“The script, by Leah Winkler….effectively skewers the false personas and banal self-descriptions on dating Web sites while underscoring the longing”-The New York Times

“There have been numerous pieces of theatre, film, television, and literature that have embarked on a journey into the psychologically violent depths of the social impact of female body image on the lives of women and young girls. Big Girls Club (The Happy Happy Dance Princess Show)…. is maybe the most direct and biting I have experienced”- Nytheatre.com

The following plays are available for production. To request a script,  email me at  leah@everywheretheatre.org

THE INTERNET.

“Against a bare black set with a white floor and two large elevated video monitors, the 11 performers are all in constant motion dancing and singing, but four characters are central. In I.M.’s, Dan is wooing Nicki, the girlfriend of Tom — or so he’s known online — who chases Rachel  online behind Nicki’s back. On the monitors, you see the physical world, where people are glued to their laptops, and onstage there’s the emotional, where people flirt, cry, rant and plead for connection“- Andy Webster, New York Times

Big Girls Club (Happy Dance Dance Princess Show)

It’s a girls’ night in for Lisa, Katie and Nancy. All they want is to be happy. But as they gorge themselves on unhealthy food and BUTTERFACE! the TV Show, the night escalates into a sadistic game of truth or dare that reveals a shockingly surrealistic glimpse to their disturbing world.  Big Girls Club (Happy Dance Dance Princess Show) is a play on uppers, exploring excess, fetishism and female cruelty propelled by our ever schizophrenic and media frenzied culture.

Death for Sydney Black

Nancy, wants to become a cheerleader at her new school.  Will she, with the help of Jen her quirky sidekick from the wrong side of the tracks, be able to overcome the wrath of Sydney Black the most popular girl in school? More importantly, will star athlete Brad ever love her back? A standard female narrative is interrupted by moments of gut-wrenching ugliness, pacified with uncomfortable pleasures and simple honesty- resulting in a deeply ambivalent and unnerving experience of theater.


A Pale Horse, Death and Hell Followed With (A Lifetime Original Series)

(Cowritten by Teddy Nicholas)

Chaos ensues as six office workers seek to find fulfillment in the mundane by violently loving, hating and sexing one another all while longing to save Darfur.

COMING SOON:

FLYING SNAKES IN 3D!

DEAD PEOPLE

WHITEWASH

Short Plays

Beiber Bug

1F

10 min.

A pre-teen girl who is systematically abused at home and at school develops a maniacal obsession with Justin Beiber. First produced at HERE Arts Center by Terra Nova Collective Feb 2011.


DEAD PEOPLE

1 F/1 M/1 cat/1 Pretzel

An exploration of what happens when people who are dead to you come back into your life on the internet. First seen at Little Theatre@ Dixon Place, NYC May 2011.

I Don’t Want To Read Your Blog

3/M

Matt and Gary are smoking weed and drinking beers. Things get really weird when Matt shows Gary an email written to him by an old childhood friend, who has been obsessively reading Matt’s blog since he moved away from Oklahoma. First seen at Asking For Trouble at Youngblood/Ensemble Studio Theatre, October 2011, NYC.

little girls.(10 min)

1F/1 M

A soldier’s wife dreams of her husband’s dream. First seen at CuDC’s Source Festival in Washington, DC. 

BUTTERFACE (30 min)
1F/1M

Lisa will do anything to win her audition for BUTTERFACE, a television program where America will vote on  her face. First seen at The Brick Theater, NYC.

LOVE

1m/2 F

A new and exciting courtship between two lovers quickly turns into a horrible relationship that quickly turns into a horrible car accident that quickly turns into a knight in shining armor who watches a grandmother undress while looking down at the bloody corpse of a damsel in distress. First seen at the Ontological Hysteric Theater, NYC 2008.