JILLIAN VASHRO & SYDNEY ANDREWS IN UNDO AT ANNEX THEATRE, 2013 / PHOTO BY IAN JOHNSTON
UNDO
***Winner: 2013 Theatre Puget Sound Gregory Award for Outstanding New Play***
"The premise is so simple and brilliant—what if a divorce were a public event precisely like your wedding, with guests and presents and an officiant and tons of booze?—that it threatens to overpower the show itself. But Arsenault’s sharp wit and ear for honest dialogue, which focuses on realistically mundane details and then telescopes to huge family drama, makes the concept work beautifully. Bring someone to talk it over with after; you’ll surely want to." - The Stranger Suggests
Full-length
7 women, 3 men, 1 child (non-speaking)
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MI KANG, JOCELYN MAHER, AND NICK EDWARDS IN THE GREAT INCONVENIENCE AT ANNEX THEATRE, 2018 / PHOTO BY IAN JOHNSTON
THE GREAT INCONVENIENCE
***Nominee: 2019 Theatre Puget Sound Gregory Award for Outstanding New Play***
”Scary AF but also charming”
- Karen Hartman
Full-length
4 women, 1 man
Available for premiere
KRISSY P. from ADRIENNE SALINGER'S TEEN BEDROOM SERIES
COURT
***Winner: Ivoryton Playhouse Women Playwrights Initiative 2020***
Marle and Rosanna are not best friends. Actually, they barely know each other. But, over the course of one evening in Rosanna’s attic bedroom, they’ll forge a bond in the flame of Rosanna’s very big problem: going to court to testify in her own custody hearing. This is a story about two very ordinary, weird girls just dealing with how incredibly ordinary and weird it is to be thirteen.
One-act
Two 13-year-old girls
Available for premiere
IMAGE: Douglas Kirkland/CORBIS (not a production photo)
THE MANOR
“The honesty and grace in this play is so lovely. What a wonderful look at aging, death, desire, and losing your mind.” - Kate Berry, Creede Repertory Theatre
Full-length
4 women, 2 men
Available for premiere
THE CUT
The Cut is a story about loving and dying that asks us to consider how far we would go to save the person we most cherish from suffering.
Full length
One woman, one trans man
Available for premiere
Production photo from MARVELOUS at Montclair Kimberley Academy, 2019
MARVELOUS
Marvelous is an original adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, commissioned by the Seattle Children’s Theatre Drama School.
Appropriate for a cast of six to twenty-six 8- to 14-year-old actors, Marvelous tells the story of Kai and Gertie, two best friends living in a depression-era circus, and their journey to understanding that there's more than one way to be special, and that even the most "unmagical" of us can make a difference in the world.
ADVENT
It’s Seattle. It’s winter. It’s raining. Christmas is 25 days away. Noor, a college professor working nights as a nativity scene security guard, develops a fascination with Lucy, a woman who visits the nativity scene a lot. Like a lot a lot. So much that his co-worker Eileen suspects that she is the one who will steal the baby Jesus, though she really doesn’t fit the profile.
Across the street, Noor’s wife Orli and her business partner Nell are trying to find a niche for their Jewish bakery amidst the holiday hullabaloo, an effort that is about to be complicated by the surprise arrival of Nell’s estranged father, Apollo (dressed as Santa, of course).
Meanwhile, Pastor Luke is facing down his first Christmas sermon under the weight of a huge secret he’s been hiding from his congregation (it’s not that he’s gay—they already know that) and hosting his little sister who has run away from home and, oh yeah, also believes she is the messiah.
Advent is a romantic dramedy for an ensemble cast that reminds us that, even in the darkest part of the year, even in the the most confounding moments in our lives, we are not alone.
Full-length
3 men, 5 women
Available for premiere