Find Your Way In
This is a licensing and teaching home rather than a portfolio. The plays here are meant to be ordered, studied, cut into scenes, rehearsed and staged, so every page ends with something you can actually do.
What this site is for
Read this firstThirteen plays, all available to licence, all available to read. Alongside them sit teaching material for classrooms, a record of what has already been staged, and a way to reach the playwright directly.
You do not have to read the site in order. Pick the path below that sounds most like you, or use the map at the foot of this page to go straight to what you came for.
Which one are you
Four kinds of visitorChoose one and the site remembers it, rewording the calls to action on every page you visit afterwards. Change it whenever you like.
Reading as .
If you teach
You want material that fits a term, a class, and a reading level, and you want to know what it costs before you put it on a syllabus.
Read the educator resources to see the scene packets, monologues and discussion guides that already exist.
Ask for a review copy of the collection so you can judge four plays against one another in one volume.
Invite Jeanmarie into the class for a session or a residency, in person or by video.
If you direct or produce
You need a script you can actually stage, with a known cast size, a known running time, and technical demands that suit your room.
Filter the catalogue by cast size or answer four questions and let the finder suggest three plays.
Order the scripts you shortlisted for twenty five dollars each, as a PDF or a hard copy.
Send a licensing enquiry with your venue, dates and ticketing, and a quotation comes back.
If you act or study
You are after solo material, audition pieces, or time in a room with someone who has carried a one woman play around the world.
Look at the solo pieces first where one performer carries the whole evening.
Read about actor training and how private coaching and small group work are arranged.
Write and say what you are working on and a monologue suited to you will be suggested.
If you read, or you are press
You want the work on the page, the person behind it, and forty years of coverage gathered in one place.
Begin with the collection four plays in one volume, with a foreword by Chuck Fager.
Read the biography from Nevada Shakespeare Company to Arizona Theatre Matters.
Browse the press archive and write for an interview, an image, or a review copy.
Or let the finder choose
Four questions, three suggestionsTell it the size of your company, the length of the slot you are filling, and the room you are working in. It reads all thirteen plays and returns the three that fit best, with the reason for each.
How many performers can you cast?
How long is the slot?
What is it for?
What should it be about?
Three plays for you
Everything on the site
Five sectionsStar plays as you go
Every play on the site carries a star. Press it and the play joins your shortlist, which follows you from page to page, so you can request them all in one message rather than writing about each title separately.
Still stuck, just write
If none of those paths is yours, send a sentence saying what you are trying to do. There is no wrong way to open the conversation, and a person reads every message.
New plays, new productions, twice a year
A short letter when a play is finished, when a production opens, or when new classroom material becomes available. Nothing else.