Chris Harcum is an actor and playwright living in Brooklyn, NY. His play American Badass (or 12 Characters in Search of a National Identity) was recently published in the Plays and Playwrights 2009 anthology. Other writing includes The New York Times, nytheatre, and Virgodog's World.
ANDY: Hi. I’m here for the—
GINA: I’m sorry. Hold on one moment. I just need…a couple of notes. Done. Sorry. Hi.
ANDY: Hi.
GINA: I’m Gina.
ANDY: I’m Andy.
GINA: Yes. You look…have we worked together before? I’m sorry I’m usually good at remembering people’s….
HE: I don’t know. She’s not going to take it very well. I’ve never…I don’t know.
SHE: Do you feel guilty?
HE: Well, yeah. Don’t you?
SHE: I was brought up religious so I don’t trust my feelings on anything. I can’t believe we’ve known each other since we were-
HE: -Could we have picked a worse possible time to do this?
Puppet: Yo, my judge be gettin’ mad kickbacks for sendin’ minors to jail.
Razor: Dat’s some messed-up shit.
Puppet: You know? I’m in ‘cuz I was makin’ fun of my principal. That fat ass. That’s all I did.
Razor: Wha?
Puppet: Yeah. If my moms was made of money, I wouldn’t be here.
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