Life’s a Crap Chute (in the works) (5 Women, 3-6 Men (Menions) who make up the Greek chorus)
This black comedy centers on a quirky group of friends and family living in these times of uncertainty who must rely upon each other, whether they want to or not, to survive the bad and enjoy the good…the only constant in life is death so you need to grab a hold of what really matters while you are still around to enjoy it.
Two fame best friends, GEORG and ANDI, deal with the radomness of life and death in the time of two pandemics, AIDS (1999) and Covid 19 (2020). Act 1, 1999, when Andi, stricken with AIDS, attempts suicide, her lifelong friend Georg arrives just in time to stop her. Georg then enacts on a new mission, showing Andi that no matter how messy life gets it is a gift. Act 2, 2020, Georg and the rest of this quirky group who have survived Covid are all quarantined in Andi’s apartment. Andi is there too but only to Georg because she is a ghost who survived AIDS only to be taken down by Covid. Now Georg is the one who can barely function so Andi takes on the mission of helping her because Andi can never move on to a higher realm and be at peace until Georg has healed.
Day of the Dead (in the works)
A political/environmental thriller that takes place in Alaska. After a couple is brutally murdered and it is discovered that they were relocated to this town through federal witness protection, the female undersheriff finds herself taking the lead because she is an ex-internal affairs and homicide detective from Philadelphia and has had more experience with this type of case than anyone else in this small town.
Three Sides (in the works)
One family, three stories and how one little change with life, death or adoption alters some of their reality, but not all.
Bringing A Urine Sample To Hitler --
and Other Stories Of My Crazy Mother (in the works)
Episodic play comprised of stories about aging parents.
Ashes to Ashes (3 characters: 1 Woman, 1 Man, 1 either way)
A hostile ex-couple, card-carrying liberal SARA MORESLY and right-winger JEFFERSON CAMPBELL, are polar opposites about everything except their love and devotion for their two, newly deceased, filthy-rich best friends. These friends left them their enormous estate to be split evenly with one caveat - Sara and Jefferson must spend the next sixteen days, twenty-one hours and thirty-two minutes together, at all times, traveling to specific locations in Europe scattering their ashes while taking part in thrill seeking adventures and curltural rituals. Ensuring that they complete their journey and follow all of the instructions of the will “to a T” is the maser of disguise GUIDE. Sample pages of Ashes to Ashes
Biking With Andrew Scott (5 Women, 3 Men and 3-6 Minions (F or M who make up the Greek Chorus)
A dark comedy about the effect ANDY'S suicide has on those closest to him, especially that of his life-long, control-freak, best friend STEPHANIE. Trying desperately to hold everyone else's life together, hers quickly falls apart. Things get more and more complicated as Andy's ghost tries to "help," and his born-again mother, gay lover, and tarot card reader all interfere with Stephanie's plans. The play follows these colorful characters as they go through all of the stages of grief in order to come to terms with Andy's death.
Biking With Andrew Scott enjoyed a successful run at the Write Act Repertory Theatre in Hollywood, CA (April 10 - May 17, 2008)
The Tolucan had this to say: "Delivered with heartbreaking authority by playwright Debbie Bolsky, this story is at times gentle, brutal, clever and sweet, and always an incredible ride."
Backstage West stated: "The twist: From the opening scene onward, Andy appears as a ghost, and only Stephanie can see and speak to him. This plot device offers the production's best moments, thanks to several honest, tender moments, well-crafted by Bolsky and handled with reserved yet palpable emotion by Brown and Crabtree.”
Sample pages of Biking With Andrew Scott
What Would Mary Do? (4 Women, 2 Men and Mary Tyler Moore)
This offbeat comedy involves estranged best friends, JONI ROBERTS and LIZ CONROY, who battle it out over Liz’s decision to sue Mary Tyler Moore-- the person she holds responsible for her own, and all women’s emotional problems. As Liz takes the lawsuit even further, Joni does her best to stop it, ruining her own life in the process. Sample pages of What Would Mary Do?
Douds, Iowa (2 Women, 1 Body)
A 10-minute play. Now that UNCLE JIM has died, small-town mortician, KAT LINDSEY tries to escape from Douds, Iowa but Uncle Jim’s sister, AUNT MAY WEBBER, the town’s matriarch, has other plans.
It’s Only A Movie (5 Women, 4 Men)
This screw-ball comedy is about ALEXANDRA (Alex), a budding young filmmaker who, out of desperation, takes a job in the spiraling vortex in the marketing department of Monumental Studios. While trying to keep her values and dreams alive, she is constantly sucked into the crazy worlds of the wacky people she works with. Each of her twisted adventures echoes a different film genre.