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Emily is a writer.

Plays can be found on New Play Exchange

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Full Length, 2F/1M, 90 minutes.

Clementine is desperately trying to do the right thing. Clancy is desperately trying to make it through another day as her life falls apart. David is desperately trying to win the Phoenix Division of the World Mind of a Warrior Conference, a celebration of Skill, Artistry, Dedication, and Grit for all those who practice The Way. A play about the sad things that happen when we're happy and the funny things that happen when we're sad.  

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  • Semifinalist: American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award

  • Workshop Production: Columbia University School of the Arts

  • Reading: Valdez Theatre Conference

  • Reading: Alaska World Arts Festival

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Full length, 4F/4M, 120 minutes.

A girl from nowhere marries her rich classmate from college—and all of her friends think they know why she did it. A story of obsession, ambition, addiction, and greed; of choosing between what you want and what you need; and of what it takes to have power in America. Loose retelling of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler.

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  • Workshop Production: Columbia University School of the Arts

  • Finalist: Emerson Stages NewFest New Play Workshop

  • Finalist: Circle in the Square Theatre School Emerging Writer's Residency

Full length, 5+ any, 75 minutes.

In a far-off future where humanity is hanging by a thread, a group of traveling storytellers reenact three stories from the Brothers Grimm: The Three Snake LeavesFaithful Johannes, and The Robber Bridegroom. Interwoven with live folk music. Developed with director Sam Gibbs and Stairwell Theater Company.

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  • Workshop Production: Columbia University School of the Arts

  • Workshop Production: Edinburgh Fringe Festival

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Full length, 4F, 90 minutes.

Four students at Sacred Heart Academy for Girls tangle themselves in their fears, obsessions, identities, and faiths as they battle for a place on the coveted Sacred Heart Church Counsel. 

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  • Winner: Players Club of Swarthmore New Play Festival

  • Semifinalist: Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival

  • Reading: Players Club of Swarthmore

  • Reading: Women's Theater Festival

  • Developmental Workshop: Macha Theatre Works

  • Developmental Workshop/Staged Reading: Broad Views on Broadway

  • Reading: No Man's Land Theatre Company

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Full Length, 2F/4 any, 90 minutes

A Girl goes on a fantastic journey to retrieve her Lover, who has been kidnapped by God. 

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  • Winner: Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language from Synecdoche Works

  • Workshop: Synecdoche Works

  • Reading: Production Workshop

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Full Length, 4F/3M, 75 minutes.

Part folk musical, part ritual performed by actor-musicians. A baby in a struggling rural community has just died, and the parishioners of the church gather to celebrate, judge, and unravel her life.

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One-Act, 3 - 6F/4 - 7M, 45 minutes.

Barnabus Sappington is in therapy. His therapist, Dr. Robinson, isn't very good at his job, but is very good at interrupting his client's stories. We piece together Sappington's past and meet the many previous families he worked for, including a murderous 8 year old, a group of retired Broadway actresses, and an expat from Spain escaping the law.

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  • Production: Production Workshop

  • Production: St. Mary's Academy

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One-Act, 1F/1M, 45 minutes.

A woman gives a TedTalk-style presentation on the actual top 10 most watched dance videos on YouTube, which slowly gets taken over by her own history with dance, competition, and injury.

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One-Act,  1F/1M/2 any, 25 minutes.

Raptor is a nihilist. Raptor has a vision that a comet is about to come crashing to earth and kill all of dinosaurkind. How does Raptor respond? By making musical theater! 

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  • Workshop Production: Columbia University School of the Arts

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One-Act,  1F/5 any, 30 minutes.

The Truth does not know what's happening. The Truth does not know what is real. The Truth tries making spreadsheets and taking notes and listening to obscene music very loudly to remember the truth, but she just can't remember. â€‹

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  • Workshop Production: Your Friend's Backyard Theatre Company

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Short, 2 any, 15 minutes.

A prisoner knows that he's performing in front of an audience, but can't figure out why he can only say what's been written down in the script. A guard knows that there's a script, but doesn't see the audience in front of him. Huh?​

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  • Winner: Horizon Theatre New South/Young Playwrights Contest

  • Production: Production Workshop

  • Production: Drama Society, Dunkalk Institute of Technology

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Short, 3M, 10 minutes.

How different is the version of you just one reality over from this one? A perfectly normal teenager is visited by a slightly different perfectly normal teenager from one reality over. They're both visited by a slightly different slightly different perfectly normal teenager from one reality over in the other direction.

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  • Production: 14th Grade Players, George Washington University

  • Workshop Production: Columbia University School of the Arts

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Short, 1F/1M, 10 minutes.

A series of short vignettes weave together a complex criticism of war and war culture, bringing in the perspective of children, parents, soldiers, and dictators. Features interludes of interpretive movement and an original song. 

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  • Production: Manhattan Repertory Theatre

  • Production: Production Workshop

©2025 by Emily Elyse Everett.

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