Claire Stewart-Moore as Wendy in The Girl Who Would Rather Not Grow Up Just Yet (produced as Lock Up Your Chaperone, Short + Sweet Sydney 2014)
Girls on the Brink
A collection of short plays about coming of age and the dramatic impact of sudden change on young lives. From a new take on Romeo and Juliet to an Afghan girl whose days as a boy are at an end to a futuristic tale of living forever, these seven diverse plays all explore that precarious moment when young people find themselves on the brink of life.
Includes
The Girl Who Would Rather Not Grow Up Just Yet
Refloat Our Whale
Grow Up, Juliet
Twilight of the Grizzly
Aleema the Boy Girl
Sugar Horror
Almost Immortal
A collection of short plays about coming of age and the dramatic impact of sudden change on young lives. From a new take on Romeo and Juliet to an Afghan girl whose days as a boy are at an end to a futuristic tale of living forever, these seven diverse plays all explore that precarious moment when young people find themselves on the brink of life.
Includes
The Girl Who Would Rather Not Grow Up Just Yet
Refloat Our Whale
Grow Up, Juliet
Twilight of the Grizzly
Aleema the Boy Girl
Sugar Horror
Almost Immortal
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Doug's monologue from Prepper's Nightmare
published in The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2020 (Smith and Kraus, 2021) |
Elizabeth's Revenge
from Henry the Seventh (If Shakespeare Was Honest) published in The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2020 (Smith and Kraus, 2021) |
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The Birds Are Feeding Me
published in Laughter Is the Best Medicine : forty-five 5-minute plays in the age of coronavirus (Smith & Kraus, 2021) and Synkroniciti, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Summer 2021) |
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Restoring Romeo and Will Kemp's Turn
published in London: Smoke, Blokes and Jokes of Foggy Town, Red Penguin, 2022 |
Opening monologue from The Sword and the Gown published in WE/US: Monologues for the Gender Minority, Smith & Kraus, 2022
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Henry the Seventh (If Shakespeare Was Honest)
published in The Courtship of Winds, Summer, 2022 and in Hearts & Guns, Volume 2. Qutub Minar Review, 2023 |
Incident in Vienna (short story)
published in Lost. Volume 2: Missing Things, 2023 |
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Love and Acoustics won 2nd place at Words on Water Playwriting Contest, Blue Institute, Harwich, Massachusetts, 2023. Script published online
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A scene from Tickle That Dragon is published in Thirty Scenes for Young Women, Ages 15–30, edited by Irene Ziegler, Smith & Kraus.
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The Ecstasy of Carmel (short story based on the play)
published in Rome: Centuries of Stories of the Eternal City, Red Penguin, 2023 |