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10-Minute Plays

Joy Frickin’ Hates Her Dumb Stupid Room

10 mins, 2 Any

Production History

[2022] Production, Spinning Dot Theatre (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

[2021] Production, Western Oregon University, dir. Jessica Wallenfels

[2020] Production, Woolly Mammoth/The Theatre Lab dir. Deidra LaWan Starnes

[2020] Reading, No Small Part

[2020] Commissioned by Portland Center Stage at the Armory for www.playathome.org

Press & Reviews

Broadway World

Broadway World Portland Center Stage Play at Home: Short Plays by Anya Pearson, E.M. Lewis, Josie Seid, and Sara Jean Accuardi

With her characteristic humor and insight, Accuardi has created a funny, joyful little play for what are indeed “trapped little times.” – Krista Garver, Broadway Word

The Willamette Week

The Willamette Week Portland Center Stage Unveils Four New Plays for People to Perform at Home

The New York Times

The New York Times Making Art During a Pandemic: Theaters Seek and Share Mini-Plays

Portland Center Stage

Ut Omnia Bene Play at Home at Portland Center Stage

I loved the inventiveness of this play, and it’s funny throughout, even down to the stage directions – Gigi Little

Commencement

10 mins, 2W

Production History

[2019] Selected, We Ain’t Done Yet Festival at Arizona Theatre Matters

[2019] Staged Reading, Artists Repertory Theatre (Portland, OR) as part of Small Bites with LineStorm Playwrights dir. Matt Gibson

Tri-Fold

10 mins, 1W, 2M

Production History

[2019] Production, SouthWest StageWorks (Portland, OR) as part of A Short in the Wire: a collection of site-specific short plays written for Playwright’s West’s Teen West Project. dir. Matthew B. Zrebski

Rough Edge

10 mins, 1W, 1M

Production History

[2017] Staged Reading, Artists Repertory Theatre (Portland, OR) as part of Portland in Play: Decades with LineStorm Playwrights. dir. Pat Moran

Off Duty

10 mins, 1W, 1M

Production History

[2022] Finalist, Kairos Italy Theater’s 2021 International Playwrights Series 

[2019] Winner, Spotlight Award, Smith and Kraus Publishers

[2017] Staged Reading, Hipbone Studio (Portland, OR) A part of Short and Sweet with LineStorm Playwrights dir. Paul Angelo

A Science Thing

10 mins, 1W, 1M

Production History

[2019] Winner, The Majestic Eight 10-Minute Play Festival (Corvallis, OR)

[2019] Finalist, Women Playwrights’ Initiative

[2016] Staged Reading, Artists Repertory Theatre (Portland, OR) as part of Portland in Play with LineStorm Playwrights. dir. Debbie Lamedman

Cold Call

10 mins, 2W, 1M

Production History

[2018] Staged Reading, Hyde Park Theatre (Austin, TX) as part of FronteraFest Short Fringe. dir. Heather Thiel

[2016] Staged Reading, Hipbone Studio (Portland, OR) A part of Short and Sweet:  a collection of 10-minute plays written by the P-Town Playwrights. dir. Susan Faust

The Night Builder

10 mins, 1W, 1M

Production History

[2013] Staged Reading, JAW Playwrights Festival dir. Philip Cuomo 2013

That Water Moment

10 mins, 1W, 1M

Production History

[2019] Winner, Spotlight Award, Smith and Kraus Publishers

[2012] Staged Reading, Portland Center Stage (Portland, OR) This play was commissioned for the JAW Playwrights Festival kick-off event. dir. Brandon Woolley

Press & Reviews

The Oregonian

The Oregonian JAW 2012 Wrap-Up 

“Most touching was Sara Jean Accuardi’s “That Water Moment,” which hinged on the balance of frustration and faith in the lives of young parents (played by Kerry Ryan and Isaac Lamb) struggling with the care of a developmentally disabled child.”
– Marty Hughley, The Oregonian

Ever-Fixed

10 mins, 1W, 1M

Production History

[2022] Production, Bucknell University

[2016] Finalist, Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville National Ten-Minute Play Contest

[2009] Staged Reading, Chicago Dramatist’s 10-Minute Workshop dir. Dexter Bullard

Without Ears

10 mins, 1W, 1M

Production History

[2009] Staged Reading, Northwestern University’s Master Clash short play festival dir. Cat Miller

[2007] Staged Reading, Chicago Dramatists 10-Minute Workshop dir. Ilesa Duncan