Katy Fitzpatrick Sarala is a passionate member of the Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) and wants to attend a conference in solidarity of her best friend, Angie, who has recently come out as a lesbian. Her mother disapproves, and doesn’t understand why she cares if she is not queer. While this is happening, we are watching […]
Jeff Good Zulio wants to play football but must get by Rosa. She has a clipboard and is barring entry to the gym unless he answers her variety of gendered questions. She quickly assigns him the “wrong” gender based off the answers and he tries to get himself labelled as a boy. Once he establishes
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Rex McGregor Aleema and her friend Azad are in Kabul, Afghanistan, and are playing soccer outside, imagining their future World Cup success. Azad, a young boy, goes off to get his hair trimmed and Aleema wants her short hair trimmed, too. The barber says he cannot cut her hair anymore because her father wants it
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Kai Fig Taddei Canadian Kat and Italian Eli just met online. Their dads are brothers, but Kat’s dad was kicked out because he is gay, and they have never met. They quickly form a bond because of their queerness and curiosity to learn more about their family. When Kat learns that Eli is trans, she
Emily Sheehan In this imaginative play, the four young characters explore the transformation from childhood into adulthood. 14 year old Daisy is a Lady Gaga super-fan with the dream of finally seeing her in concert, since the first time she tried to, it didn’t go as planned. That summer, her older brother gets kicked out
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Joel Bailey High school senior and star athlete, Jack Cusack, secretly writes a play for theatre class about his experience growing up athletic and closeted. The play is found by his classmate, Rudy, who pitches it as an idea for the spring play without Jack’s name attached. However, the school principal stops the production under
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Emily Borst Charlie is a nonbinary teenager coming to terms with their gender identity and being a lesbian. At the prom, they meet Laura, another lesbian who’s there with a boy that her friend set her up with. They have a conversation about what queer identity means to each of them, and end up going
Gabriel Jason Dean Doodle, a fifth-grader who recently moved to Santa Ana with his mother and imaginary goat Valencia, is stuck at home on Halloween while his mother works. He meets Reno, a neighbor his age who enjoys wearing dresses. At first, Doodle doesn’t understand Reno. However, as they face the neighborhood bullies together, he
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Nick Witzeman O and X are nonbinary teenagers attending a co-ed Catholic high school where their brother teaches music. During a Zoom interview, sibling tensions are revealed and religion, art, and gender are discussed. O and X are angry about the Catholic Church and their school’s rigid view on gender, which has put them both
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Edward Roy This play tells the story of five teens who are grappling with issues of homophobia, peer pressure, youth violence, behavior norms, gender expectations, discrimination, and identity. This play explores the issue of homophobia when it’s protagonist, a teenager named Carl, is outed by friends. Playwright: Edward Roy Publication Year: 1999 Publisher: Playwrights Guild
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