The Ruth Easton New Play Library

How it Works

Anyone may check out a script to read in the Pillsbury House and Theatre lobby. To check out a script to read, ask at the front desk. Pick up a copy of the featured script, or browse the script index and check out something else to read. Write your name, date, and email address on the check-out slip, give the slip to the front desk, and turn the script back in when you are finished. All scripts must stay in the lobby and are not to leave the building.

New Play Library Index

AGNES UNDER THE BIG TOP	Aditi Brennan Kapil	Mixed Blood Theatre Company, 2011
ALIEN LOVE TRIANGLE part of Freshwater Goes Back to High School: An Anthology of One Acts	Katherine Glover	Freshwater Theatre, 2013
ANGEL FAT	Trista Baldwin	The Playwrights’ Center, 2013
ASIAMNESIA part of Asian American Plays for a New Generation	Sun Mee Chomet	Mu Performing Arts, 2008
THE AWAKENING	Laura Leffler-McCabe	Savage Umbrella, 2010
BAGMAN part of Naked Stages 2012	David T Steinman	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2012
BAHALA NA (LET IT GO) part of Asian American Plays for a New Generation	Clarence Coo	Mu Performing Arts, 2007
BALLOONACY	Barry Kornhauser	Children’s Theatre Company, 2011
BEATNIK GISELLE	Sandbox Theatre	Sandbox Theatre, 2009
BEFORE YOU SPEAK part of Freshwater Goes Back to High School: An Anthology of One Acts	Jeri Weiss	Freshwater Theatre, 2013
THE BEST SECRET SANTA PRESENT EVER IN THE HISTORY OF PECKINPAW HIGH SCHOOL part of Freshwater Goes Back to High School: An Anthology of One Acts	Ira Gamerman	Freshwater Theatre, 2013
BLACKBIRD	David Harrower	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2008
BROKE-OLOGY	Nathan Louis Jackson	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2011
THE BROTHERS SIZE part of The Brother/Sister Plays	Tarell Alvin McCraney	Pillsbury House Theatre and the Mount Curve Company, 2012
BULRUSHER	Eisa Davis	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2008
CARE ENOUGH	Carl Atiya Swanson	Savage Umbrella, 2012
CARTOON	Steve Ackerman	In the Heart of the Beast, 2014
CHING CHONG CHINAMAN part of Asian American Plays for a New Generation	Lauren Yee	Mu Performing Arts, 2009
CRITICAL THINKING PLUCKS CHICKENS part of Freshwater Goes Back to High School: An Anthology of One Acts	Janet M. Bristow	Freshwater Theatre, 2013
DEVON part of Naked Stages 2012	Zoe Sommers Haas	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2012
DOES THIS LOOK GAY ON ME? part of Better (or) Worse: The Anthology	Ariel Leaf & Briana McNamara	Freshwater Theatre, 2012
DON’T CRY FOR ME part of Naked Stages 2011	Paulino Brener	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2011
EASY AS PIE	Chicago Avenue Project	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2014
EBBING part of Better (or) Worse: The Anthology	Janet Bristow	Freshwater Theatre, 2012
EMMA WOODHOUSE IS NOT A BITCH	Laura Leffler-McCabe and Tanner Curl	Savage Umbrella, 2013
FOOL’S PARADOX part of Naked Stages 2009	Julia Babb	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2009
THE FUTURE OF SINCERITY part of Freshwater Goes Back to High School: An Anthology of One Acts	Sam Graber	Freshwater Theatre, 2013
THE GREAT DIVIDE	Alan Berks	Workhaus Collective, 2013
HABAES CORPUS part of Naked Stages 2013	Zainab Musa	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2013
HAPPY VALLEY part of Asian American Plays for a New Generation	Aurorae Khoo	Mu Performing Arts, 2005
HIDEBOUND	Erik Ehn	In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, 2012
homeWRECKER part of Better (or) Worse: The Anthology	Anonymous	Freshwater Theatre, 2012
IN AND OUT OF THE BODY part of Naked Stages 2011	Moe Lionel	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2011
INDIAN COWBOY part of Asian American Plays for a New Generation	Zaraawar Mistry	Mixed Blood Theatre, 2006
IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER part of The Brother/Sister Plays	Tarell Alvin McCraney	Pillsbury House Theatre and the Mount Curve Company, 2012
I WOULD NEVER LIVE IN A SOCIAL DEMOCRACY. THE LINES ARE WAY TOO LONG. part of Better (or) Worse: The Anthology	Valerie Borey	Freshwater Theatre, 2012
JUNE OF ARC	Ryan Hill	Sandbox Theatre, 2009
KING OF SHADOWS	Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2009
KNOTDRAWN: MY GOODNESS, THE MILK, AND THE DADDY(BODY) BETWEEN MY FATHER AND MY SON part of Naked Stages 2009	Miré Regulus	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2009
LEAVES	Laura Leffler-McCabe and Tanner Curl	Savage Umbrella, 2013
LOVE PERSON	Aditi Brennan Kapil	Mixed Blood Theatre Company, 2008
