All scripts are available to read upon request.
2F, 2M, 1 person of any gender
When two teenagers are the sole survivors of an attack that decimated their village, they are left with nothing but to seek out those responsible for the destruction. They find themselves entangled in the politics of the temple of Nanna-Sin, the mood god, where a High Priestess and her right hand man conspire to control all.
- October 2017: San Francisco Olympians Festival, staged reading.
4F, 4M, and ideally 1 band
One night at a home turned punk venue that’s been in existence as long as anyone in the scene can tell. Three generations of punk rockers contemplate the evolution of the scene and what the future of the movement and art holds all with the backdrop of a legendary punk producer who wants to make an up and coming band a deal.
- January 2016: Custom Made Theatre, Undiscovered Works, staged reading.
- May 2015: Just Theater New Plays Lab, staged reading.
2F, 3M
The group dynamics of a martial arts school is shaken when one student harasses another. The instructors disagreement over how to handle the situation breaks the social contract and threatens the structure of the school.
- August 2014: Carnegie Mellon University New Works Series, workshop thesis production
1F, 2M
A coming of age love story where a young woman becomes enmeshed in DJ culture.
- July 2012: All Terrain Theater, staged production.
(you can watch the original staged reading with the San Francisco Olympians Festival by clicking above)
2F, 3M
Hera has had enough. She decides to get her revenge on Zeus and bro culture by impregnating a bro perpetrator in the SF Marina. As he prepares for birth, he learns the consequences of his actions and another side to life he hadn’t seen before. But he must make amends with Hera before Zeus finds him and his soon-to-be born baby.
- November 2012: San Francisco Olympians Festival
i stole lance armstrong’s bike
2F, 1M
Two young women become internet famous when they steal Lance Armstrong’s time trial bike, post online, and drive off into the middle of nowhere, CA in order to ditch it. Along the way they meet a busker who throws off who’s in control.
- 2011, All Terrain Theater, staged reading.
And more!
Feel free to inquire about other plays, operas, screenplays, and poetry I write by writing me at barbara dot jwan at gmail.
Thanks!
The Dynamics of Groove 