Open-Door Playhouse
Open-Door Playhouse is a monthly podcast harking back to live radio theater broadcasts. Created to introduce New Plays, New Writers, and… a wealth of unknown talent. Giving them the opportunity to have their works created in sound studios as opposed to live stage productions and presented on the Podcast as “Radio Productions.” Play submissions will be solicited online, outreach centers and word of mouth. Broadcasts will be once a month (to start) and grow as demand requires. Long term goal is to reach out to undeserved writing communities: prisons, school and community groups to provide an avenue to have their voices heard, via plays, short stories or poetry, and to establish Podcast as its own 501c3 organization.To submit your play contact:open-doorplayhouse@gmail.com
Episodes
Maggie and the Witch is a poignant one-act drama exploring the final days of Margaret Hamilton, the gentle former kindergarten teacher who portrayed cinema’s most famous villain, as she confronts an attendant harboring deep childhood trauma.
Bernadette Armstrong directs a cast that includes Camille Ameen as Maggie and Anne Cooper as Ruthie.
James Anthony Merolla is the playwright. A journalist wi...
A young man frozen in 2026 awakens more than a century later expecting a cure for cancer. Instead, he finds a world transformed by artificial intelligence, where humanity has achieved immortality—but may have sacrificed its future. As the last “unfixed” human on Earth, Wendell Benjamin must confront a question no one else can answer: What does it mean to save humanity?
Chriselle Almeida directs a ca...
Dead Man’s Hat is a play about change: life to death, romance to divorce, poor to rich and back again. When a man’s deluxe hat has been abandoned in a roadside bar, it may be a premonition of death.
Mimi Kmet directs a cast that includes Gary Lamb as Diggs, Danny Salay as Louie, Ayla Rose Barreau as Carla, and Larry Toffler as Oscar.
Vernon Hamilton is the playwright. His other plays include Mr. Br...
Can a chance encounter between two strangers, one a scientist, the other a free-spirit, lead to a truce over a disputed box of corn flakes? Anything can happen in the cereal aisle at the Publix supermarket in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Kim Hlavac directs a cast that includes Victoria Hoffman as Tamara and Brad David Reed as Edward.
Christopher Earl is the playwright. He is a New York City-based theatermaker who ...
On the morning of their son’s wedding, a sentimental mother and her joking husband struggle to let go of the little boy they raised---and discover that growing older does not mean leaving love behind.
Bernadette Armstrong directs a cast that includes Gary Lamb as Jeff and Cynthia Gravinese Brown as Julie.
Playwright Warren H. Gore is a member of the Dramatists Guild. His previous plays include Testaments...
Miriam anxiously waits to meet her new man; her dating app has confirmed he is a 99.9% match. Her heart jumps a beat as he enters the room and walks toward her.
Bernadette Armstrong directs a cast that includes Goreti da Silva as Miriam, Matt Foyer as Lucian, and Natalie Venturi as Jess.
Playwright Jeff Perlman served two terms as the Mayor of Delray Beach, Florida. He was subsequently the Chief Operating Offi...
A Sensitivity instructor is forced to return to Basic Training after making a careless remark while teaching a class.
Playwright Chriselle Almeida directs a cast that includes Swati Kapila as Sheila, Marisa Chandler as Donna, Zelda Kimble as Karen and Michael Harvey Fletcher as Nathan.
Ms. Almeida’s previous plays include Shakespeare’s Heroines at the Gynecologist (which was produced by Ope...
Carol is a street poet, cranking out poems on her typewriter for a dollar per poem. She encounters several people who buy her wares, including one who offers her a path to elevate her craft.
Severina Mijan directs a cast that includes Christine Uhebe as Carol, Rosemary Thomas as Noreen, Justice Davis as Matt, and Hessel Evelaar as Luca Diaz.
New York based playwright Steven Doloff’s plays have be...
While lying in his hospital bed, David reaches out to his estranged daughter Julie and her husband Robert and requests a visit to clear the air and apologize for all the cruel things he said and did in the past. Can she accept him as her father?
Mimi Kmet directs a cast that includes Noelle Evangelisti as Julie, David Mingrino as David, and Ernest McDaniel as Robert.
