Lindsay Carpenter

Lindsay Carpenter

Lindsay Carpenter is a playwright and director based in New York and Boston. Her play "Our Black Death: Plagues, Turnips, and Other Romantic Gestures" was produced by Unicorn Theatre and Taffety Punk. She is a Princess Grace Award semi-finalist, Goldberg Prize finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival semi-finalist, and Kennedy Center ACTF National Undergraduate Playwriting Award winner. In 2020, she...
Lindsay Carpenter is a playwright and director based in New York and Boston. Her play "Our Black Death: Plagues, Turnips, and Other Romantic Gestures" was produced by Unicorn Theatre and Taffety Punk. She is a Princess Grace Award semi-finalist, Goldberg Prize finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival semi-finalist, and Kennedy Center ACTF National Undergraduate Playwriting Award winner. In 2020, she graduated with an MFA from NYU Tisch's Dramatic Writing Program. She was a staff writer on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s (CBC) web series “Amours d’occasion” (IFP 2019 Web Drama Series winner, 2020 Best Web Series & Honorable Mention: Drama LA Film Awards, Prix Numix 2020 Webseries Fiction finalist, and CANNESERIES Short Form Competition 2020 Nominee). She is a co-founder of Ghost Ship Murder Mysteries (www.ghostshipmurdermysteries.com), which combines interactive theatre with role playing games.

