sixteen year old reader.

Finalist for the 2012 City Theatre Award for Short Plays
Produced in Lost Girls Theatre’s Super Shorts, 2013
Reading at the From Scratch: Short Plays Festival at the Deering Estate, 2012
Reading at Primal Forces,
2018

Abacus Jones: Boy Detective
1 M, 1 W, 2 ANY
(10 Minute Play)
Abacus Jones , Boy Detective, with his friend Catastrophe Calliope, solve the case of the Mysteriously Missing Mutts – using their wits, charm, and an absolutely astounding amount of alliteration.

Produced at The Naked Stage’s 24 Hour Theatre Project, 2009
Reading at Primal Forces,
2018

Performance Review
1 M, 1 W
(10 Minute Play)
Death gets a job performance evaluation.

Jovon Jacobs as Raziel and Stephanie Meskauskas as Death in Performance Review

Jovon Jacobs as Raziel and Stephanie Meskauskas as Death in Performance Review

“A dense, brainy piece” — Christine Dolen, Miami Herald

Produced as a part of The Alliance Theatre Lab’s Home, Sweet Funeral Home, 2012

You Can’t Just Walk Into Mordor
1 W, 2 M
(10 Minute Play)
It’s 2012 and Jason and Samantha are in line for a Midnight showing of The Hobbit, ten years after they and their college friends all bonded over the Lord of the Rings Movie Trilogy and five years after everything fell apart.

Produced as a part of Lost Girls Theatre’s Super Shorts, 2013
Reading at the From Scratch: Short Plays Festival at the Deering Estate, 2012