MARCUS; OR THE SECRET OF SWEET part of The Brother/Sister Plays	Tarell Alvin McCraney	Pillsbury House Theatre and the Mount Curve Company, 2014
MARK MY WORDS!	Chicago Avenue Project	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2012
MERCY KILLERS	Michael Milligan	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2014
METHONDS OF MASS OF DECEPTIONFINALBEGINNING part of Naked Stages 2010	Cochise Anderson	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2010
MIDDLE BROTHER	Eric Sharp	Mu Performing Arts, 2014
THE NARK part of Freshwater Goes Back to High School: An Anthology of One Acts	Alissa M. Shellito	Freshwater Theatre, 2013
NO CHILD…	Nilaja Sun	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2009 & 2010
OH, FATHER…	Ryan Hill	Sandbox Theatre, 2012
ONCE IN A BLUE MOON	Chicago Avenue Project	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2013
PELICAN GIRLS part of Better (or) Worse: The Anthology	Richard Ballon	Freshwater Theatre, 2012
POPLIN part of Better (or) Worse: The Anthology	Ruth Virkus	Freshwater Theatre, 2012
THE PRIDE	Alexi Kaye Campbell	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2012
RAIN FOLLOWS THE PLOW	Rachel Nelson	Savage Umbrella, 2013
REIMAGINING OEDIPUS part of Freshwater Goes Back to High School: An Anthology of One Acts	Tom Slot	Freshwater Theatre, 2013
THE ROAD WEEPS, THE WELL RUNS DRY	Marcus Gardley	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2013
THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTARCTICA	Mat Smart	The Playwrights’ Center, 2013
SCAPEGOAT	Christina Ham	The Playwrights’ Center, 2013
THE SCARECROW AND HIS SERVANT	based on the book by Philip Pullman; adapted for the stage by Jeffrey Hatcher	Children’s Theatre Company, 2013-14
SCARS part of Better (or) Worse: The Anthology	Greg Abbott	Freshwater Theatre, 2012
SCHADENFREUDE part of Better (or) Worse: The Anthology	Jason Rainey	Freshwater Theatre, 2012
SINCE THE KIDS ARE GONE part of Better (or) Worse: The Anthology	Michael Long	Freshwater Theatre, 2012
SECOND WEDDING part of Better (or) Worse: The Anthology	Rachel Fynn	Freshwater Theatre, 2012
SEDUCING THOSE WHO ARE AFRAID part of Naked Stages 2009	Kelley Meister	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2009
A SHORT PLAY ABOUT 9/11	Dominic Orlando	Workhaus Collective, 2011
SIA(B) part of Asian American Plays for a New Generation	May Lee-Yang	Mu Performing Arts, 2008
A SMALL PLAY ABOUT MARRIAGE part of Better (or) Worse: The Anthology	Jen Scott	Freshwater Theatre, 2012
TAKE THE CAKE	Chicago Avenue Project	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2013
VIGIL	Morris Panych	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2010
WAITING part of Better (or) Worse: The Anthology	Emily Arachtingi	Freshwater Theatre, 2012
WALLEYE KID: THE MUSICAL part of Asian American Plays for a New Generation	Music and Lyrics by Kurt Miyashiro; Book by R. A. Shiomi and Sundraya Kase	Mu Performing Arts, 2005
THE WONG KIDS IN THE SECRET OF THE SPACE CHUPACABRA, GO!	Lloyd Suh	Children’s Theatre Company, 2012-13
YOUR HEART IS IN MY MOUTH part of Naked Stages 2010	Janaki Ranpura	Pillsbury House Theatre, 2010

About Ruth Easton

Actress Ruth Easton (née Edelstein) was born in North Branch, Minnesota and graduated from North Branch High School. She attended the University of Minnesota for one year and the following year attended Macalester College before finishing her collegiate career at Cumnock School in Los Angeles. She went on to New York where she studied acting with Oliver Morosco. Mr. Morosco opened a stock theater company in upstate New York where Ms. Easton starred in several plays. After performing with other stock theater companies, she returned to New York City where she appeared in five Broadway plays over a period of seven years. They included Exceedingly Small, Privilege Car, Town Bay, Buckaroo, and Charlie Chan. Exceedingly Small was directed by Ethel Barrymore and Easton played opposite Eric Dressler. New York critics praised her performance as “thoroughly touching” and “highly spirited and excellent.” She starred in radio dramas on the Rudy Vallee Hour and the Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour opposite such actors as Walter Huston, Judith Anderson and Lionel Barrymore. She also appeared with Clark Gable, Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson during the course of her career.

Ms. Easton’s legacy, her commitment to theater and the development of new works continues through the charitable gifts distributed through the Ruth Easton Fund of the Edelstein Family Foundation.