judy, or i think sophomore year is trying to eat me

15-year-old Lucie attempts to navigate mental health, teenage relationships, her mother, and coming into her body. The struggle is real. Lucky for her, New York Times bestselling author (and every adolescent bookworm’s fairy godmother) Judy Blume pays her a visit in her dreams.

15-year-old Lucie attempts to navigate mental health, teenage relationships, her mother, and coming into her body. The struggle is real. Lucky for her, New York Times bestselling author (and every adolescent bookworm’s fairy godmother) Judy Blume pays her a visit in her dreams.

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  • Riley Elton McCarthy: judy, or i think sophomore year is trying to eat me

    This colorful and bright play about adolescence and coming of age is navigated through Judy Blume, evoking a whimsical and empowering sense of nostalgia through conjuring a familiar literary safe haven for young girls learning how to transition into adulthood through examining HOW we come of age. It's messy, it's great fun, and it's deeply moving.

    This colorful and bright play about adolescence and coming of age is navigated through Judy Blume, evoking a whimsical and empowering sense of nostalgia through conjuring a familiar literary safe haven for young girls learning how to transition into adulthood through examining HOW we come of age. It's messy, it's great fun, and it's deeply moving.

  • Shaun Leisher: judy, or i think sophomore year is trying to eat me

    Very much like the work of this play's namesake, Judy Blume, this is a work of art that will help a lot of young women get through a tough time. If you are a high school educator please have your student's read this play and consider producing it. There are so few works of theatre like this that directly deal with what teen girls go through that are actually written by someone not to far from that age.

    Very much like the work of this play's namesake, Judy Blume, this is a work of art that will help a lot of young women get through a tough time. If you are a high school educator please have your student's read this play and consider producing it. There are so few works of theatre like this that directly deal with what teen girls go through that are actually written by someone not to far from that age.

  • Marissa Alaniz: judy, or i think sophomore year is trying to eat me

    I was so lucky to get to produce this show with Imaginarium Theatre Company. It so beautifully encapsulates the female teenage experience and speaks to larger, universal issues without being heavy handed. Mueller's use of humor keeps this play constantly enchanting.

    I was so lucky to get to produce this show with Imaginarium Theatre Company. It so beautifully encapsulates the female teenage experience and speaks to larger, universal issues without being heavy handed. Mueller's use of humor keeps this play constantly enchanting.

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Character Information

5f, 2m

Mother & Ms. Toddy may be double cast
Harrison & Chester may be double cast
  • lucie
    curious, nervous, reading a map upside and backwards
    Character Age
    15
    Character Race/Ethnic Identity
    Any
    Character Gender Identity
    Female
  • ianna
    16, confident, insecure, would believe anything she read about sex in magazines, if she read magazines
    Character Age
    16
    Character Gender Identity
    Female
  • mother
    late 30s, trying, desperately trying
    Character Age
    mid-late 30s/early 40s
    Character Gender Identity
    Female
  • ms. toddy
    early 30s, the cool, relatable, young teacher who thinks “sharing” is going to impact her students in a different way than talking at them, like Kate McKinnon while she’s impersonating somebody, but it’s her actual personality
    Character Age
    30s
    Character Gender Identity
    Female
  • harrison
    16, wholesome, nervous, kind
    Character Age
    16
    Character Gender Identity
    Male
  • chester
    16, mindless, horny, popular
    Character Age
    16
    Character Gender Identity
    Male
  • judy blume
    ageless, spectacular, a guardian angel, a fairy godmother, the mother of the menstruating and the masturbating, the queen of the pubertizing
    Character Age
    ageless
    Character Gender Identity
    Female,
    Gender non-conforming
  • infomercial woman
    obsessed with beauty, obsessed with being beautiful, obsessed with sharing her gift of beauty with others
    Character Age
    20s, 30s
    Character Gender Identity
    Female

Development History

  • Type Workshop, Organization WorkShop Theater, Year 2020
  • Type Reading, Organization Little & Fierce Theatre Company, Year 2020

Production History

  • Type Professional, Organization Imaginarium Theatre Company, Year 2021