Synopsis Politically correct Miranda Giles-Hampton has set up an appointment during her lunch break to interview Rainbow Sprinkles to see if he is suitable to perform a clown act at her ten-year - old son’s upcoming birthday party. When the clown arrives, dressed in full costume and make-up, Miranda probes and prods at him, finding a reason that each of the most innocent parts of his act could be deemed inappropriate or politically incorrect. Sprinkles sadly agrees to the cuts and changes to his long-standing act, until Miranda insists that he change his rainbow-themed make-up. With his very clown identity called into question, Sprinkles has had enough and refuses to perform at the party.

Production History Playwright’s Round Table Summer Shorts Orlando, FL Long Island City Arts Project SpringFest Playwriting Competition Long Island, NY Prince George Community College Hallem Players Staged Reading Largo, MD Cedar Lane Stage Summer Sampler Bethesda, MD Acme Theatre Productions New Works Winter Festival Maynard, MA Intentional Theatre White Sale Short Play Festival Finalist Waterford, CT Rossyln Spectrum Actor Center Staged Reading Rossyln, VA The Studio Theatre of Wellington Festival of Short Plays Staged Reading Wellington, FL Magnolia Arts Center Staged Reading Greenville, NC Potluck Productions Kansas City Women’s Playwriting Kansas City, MO South Camden Theatre Company Facing Each Other Camden, NJ Twenty Percent Theatre Company Snapshots Chicago, IL Manhattan Theatre Source Estrogenius Manhattan, NY Towne Street Players at Stella Adler Second Ten Minute Play Festival Hollywood, CA Algonquin Theater One Act Festival New York, NY Southwest Theatre & Film Association New Play Festival Hot Springs, AR Texas A&M University- Commerce SWTFA Shorts Commerce, TX KETV Broadcast Performance Commerce, TX Actors’ Theatre at Spectrum Theatre Living On The Edge Reading Grand Rapids, MI Hydrae Reading Cornwell, UK E.M.U. Theatre Ten-Minute Play Festival Lawrence, KS _gaia Studio Jersey City Studio Artist Tour Reading Jersey City, NJ Elite Theatre Company One-Act Festival Oxnard, CA Maynard Town Library Acme Theatre Productions Maynard, MA Mercury Players Biannual New Play Competition Madison, WI Play n Well Players 3rd Annual One Acts Festival Plainwell, MI _gaia Studio Sinatra Park Lips Reading Series Hoboken, NJ _gaia Studio ArtHarvest Lips Reading Series Hoboken, NJ Saarens Productions Shortly Thereafter . . . Bemidji, MN Acme Theater Productions 10th Annual New Works Winter Festival Maynard, MA Richmond Shepard Theater New Works New York, NY Kent Denver School One-Act Play Festival Englewood, CO Absolu Theatre Groupe théâtre tout court Montréal, Canada Tamerton Village Players 20th Anniversary Festival Plymouth, UK Minnesota Shorts Play Festival Semi-Finalist North Mankato, MN Tamerton Village Players Production Plymouth, UK Open Eye Theater Summer Shortcuts III Margaretville, NY Emerson Resort Weekend Celebration Mt. Tremper, NY Catskill Women's Network Selections from Summer Shortcuts Catskills, NY University of Minnesota – Duluth Directing Class Performance Duluth, MN Pigs Do Fly Productions Fifty Plus Ft. Lauderdale, FL Albury Wodonga Theatre Company Stage Albury, NSW, Australia Lind Lane Theatre 10/10 Nambour, Queensland, Australia The Unknown Artists' Play Club West 100 Minutes of Insanity Hollywood, CA University of Central Missouri Black Box Theatre Warrensburg, MO The Artistic Home Cut to the Chase One Act Festival Chicago, IL Annoyance Theatre Naked Angels’ Tuesdays at 9 Chicago, IL Dandelion Theatre The Make Ready Chicago, IL Arizona Theatre Matters We Ain't Done Yet Festival (WADY) Phoenix, AZ Hardin-Simmons University DirectFest Abilene, TX Des Moines Young Artists' Theatre Summer Shorts Des Moines, IA JIB Productions, Inc. Play With Your Food Westport, CT

Amanda Parker and Matt Plummer in Rainbow Sprinkles at the University Playhouse at Texas A&M University-Commerce in Commerce, Texas. Directed by Jim Anderson.

Running Time: 10 minutes Set: office (interior unit) Cast: 1 M, 1 F, 1 voice- over any gender Published by Smith and Kraus and Applause

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