Courtney Seyl

Courtney Seyl is a playwright and director based in New York City. She graduated from the University of Puget Sound in 2017 with her B.A. in Theatre Arts and a minor in English. In 2021 she participated in the Voices of America writing workshop and was fortunate enough to take part in the Kennedy Center's Playwriting Intensive.
In February of 2020 she premiered Act 2 of her first full length play, REVOLUTION, with FEAST Performance series. In October of 2022 it premiered at The Tank Theatre and has been nominated for seven Off-Broadway Awards. It won Best Performance in an Off-Off Broadway play.
Her play Compulsion has been produced in the Shelter 'n' Play Podcast, has been filmed for the Irondale On Women Festival, and premiered at NYWinterfest in Dec. of 2022. She is currently working on...

Courtney Seyl is a playwright and director based in New York City. She graduated from the University of Puget Sound in 2017 with her B.A. in Theatre Arts and a minor in English. In 2021 she participated in the Voices of America writing workshop and was fortunate enough to take part in the Kennedy Center's Playwriting Intensive.
In February of 2020 she premiered Act 2 of her first full length play, REVOLUTION, with FEAST Performance series. In October of 2022 it premiered at The Tank Theatre and has been nominated for seven Off-Broadway Awards. It won Best Performance in an Off-Off Broadway play.
Her play Compulsion has been produced in the Shelter 'n' Play Podcast, has been filmed for the Irondale On Women Festival, and premiered at NYWinterfest in Dec. of 2022. She is currently working on expanding Compulsion to take to Edinburgh Fringe in 2023. Submit your story to Compulsive Ghosts here.
Her ten minute play What's Your Song? has been produced with the At Home Theatre Artists Project and with the Inkwell Theatre.
As a director she has been fortunate to direct her show REVOLUTION and Compulsion. She has also directed Something Unknown for the Strawberry One-Act Festival; assistant directed Aftershocks in NY Winterfest, directed No Exit and Laughing Wild with her company, Red Leather Theatre co; directed The Pillowman and This is Our Youth at the University of Puget Sound; dramaturged Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play; and Stage Managed for NY Winterfest and the Strawberry Theatre Festival. Coming up next: directing "Mirrors" by Kaitlin Gould for NYSummerfest and directing "Little Egg, Big World" by Rachel Leighson off-broadway at Theatre Row.

Scripts

Undying Wishes

by Courtney Seyl

Cast Size

7—9

Genre

dark comedy,

drama,

romantic comedy,

tragedy

When Janelle is helping her mom, Kristen, clean out her dying grandmother's attic she comes across boxes of diaries. When reading through them she learns that her grandma dated a woman, Rita, while they were in college. Kristen is against it, but Janelle wants to reunite Rita and her grandma before her grandma passes. With the help of her own girlfriend, Trista, Janelle crosses through time and the country to...

When Janelle is helping her mom, Kristen, clean out her dying grandmother's attic she comes across boxes of diaries. When reading through them she learns that her grandma dated a woman, Rita, while they were in college. Kristen is against it, but Janelle wants to reunite Rita and her grandma before her grandma passes. With the help of her own girlfriend, Trista, Janelle crosses through time and the country to reunite them.

What's Your Song?

by Courtney Seyl

Cast Size

2

Genre

dark comedy,

experimental,

movement/physical

Shane has never felt like they belonged: too fat, too queer, too femme. One night they go to a party with their friend Lil, a black trans woman who's unapologetically themself.

REVOLUTION: Two Stories with the Same Ending

by Courtney Seyl

Cast Size

4—6

Genre

drama,

experimental,

movement/physical,

political

A young couple living in Egypt during the 2011 and 2013 revolutions. Joseph is an American journalist on assignment in Cairo. While there he breaks his arm, prompting him to meet Masika, an Egyptian doctor. They quickly fall in love and get married, promising to move to America the second they can.

In the summer of 2013 during a peaceful protest in Rabaa Square the military came in and began shooting...

A young couple living in Egypt during the 2011 and 2013 revolutions. Joseph is an American journalist on assignment in Cairo. While there he breaks his arm, prompting him to meet Masika, an Egyptian doctor. They quickly fall in love and get married, promising to move to America the second they can.

In the summer of 2013 during a peaceful protest in Rabaa Square the military came in and began shooting. REVOLUTION explores how people cope with trauma, how they navigate the world after facing death, and how their own actions affect the ones they love.

COMPULSION

by Courtney Seyl

1

Cast Size

2—3

Genre

dark comedy,

drama,

experimental,

movement/physical

This one act play explores the relationship between Alex and her OCD. After being free from her compulisions for a few years, she suddenly finds herself falling back into her old habits, unable to seperate reality from her dreams, and struggling to accept the advice from her new therapist.