jesse robkin

Jesse Robkin is a writer and filmmaker. She’s best known for her work as Head Writer for Tolarian Community College, the largest Magic: The Gathering YouTube channel. TCC produces 2-3 20 minute video essays a week covering a range of topics including product reviews, strategy lessons, and commentary on the state of the game. To date, Jesse has written more than 200 scripts for the channel.

Outside of Magic, Jesse tells stories about being trans in this crazy crazy world. She’s written four full-length plays, including AUSTIN'S HOME, developed at the Great Plains Theatre Commons, THE CHAIN, developed with Hell in a Handbag Productions, and DYSPHORIA FUGUE, semi-finalist for the Ojai Playwright’s Conference. In 2022, Jackalope Theatre Company commissioned Jesse’s short play CHILD PROTECTION...

Jesse Robkin is a writer and filmmaker. She’s best known for her work as Head Writer for Tolarian Community College, the largest Magic: The Gathering YouTube channel. TCC produces 2-3 20 minute video essays a week covering a range of topics including product reviews, strategy lessons, and commentary on the state of the game. To date, Jesse has written more than 200 scripts for the channel.

Outside of Magic, Jesse tells stories about being trans in this crazy crazy world. She’s written four full-length plays, including AUSTIN'S HOME, developed at the Great Plains Theatre Commons, THE CHAIN, developed with Hell in a Handbag Productions, and DYSPHORIA FUGUE, semi-finalist for the Ojai Playwright’s Conference. In 2022, Jackalope Theatre Company commissioned Jesse’s short play CHILD PROTECTION based on a Washington Post article, for their Living Newspaper Festival. Her debut short film STRESS FRACTURE premiered at the 42nd Reeling Film Festival in Chicago and screened at queer film festivals in Germany and Poland. She’s currently working on a novel.

Jesse somehow spent the latter half of her 20s as a professional Magic: The Gathering player, though she plans to retire whenever her luck runs out. She lives in Brooklyn surrounded by beautiful transsexuals.

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Scripts

Dysphoria Fugue

by jesse robkin

Cast Size
6
Genre
drama

Patrick is a space-loving teenager navigating senior year and his first serious relationship (with his best friend's sister, no less; it's a whole thing). He's also a girl, though he doesn't know that yet. DYSPHORIA FUGUE is an ethereal memoir of pre-transition life that externalizes the internal sensation of gender dysphoria.

Patrick is a space-loving teenager navigating senior year and his first serious relationship (with his best friend's sister, no less; it's a whole thing). He's also a girl, though he doesn't know that yet. DYSPHORIA FUGUE is an ethereal memoir of pre-transition life that externalizes the internal sensation of gender dysphoria.

Austin's Home

by jesse robkin

4
Cast Size
3
Genre
drama,
political

It has been twenty-eight long months since Margaret's daughter ran away from home in the wake of a family tragedy. This year, miraculously, her daughter will be home for Christmas. Is reconciliation possible? Well, maybe, but the person who's shown up at Margaret's front door isn't her daughter.

It has been twenty-eight long months since Margaret's daughter ran away from home in the wake of a family tragedy. This year, miraculously, her daughter will be home for Christmas. Is reconciliation possible? Well, maybe, but the person who's shown up at Margaret's front door isn't her daughter.

Child Protection

by jesse robkin

Cast Size
2
Genre
docudrama/historic,
drama,
political

Martin Davis arrives late to a parent-teacher conference with the third-grade teacher of his trans daughter Mia. But the meeting isn't a conference; it's an ambush. Waiting for him is not his daughter’s teacher, but rather an investigator with Child Protective Services. Unprepared, Martin must navigate a barrage of probing questions about his life, his past, and the validity of his daughter’s identity.

Martin Davis arrives late to a parent-teacher conference with the third-grade teacher of his trans daughter Mia. But the meeting isn't a conference; it's an ambush. Waiting for him is not his daughter’s teacher, but rather an investigator with Child Protective Services. Unprepared, Martin must navigate a barrage of probing questions about his life, his past, and the validity of his daughter’s identity.

The Chain

by jesse robkin

Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
experimental,
horror,
political,
satire

THE CHAIN is a reductive absurdist-realism comedy about a dysfunctional American family in a living room. You've seen it all before: Dad's always at work, Mom's got her hands full with three rowdy kids, and the transgender daughter is chained to a wall by her pelvis! God Bless This Mess :heartemoji: :prayeremoji:

THE CHAIN is a reductive absurdist-realism comedy about a dysfunctional American family in a living room. You've seen it all before: Dad's always at work, Mom's got her hands full with three rowdy kids, and the transgender daughter is chained to a wall by her pelvis! God Bless This Mess :heartemoji: :prayeremoji:

Graves Grow No Green

by jesse robkin

Cast Size
6
Genre
drama

The fear of heights isn’t the fear of falling, it’s the fear of jumping. On the night of the 2016 election, on the roof of her friend Ava’s apartment building, Grace feels like jumping. Her friends are there to talk her down, but in the days and weeks and months that follow, Grace learns the hard way that rejecting the call of the void once doesn’t just make it go away. The question then remains: how do you live...

The fear of heights isn’t the fear of falling, it’s the fear of jumping. On the night of the 2016 election, on the roof of her friend Ava’s apartment building, Grace feels like jumping. Her friends are there to talk her down, but in the days and weeks and months that follow, Grace learns the hard way that rejecting the call of the void once doesn’t just make it go away. The question then remains: how do you live with it?

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Visitation

by jesse robkin

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
drama

When it comes to siblings, love isn’t always unconditional. Natalie is visiting her brother Danny, who’s in jail for the possession of heroin. It’s Danny’s birthday, and it’s his first time seeing Natalie since his most recent relapse. Let's hope it’s not his last.
Visitation is a play created for the virtual world, designed to make use of its Zoom staging rather than work against it.

When it comes to siblings, love isn’t always unconditional. Natalie is visiting her brother Danny, who’s in jail for the possession of heroin. It’s Danny’s birthday, and it’s his first time seeing Natalie since his most recent relapse. Let's hope it’s not his last.
Visitation is a play created for the virtual world, designed to make use of its Zoom staging rather than work against it.