Plays
For perusal script samples, please send an inquiry email to ryan.stevens.creative@gmail.com
All scripts can be found on New Play Exchange.
Full-Length Plays
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Static-Head
Cast Size 8 - 9 (6-7 F, 2M)
Sensor-E is the hit new social media app, able to simulate real-life sensations, so you can touch, taste, and smell everything you see on your screen. At the prestigious Osman-Haskill University of Technology, strange things are happening on Sensor-E: visions of dead students, impossible monstrosities stalking the halls, and students going missing. Three kids are drawn into a vast, strange conspiracy as their understanding of reality itself is threatened. When we can approximate reality, how do we find the real thing?
An anti-AI sci-fi thriller about the internet and the people it uses.
Art by Kyle Aaron Smart
The Last Living Gun
Cast Size 7 - 10 (5 F, 2 M, 3 flexible)
In the far future, guns (and all metal) are a thing of the past...mostly. A courier rides across the country to hunt a rumor of the last gun in the world, and finds worlds of chaos, memory, and history along the way. A Wild Western/vaudeville/post-post-apocalypse about trauma, survival, storytelling, and the pain of change.
Poster by Ronnie Smith
I Build Giants
Cast Size 6 F, at least 1 trans/ nonbinary
An Engineer and a Technician, an Executive and a Volunteer, an Astronaut and a Monitor, an Ace; I Build Giants follows the complications and fall out of a huge new invention navigating the pulls and corruptions of capitalism, mega-corporations, politics, and ego.
Radio Play version at: https://ibuildgiants.buzzsprout.com/
Art by Urvashi Lele
Busted Open
Cast Size 8 (6 F, 2 M)
Six women wrestlers are scrapping for a spot at the top of the card. Sunset Lee's willing to do anything to succeed, even selling her soul to the bosses. Women's Champion Artemis needs time off, badly. Hot new thing Rachel "Victory" Vance is tired of being disrespected, and old veteran Painkiller can't keep the peace forever. When management learns of plans for a potential wrestlers' union, the locker room becomes a locked room mystery, as egos and fists collide.
This script is published through Muddy Ford Press.
Frankenstein's Bodies
Cast Size 7
A queer, body-horror soaked spin on the Frankenstein formula.
The Doctor has created their ideal body. The Creature has been thrust into life. They hear the voices of the lives they've lived, the bodies that make their shape. Doctor and Creature, creator and creation, are horrified and fascinated by each other. Their experiments must continue.
BRICKGIRL
Cast Size 7
IThere's a rumor going around that if you hate someone enough, BRICKGIRL will kill them. She's skinless, soaked in blood, and howling in pain. She shows up, beats someone to death with a brick, then disappears. No one knows the rules. We all want her to kill the right people. Everyone wants her to kill someone. When there's nowhere else to turn, when no one can help you and nothing gets better, there's BRICKGIRL.
Outlaw Song
Cast: 10 (6W, 3M, 1 Flexible)
A surreal shootout in a mock-up of the Wild West! Outlaw Billie Baxter and US Marshal Roberta Weiss hunt each other down in a world of cannibals, thieves and lucha libre wrestlers. But as they get closer to finding each other, it becomes unclear who wants to catch who and who wants to get caught.
Poster by Ryan Arambula
Player King
Cast Size: 12 (8 W, 4 M)
Egos clash when a struggling theater company puts on Hamlet and one actor, snubbed for the title role, vows revenge. Lazy set designers, bloodthirsty actors, egotistical directors, and assistants trying to do all the work, all done in Iambic Pentameter!
This play has been published by Stagescripts Ltd.
Image by Kevin Bush
The Bee-Man of Crighton County
Cast Size: 7 (5 W, 2 M)
Julie Guest has hit rock bottom and returned to her backwoods hometown. There she finds a mystery brewing around the neighborhood hermit, a man with a house full of bees and secrets that everyone wants their hands on.
*Presented as part of the Horizon Theatre's Young Playwrights Conference
Image by Kevin Bush
The Beast
Cast Size: 6 (3 W, 3M)
An awkward teenager struggles with his feelings for another boy at school. And then that boy turns out to be Satan. A possessed John Hughes movie about identity, self-expression, and kissing.
Poster by Jerry Ng
Grace & Thomas
Cast: 1 W, 1M
Thomas Gainsborough, English Landscape and Portrait painter.
Grace Dalrymple Elliott, Scottish-born French Socialite and survivor of the French Revolution.
When Gainsborough paints a portrait of Grace, they begin a torrid, decade-spanning connection that stretches through both their lives and beyond history.
One Act Plays
Gershwin's Last Ride
Cast: 1 W, 2 M
Gershwin, a prize-winning bull, goes one-on-one with the hottest pro bull rider today, AJ Hawkins. Gershwin's renowned for his fury, and just might snap again. In ten minutes (and eight seconds), these two champions clash and leave forever changed.
A radio play version, via Whiskey Radio Hour, is available for download here.
Gershwin's Last Ride is also published in LineStorm Playwrights Presents: Go Play Outside: Twenty-Five Short Plays Written for the Great Outdoors
Blue Moon
Cast Size: 1 W
Rebecca Blue, daughter of world famous wrestler Beloved Blue, is poised to win the women's championship for the first time. But to get here, she's had to fight for her chance-- against her family, against her name, for her gender and for her generation. How did she make it this far? How long will she be at the top in a business where success is pre-determined?
The Rockefeller Special
Cast Size: 5 (2 W, 3 Flexible)
John D. Rockefeller, America's Patron Saint of Greed, gets the spotlight as five flexible players depict the corporate mogul's entire life in fifteen scandalous minutes.
Growing Up Wonderland
Cast Size: 5 - 10 W, 2 - 6M, flexible
A modern spin on Alice in Wonderland--Alice is graduating high school tomorrow, at stands at a crossroads in her life. When a chance encounter with a toy from her childhood sends her spiraling, she finds herself in a bold, scary, ridiculous new world, and it looks a lot like adulthood.
*Winner,
Best in the State,
South Carolina Theater Association,
2018