Kill Me Softly, Lower Merion

by Emily Acker

All Billie wants is a meaningful, respectable job, but it’s hard to self-motivate when you’re a privileged girl from the suburbs, there are so many cool things on the Internet, and the dogs next-door won’t. stop. barking. If the pressure from her crazy, self-made mother weren’t enough, now her new Cuban-immigrant housekeeper is proving that millennials can work hard, and Billie’s [f]unemployment just got...

All Billie wants is a meaningful, respectable job, but it’s hard to self-motivate when you’re a privileged girl from the suburbs, there are so many cool things on the Internet, and the dogs next-door won’t. stop. barking. If the pressure from her crazy, self-made mother weren’t enough, now her new Cuban-immigrant housekeeper is proving that millennials can work hard, and Billie’s [f]unemployment just got desperate. A fast-paced comedy about what people do with their free time, what sort of people have free time, and how and why each generation climbs the ladder until they’ve made it in America.

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  • Shaun Leisher: Kill Me Softly, Lower Merion

    A hysterical play with great roles for older actresses.

    A hysterical play with great roles for older actresses.

  • Cheryl Bear: Kill Me Softly, Lower Merion

    A hilarious and enlightening journey that puts our attitude towards climbing up the latter in perspective brilliantly. Well done!

    A hilarious and enlightening journey that puts our attitude towards climbing up the latter in perspective brilliantly. Well done!

  • Interact Theatre Company: Kill Me Softly, Lower Merion

    InterAct presented KILL ME SOFTLY, LOWER MERION as part of our 2016 Core Playwrights Weekend. Emily's innovative integration of technology with theatrical writing adds complexity and vibrancy to this fast-paced, feminist interrogation of immigration, class, and labor in America. We were thrilled to participate in the advancement of this piece.

    InterAct presented KILL ME SOFTLY, LOWER MERION as part of our 2016 Core Playwrights Weekend. Emily's innovative integration of technology with theatrical writing adds complexity and vibrancy to this fast-paced, feminist interrogation of immigration, class, and labor in America. We were thrilled to participate in the advancement of this piece.

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Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization InterAct Theatre Company, Year 2016
  • Type Workshop, Organization Philadelphia New Play Initiative, Year 2014
  • Type Workshop, Organization The Foundry (Philadelphia), [Finalist, Foundry/PlayPenn Dark Night Reading], Year 2014