Section
Group scenes with one dominant role. Practice carrying a scene.
15 scripts
March 1912. Clara is the only telegraph operator in a mining town, and a message has come over the wire that the company has ordered her to keep quiet. Two women from the town want to know what it says, and her employer wants her to remember who pays her.
Desmond drives a tow truck on the night shift. He is winching up an illegally parked sedan when its owners arrive in a hurry and start offering cash. Something about the car is wrong and he has to decide how far by the book he is willing to go.
Diane has been principal for eighteen years. Tonight the school closes for good. Before she can hand over the keys, three staff members each walk in wanting something she is not sure she can give.
Wren, sixteen, is running the yard sale before her family moves to a smaller place. Everything on the lawn must go. One scuffed guitar case leans against her chair with a tag that says not for sale, and her mother, a buyer, and her little brother all want it gone.
Rowan got ordained on a website to marry two best friends. The ceremony script is in a binder, and the binder is in a car that just drove off. With the bride's mother watching from the front row, Rowan has to get this couple married on a blank index card.
Noah was promoted to manager four days ago. He has a laminated agenda and twenty minutes before service. The walk-in dies, the printer will not stop, and the reservation book has betrayed him.
Ash is a junior pad technician who has been watching a raw pressure feed since three in the morning. Eleven minutes before launch, Ash blocks the crew hatch to tell the commander what the automated system missed. The transfer window will not open again for twenty-six months.
Margo is training a new tower controller on a rainy evening shift. A slow aircraft on the runway and a jet on final turn a routine crossing into a conflict. When the trainee freezes, the supervisor moves to take over, and Margo has seconds to decide who talks.
Sam is a 911 dispatcher on the night shift. A woman whispers that someone is inside her house, and every free unit is at a highway pileup. Sam must keep her alive by voice alone while a supervisor insists on the script.
Daniel, the oldest of three siblings, calls a late-night meeting at the kitchen table. The family already agreed to move their father into a care home. Daniel has a different plan, and he has already set it in motion.
June is a wedding photographer with ten minutes of golden hour left. She needs one photo of the bride and her two attendants. The bride is crying, the maid of honor is on her phone, and the bride's brother will not put down his plate.
Nora has run her family's restaurant alone since her father's stroke. Tonight she calls her brother and sister in after closing with a folder on the table. She needs both their signatures and she is not leaving without them.
Coach Halvorsen is retiring after thirty-four seasons and tonight is his last game. He has written his final locker room speech down for the first time in his life. He brought the wrong piece of paper, and the clock is running.
Defense attorney Margot Vance has one witness left to cross-examine. He is calm, well liked, and swears only two keys to the safe ever existed. Margot has a locksmith's invoice and one afternoon to make it count.
Eli wakes alone on a deep-space transport, thirty-eight years into the voyage. The ship's voice tells him the colony they are heading for has gone silent. Three hundred people are asleep around him and the ship wants his decision before anyone else opens their eyes.
