Adam Lehman
Occasional Playwright
Playwriting Bio: Adam Lehman is an occasional playwright based in the Washington, D.C. area. Adam is the author of more than forty full length, one act and short plays. Since 2003, Adam has had more than fifteen productions of his one act and short plays at theatres and by theatre companies including the Source Theatre and H Street Playhouse (D.C.), the Cedar Lane Stage (Bethesda, MD), The Theatre-Studio, Inc. (New York City), the Laurel Mill Playhouse (Laurel, MD), Nantucket Theatrical Productions (Nantucket, Massachusetts), The Offstage Players (Charlottesville, VA), the Stormy Weather Players (Cornwall, NY) and the Poco Loco Players (Grants, New Mexico). Adam has also had several staged readings of his work, including readings at the Kennedy Center for Performing Art (Washington, D.C.), Theatre J (Washington, D.C.), the Pumpkin Theatre (Montreal, Canada), the Producers Club Theater (NYC), the Makor/Steinhardt Center (NYC) and FirstStage (Los Angeles, CA). Adam's one act play "Step In The Right Direction" was awarded second prize in the 2004 Harford Community College One Act Play Festival. Adam's one act play "Interior Rift" was a finalist in both the 13th Annual Nantucket One Act Play Competition and the 2005 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival One Act Play Competition. Adam's one act play "Rite and Wrong" was a semi-finalist in the 10th Annual (2006) First Stage One Act Contest. Adam's short play "The Oresteia in Five Minutes or Less" was awarded second prize in the Pumpkin Theatre's 2005 Five Minute Farce Fest. Adam's short play "Taster's Choice" was a semi-finalist in the Poco Loco Player's 2005 "Humorous Look at God" contest. Adam has studied playwriting at the Catholic University of America. When he is not writing, Adam incubates and manages new digital media and marketing ventures.
Select Full Length Plays*:
How to get ahead in corporate dystopia without really trying
A stroll through relationship hell
Yoga anyone?
An existential drama that goes from bad to weird
Four Jewish-themed one acts for the price of one!
Additional full lengths, including Rite and Wrong (three act version), Mind the Gap, Family Secrets and Sunday Papers, available upon request.
Select One Act Plays*:
Can Romy live without the light?
Did you hear the one about the Jew, the Catholic and the Muslim?
Chicken soup for the soulless
Two guys in a field digging
Rite and Wrong (One Act Version)
A pisser of a farce
A 21st century update on Beckett's classic
The future looks bleak
How to run an effective meeting 101
Atonement, the hard way
Boardroom poker
A restless day of family and faith
Read anything good lately?
What was that noise downstairs?
Who's afraid of Uncle Al?
Select Short Plays*:
An intra-uterine romantic comedy
Reality T.V. meets Eastern spirituality
Confronting the ultimate questions
The cure for nearsightedness
Battle of the sexes in the techno age
Everyone needs a mentor
Anacostia in August
Adultery with etiquette
Every dog has his day
The business of love
Three classic plays in less time than it takes to brush your teeth
An ode to academia
Why can't we all just get along?
Head games
Bluto, meet Virasana
WWF for geriatric German philosophers
Truly tasteless
A quintessential D.C. love story
Select Monologues*:
Indiscretion is the better part of valium
Career planning for good listeners
Put one foot in front of the other
A cityscape comes to life - and death
*All of the plays posted on this page are copyrighted materials. You should feel free to download a copy of a play for your personal use. If you're interested in performing a play or copying, distributing or modifying it for educational or other purposes, please contact Adam Lehman at ahlehman@gmail.com.