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Plays About the Future

Our next featured list is our quarterly installment from playwright Lainie Vansant, who offers this perhaps-timely introduction: "I love reading sci-fi. Writing these plays is a unique challenge: you have to imagine what the future might be, create rules for that future, and then live within those rules. Though a lot of these imagined futures may be bleak, these writers offer stories of hope, resilience, and resistance (and sometimes even laughter) that inspire me to make the real future a little bit better."

Repossessed by Greg Lam
Things That Are Gray by Emily Hageman
The New Galileos by Amy Berryman
Babel by Jacqueline Goldfinger
Boldly Go by Matt Barbot
Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying by Jessica Huang
Her Own Devices by Lindsay Adams
A Visit to Weizenbaum by Sandra A. Daley-Sharif
Desolate by Melissa Jackson Burns
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Baby I'll Turn the Sky Green for You by Taylor Sklenar
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The NPX Index

  • Scripts tagged with the keyword "virus": 27
  • Scripts tagged with the keyword "plague": 23
  • Scripts tagged with the keyword "COVID-19": 49
  • Scripts tagged with the keyword "coronavirus": 71