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    • Award Winning Full-Length
      • Exit Laughing
      • Cries in the Night
      • Finding the Burnett Heart
      • Gentle Passage
      • Making Sweet Tea
      • Stolen Moments
    • Award Winning Musicals
      • Musicals
      • Dula The Musical
      • Last Call at Bali's
    • One Acts
      • One Acts
      • The Door
      • Mind Games
      • Ledge Ledger & The Legend
      • Legacy
      • Perspective
    • Short Competition Plays
      • Room to Share
      • Saving Garbage
      • King of the Cakewalk
      • Checkmate
    • Novels
      • Novels
      • The Riverton Project
      • Reflection on BrokenGlass
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Paul Elliott, Writer

(310) 625-7505

  • Home
  • Award Winning Full-Length
    • Exit Laughing
    • Cries in the Night
    • Finding the Burnett Heart
    • Gentle Passage
    • Making Sweet Tea
    • Stolen Moments
  • Award Winning Musicals
    • Musicals
    • Dula The Musical
    • Last Call at Bali's
  • One Acts
    • One Acts
    • The Door
    • Mind Games
    • Ledge Ledger & The Legend
    • Legacy
    • Perspective
  • Short Competition Plays
    • Room to Share
    • Saving Garbage
    • King of the Cakewalk
    • Checkmate
  • Novels
    • Novels
    • The Riverton Project
    • Reflection on BrokenGlass
  • Contact

Award Winning One-Act Competition Plays

Two men leaning at the brick wall

Ledge Ledger and the Legend

The laugh-out-loud comedy that has the distinction of being one of the most produced and award-winning one act plays in the past thirty years.   


This award-winning play begins dramatically when a depressed Peter crawls out onto a ledge prepared to jump. There he meets J.M., a professional suicide counselor who instead of trying to save Peter, wants to sell him suicide lessons…like—how to obtain a crowd, how to build tension, how to obtain television coverage and, finally, when and how to jump. Just when Peter is about to buy those lessons, a rival suicide counselor appears and reveals J.M. is a bust as a suicide counsellor with a horrible reputation. Now J.M. is depressed and wants to jump off of Peter’s ledge. At this point, Peter asserts himself, decides nobody is jumping off a ledge today, Llife has too much to offer to end it over just a couple of bad days. 


Cast size: 3 men, or mixed cast. Simple ext. set 


Performance rights and scripts: Dramatic Publishing 

A black and white image of two people sneaking up a window
A black and white image of two men talking

For more information, contact the playwright by email 

paul@paulelliottwriter.com or Dramatic Publishing

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