Molly Olis Krost

Molly Olis Krost (they/she) is a Filipina Jewish playwright splitting their time between the Bay Area and Seattle. Their plays explore the constant collisions of the human experience: collisions with others, with our society, and within ourselves. They incorporate ritual and faith, in a variety of forms, to manifest the emotions that often exist beyond words. They love to blur the line between reality and the fantastical and all the creative possibilities that can create for the artists they collaborate with. Their play NANAY was a semi-finalist for the National Playwrights Conference and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Their play WHAT WE FOUND was a finalist for the National Jewish Play Contest and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

Their plays have been performed or are forthcoming...

Molly Olis Krost (they/she) is a Filipina Jewish playwright splitting their time between the Bay Area and Seattle. Their plays explore the constant collisions of the human experience: collisions with others, with our society, and within ourselves. They incorporate ritual and faith, in a variety of forms, to manifest the emotions that often exist beyond words. They love to blur the line between reality and the fantastical and all the creative possibilities that can create for the artists they collaborate with. Their play NANAY was a semi-finalist for the National Playwrights Conference and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Their play WHAT WE FOUND was a finalist for the National Jewish Play Contest and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

Their plays have been performed or are forthcoming at Magic Theatre, Z Space, San Francisco Playhouse, PlayGround, The Parsnip Ship, Awesome Theatre, Clutch Productions, MaArte Theatre Collective, Ain’t I A Woman Playfest, and SOMArts Cultural Center. They were awarded the Gita Specker First Place Award for Best Dramatic Monologue by the San Francisco Browning Society. Their writing has been published in {m}aganda magazine. They hold an MFA in Playwriting from San Francisco State University and BA's in Classical Civilizations and Theater and Performance Studies from UC Berkeley. When not writing, Molly enjoys painting, baking, crafting, and misquoting song lyrics.

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Scripts

Evacuate

by Molly Olis Krost

Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
political

Air and Earth find themselves at a crossroads. They want to protect the people they have supported all their lives but man-made destruction threatens their very existence. Where should they go? Why should they stay? Inspired by the California wildfires.

Air and Earth find themselves at a crossroads. They want to protect the people they have supported all their lives but man-made destruction threatens their very existence. Where should they go? Why should they stay? Inspired by the California wildfires.

Nanay

by Molly Olis Krost

1
Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

Angela has arrived to congratulate her twin sister on her new baby but, instead finds Eve “cohabitating” with a Filipino vampire with an infamous hunger for all things fetus. Does Angela believe Eve’s claims that all is well with her new relationship? NANAY, a new play by Molly Olis Krost, incorporates Filipino mythology and tradition to compare eastern and western approaches to sisterhood, trauma and healing
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Angela has arrived to congratulate her twin sister on her new baby but, instead finds Eve “cohabitating” with a Filipino vampire with an infamous hunger for all things fetus. Does Angela believe Eve’s claims that all is well with her new relationship? NANAY, a new play by Molly Olis Krost, incorporates Filipino mythology and tradition to compare eastern and western approaches to sisterhood, trauma and healing
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WHAT WE FOUND

by Molly Olis Krost

4
Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
drama

DANIEL and GISELLE are cousins facing the daunting the task of cleaning out the garage of their grandparent's home. When their estranged cousin MAGGIE arrives, desperate for insight into the Jewish ancestry she never knew their family had, DANIEL and GISELLE must go to great lengths to hide their true purpose of searching the garage. A play about mixed-raced identity and how we choose to define "family."

DANIEL and GISELLE are cousins facing the daunting the task of cleaning out the garage of their grandparent's home. When their estranged cousin MAGGIE arrives, desperate for insight into the Jewish ancestry she never knew their family had, DANIEL and GISELLE must go to great lengths to hide their true purpose of searching the garage. A play about mixed-raced identity and how we choose to define "family."

After The Wake

by Molly Olis Krost

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

2 f, 2 m
Rose returns home for her mother's funeral. She finds her father, Michael, experiencing a "return to faith," sitting shiva for a wife who was not Jewish. Her brother, Jacob, is barely holding it together and barely speaking to her. And Evangeline...Evangeline isn't supposed to here. A clash of family, clash of religion, and clash of Filipino and Jewish culture.

2 f, 2 m
Rose returns home for her mother's funeral. She finds her father, Michael, experiencing a "return to faith," sitting shiva for a wife who was not Jewish. Her brother, Jacob, is barely holding it together and barely speaking to her. And Evangeline...Evangeline isn't supposed to here. A clash of family, clash of religion, and clash of Filipino and Jewish culture.

DIKTADOR

by Molly Olis Krost

Cast Size
8
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
political

Mothers and daughters in both 1972 and the present find themselves listening to an announcement from Presidents Ferdinand Marcos and Rodrigo Duterte that can only mean one thing. Is it absolute terror or a necessary protection? They are at odds with their leaders and at odds with each other. Who are they against? Or, better yet, who should they be against? DIKTADOR looks at the tumultuous history of martial law...

Mothers and daughters in both 1972 and the present find themselves listening to an announcement from Presidents Ferdinand Marcos and Rodrigo Duterte that can only mean one thing. Is it absolute terror or a necessary protection? They are at odds with their leaders and at odds with each other. Who are they against? Or, better yet, who should they be against? DIKTADOR looks at the tumultuous history of martial law in Philippines, comparing one of the bloodiest periods in the country’s past to the eerily similar signs appearing in their current administration.

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School Haze

by Molly Olis Krost

Cast Size
6
Genre
drama,
political

(3f, 3m)
Three students stay after school to supervise their male classmates who are supposed to be serving a detention sentence. As the boys undermine their authority and berate them with insult, a fire is lit within the gils to take this mistreatment no longer. A political drama inspired by the Kavanaugh hearings and the #MeToo movement.

(3f, 3m)
Three students stay after school to supervise their male classmates who are supposed to be serving a detention sentence. As the boys undermine their authority and berate them with insult, a fire is lit within the gils to take this mistreatment no longer. A political drama inspired by the Kavanaugh hearings and the #MeToo movement.

After Hubris

by Molly Olis Krost

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
fable/folktale

What would have happened if Icarus had survived his tragic fall and he and Daedalus were, once again, stuck in the labyrinth? A short "what-if" take on the classic myth.

What would have happened if Icarus had survived his tragic fall and he and Daedalus were, once again, stuck in the labyrinth? A short "what-if" take on the classic myth.