Lockers: Scenes, Monologues and Short Plays for Young People

by Jeremy Kruse

Test anxiety! Best friends moving away! "Lockers" addresses the universal ups and downs in the lives of young people in middle school and early high school. Written in vignette form, "Moving", "Kim", "Cheaters", "Mudslingers", "Lawn Guy", "The Sneak Out", "Slice", "Weavers", "The Team", "Family Man", "The Party" and "Locker" can be performed as a full-length play or as individual scenes, monologues and short plays, making it an excellent vehicle for fully staged productions, classroom work and young actor training programs. This piece was originally staged at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York.

72 pages, Paperback

Published December 20, 1999

About the author

Jeremy Kruse, Artistic Director of Gorton Drama Studio, is the author of “The Young Actor’s Handbook” (Applause Acting Series, 2017). The book was published in Korean and Chinese in 2022. Jeremy is a professional actor, published playwright, award-winning screenwriter, and award-winning filmmaker. Some of the classes he taught at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York include Method Acting, Comedic Improvisation, Sketch Comedy Writing, and Acting for Film and TV. Jeremy also taught acting to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities at YAI, an evening program for adults with disabilities. He graduated from The Strasberg Institute at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where he majored in drama. Jeremy also teaches privately, one on one.