plays
full length
Hot COld shower
Received development and production with The University of the Arts
Laughter and bloodshed. Tap dancing and trauma. Clownery and ghosts. All tenets of the classic American family.
In the wake of the Grandpa’s death, the hierarchy of one Texan family is shifting, much to the horror and chagrin of its members. Following different children of the same family across 4 stylistically opposed vignettes, Hot Cold Shower charts the lineage of inherited trauma, bringing the ghosts in your closet back to life, all in a flashy Grand Guignol inspired fashion.
The Clownssacre
Received development and production with Gameplay Theater Lab
A serial killer clown chasing a group of normal college kids through the woods? Tropey. Trite. Uninspired. A normal serial killer chasing a group of college clowns through the woods? Also tropey. Also trite. But certainly not uninspired!
The Clownssacre is an interactive play-within-a-play that follows a group of clowns re-enacting the true story of their favorite serial killer... until the actual killer shows up to the performance. Real blood mixes with cornstarch and food coloring as the killer picks the actors off between scenes, leaving the audience questioning whether this is really a play or not. And to add to the mayhem, audience members unknowingly vote on the order of the killings when they arrive.
alleviate
Addiction is a monster that may take many forms.
Grace's mom is dying, forcing her to return to her estranged Texas hometown for the first time since her transition. However, her in-recovery traditional father wants nothing more than to mourn his late wife in peace. Family tensions run high as the days left run short, pushing Grace deeper and deeper down the bottle. When there's nothing left to alleviate her pain, she turns to the only person left: a shapeshifting rodeo clown who seems to have all the answers. Alleviate is a magical realism thriller that explores transformation through a story of addiction and transness, asking what it means to cultivate your own belonging.
one act
adam sandler jury duty
Presented by GamePlay Theatre Lab as part of the Philadelphia Fringe and Cannonball Festival.
You and 11 other “recently deceased” audience members arrive at the agnostically ambiguous afterlife, only to be immediately slapped with a jury summons. Yuck! Who’s on the stand? Actor and comedian Adam Sandler, of course. Over the course of the trial, lawyers both for and against Adam will present you with their “evidence”, telling a campy patchwork story of Adam’s life that blends his movies with the reality. You’ll be asked to love him. You’ll be asked to hate him. You’ll probably feel indifferent about him. But you have to pick a side, as by the end you’ll be asked to use your judgment to make an impossible decision: does Adam deserve to go to the “good place”, or the “bad place?”
bugboro
Presented by My Mother Once Read as part of the Philadelphia Fringe and Cannonball Festival.
Come visit Bugboro, the buzziest, busiest bug colony this side of the Schuylkill, and meet the big personalities of our tiny community. We’re a small, simple settlement built by the bugs who live here, from Momma Mary Spider and her home-grown hand-picked market, to Gillian Grasshopper’s library shack of stories, to Stinky Stinkbug’s Tiny Trash Truck, to a slew of other approachable arthropods and their children of baby bees, moths, and flies, all waiting to welcome your family into their community. Leading with ideals of empathy, unity, and compassion, the stories and locations will invite each individual child to become a unique member of the community themselves.
Read 'Bugboro' at Rose's New Play Exchange!
10 minute
Aluminum barbie
Received development and production with The University of the Arts
Joe is an old school GI Joe doll who doesn't quite fit in with his platoon of brothers. But when a new Barbie is brought into the playroom, Joe finally has a chance at a real friendship. However when his bully brothers accidentally launch him from a window, Joe undergoes a journey through nature to find his friend, discovering a new freedom of expression in the process. Aluminum Barbie is a contemporary TYA retelling of Hans Christian Anderson's classic "Steadfast Tin Soldier" story, aiming to teach children to embrace the power of their individual uniqueness.
seities
Received development and production with The University of the Arts
You wake up in a basement. The concrete is cold. Something sticky drips from the ceiling onto your head. The only light emanating from a single hanging bulb. You can hear people above and below. You can't remember what happened before this, or how you got here.
There's another figure in the room. They look just like you. They sound just like you. They know all you know. They say the same things you say. Maybe they are you. How could you tell the difference?
Seities is a horror radio play that takes audiences into the nightmare of being replaced, making you question what it means to be you.
screenplays
bozo hall
College is rough. Clown college is worse. A friend group of aspiring clowns bumble and fumble through their freshmen year, testing their ambitions and friendship in the process.
Bozo Hall is a campy irreverent sitcom mockumentary that takes a look at the student life on the Cornelius Clown College campus, following 4 clowns as they form a friend group that will ultimately serve as their greatest support and biggest problem. With each clown embodying a basic goal of college, to learn, to be popular, to make connections, to get your piece of paper, the group is a bundle of stereotype subversions in red makeup. Episodes follow the slice of life experiences in this absurd environment, putting a funhouse mirror up to the conventional experience our society has come to understand as “college”. What does it mean to be a young person in this ever changing world? What does it mean to be a young person in this ever changing world, who’s also a clown? What happens to the fabric of life when everyone embraces the absurdities around them, rather than ignoring them? Bozo Hall explores the very real and existential questions plaguing young people in America today, whilst delivering it in a snarky mockumentary style.
Available upon request.
"what we do in the shadows"
spec scrip: What we do at the rodeo
A rodeo has come to staten island, and an ex rival of Laszlo's along with it. When Laszlo's hubris and Nandor's desire to make an old fling remember him grow high, the vampires are left with the only logical option: to enter the vampire rodeo.
Available upon request.
*All art created by Rose Farrell using Stable Diffusion Image Generator