Genre: Comedy, Stage Play

Length: 10 minutes

Casting
Any race or ethnicity, twenties to forties
1 man
2 any gender

Synopsis
A jaded middle-aged campaign manager gets lured into working for a robot.

Excerpt
LEE: Let’s hear you brag.
ROBERT: Not something I do.
LEE: Stanford man, president of everything and top of your class?
ROBERT: Oh, I enjoyed Stanford immensely. Who wouldn’t?
LEE: I was at Cal State Northridge, so I wouldn’t know.
ROBERT: Oh, I know some wonderful, marvelously educated people who went there. In some ways I think it’s better—
LEE: And you were this aw-shucks modest guy at Harvard Law, too.

Production needs
Set
An office: a desk (or table to pass as one), two chairs.

Costumes
Modern office casual.

Props
Laptop computer (non-working is ok) for the desk.

Sound
None.

Production History
A New Kind of Politician was part of Fierce Backbone’s (Los Angeles, https://www.fiercebackbone.com/) “Think and Imagine” festival in 2025.