Irene L. Pynn

Selected for development at Hippodrome Theatre for their New Works festival.

Lights, Camera, Action! Welcome to Suture Bowl! Join top surgeons as they face off in the final episode of the highest-rated reality series ever, battling it out with higher stakes than they ever imagined. Only one will survive... I mean, win.

This play is a science fiction spoof on Romeo and Juliet, complete with sonnets and romance. And plenty of blood.

"Suture Bowl craftily scores in both the comedy and horror genres." Matt Palm, The Orlando Sentinel

This play is a drama about a man who struggles with the concept of hunting and harvesting androids to save his wife’s life. The story explores questions of the soul and civil rights.

Available from Next Stage Press.

http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/irene-pynns-how-to-field-…

NOTE: There are three main players (two men and a woman), but two additional people required, neither with any lines.

Orlando Sentinel Best of the Fest, Fringe
Orlando Weekly Best of the Fest, Fringe
Fringe Critic's Choice award for Best Original Script

This is a story about a man facing unexpected retirement. At the same time, a whale relentlessly pursues him.

"Enter Pursued by a Whale is like a lost Pinter play without any of the pauses. The rapid-fire repartee is confusing yet clever, with each character functioning as both a comic foil to Hawel's haplessness and a metaphor for his mental breakdown. There's a message about finding your passion and pursuing it into the belly of the beast, and you may find yourself mulling over the enigmatic ending's true meaning for hour after." Seth Kubersky, The Orlando Weekly

Orlando Sentinel Best of the Fest, Fringe

Orlando Weekly Best of the Fest, Fringe

Fringe Critic's Choice award for Best Original Script

From the Lansing City Pulse: (http://lansingcitypulse.com/article-13558-turn-it-up-to-11.html)
This year’s winning script, “I, Cockroach” by Irene L. Pynn, is a creepy, absurdist commentary on relationships with nods and references to Franz Kafka’s horrific body transformation allegory “The Metamorphosis.”

“It is so clever, and I think it really does make a statement about what we value in a relationship, how people treat us and what we’re willing to accept or not accept,” Tufford said. “It’s just not (a script) that you’re going to see in this area.”

A one-act play in which a romance between a roach and a woman is the catalyst to ending her toxic relationship with her verbally abusive husband.

This is a short comedy about a man and a woman who go home together after a night out drinking at the local geek convention. The woman is unaware what a “furry” is, but she finds out soon enough.

NOTE: This is written as one man and one woman, but there is no reason the genders can't be changed.

A beloved television show ends badly, and the world reacts. More at 11.

REVIEW: http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/wfla/

This is a short play about four lesbian women at a séance. As they get to know one another, they inadvertently belittle one of the women who explains that she is actually bisexual.

This is a short play about a man who is convinced his wife is cheating on him with one of the many service workers she has invited to their home.

This is a short comedy about the most common female tropes in science fiction. It parodies Star Trek and Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew.

This is a romantic short about missed connections. It features no dialogue.

FULL LENGTH - DAWN and ALYSSA are both Freshman college students who are in a long distance relationship with one another. DAWN is at the University of Washington in Seattle. ALYSSA is at NYU. They talk to each other via video chat. They talk about the things that a young couple a bit uncertain in their feelings might talk about long distance.

They don’t know that within a week the entire world will turn upside down.

Written collaboratively by Nate Beyer, Caitlin Cieri, Katie Doyle, Ken Green, Scott Kremer, Donald Loftus, Colleen Porter, and Irene L. Pynn via a 3 hour, 10 minute google doc session and performed via Zoom five hours after the beginning of writing. Proposed and overseen by Greg Lam