My Plays - One Act Plays (produced)
THE FQ -- Winner "Audience Favorite" Best Play, 16th Annual New York City 15-Minute Play Festival; "Best of the Best" Selection, New American Theatre (Los Angeles)
Published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays, 2011 (Smith & Kraus)
Published in The Bar Mitzvah of Jesus Goldfarb & Other Short Plays
Comedy, 10-15 mins. (cast: 1 F & 1 M)
An aspiring writer finds her pilot script vulgarized by the requirements of cable TV.
THE BAR MITZVAH OF JESUS GOLDFARB -- Winner "Judges Choice" & "Audience Choice" Best Play, 17th Annual New York City 15-Minute Play Festival; Finalist, 2018 National Award for Short Playwriting; Judges' Choice, Finalist, Samuel French 2019 Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival
Published in The Bar Mitzvah of Jesus Goldfarb & Other Short Plays
Comedy, 10-15 mins. (cast: 1 M/F & 1 F)
Jason Goldfarb wants a new name for his Bar Mitzvah. This is a big problem for Rabbi Deborah Silverman.
MASHA: CONDITIONS IN THE HOLY LAND -- Winner "Jury Prize, Best Play" Fusion Theatre 2012 One-Act Festival & Finalist, Samuel French 2013 Off Off Broadway Play Festival
"A powerful work” -- Barry Gaines, The Albuquerque Journal
Published in The Bar Mitzvah of Jesus Goldfarb & Other Short Plays
Drama, 15 mins. (cast: 1 F & 1 M)
A lonely American Jew, a smart Russian prostitute, a shoddy room in the Holy Land. He wanted her to talk, or so he thought...
see the trailer from the World Premiere production here
THE NUDE SCENE -- Semi-Finalist: 18th Annual New York City Fifteen-Minute Play Festival
Published in The Bar Mitzvah of Jesus Goldfarb & Other Short Plays
Comedy, 10-15 mins. (cast: 1 F & 1 M)
Long-time friends VICTOR (27) and ANNA (27) have their first
big break, he as a film director and she as his leading lady,
IF .... VICTOR can get ANNA to do something she really, really doesn't want to do…
IT'S TERRIBLE WHAT WE DO FOR LOVE
Produced at the 45th Street Theater, NYC (2012)
Published in The Bar Mitzvah of Jesus Goldfarb & Other Short Plays
Comedy, 10-15 mins. (cast: 1 F & 1 M)
Truman Bluman needs a liver for his wife. Hospital administrator Darla Colloway needs Truman. She's ready to negotiate. Is he?
A black comedy.
THE THING WITH ALGO INSIDE -- Chosen: The New American Theatre (L.A.), 2017 Festival of New American One-Act Plays
Published in The Bar Mitzvah of Jesus Goldfarb & Other Short Plays
Comedy/Drama, 10 mins. (cast: 2 F; 2 M)
In the year 2650 four young people encounter one strange, frightening, long-extinct object.
DRIVING TO FLORIDA -- Chosen: 2016 Warner International Playwrights Festival Finalist: 2014 Drury University One-Act Playwriting Competition Semi-Finalist: 2013 LaBute New Theater Festival
Comedy, 30 mins. (cast: 1 M; 1 F)
Max wants to honor the new tombstone of the war-hero father whom he reveres too much; Mel wants to salvage her marriage to Max -- can his self-esteem and her passion survive a 1200-mile drive to Florida -- in the middle of July?
WHAT IT TAKES TO GET THINGS DONE IN WASHINGTON -- Chosen: City Theatre of Independence (MO) 2014 Summer Playwrights Festival
Drama, 10-15 mins. (cast 3 M)
Published in
The Bar Mitzvah of Jesus Goldfarb & Other Short Plays
It's 1957 and LBJ's only chance at the Presidency depends on doing the impossible: getting a Northern liberal and a Southern conservative to agree on a high-stakes bill that violates each one's core principles. How will he do it?
THE INVENTION OF THE LIVING ROOM
Barry Leibmann’s Review of “East Side Stories” at the Metropolitan Playhouse for the NYC TV show “Hi! Drama” May 3, 2013: “My favorite of the bunch, Andrew R. Heinze's , "THE INVENTION OF THE LIVING ROOM" ... has a lot of charm and humor.”
