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Free Scenes for Teens

Scenes from published and new plays. If interested in entire play, links to publisher are provided.
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Scenes for classroom use.

FREE SCENES FOR TEENS  - Scenes suitable for classwork


Below are scenes from published plays as well as short scenes that have been used in short play festivals (Gone in Sixty Seconds - Brooklyn and United Kingdom), Hit and Run Festival (Spokane, WA) and published in anthologies. They are free for classroom use and drama clubs only (sorry but not to be used in festivals or student one-acts even if no admission is charged).

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Please contact me if you plan on using them in class so I can see where they wind up (your school, city and state). Please do keep my name on the scripts. Nothing may go to Youtube. Still photos are fine.

For uses other than class (competition, student one-acts where there is an audience, etc.), full rights must be obtained. I charge a nominal fee for use of ten-minute plays. (Usually ten dollars per performance.) Various arrangements can be made.

I have noted the published scripts and rights must be obtained through them. If no publisher is noted, rights can be made through me on the Contact Page. The plays/scenes running times vary from 2 minutes to ten minutes. The subjects are as varied as synesthesia, 9/11, the Holocaust, the White Rose Society, fairy tales and Native American folktales. Print, play and enjoy!


FREE SCENES FOR TEENS

FOR TWO

Cast: 2 - Both roles can be male or female 

New! The States Collection - Louisiana - Dirt Mounds - A teen's visit to Poverty Park yields the unexpected.
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New! The States Collection - North Dakota - The Enchanted Highway; 4 minute serio-comic discussion of art along the highway. 
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New! The States Collection - Connecticut - Defying Gravity; 5 minute comedy about a special intersection in Sterling, CT
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The States Collection - Delaware - Protect Our Chickens; 5-minute comedy about Delaware and chickens.
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Quarantined with Human - two minute comedy; Dogs are apparently happy with their humans sheltering in place. But not every cat is.
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Cast 2 - 1 male, 1 female
New! Remembering Margot; drama about Margot Frank (Anne Frank's sister). Scene with Margot and her classmate Jakob arguing over Romeo & Juliet.
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New! The States Collection - Indiana - All You Need is Love - romantic comedy; Is this really a proposal?
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New! The States Collection - Hawaii - A Bag of Chips and All That - Sure champagne and caviar in Hawaii can be very romantic, but have you ever had Taro Chips? Romantic comedy.
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New! The States Collection - California - Under the General Sherman Tree - Where Marion sees romance in trees, Nate sees statistics.
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New! The States Collection - Alaska - Moose Lips - Daisy's on a mission and it involves moose lips. Comedy. Note: There are kisses at the end.
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New! The States Collection - Arizona - an earnest young couple go looking for an engagement diamond in a diamond mine. Romantic comedy. 
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New! Louisa and Her Little Women - Louisa shows her mentor and teacher Henry Thoreau an early poem she wrote. Maybe she wants advice.
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Almost Mary - Bio of Mary Anning; serio-comic; Mary Anning (age 12) receives 2 books From Henry de la Beche (age 15)
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Soundscapes - a teen play about synesthesia; serio-comic; Iris and Tony are 13-14.
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The States Collection - Alabama: The Proposal; a monkey monument and a proposal.
Comedy
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The States Collection - New York - Water Lilies; a perspective on Monet's Water Lilies; serio-comic; 5 minutes
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Founding Daughters; A play about four young heroines from the Revolutionary War
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A Paper Forest - serio comic - a tale of climate change; excerpt from a ten-minute play
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My Brother's Gift - Drama - A brother and sister during the Holocaust. (True Story) Read full script at Stage Partners.
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My Brother's Gift - Holocaust drama; a brother and sister during the holocaust (True Story). Full script: Stage Partners.
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Under a Midsummer Moon - Drama (read publisher's script - Dramatic Publishing) Viet Nam, the Moon landing and magic
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Antigone in Munich - The Sophie Scholl Story -  Nazi Germany resistance. Drama (from a full length; read script from Stage Partners.)
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Antigone in Munich - The Sophie Scholl Story - Nazi Germany resistance. Drama (from a full length; read script from Stage Partners.)
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Antigone in Munich - The Sophie Scholl Story - Nazi Germany resistance. Drama (from a full length; read script from Stage Partners.)
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Bound by Stardust - drama - (from a full length; read script from Youth Plays Page) a tale about physics and grieving and healing
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Bound by Stardust - drama - (from a full length; read script from Youth Plays Page) a tale of physics and grieving and healing
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Letters from Lisette - fantasy (from full length; read script from Youth Plays Page) a fantasy of Franz Kafka writing letters from a doll
Scene with Lisette (a doll) and a singing Porpoise

