Gather round cowboys and clowns, I’m a zesty queer who likes to make comedy and fear. I’m Rose Farrell, a Philadelphia-based playwright, director, and producer who creates highly theatrical contemporary stories with a queer lens. My work relies on contradictions and extremes. The frivolous lies we tell ourselves, the deep truths we created them for. The clown creature and the human under the makeup. My worlds are black and white, all one thing or all the other, to show that our actual world is anything but. My work aims to help shift the image of both what’s on stage and who’s in the audience. I create experiences for and by

gen-z/millennials, who often feel ostracized by the theater, in the hopes of creating a younger artistic community in this post-pandemic world. My work aims to create new experiences, deep conversations, and ideally a lot of fun, all in one package.

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As a theater artist I've worked with Playpenn, Theater Exile, The University of the Arts, and the Philadelphia Fringe/Cannonball Festival. I’m the co-founder of the two local artist collectives, Gameplay Theatre Lab, which focuses on creating new queer choose-your-own-adventure theater, and My Mother Once Read, a traveling children’s entertainment company working to bring accessible diverse stories to families around Philadelphia. I hail begrudgingly from the state of Texas, and love all the things everyone loves: cats, clowns, and cult documentaries.