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Adam Szymkowicz

Full Lengths and Long One Act Plays
(samples in pdf format, please email for full scripts)

Pretty Theft (90 min)
An autistic man obsessed with ballerinas. A kidnapper. A waitress. Two girls in a stolen car running from a funeral and some unpleasantness in a group home.

Nerve (80-90 min)
A play about falling into a relationship on a first date. See modern dance and a marionette.
**(Published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.)

Deflowering Waldo (60 min)
Comedy about a 24-year-old ultra-phobic virgin.
**(Published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.)

Food For Fish (110 min)
Bobbie drops pages from his novel into the Hudson River. The pages tell a story of three sisters: a stalker, an agoraphobe (played by a man in drag), and a scientist with a plan to isolate and eliminate the gene for love.
**(Published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.)

Open Minds (90 min)
Orwellian dark comedy about terrorism, brainwashing, the family unit, and Mother America.

Never Again (60 min)
Three soldiers out in the desert in love with one another given the task of finding Osama. The President wants to be a great painter. He also wants unlimited terms of office. Perhaps he can accomplish his goals with the help of the CIA and the unwitting Cheney.

Herbie, Poet of the Wild West (80 min)
A cowboy comedy/tragedy about a poet who comes home from New York to the wild west after his uncle kills his father.

Incendiary (90 min)
Elise is a pyromaniac fire chief who falls in love with Jake, the detective investigating her fires. Carrie, Elise's therapist, is trying to get her to stop lighting fires and Carrie's husband, Gary, is leading the life of a somewhat ineffective corporate spy.


Short Plays

Snow (10 min)
Adrift in a snowstorm in New York.

Save (5 min)
A monologue with interruptions. Produced in Los Angeles and Michigan and Idaho.

Sad (10 min)
Co-written with Kristen Palmer

High Noon (10 min)
Looking for a real cowboy in the modern west.

America at War (10 min)
Comment on the way we wage war. Produced in NYC and London.

Film Noir (10 min)
A parody.

Smashing Eyes and Little Folded Hands (5 min)
Language created from love at first sight.

Mask (5 min)
Quick change with masks.

Soup (15 min)
Infidelity, a dead mother and soup. Produced in London and Lithuania.

Golden Town (10 min)
A Dr Seussian epic.


Screenplays

Bicycles For Fish- (Feature) Romantic comedy about a New York bike messenger searching for love.