I'm Alex OBT. I spent seven years working in drama programs on various summer camps in New England. Over that time, I became frustrated with the range of scripts that were available for me to put on, as well as the high licensing fees that often made them impossible to stage on my budget. So for the last three years running a camp drama program, I decided to write my own scripts instead.

 

A couple of years after that, I realized that people running other drama programs might be in the same situation, so I've put this site together to publicise and share my scripts. 

 

My scripts are written with the needs of a camp, school, or any children's theatre group in mind. They have cast sizes of 25-70, with plenty of flexibility and suggestions for how to increase or reduce parts easily. They are between 60 and 80 mins long, with options to cut them shorter. They're non-musical, though could feature songs and instrument playing if your cast would like them to. Complicated technical elements are possible, but never necessary. They're appropriate for an age range of 6-15, and have varied roles within them that make them enjoyable to a mixed-age group. Scenes are written to contain totally separate groups of actors, making them easy to rehearse in separate classes and then combine at the last minute. Main parts are kept as small as possible, and spread between many roles, to prevent too much glory or line-learning pressure from falling on a small number of heads, while even one-line parts are written to allow those actors a moment of glory. Finally, I hope that they're all funny and entertaining to watch, with strong stories and characters!

 

My scripts are all licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. I’m making these scripts available online mainly because I’d like to see them get used and enjoyed in other school, camp, or youth theatre productions, rather than make a profit from them. You have my permission to download them, tweak them to meet your own needs, and perform them. All I ask is that you attribute the script to me (and my co-authors where applicable), and let me know if you're staging it!

 

I would also be grateful to receive a donation proportional to the budget of your production, if you can spare it: suggested donation £10 / $15.

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This site is no longer being updated. My scripts are still available to download below - but you can find the latest versions, and more, over at my new author site - with my workshops available at my improv resources site​!