Comedy, 15 mins. (cast: 3 M + 1 F)
Before there were suburbs, a young Jewish builder in a Lower East Side tenement imagines a bigger, better kind of home, including -- dream of dreams -- a room just for living! The only thing standing in his way is his mother, and her parlor.
THE DNA BREAKDOWN -- Chosen: Hoboken Public Library One-Act Play Festival 2018
Published in The Bar Mitzvah of Jesus Goldfarb & Other Short Plays
Comedy, 10 mins. (cast: 1 F + 1 M)
Hannah's Jewish, Fred's black, or so they thought ... when a DNA test becomes a marital stress test. Who are we really? Are we free to choose? If we are, who will we be? And how? And if not now, when?
WOULD YOU LIKE A TISSUE? -- Chosen: New Jersey Rep, 2018 "Theatre Brut" Short Play Festival; Chosen, "Final Seven" by the Studio Players, Lexington KY, 2019 Ten-Minute Play Festival
Published in When the Circus Comes to Town: A Collection of 31 Short Plays
Published in The Bar Mitzvah of Jesus Goldfarb & Other Short Plays
Comedy, 10 mins. (cast 1 F; 1 M)
Lawrence thinks he’s about to see a circus; Vanessa thinks she’s about to see a play about a circus. But before the show ever starts, his inadvertent sniffling, and her annoyed offer of a tissue, launch this pair of strangers into a main event of another kind.
I CAN'T HELP IT! -- Chosen: Nylon Fusion Theatre Co. 2019 One-Act Play Festival, NYC
Published in The Bar Mitzvah of Jesus Goldfarb & Other Short Plays
Comedy, 10 mins. (cast 1 F; 1 M)
JONATHAN is enamored of his professor, MELISSA.
He's sure it's Fate. She's sure it isn't.
One of them must be wrong.
EXIT STRATEGIES -- Chosen: American Renaissance Theater Zoom-Play Festival, 2020, NYC
Dark Comedy, 10 mins (cast 2; gender neutral, F or M)
Published in The Bar Mitzvah of Jesus Goldfarb & Other Short Plays
CHRIS, a writer, makes a last desperate phone call to a company that caters to the suicidal.
The call is taken by JORDAN, a sales rep who delivers much more
than the product CHRIS had intended to buy.
AT LEAST SLIGHTLY - Grand Rapids 2019, Los Angeles 2022, Dallas 2024
"Top Ten Finalist" Actors Theatre, Grand Rapids "Living on the Edge" Festival, 2019
"A Light in Dark Places" Theatre Festival, the Stella Adler Academy of Acting & Theatre, Los Angeles 2022 and Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas 2024
Drama, 10 mins (cast:1 F, 1 M)
Published in The Bar Mitzvah of Jesus Goldfarb & Other Short Plays & forthcoming publication in The Best 10-Minute Plays of 2024 (Smith & Kraus)
Depleted by chronic depression, JENNY prepares to end her life, until husband JAY comes home from work unexpectedly. When she fails to persuade him to leave, he discovers her plan. She urges him to let her go, but he has a will of his own to get her to stay.
THE JERSEY WHO? -- "Official Selection: New Jersey" for the "Our Home States Play Festival"
Broom Street Theatre, Madison WI, July 26-Aug 17, 2024
Comedy, 10 mins (cast: 2 gender neutral M or F; 1 F)
Published in The Bar Mitzvah of Jesus Goldfarb & Other Short Plays
Bigfoot is doing really well. Certain that he’s the only indisputably real, hypernatural creature in human society, his only problem is an inflated ego. Then he gets
a phone call from someone claiming to be the Jersey Devil.
ADAM NAMES THINGS IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN -- Chosen: Spare Change Theater “In A New York Minute” play festival (NYC, 2010)
Comedy, 1 min. (cast: 1 M)
Adam is pretty pleased that he’s come up with a name for everything on earth, until he steps on something and realizes his work isn’t done yet.
PLEASE PASS THE SALT
Published: Contemporary One-Minute Plays, v. 2 (Fresh Words: An International Literary Magazine)
Comedy, 1 min. (cast: 2, any gender)
Two people, ONE and ZERO, sit at a table. ONE has an abundance of foods and tableware. ZERO has only a bowl of mush and a spoon. Things take a turn after ONE refuses ZERO's plaintive request to pass the salt.