Plays

  • Our Black Death: Plagues, Turnips, and Other Romantic Gestures by Lindsay Carpenter
    Recommendations: 7
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy
    Genre: dark comedy
    The plague, dead husbands, love spells, and two women who finally get to be together. Our Black Death is a dark comedy about two peasants in mid-1300s England who explore their newfound power and take a chance on love as everyone around them dies.
  • Out of Balance by Lindsay Carpenter
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: mother, daughters + 1 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: mother, daughters, Camping
    Out of Balance is an intimate look at a mother and daughter relationship as it falls apart. Bailey (13) becomes obsessed with the idea of going camping alone, which her mother Ava refuses to let her do because she is concerned for Bailey’s safety. Tensions rise as they compete for control—with Bailey regularly usurping Ava.
  • Day Father by Lindsay Carpenter
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    In Day Father, an unhappy Mother isolated in a big city starts an affair with a man named Jason. The play explores the effects of this seven-year affair on Anna, Mother's daughter, as Anna goes from age 9 to 16 and comes to understand that the other man in her family isn't really her Day Father.
  • Pillow Fort by Lindsay Carpenter
    Cast: 
    4–6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: pillow fort, kids + 8 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: pillow fort, kids, children, absurd, leaders, leadership, hierarchy, theatricality, heightened language, revenge
    “Pillow Fort" is about four kids (played by adults) building a pillow fort. The play explores how hierarchies rise and fall, what makes a good (and bad) leader, and why we cling to rituals.
  • Break by Lindsay Carpenter
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: dishes, absurdism + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: dishes, absurdism, parenthood, psychological torture
    "Break" is an absurd dark comedy about love, death, parenting, and broken dishes. It begins with a man stacking dishes on another man's back, unable to escape, while in a booth above two women watch. Over the course of the play, rules and relationships are repeatedly set up and broken as a man referred to as Dishes tries to escape and his daughter, April, tries to break him out. The play explores...
    "Break" is an absurd dark comedy about love, death, parenting, and broken dishes. It begins with a man stacking dishes on another man's back, unable to escape, while in a booth above two women watch. Over the course of the play, rules and relationships are repeatedly set up and broken as a man referred to as Dishes tries to escape and his daughter, April, tries to break him out. The play explores who gets to decide if someone is a victim and whether parents can be blamed for the flaws of their children.
  • Borders by Lindsay Carpenter
    Cast: 
    3–4
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    Genre: drama, fantasy + 1 more
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    Keyword: dreams, Depression + 6 more
    Genre: drama, fantasy, science fiction
    Keyword: dreams, Depression, Dystopia, fear, friends, friendship, Freedom, magical realism
    In "Borders", Jess is the only person in the world who can still dream. Set in a future rife with disease and nameless fears, she isolates herself to maintain her safety and keep her secret hidden. But when two strangers find their way into her life, Jess must decide what she can share and what she’s willing to give up.
  • Walk, Girl by Lindsay Carpenter
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: rape, rape culture + 8 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: rape, rape culture, sexual assault, women, generations, empowerment, survivor, victim, police, women's rights
    The night before her bridal shower in Appalachia, Hannah goes out for a drink only to be drugged and raped by a stranger. As she struggles to deal with wedding planning, doctors, policemen and self-forgiveness, her story intertwines with two other women. Her mother-in-law's past becomes present when she discovers Hannah's horrible secret, and a mythical Grandma Gatewood (the first woman to walk the...
    The night before her bridal shower in Appalachia, Hannah goes out for a drink only to be drugged and raped by a stranger. As she struggles to deal with wedding planning, doctors, policemen and self-forgiveness, her story intertwines with two other women. Her mother-in-law's past becomes present when she discovers Hannah's horrible secret, and a mythical Grandma Gatewood (the first woman to walk the Appalachian Trail) serves as a spiritual guide to Hannah and her husband Jaime as they attempt to heal their relationship. The story is told out of chronological order revealing scenes before and after the assault, which is never shown on stage. Sometimes defiant, sometimes lyrical, the play examines rape culture and the way that rape repeats itself from generation to generation.
  • The Game by Lindsay Carpenter
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    A man and women in the 1400s meet and fall in love. From childhood into old age, their relationship changes. Over a series of five games, they arrive at a final choice of whether to be together.
  • Bennie by Lindsay Carpenter
    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: film noir, noir + 3 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, mystery/thriller, parody/spoof
    Keyword: film noir, noir, kids, Bunnies, loss of innocence
    12 year old Sally fancies herself a film noir detective. When she discovers her pet rabbit Bennie missing, she follows the clues with her best friend Gunther. Darkly humorous, this film noir spoof plays with language and shows that you can’t trust anybody.
  • Little Red and the Quest with Many Sons - A Choose Your Own Adventure Story- by Lindsay Carpenter
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood + 3 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, fable/folktale, fantasy
    Keyword: fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood, quest, choose your own adventure, choice
    Little Red’s father has been kidnapped by a dragon, so obviously she goes on a quest for him. A fractured fairy tale with many sons, tests, and transformations. Throughout the play, the audience decides what Little Red does next on her quest.
  • Knappogue by Lindsay Carpenter
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: end of the world, Sisters + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: end of the world, Sisters, good enough, Whiskey, poop
    Less than 10 minutes before the end of the world, sisters Sarah and Imogen try to decide how to spend their final moments. Funny, poignant, and sometimes crude, the sisters realize they already have done everything they need to do.
  • Black ou Noir by Lindsay Carpenter
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: film noir, detective + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, mystery/thriller, parody/spoof
    Keyword: film noir, detective, femme fatale, magic
    When a soon to be detective is woken at 5 AM, there’s sure to be trouble. In comes a panicked Femme carrying a dangerous word, shortly followed by Fatale. Told in two scenes, it’s the beginning and end of a detective’s career, a comedic whirlwind of film noir, seduction, danger, and love.
  • Brikelak by Lindsay Carpenter
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: apocalypse, end of the world + 2 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, fantasy, science fiction
    Keyword: apocalypse, end of the world, language, aliens
    An apocalyptic world, two strangers, and an attempt to understand each other.
  • Superhero by Lindsay Carpenter
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: superhero, real-life superheroes + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: superhero, real-life superheroes, guidance counselor, family, dreams, growing up, parenthood, LGBTQ
    “I’ve decided to become a superhero.” A career counselor encourages one of her high school students to pursue his unreasonable dream, but cannot support her own daughter’s choice for the future.