"Normal
Is A Country", 10 min, 1m 20's, 1f 40-50's Brian's memory, language and sense of self
have been damaged by a war injury. He and his mother Eva struggle over the strategies he must take to make himself whole
again. Finalist in the Actors Theatre of Louisville National Ten Minute Play
Contest 2009. Premiered at ID America Festival, Quo Vadimus Arts, NYC. Produced Rochester Repertory, Rochester,
MN, Playwrights Roundtable, Longwood, FL, Arts Center Live, Carrboro NC and Subversive Theatre, Buffalo. To order go
to Purchasing Copies and Rights
"The Weight" 15 min, 1m early 20's, 1f 16. Laurie, a talented 16 year old singer, visits
family friend and fellow musician, Eli, 20, planning to lose her virginity with him.
Eli has the sense and goodness to understand what Laurie really needs. Produced at NYC 15 Minute Play Festival, Rapscallion
Theatre Collective, NYC. To order go to Purchasing Copies and Rights
"Driver’s Ed."
10 min, 1m 30's, 1f 17. Patricia a precocious teenager,
daring yet fragile, reveals her grief over her father's death to a Driver's Ed. teacher she thinks is cool. Performed
at Delaware Ten Minute Play Festival, Wilmington, DE/2002 and Heartlande Theatre Company, Birnmingham, MI. Published
in "The Art of the One Act", a new anthology from Western Michigan University Press. Available at at Brooklyn
Publishers http://www.brookpub.com/default.aspx?pg=sd&st=Driver's+Ed.
"Trying On" 10 min, 1m 30's, 1f 30-40 A woman, isolated by her divorce, picks up a vapid businessman
in a bar. After their alienating sexual encounter, she confronts her personal myths more clearly than ever before. Published
in Eclectica Magazine www.eclectica.org/v11n3/schutzman.html Performed at Delaware Ten Minute Festival, Samuel French One Act Festival and
Love Creek Productions, NYC/2002. To order go to Purchasing Copies and Rights
Where Things Are", 10 min, 1m 30's, 1f 50's
A mother and her grown son, dressed in a party dress, celebrate his birthday, in a ritual of whacky mutual
assured destruction. Performed at New Jersey Reperetory, Manhattan Theatre Source, Delaware Ten Minute Festival, Outworks
at Louisiana State University and Strawberry One Act Festival, NYC. Published in Alaska Quarterly Review.
To order go to Purchasing Copies and Rights
"Necessary Poison", 10 min, 1m, 1f.
A funny, stylized take on a 20 year marriage in three quick scenes: the meeting, falling in and out of love.
Published in the Rockford Review. Premiered at the Delaware Ten Minute Play Festival/2003. To order go to
Purchasing Copies and Rights
"The First Day of School", 10 min, 3m, 3f. A play
in 9 scenes of 10 lines. Couples deal with love, hate, fear, and raising the kids in this riotous and poignant dramatic
poem. Produced by Cleveland Public Theatre, Delaware Ten Minute Festival and Hunger Artists. Read
it at Cafe Irreal http://home.sprynet.com/~awhit/schutzman2.htm To order go to Purchasing Copies and Rights
"The Salesman", 15 min, 1m 30-40, 1f 30's
An obese insurance salesman angers, bewilders and finally seduces a stranger on a train with his odd behavior and the hypnotic
way he tells the amazing story of how he lost everything. Published in Poems&Plays/2002. Voted Audience
Favorite at Barebones Theatre 15 Minute Festival/2001. Read it at http://www.eclectica.org/v12n2/schutzman_salesman.html To order go to Purchasing Copies and Rights
"nailing the books shut", 20 min, 1m 30's,
1f 30's Joy and Robert are breaking up but unable to divide their books. When Robert starts hammering
nails through the disputed books, the couple discovers something they have lost. Premiered by Love Creek Productions,
NYC/2003. To order go to Purchasing Copies and Rights
"No Talking On The First
Date", 10 min, 1m 20's, 1f 20's Two ridiculously self-absorbed people erotically and riotously turn the rules
of blind dating upside down. Premiered at The Sex Plays, City Theater Company, Wilmington DE, 2007 and the International
Cringe Festival, NYC, 2009. To order go to Purchasing Copies and Rights
"The Better Part", 10 min, 2f 20's
At a relative’s funeral, pretty, favored Tracy,
21, and her much plainer sister, Valerie, 20, confront the origins of their tangled relationship, natures and fates. To order go to Purchasing Copies and Rights
"Bad Feet" 15 min, 1m late 40's, 1m 60's Late at night, at a public fountain,
two strangers, an eccentric, retired physician and a crusty waterman make a profound and moving connection around
mysteries of love, pain and loss. To order go to Purchasing Copies and Rights