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The States Collection - Maine - serio-comic - a 2-minute ditty starring the Northern Lights
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The States Collection - New Jersey - comedy - a 2-minute ditty about planting highways
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Escape - serio-comic - a 3-minute ditty
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Featured in The Best Scenes for Kids Ages 7-15, edited by Lawrence Harbison

Cast: 2 females

Almost Mary - Mary Anning (age 12) teaches Philippa (age 15) about fossil hunting
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The States Collection - South Dakota: The Sunflower Field
Serio-comic; two sisters plan on scattering their mother's ashes in a sunflower field.
 They have different memories of their mother.
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Soundscapes - a teen play about synesthesia; Iris and Mariel are 13-14. serio-comic.
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Soundscapes - a teen play about synesthesia; Iris and Mariel are 13-14; serio-comic.
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7 Weeks, 3 Days - drama; a close friend of Mari visits. Mari is sick. The visit is awkward. They are awkward. It's all awkward.
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Letters from Lisette - from full length; read play at Youth Plays page; fantasy of the letters Franz Kafka wrote from a doll; one character is a doll and the other is a poodle.
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Dear Anne from Nina - drama; pen pal correspondence between Anne Frank and Nina in Iowa. Read script at Stage Partners.
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Dear Anne from Nina - drama; scene between Anne Frank and Margot Frank. Read script at Stage Partners.
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Just in Case Texts - serio-comic; school shootings; two young teens
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By Candlelight - drama - full length play; teens and healing after 9/11. (read publisher's script - Playscripts)
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Shakespeare Unbound - comedy; Shakespeare mash-up. (read publisher's script - Dramatic Publishing) 
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Overscheduled - comedy - a 3-minute ditty
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It's Special - drama - a two minute play; A mother has a surprise for her teen daughter after some back-to-school shopping
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2 males
New! The States Collection - Oklahoma: What's in a Name? What do you do when your name is Peter Babbit and you're from Rabbit Cove Trap, Oklahoma? When do you own up to your name?
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Comedy

New! The States Collection - Nebraska: Child of the Corn; Xan's a corn farmer. Dan's fears he is turning into an ear of corn.
Comedy; fantasy
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Under a Midsummer Moon - drama from full length play (read publisher's script - Dramatic Publishing)
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La Bella Cinderella - from full length comedy for youth based on the Italian Cinderella (read publisher's script - YouthPLAYS)
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​1 male, 1 either male or female

The Fisherman and His Wife - full-length, fairytale comedy for young audiences (read publisher's script - Playscripts)
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1 female, 1 either male or female

New! Wisconsin - Why a Duck? A poet meets a duck on a bridge in Milwaukee. Comedy.
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New! Not in Our Town - docudrama; 5 minutes. Anna is babysitting when a brick is thrown into her charge's window. It haunts her. Sibling scene from One-Act Not in Our Town.
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FOR THREE

3 female
New! Remembering Margot - Scene where Bep, one of the helpers in the Secret Annex has a sleepover with Anne Frank and Margot Frank. Serio-comic
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New! The States Collection - Massachusetts - Bewitched,  Ghostly goings on in Salem, MA.
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1 female, 1 male, 1 either male or female

The States Collection - Colorado - Rocky Mountain Oysters; Who knew Colorado had Oysters? Comedy for "foodies."
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The States Collection - Vermont - One with Nature; 5-minute comedy
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2 male, 1 female

New! The States Collection - Iowa - The Boy With the Silver Triangle. Meredith Wilson is trying to write The Music Man and nothing is going right. (It took him ten years and 20 edits. Writing and composing is hard.)
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By Candlelight - drama - from full length play about teens coming together after 9/11  (read publishers script - Playscripts)
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2 female, 1 male
Letters from Lisette - adventure- fantasy; Lisette meets some alley-cats; from full-length youth play Letters from Lisette
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New! Remembering Margot - Anne Frank, Margot Frank, Peter Van Pels - a scene between the three young people hiding in the Secret Annex. Serio-comic.
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​3 either male or female
Tarred and Feathered - comedy; three kids trying to stage a protest when everything goes wrong
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CAST: 4

2 male, 2 female
My Brother's Gift - Holocaust Drama, fantasy "siren" scene on boat
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