Plays!
The following plays are available for production. To request a script, email me at leah@everywheretheatre.org
all photos by Chase Voorhees
THE INTERNET.
(created in collaboration with EVERYWHERE THEATRE GROUP)
“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….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“- 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.
“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
Death for Sydney Black
Borrowing from contemporary tropes such as ”teen comedy” as well as classical fairy tale narratives, the play highlights the untenable standards girls are subjected to daily while encouraging uncensored, brutal insights about womanhood. The play centers on Nancy, a young girl newly arrived from a magical forest, Jen, her token minority sidekick and and Sydney Black, the evil queen of the high school that must be brought down. We also meet three cheerleaders who are starving, beautiful and desperate, and the charming jock, Brad (played by the actress who plays Sydney Black). As Jen speaks, sings and raps various versions of a familiar story where the unpopular girl becomes popular, as harsh realities are remembered and roles are reversed, the girls realize they’ve been stuck in the same narrative since the dawn of fairytales through “chickflicks” in 2012 and beyond.
“(Winkler) packs every teen girl trauma into her taut script ― body image, bullying, first love, same-sex attraction, sexual abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, disabilities, eating disorders and suicide. It’s all wrapped up, but never sugar-coated…..the play brings the audience into this changing world of growing pains and eye-opening realizations”-Florida Theater On The Stage
“Load of F-Bombs, sexual denigrating dialogue, and a couple of back stories that involve sexual molestation by relatives”-THE MIAMI HAROLD
Flying Snakes in 3-D!!!!!!
(written by Leah Nanako Winkler and Teddy Nicholas, created by Everywhere Theatre Group)
An epic fusion of sci-fi parody, the avant-garde, and brutally autobiographical elements, in which a young and broke theater company challenge themselves to the ultimate task in order to pack the houses: to successfully make a play that is better suited for film. What they come up with is “Flying Snakes in 3-D,”where mutant killer snakes are accidentally released from CIA-enlisted scientific headquarters under the setting of earth under attack, and violent, bloody chaos ensues. Will The Heroes be able to defeat the snakes? Will the theatre company be able to make their play succeed in the face of overwhelming financial, technical and emotional obstacles? Packed with dance, cheap special effects, and absolutely stunning video design, this tongue-in-cheek parody wildly entertains while daring to ask the question: If theater is a dying art, why are we still making it?
COMING SOON:
DIVERSITY AWARENESS PICNIC
It’s Diversity Awareness Week at Buffallo and Rhody, a telemarketing company located on the campus of a liberal arts college. Chaos ensues.
Short Plays
ARCHNEMISIS
2F, 1M
10 min
High-schooler Casey Moody has been terrorized her entire life by Calvin Harmon. However, when Casey she pulls a horrible April Fool’s Day Joke on Calvin, she’s the one gets into trouble from Guidance Councilor Judy because the world is filled double standards and unfairness. First seen at April Fools Day Brunch 4/1/12 at Youngblood/Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC.
99
1 F, 2 M
Caucasian Kevin works as a personal assistant to Caucasian hedgefund wife Patricia Woodard. They are so caught up in their own problems that they fail to recognize that their life is awesome, even when a homeless guy walks in. First seen at Youngblood/Ensemble Studio Theatre, 99% Brunch in November 2011, NYC.
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.
