Schenkkan is the author of ten full-length plays. "By the Waters of Babylon" premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in February, 2005. The play is unrelated to the Stephen Vincent Benét short story "By the Waters of Babylon" or its subsequent adaptation. "Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates" premiered at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in December 2005. "The Marriage of Miss Hollywood and King Neptune" premiered at the University of Texas at Austin in November 2005. "The Devil and Daniel Webster" premiered at the Seattle Children's Theatre in February 2006.