Final Resting Place

FINAL RESTING PLACE is a composite of stories, told by very different types of women across the country whose lives are connected by the infamous serial killer, Willy Ray Watts.
Some are victims from beyond the grave, some are family members, cops, lawyers. Others have suffered and been discarded, yet remained nameless to society, while Willie has become famous.
A horror movie being made based on the killings...

FINAL RESTING PLACE is a composite of stories, told by very different types of women across the country whose lives are connected by the infamous serial killer, Willy Ray Watts.
Some are victims from beyond the grave, some are family members, cops, lawyers. Others have suffered and been discarded, yet remained nameless to society, while Willie has become famous.
A horror movie being made based on the killings, called Final Resting Place, is intertwined throughout the play and soon the audience isn’t able to tell fact from fiction.

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Final Resting Place

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  • Jenna Jane: Final Resting Place

    This play tackles something so prevalent in the zeitgeist: Our obsession with "true crime" -- especially when that true crime involves a man torturing and killing a beautiful young woman. The sick translation of violence against women into entertainment. Victim blaming like sports commentary. The commercialization of women's pain. The way men profit from it and other women support it.

    For once, in this play, the women who are the victims of gender-based violence get to speak for themselves. They get to have a voice in the conversation about their murders.

    This play tackles something so prevalent in the zeitgeist: Our obsession with "true crime" -- especially when that true crime involves a man torturing and killing a beautiful young woman. The sick translation of violence against women into entertainment. Victim blaming like sports commentary. The commercialization of women's pain. The way men profit from it and other women support it.

    For once, in this play, the women who are the victims of gender-based violence get to speak for themselves. They get to have a voice in the conversation about their murders.

*Characters are meant to be doubled up, with actors playing several roles such as LULU/BLOODY CARRIE, LEMON/PENNY WISE, Woman #2/Woman #10, Woman #1/ Woman #3/Woman #5, Woman #6/Woman #8, or other combinations.
The only role to be played by a single actor should be BRET RAVEN.

Woman #4 is Latinx. Woman #8 is black. The rest are open to interpretation.

Development History

  • Type Workshop, Organization Broadwater Theater, Year 2024
  • Type Reading, Organization The Cloud Factory, Year 2022
  • Type Reading, Organization Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles, Year 2022

Awards

  • Pipeline PlayLab
    Pipeline Theater
    Semi-Finalist
    2024
  • Second rounder
    Ojai Playwrights Conference
    2024
  • Parity Productions Commisssion
    Parity Productions
    Finalist
    2023
  • Women's Prize for Playwriting
    Women's Prize
    Finalist
    2023