IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR PLAY Noir 2025! After careful consideration, we are having to push our intended 2025 season to the spring of 2026. Our new venue is still under renovation and will also not be ready for our November run. In addition, we were inundated with over 150 submissions by so many of you interested in PLAY Noir. As inconvenient as this situation is, it allows us make sure play is read thoroughly and given careful consideration as we narrow down our selections to create the perfect evening of Noir. Thank you for understanding, and we apologize for the inconvenience. Please feel free to reach out to me directly at james@punkmonkeyproductions.com should you have any questions.
In 2011, PMP posted a call for submissions and produced its first year of PL.A.Y Noir with a mix of the classic 1940s Noir, including the re-restaging of The Zone Ranger, Your Name on a Cloud by Michael W. Moon, Antethesis by Sean Engard, and contemporary plays, Silencing Silas by Anthony Mora and Shoofly by Ann Coverly.
Currently, Punk Monkey Productions receives hundreds of submissions not only from the continental United States and Canada, but has also received plays from the UK and Ireland, Spain, Israel, Italy, France, as well as, New Zealand, Australia, AND Antarctica!
PL.A.Y Noir - A Brief History
PL.A.Y Noir 2018 Selected Entries
Punk Monkey Productions is excited to announce the selections for our 2018 season of PL.A.Y Noir.
Thank you to all the playwrights who participated, and congratulations to the following playwrights -
Lady with a Smoking Gun by Jeff Pearce
Eve by Bob Kolsby
The Coming Storm by Michael Robinson
Bro by Robb Willoughby
Deuce Cooper: The Bloomfield Case by Paul Braverman
PL.A.Y Noir celebrates their seventh year of bringing the danger, suspense, and mystery of the Film Noir style to the stage. After directing the originally written one-act The Zone Ranger by Ben Goldstein and Mac Taylor at Harvard-Westlake School in 2008 and starring Tony Award Winner Ben Platt (Dear Evan Hansen) and singer-songwriter Kathryn Gallagher, James Elden became inspired to produce a series of one-act plays. After, co-producer and collaborator, Sarah Kelly's suggestion, the two decided to dedicate an annual one-act festival to one specific genre.