Portfolio Category: One Acts

3 From the Neighborhood

Collection of 3 One Act plays, each one is centered on people living in Greenwich Village, the place where author Messina was born and raised.

In THE NEIGHBORHOOD, Messina tells the true story of the events behind the Washington Square Park Riot of 1976.

DEWEY, PHUKUM & HOWE tells the tale of three workers stuck in a dead end, debt collecting job and their wanderlust for another life.

THE WRECK is the story of a neurotic man trying to cope with his hypochondria and the recent break up with his girlfriend.

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The Accidental Pervert
Stomping Ground
Cirque Jacqueline

Three Plays

Collected here for the first time are three major short plays: “Fugazy,” “Klepto,” and “Merging.”

Both “Klepto” and “Merging” are winners in The Players’ Theater’s Shortened Attention Span Theater Festival in Greenwich Village.

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The Wanderer
A Room of My Own
The Honeyzoomers

Klepto

Klepto tells the tale of a boy with an encyclopedic mind for baseball and his complex relationship with his overbearing, kleptomaniacal mother.  Starring Gina Ferranti, John Barbieri and Lou Martini Jr. 

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The Honeyzoomers
The Wanderer
Stomping Ground

Merging

An estranged couple is reunited after their child’s disappearance, but their reunion resurrects old resentments about Frank’s past love affair and Cheryl’s resulting emotional breakdown as the two “revisit their relationship and try to unravel the painful mystery of their missing child.” Starring JASON CERBONE, GINA FERRANTI, ERNEST MINGIONE

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Stomping Ground
The Honeyzoomers
True East

Fugazy

After Matty Petroselli’s estranged father dies, he and his wife, Lisa, rummage through the old man’s apartment and find a Rolex watch that may or may not be real. 

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Stomping Ground
My Father, My Don
The Wanderer