Abigail has epilepsy. She wants more than anything to lead a “normal” life. Her senior year in her favorite high school class-film, is filled with bully’s and cheerleaders, science nerds and a religious zealot-led by an alcoholic teacher.

It could end up being the best year of her life but it sure doesn’t look good at the start of the school year.

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Original Artwork by Jett Jackson

LITTLE SUGAR is a full length play set the Late 60’s Mid-Century landscape of Southern California tract homes. A young girl, Grace, has her baby taken from her at 16, without her permission. In the search for her child, she discovers her power and voice from the stifled fury of women past. LITTLE SUGAR is a Screencraft quarter finalist so stay tuned…

THE PHYSICS OF KILLING is a film inspired by the Oversteegen sisters, who lured Nazis into the forest during the Dutch occupation, and killed them.

WINNER
Cult Movies International Film Festival (3rd Season) - Best Short Women’s Film

OFFICIAL SELECTION 2021
Toronto International Women Festival

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This play is part of Open-Door Playhouse’s second annual Celebrating Women in Theatre.

Red, a dynamite redhead is found lying in a pool of her own blood in a back alley. Senior

Detective Harry and his Assistant Jack and a coroner all called are called to the scene to solve her murder: unknowingly each of them have a connection to the recently deceased.

Bernadette Armstrong directs a cast that includes Gary Lamb, David Purdham, PeterBonoff and Maureen Davis.

Sandra Cruze is the playwright. Her previous work includes a full-length play (Little

Sugar), a short film (The Physics of Killing), a web series (We’re Not Dead Yet) and a musical(Moonshine Mamas).

Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette Armstrong, Open-Door Playhouse is a Theater Podcast- like the radio dramas of the 1940s and 1950s. The Playhouse launched on September 15, 2020. At the time, Open-Door Playhouse provided Playwrights, Actors and Directors a creative outlet during the shutdown. Since its inception. Open-Door Playhouse has presented Short and One-Act plays from Playwrights across the country and internationally. In 2021 Open-Door Playhouse received a Communicator Award for Content for the Play Custody and in 2023 the play What’s Prison Like was nominated for a Webby Award in the Crime & Justice Category.

Plays are produced by Bernadette Armstrong, Sound Engineer is David Peters, sound effects are provided by Audio Jungle, and music from Karaoke Version. All plays are recorded at The Oak House Studio in Altadena, CA.

It's 1536. Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, has been charged with capital crimes and is confined in a cell at the Tower of London. She finds herself, to her distaste, having a peasant as a cellmate and that's not all; To everyone's surprise, there's a dead Warder sharing the cell with them. What might the presence of this corpse portend for the cell's other two occupants? Anne has a plan.

Bernadette Armstrong directs Camille Ameen as Anne Boylen and Sue Gisser as Peasant.

Sandra Cruze is the playwright. Her previous work includes a full-length play (Little Sugar), a short film (The Physics of Killing), a web series (We're Not Dead Yet) and a musical (Moonshine Mamas).

This play is a selection in the Open-Door Playhouse Second Annual Celebration of Women in Theatre.

Recorded at Oak House Recording Studio in Pasadena, CA with Sound Engineer David Peters.

In the late 1960s, Grace has become a teen mom at 16. Her daughter has been taken away from her, against her will. Her boyfriend, the little girl’s father, has been killed on the battlefield while serving in Vietnam. Now, Grace is determined to do whatever is necessary to get her daughter back. First, Grace will have a reckoning with her own mother.

The playwright, Sandra Cruze, performs her work as a solo piece. Grace is extracted from a full-length, full-cast (nine) play. Cruze’s previous work includes a short play (She Was Dick’s Tracie),, a short film (The Physics of Killing), a web series (We’re Not Dead Yet), and a musical (Moonshine Mamas).

Co-Writer, Co-Producer and Actor in this original Web Series now playing on YouTube.

Watch as two women drag anyone in the way of their down hill slide, while kicking and screaming their Mantra, "We're Not Dead Yet." (If you know what's good for you, get the hell out of their way.)

Original Music by Michael Campagna.

A Two Heads are Better Productions webseries. Co-Written & Co-Produced with Sarah Hunter.

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An Original Musical and collaboration.  Music by the incomparable Dave Brown and script development with Rey Deegan. Excavating the lives of dirt poor Moonshine women in rural Tennessee who end up rich.  Moonshine Mamas s now being worked into a TV limited series, MOONSHINER’S FATE .

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GROUNDLESS a one hour TV series developed in collaboration with Rey Deegan Set in Los Angeles, tells the story of two professional women who step over the line of the law. Once they taste lawlessness they find it delicious. GROUNDLESS -‘Where The Only  Ground To Stand On Is The Ground You Take’.

10 Minute Crime Noir film. Tracie, That dame was about as hardboiled as a three minute egg. A regular softy. Soft touch, soft heart, soft skin and soft lips. A mouth that never spoke without the ruby glow of Max Factor Red lip stick painted on them. Marilyn Monroe Rogue was her color of red. And that she was. A soft rogue of a gal. A real dolly. And I am sad to say the beginning of this story starts where Tracie’s life ends. Red like her lips, was the pool of blood she was discovered lying in. (takes a deep breath)

Whilst I Lose My Head - A Brokered Trade. Royalty or Peasant, does it matter what your status is if you are of the female persuasion?

Two women waiting for their executions find they have more in common than they first believed, and more power than they ever imagined.

MIGHTY THINGS. A work in progress. Considering it was time to do a horror story, I asked myself what has been the scariest thing of all time? The answer that continued to throb in my head was WOMEN. WOMEN are the scariest things ever. This scary story has a BIG TWIST. Lots really. It is Love Craft Country meets Wonder Woman meets Hypatia.