Telling Tales

An exciting and varied collection of contemporary one-act plays from some of today's best playwrights.Telling TalesMigdalia Cruz Telling Tales
Christopher Durang The Actor's Nightmare
Maria Irene Fornes The Conduct of Life
Athol Fugard Statements after an Arrest under the Immorality Act
Percy Granger Vivien
Richard Greenberg The Author's Voice
Zora Neale Hurston, Adapted by George C.Wolfe, Story in Harlem Slang (from Spunk)
David Henry Hwang The Sound of a Voice
David Ives Sure Thing
Howard Korder Fun
Eric Lane Dancing on Checkers' Grave
Shirley Lauro The Coal Diamond
Adam Lefevre Americansaint
Craig Lucas Throwing Your Voice
Terrence McNally Andre's Mother
Arthur Miller I Can't Remember Anything
Richard Nelson Flyer (from Roots in Water)
Harold Pinter Mountain Language
Keith Reddin Throwing Smoke
José Rivera Slaughter in the Lake
David E. Rodriguez I'm not Stupid
Samuel Schwartz Vito on the Beach
John Patrick Shanley The Red Coat
Nina Shengold Finger Food
Jonathan Marc Sherman Women and Wallace
Katherine Snodgrass Haiku
Ara Watson Final Placement
Barbara Wiechmann Feeding the Moonfish

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Eric Lane has edited 12 contemporary play anthologies for Viking Penguin and Vintage Books with his longtime collaborator, Nina Shengold, earning them a Lambda Literary Award nomination. Eric's plays have been performed in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, and China, and include Ride, Floating, Heart of the City, Times of War, and Dancing on Checkers' Grave. Eric wrote and produced the short films First Breath and Cater-Waiter, which he also directed. For TV's Ryan's Hope, he received a Writers Guild Award. His honors include the La MaMa Playwright Award, the Berilla Kerr Award, plus fellowships at Yaddo and St. James Cavalier in Malta. Eric is an honors graduate of Brown University, and is the artistic director of Orange Thoughts Productions, a not-for-profit theater and film company in New York City.