The Screenhouse O'Fallon 900 Caledonia Pkwy O'Fallon, MO 63368
Tickets coming soon
Explore the plays
Waiting for the Sun
By Michael Casano
Synopsis
A marriage counselor’s latest patients open an unexpected door into her past.
Michael Casano
Michael Casano is an award-winning playwright whose works have been performed at theaters and play festivals across the United States. His full-length play, A Hell of a Time, received staged readings by Chicago Dramatists in Chicago, Illinois, and Waterloo Bridge Theater in New York City. His one-act play, Who Knew?, has earned numerous honors and productions, including Third Place at the Eighth Annual ShowOff! Short Play Festival at California’s Camino Real Playhouse. The play has also been featured in the Festival of Ten Playwriting Showcase at SUNY Brockport and the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival in New York, and was a finalist in Theatrix’s “Drop Your Shorts” One-Act Play Festival. Casano has written numerous other one-act plays, including Written in the Stars, Double Exposure, Hey, Tom!, Prom Night, A Friendly Game of Clue, and This Is a Stickup.
The Sixth Month of the Year
By Ben Henderson
Synopsis
A young man and an aging woman meet up again ten years after her son’s suicide and discover they each had something to do with his death, she out of negligence and he because he loved the boy too much. Can they move out of years of regret and grief and finally, together, forgive themselves and move on with their lives?
Ben Henderson
I have written two novels, over 20 plays, five screenplays and a plethora of memoirs based on growing up in the South. My plays have been performed off-Broadway in New York and in Europe where they got a very positive reception. This summer my play You Were So Kind to Me will be performed in New York. I also paint and my work has seen 25 exhibitions in New York and regionally.
The Basement of Greatest Happiness
By Mathew Green
Synopsis
Twenty minutes after the first nuclear weapon strikes American soil, three people wait in a basement for what comes next.
Mathew Green
Mathew Green is a Midwest playwright whose plays have been performed in Chicago, New York, and all over the U.S. He has created theatre in central Illinois for nearly 30 years as a playwright, director, and actor. He lives in Champaign, IL with his stage manager wife and four kids.
Thirty-Five Candles
By Melissa Jordan Grey
Synopsis
At their thirty-five-year high school reunion, former best friends Kate and Trudy hide out in the coach’s office and finally confront the secret that destroyed their friendship. As the Homecoming dance draws near, buried truths about pregnancy, abortion, adoption, and abandonment force both women to reckon with the choices they made—and the silence they kept.
Melissa Jordan Grey
Melissa Jordan Grey is a playwright and unapologetic fan of messy characters and sharp dialogue. Her play Cringe was featured in the 2025 Trinity Theatre Company New Works Festival, Bittercake was a 2026 SacTown Play Festival winner, and Trial and Error and A Walk in the Park were staged at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center after winning the International Memoir Writers Showcase. Her writing has also appeared in three editions of the Shaking the Tree anthology. Her newest full-length play, The Mayflower Inheritance, peels back generations of carefully curated family mythology to explore the uneasy line between fitting in and belonging. As founder of The WhatNext? Collective, Melissa has written, produced, and performed in original productions including Good Girls and Badassery, Park Bench Confessions, and Who Do You Think You Are? Melissa serves on the boards of the San Diego Performing Arts League and the IRTS Foundation and has twice appeared as a speaker at the San Diego Writers Festival. Learn more at www.melissajordangrey.com or IG: @madeinmelissaland
Divided Requiem
By Paul Donnelly
Synopsis
A gay couple struggles with the differences in each of their approaches to handling the sudden death of their teenaged son.
Paul Donnelly
Paul Donnelly has been writing plays for over 40 years. His work has won the Source Theatre Company National 10-Minute Play Contest, the Larry Neal Writers Award for Drama, the Virginia Playwriting Prize, and twice been nominated for a Helen Hayes Award. His ten-minute plays have been published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2019 & 2023. His full-length play, Memorial Day, is available from Next Stage Press. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, New Play Exchange, Playwrights Center, and Working Title Playwrights.
Retrieve
By Rex McGregor
Synopsis
A canine handler’s beloved labrador retriever is dying. Her ex-partner tries to be supportive.
Rex McGregor
Rex McGregor is a New Zealand playwright. His short comedies have been produced on four continents from New York and London to Sydney and Chennai. Website: https://www.rexmcgregor.com/
The Dance
By Eric Suben
Synopsis
Ceil and Bernie stayed together for the children, but the children think they stayed together for each other.
Eric Suben
Eric Suben is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist, children’s-book author, former theatre critic for The Villager (NYC), and is a seasoned stage and voice performer. As a dramatist, he has had plays produced by theatres in New York, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. He resides in Westchester County, New York.
Faggots in Love
By Erik Patterson
Synopsis
A post-coital conversation between two men sparks a real connection as they talk about theater, sex, forgiveness, and love.
Erik Patterson
Erik Patterson is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and writing teacher. Recent plays include One of the Nice Ones (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award winner) and Handjob, both at The Echo Theater Company. His work has been produced or developed by Playwrights’ Arena, the Los Angeles Theatre Centre, Theatre of NOTE, the Evidence Room, The Actors’ Gang, The Echo Theater Company, the Lark Play Development Center, Moving Arts, Black Dahlia, Naked Angels, the Mark Taper Forum, and New Group. His plays have been nominated for the Ovation Award, the Stage Raw Award, the LA Weekly Award, and the GLAAD Media Award. Erik has written films for Warner Bros., Universal, 20th Century Fox, Disney, Freeform, MTV, Paramount, Hallmark, and Syfy, among others. Credits include Abandoned (starring Emma Roberts and Michael Shannon), fourteen episodes of R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour (two Emmy Award nominations), Another Cinderella Story (winner of the WGA Award), Deep Blue Sea 2, and Radio Rebel (winner of the Humanitas Prize). Erik is the creator of Your Daily Writing Prompt on TikTok and is the author of a series of writing prompt books for Simon & Schuster, including Write a Romantasy and Write a Dystopian Novel, available in bookstores nationwide. Erik is a graduate of Occidental College and the British American Drama Academy.