Synopsis: At an airport ticket counter, a customer, Mr. Conklin, agrees to watch another passenger's baggage. While he's doing so, he is distracted by a young couple discussing their sex life, with unexpected consequences.

Contact information:
Amateur and professional rights:
David Lohrey
404 River Mews Lane
Edgewater, N.J.
USA 07020
Ph.: 201-314-3162
Email: dlohrey@nj.rr.com

About the Playwright: David Lohrey completed his undergraduate degree at UC, Berkeley. Later, he studied creative writing at San Francisco State University, UCLA, and California State University, Los Angeles where he completed his MA. David now teaches at the college level in New Jersey, and is Literary Manager at Theatre-Studio, Inc. in New York City.

David's plays have received productions and staged readings across the country, including Group Rep and FirstStage in Los Angeles, The Long Beach Playhouse, the Dayton Playhouse, the Turnip Company, ArtGroup, and TRU's 2nd Annual NYC Play Festival.

His work has received awards in competitions such as New Century Writers' Competition, Riverside Stage Company's Founder's Award Competition, Harvest Festival of New Plays at the Sonoma County Rep, the 1998 Writers' Digest Writing Competition, the 1999 Writer's Digest Writing Competition, and the Generic Theater Company's Dog Days Festival. For three years, David has been a voting member for TheatreLA's annual Ovation Awards. He has been a member of the Dramatists Guild since 1982, and recently joined the Play Selection Committee at the Long Beach Playhouse.

In a Newark Minute was first presented in a staged reading by Playwrights' Express, Los Angeles in 1999, and first produced by Theatre-Studio, Inc., New York City in 2000.