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The New York Times has called my comedies “rip-roaringly funny” and “wildly imaginative”. My dramatic plays have been called “theater with a brain and theater with a heart” (Los Angeles Times) and “touching and truthful (DramaLogue). My website features descriptions and excerpts of all of my plays – and over a hundred of my poems. Enjoy the ride!
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Bio. Rich Orloff writes a lot! One of the most popular...
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One-Act Collections. Please select a play for more...
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Short Play Collections & Comic Revues. Please select a play...
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Poems. Please select a project for more information: WHAT I...
- Inside Rich’s Head
short play collections & comic revues. Couples; Female...
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Purchasing & Producing. Several of Rich’s plays have been...
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Contact. Please email me at: orloffplays@gmail.com Or fill...
- Complete List of Plays
FOUR EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE WOMEN SITTING AROUND FANTASIZING...
- On Campus
“I’m delighted to recommend bringing Rich Orloff to your...
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Occasionally I get e-mails asking about how I write, where I...
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Rich Orloff is a playwright living in New York City. He has taught playwriting at his alma mater Oberlin College, at Miami's City Theater, and for the Connecticut Young Playwrights program. He has also given lectures and workshops at Central Washington University, Western Michigan University and State Fair College in Missouri.
Bio. Rich Orloff writes a lot! One of the most popular unknown playwrights in the country, Rich’s plays have received thousands of productions, numerous awards, and oodles of laughter. From his acclaimed comedic explorations of such topics as disability (FUNNY AS A CRUTCH) and an unwanted pregnancy ( ENGAGEMENT RULES) to documentary-style ...
These poems have since been presented in synagogues and churches, read at meditation and yoga groups, printed in magazines and anthologies, and spoken at events both lofty and intimate. Below are some of my favorites from 2023.
Rich Orloff is the author of 15 award-winning full-length comedies, three comic revues, oodles of short plays (61 of which have been published by Playscripts, Inc. in eight collections), and the documentary-style play Vietnam 101: The War on Campus, which ha...
Rich’s documentary-style plays include CHATTING WITH THE TEA PARTY (finalist, Woodward-Newman New Play Award) and VIETNAM 101: THE WAR ON CAMPUS which has had over 50 productions at theaters, colleges and high schools.
BLESSINGS FROM THE PANDEMIC is a one-hour "theater piece in five movements", a mosaic of reflections on the events since March 2020: the big, the small, the...
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