Author Martin Fogarty is a playwright and acting c...
Joseph is desperate to find help for his troubled trans daughter, Charlotte. He seeks the counsel of a renowned transgender activist, Jenna. But Jenna is the trans woman he bullied in high school. She has never forgiven him.
Bernadette Armstrong directs a cast that includes Noelle Evangelisti as Jenna, Gilbert Glenn Brown as Joseph, Gloria Tsai as Anne, and Camille Ameen as Clara.
Sasha Cohen is the playwright...
Julie loves Evan and wants to be his wife and have his children. Evan loves Jilie, but won’t give her that kind of future. There’s a reason for that.
Bernadette Armstrong directs a cast that includes Sue Gisser as Julie and Matthew Scott Montgomery as Evan.
Author Martin Fogarty is an Asian-American playwright and acting coach based in Oregon. He received his Master’s Degree at the University...
One night during the early years of the American Revolution, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin are compelled to share a room at a crowded inn. While the men have different temperaments, they are dedicated to the cause for the revolution.
Bernadette Armstrong directs a cast that includes Daamen Krall as John Adams, David Trice as Benjamin Franklin, Hessel Evelear as the Innkeeper, and Justice ...
Pat, an isolating, military veteran is asked to put his pain aside to be the father his adult son needs when the young man arrives unannounced… but will he be able to?
Gary Lamb directs a cast that includes David Purdham as Pat and David Andrew Calvillo as Zayne.
Chance Lang is the playwright. New York City born, and Los Angeles raised, Chance is a Writer/Director known for his original works Going Hom...
When an older woman comes to a hospital to collect her injured grandson, she meets a young man who turns out to be the grandson's boyfriend. As they wait for news, the two of them grapple with the generational differences between them.
Bernadette Armstrong directs a cast that includes Anne Cooper as Debra and Larry Coleman as Jace.
Barbara Lindsay is the playwright. Her plays and monologues have received over ...
Elena (she/her) meets up with her daughter Rox (they/them) a day late, to help Rox pack up their apartment after graduation from college with her Master’s degree. As they go through the piles of things to pack or discard the conversation between them delves into unresolved mother-child issues.
Bernadette Armstrong directs a cast that includes Julia Sanford as Elena and Christine Uhebe as Roxs.
Chance Lan...
A man and woman separately relate the story of the tragedy that brought them together and the love that redeemed them both.
Gary B. Lamb directs a cast that includes himself as The Man and Elaine Mello as The Woman.
Barbara Lindsay is the playwright. Her plays and monologues have received over 400 national and international productions. Among her previous plays are FREE, Snow White Who?, Sex in The Middle Ages...
A yearslong battle that involved a notorious baseball manager, a marshmallow salesman and a few swinging punches comes to a resolution at a dive bar in Pennsylvania.
Mimi Kmet directs a cast that includes Matt Foyer as Daniel, Goreti da Silva as Barb, Kenajuan Bentley as Pete, and Gary Lamb as the Cop.
Judith Isacoff is the playwright. She is the author of the books Adventures in Tuscany and Working Girl’s...
Gifted and successful novelist, Archie Lovecraft, is overworked and over stressed. He drinks too much and feels enormous pressure to stay on top in the literary world. In addition, he hates technology and denounces it at every turn. His best friend and I.T. specialist, George, is desperately trying to bring Archie into the 21st century and rid him of his old- school ways. One Halloween afternoon, Julia, Archie's com...
The Fall: High on the last branch of an oak tree, two aging leaves cling to one another on the last day of autumn. As others have already fallen, they reflect on warmth, beauty, and the terrifying mystery of what comes next. Their quiet conversation becomes a meditation on life, love, and loss.
Bernadette Armstrong directs Camille Ameen as Leaf #1 and Gloria Tsai as Leaf #2. Bart Lovins is the playwright. His oth...
While leaving the theatre one night, an actor is confronted by someone from his past.
Gary Lamb directs himself as Arlo, Larry Coleman as Spencer.
F.J. Hartland is the playwright. Based in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, he is the recipient of an M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University. The prolific writer’s previous plays include TED, Fat and Fiction, Games of the Mind, A Piano Player with Sad Br...
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