←Recommendations of Daisy Violet the Bitch Beast King

I love this play. It is a complete and utter delight and would be a joy to see staged. A designer could have a field day with this off-the-wall, beautifully imagined world.

Amazing. The beautiful, hilarious monstrosity of childhood distilled. I want to see a full production of this play more than I want just about anything.

Really fantastic treatment of the bizarro logic and imaginative freedom of childhood transitioning to the restrictions of the adult world. I don't know if I've ever read a play like this, and an imaginative director can have a field day with the first act.

It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Samantha Collier and their play Daisy Violet the Bitch Beast King as a finalist for our 2017 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 55 finalists out of more than 1,300 submissions, the strength of its writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process. Our readers responded to the play’s wild blend of absurdism and reality and its dive into pointed gender politics and sibling relationships.