Playwright Credits – Steven J Satta

A Distaff Tale

Cast Size: 5
Genre: Drama, Dark Fantasy, Myth
Running time: 10 minutes

Production History

Reading: Valdez Theatre Festival Fringe

Synopsis

Three supernatural beings watch Olivia’s life play out in a series of all too familiar events. Can this cycle be broken, they wonder?

Going Rogue

Cast Size: 4
Genre: Comedy
Running time: 10 minutes

Production History

Synopsis

Two executives lock horns over protocols and practices. When one decides to leave for good, the other takes steps to tarnish their reputation and ensure their downfall.

End of the Line

Cast Size: 3
Genre: Comedy
Running time: 10 minutes

Production History

Synopsis

It’s 1am and Maureen and Gordy are arguing in a subway car. He thinks he wants a divorce, and she’s headed home to Mother. When the Conductor interrupts to ask them to exit the train, he and Maureen make an unexpected connection.

Ben and Ray

Cast Size: 2
Genre: Dark Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ
Running time: 10 minutes

Production History

Synopsis

Ben and Ray met at a grief support group and have become not-quite-friends who hook up after the meeting each week. Tonight a freak storm makes Ben spend the night at Ray’s place and the relationship takes a turn.

Note: Adult Language and Sexual Situations

Hooked

Cast Size: 3
Genre: Comedy, Romantic Comedy, LGBTQ
Running time: 30 minutes

Production History

Production: Think Pink! Festival, Pink Pen Theatre, Baltimore

Synopsis

A comedy about heartbreak, crafting, and anchovy pizza. Anna’s life is upended when her girlfriend dumps her. She is spiraling into near-madness when her Grandmother sends her a huge box of yarn and a crochet hook. With the help of her friend Casey, and advice from Betsy Ross and other famous women, Anna stitches her life back together one granny square at a time.

The Thousandth Crane

Cast Size: 3
Genre: Drama
Running time: 10 minutes

Production History

Production: Audience Favorite: ARTFactory Rooftop Short Play Series
Production: Theatre Workshop of Owensboro, KY

Synopsis

Lizzie, a transplant recipient, wishes to thank her donor family in person. When they decline to meet, she decides to send a gift expressing her gratitude. But what do you give two grieving parents? Lizzie’s gift has an unintended effect and sets them on a path no one could have foreseen.

The Thrill

Cast Size: 4
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, LGBTQ
Running time: 10 minutes

Production History

Judges Choice – Short + Sweet Hollywood

Synopsis

David and Ben are happily married. Or are they? When David feels he’s no longer getting attention from his spouse, he grows a bit restless. A short comedy about Star Wars, cars, and spicing up a marriage in middle-age. Note: contains adult themes, profanity, and sexual situations.

Winter’s Roost

Cast Size: 5
Genre: DocuDrama/Historic, Drama, Fable/Folktale, Political, Verse, Climate
Running time: 10 minutes

Production History

Reading: Troy Foundry Theatre
Finalist: Red Bull Theatre Short Play Festival

Synopsis

Based on actual events. When Troy, New York becomes the winter roost to a large group of crows, the town attempts to drive the birds out rather than deal with their noise and mess. This course of action is supported by those who wish to open Troy’s Sacred Forest for housing and commercial development. A short verse play in the style of Greek drama, which deals with ecological and environmental issues.

Fire Escape

Cast Size: 3
Genre: Comedy, Farce, LGBTQ
Running time: 10 minutes

Production History

Production: Actor’s Theatre of Santa Cruz
Production: Radio Play/Podcast, Broken Arts Entertainment
Reading: Small Acts of Pride, Towson University Summer at the Center Festival

Synopsis

When Nick locks himself out of his apartment, he asks the nice gay couple downstairs for help and is shocked to find out who they really are. A verbal comedy of errors reminiscent of the classic routine “Who’s On First?”

Clifton Manor – Where Dreams Come True

Cast Size: 3
Genre: Comedy
Running time: 10 minutes

Production History

Production: Weathervane Playhouse, OH – Eileen Moushey Short Play Festival

Synopsis

Antoinette really wants to move up at her job at Clifton Manor – a themed banquet hall. When she’s assigned to train a new employee, it’s her chance to prove she is “management material”. Her trainee Becca, however, is pretty much unmanageable.

