Jess Lauricello

Jess Lauricello (she/they) is an NYC-based playwright, theatre director, actor, and tree-hugger who believes in you and aliens. She is the Co-Artistic Director of Laurizarry, a working-class Gen Z theatre company making weird and subversive theatre on a dime. She stage manages QUICK + DIRTY at Brick Aux, and has trained and performed with OYL Theatre Company in Northern Greece and Corinth. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Her work has been produced at Brick Aux, UNDER St Marks, and Teatro LATEA. // jesslauricello.com @laurizarry

Jess Lauricello (she/they) is an NYC-based playwright, theatre director, actor, and tree-hugger who believes in you and aliens. She is the Co-Artistic Director of Laurizarry, a working-class Gen Z theatre company making weird and subversive theatre on a dime. She stage manages QUICK + DIRTY at Brick Aux, and has trained and performed with OYL Theatre Company in Northern Greece and Corinth. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Her work has been produced at Brick Aux, UNDER St Marks, and Teatro LATEA. // jesslauricello.com @laurizarry

Scripts

If I Did, You Deserved It

by Jess Lauricello

Cast Size
8
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
experimental,
political,
satire

IF I DID, YOU DESERVED IT is a dark absurdist comedy about a group of self-centered and self-serving billionaires who find themselves exactly where they belong: with each other. Each one is subjected to one-on-one meetings with the devil in order to plead their case to him that they don’t deserve to be damned.

IF I DID, YOU DESERVED IT is a dark absurdist comedy about a group of self-centered and self-serving billionaires who find themselves exactly where they belong: with each other. Each one is subjected to one-on-one meetings with the devil in order to plead their case to him that they don’t deserve to be damned.

Replaced!

by Jess Lauricello

1
Cast Size
8—30
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
horror,
political,
satire,
science fiction,
tragedy

REPLACED! is a surrealist sci-fi tragicomedy following a young woman identified only as a Daughter who returns to her hometown to find that everyone in it has been replaced by aliens. Not knowing who’s real and who isn’t, she has to figure out how to live in this new world, or if she even wants to.

REPLACED! is a surrealist sci-fi tragicomedy following a young woman identified only as a Daughter who returns to her hometown to find that everyone in it has been replaced by aliens. Not knowing who’s real and who isn’t, she has to figure out how to live in this new world, or if she even wants to.