Marble Rooftop

In MARBLE ROOFTOP, EMMA HAS CHURCH, seven high school girls convene for their annual dance team bonding sleepover. Throughout the night, the girls navigate the power imbalances between them, tell stories from their lives, and compete to be the most “experienced” in the room. But what happens when one girl goes too far to prove herself to the rest? Traversing the lines between consent, agency, peer pressure and...

In MARBLE ROOFTOP, EMMA HAS CHURCH, seven high school girls convene for their annual dance team bonding sleepover. Throughout the night, the girls navigate the power imbalances between them, tell stories from their lives, and compete to be the most “experienced” in the room. But what happens when one girl goes too far to prove herself to the rest? Traversing the lines between consent, agency, peer pressure and systemic pressure, Marble Rooftop explores the implicit conditions of femininity as we know it.

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Marble Rooftop

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  • Ian Donley: Marble Rooftop

    This is the kind of play that feels alive just on paper alone. I can only imagine how it translates on stage. The characters feel real and complicated, each with their own emotions that are subtly yet profoundly explored. Any group of young performers would have a blast working on this play.

    This is the kind of play that feels alive just on paper alone. I can only imagine how it translates on stage. The characters feel real and complicated, each with their own emotions that are subtly yet profoundly explored. Any group of young performers would have a blast working on this play.

  • Zach Barr: Marble Rooftop

    The overlapping boundaries of consent, peer pressure, self-definition, and sexual freedom become ever more blurred as the night continues in this bold and haunting new play. A familiar-feeling ensemble and setting that the audience will feel ever more pulled into, or trapped within, as the story unfolds. Seven plush roles for brave young performers.

    The overlapping boundaries of consent, peer pressure, self-definition, and sexual freedom become ever more blurred as the night continues in this bold and haunting new play. A familiar-feeling ensemble and setting that the audience will feel ever more pulled into, or trapped within, as the story unfolds. Seven plush roles for brave young performers.

  • Heather Helinsky: Marble Rooftop

    This is written by a confident voice asking generational questions about the mixed messages received about sex, power, peer pressure, and consent. The characters are vivid and brimming with complicated emotions and agendas as one night at a sleepover unfolds. Is the joy of dance that bonds them all empowering or is it just another competitive activity pressuring them to conform to societal expectations for femininity?

    This is written by a confident voice asking generational questions about the mixed messages received about sex, power, peer pressure, and consent. The characters are vivid and brimming with complicated emotions and agendas as one night at a sleepover unfolds. Is the joy of dance that bonds them all empowering or is it just another competitive activity pressuring them to conform to societal expectations for femininity?

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Awards

  • O'Neill National Playwrights Conference
    Finalist
    2024
  • John Golden Award for Excellence in Playwriting
    NYU Tisch School of the Arts
    Winner
    2020