Lily, Arthur

Cast Size: 4
Genre: Dramedy; Play with music, 1940s, Military, LGBTQ, Drag
Running time: 2 hours

Production History

Baltimore Playwrights Festival – Reading
City Theatre, Miami, City Reads Program – Reading
Towson University Department of Theatre Arts – Workshop presentation

Synopsis

Private “Mac” McAllister is assigned as accompanist for Miss Lily Arthur, a singer who entertains the troops, and who is the drag alter ego of Captain Arthur Lily. When Mac is asked to do a “sister act” with Lily, he finds himself at odds and in a romantic tangle with Arthur and Captain Connie Heller of the Women’s Army Corps. The play traces Mac’s awakening as a proud gay man on the threshold of the post-war homophile movement.

Something Blue

Cast Size: 2
Genre: Drama, 1930s; Transgender; LGBTQ
Running time: 10 minutes

Production History

First Place Award – 10:4:Tenn National Playwriting Competition, Mississippi University for Women
Mid-West Dramatist Conference, KS – reading

Synopsis

Alma Shepard is bubbling with excitement preparing for her daughter Leslie’s wedding. When Leslie makes a dramatic announcement, more than just the wedding is thrown into chaos. Set in St. Louis in 1937, Something Blue takes inspiration from the work of Tennessee Williams.

Floating Down to Camelot

Cast Size: 7
Genre: 1970s period, Romantic Comedy/Dramedy, LGBTQ+
Running time: 2 hours

Production History

Reading: UP Theatre Company, NYC – Mid-Winter Reading Series
Reading: Baltimore Playwrights Festival
Production: Spotlighters Theatre, Baltimore

Synopsis

It’s 1977 and things are looking up for Prof. Julian Chapel – he has a new exhibition and a new boyfriend. But scandal erupts when the Dean believes a homoerotic painting is a portrait of Roberto, one of Julian’s graduate students. An older, closeted colleague advises Julian to remove the painting, but Roberto wants him to fight for artistic freedom. Before Julian can decide, the painting mysteriously disappears. Set in the early days of the modern gay rights movement, Floating Down to Camelot is a comedy about love, art, and finding allies in unlikely places.

Shifting

Cast Size: 5
Genre: fantasy, horror, mystery/thriller, LGBTQ
Running time: 1.5-2 hours

Production History

Fells Point Corner Theatre, Baltimore – Salon Reading Series

Synopsis

Conor and Anya have a bucolic life in a cozy cabin in the woods outside a small town where she teaches elementary school, and he sells hardware. When Mark shows up unexpectedly, down on his luck and with nowhere to live, they open their home to him. As Mark’s true nature and intentions are revealed, their peace is shattered. No one and nothing are what they seem, and even the laws of nature seem to be shifting.

The Raft

Cast Size 3
Genre: adaptation, drama, fantasy, period, political, LGBTQ
Running time: 90 minutes

Production History

Mid-America Theatre Conference, Pitch-Your-Play – excerpt reading
Valdez Theatre Conference – full reading w/ critique

Synopsis

The Raft is a queer re-mix of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, and explores the integration of our intellectual capacities and physical appetites. Phillip, the son of the Duke of Milan, is exiled for refusing to support his father’s imperialist ambitions. He lives at sea on a raft kept afloat by his magic. His other needs are supplied by his mother Galene, a Sea Nymph. Reality intrudes when Fernando, a sailor, climbs onto the raft after his ship is destroyed in a tempest. As Fernando heals from his injuries, the two men bond. That relationship is tested when Galene reveals her hidden agenda for her son.

NOTE: adult themes and language, depiction of sexual activity.

The Raft

Something Blue

Fire Escape

The Thousandth Crane

End of the Line

Shifting

Lily, Arthur

Winter’s Roost

Hooked

Going Rogue

Floating Down to Camelot

Clifton Manor – Where Dreams Come True!

The Thrill

Ben and Ray

A Distaff Tale