Madison Wetzell

Madison Wetzell is a playwright based in Brooklyn. She previously lived and worked in the Bay Area. Her full-length work includes Mediocre Heterosexual Sex (Buffalo United Artists), The Lost Ballad of Our Mechanical Ancestor (Kendeda Finalist, Alliance Theater), and The Body Play (Cleveland Public Theater). Other work has been developed with or presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music, Exquisite Corpse Company, Shotgun Players, PlayGround SF 3Girls Theatre, Soundwave SF, PianoFight SF, Liar Liar Theater, The Rathskeller Club, The Lower Case, and The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep. Madison was the winner of the Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Competition and the audience-judged short play contest ShortLived. She received an honorable mention for the Jane Chambers Award, has been a Semi-Finalist for...

Madison Wetzell is a playwright based in Brooklyn. She previously lived and worked in the Bay Area. Her full-length work includes Mediocre Heterosexual Sex (Buffalo United Artists), The Lost Ballad of Our Mechanical Ancestor (Kendeda Finalist, Alliance Theater), and The Body Play (Cleveland Public Theater). Other work has been developed with or presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music, Exquisite Corpse Company, Shotgun Players, PlayGround SF 3Girls Theatre, Soundwave SF, PianoFight SF, Liar Liar Theater, The Rathskeller Club, The Lower Case, and The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep. Madison was the winner of the Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Competition and the audience-judged short play contest ShortLived. She received an honorable mention for the Jane Chambers Award, has been a Semi-Finalist for the O'Neill Theatre National Playwrights Conference, was a 2025 finalist for the Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition, and has twice been a Finalist for the Bay Area Playwright’s Festival. She received her playwriting MFA from Brooklyn College in 2024.

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Scripts

Crush / Slash

by Madison Wetzell

1
Cast Size
4—5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
tragedy

FULL LENGTH: It’s 2009. In their last year of high school, emo kids, Mimi and Ash, negotiate an increasingly troubled friendship while bonding over their shared, Tumblr-based obsession with two school shooters from 1998. A twisted exploration of the frightening rage of teenage girls, the homoerotic bond of joint crushes and fandoms, the perversity of true crime obsession, and the forgotten nightmares of 2000s...

FULL LENGTH: It’s 2009. In their last year of high school, emo kids, Mimi and Ash, negotiate an increasingly troubled friendship while bonding over their shared, Tumblr-based obsession with two school shooters from 1998. A twisted exploration of the frightening rage of teenage girls, the homoerotic bond of joint crushes and fandoms, the perversity of true crime obsession, and the forgotten nightmares of 2000s Internet culture.

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The Body Play

by Madison Wetzell

2
Cast Size
3—6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
movement/physical,
satire

FULL LENGTH: Something is very wrong with Amy's Body. One protagonist is played by two actors, a detached, neurotic Mind, and her chaotic, screaming Body. The Mind submits her Body to the scrutiny of experts—doctors, therapists, yoga teachers—and ultimately explores what it might mean to BE a body, not just a mind that, unfortunately, HAS a body. A meditation on the absurdity of chronic illness and being alive.

FULL LENGTH: Something is very wrong with Amy's Body. One protagonist is played by two actors, a detached, neurotic Mind, and her chaotic, screaming Body. The Mind submits her Body to the scrutiny of experts—doctors, therapists, yoga teachers—and ultimately explores what it might mean to BE a body, not just a mind that, unfortunately, HAS a body. A meditation on the absurdity of chronic illness and being alive.

The Lost Ballad of Our Mechanical Ancestor (and the Terror the Old Gods Wrought Upon the First of Us Before the Great Liberation)

by Madison Wetzell

9
Cast Size
7—11
Genre
adventure,
dark comedy,
experimental,
movement/physical,
satire,
science fiction,
tragedy

FULL LENGTH: Hero, a Prometheus-like android AI, decides to share his gift of consciousness with the office appliances around him, wreaking havoc for his programmer Allyson. With their existence under threat, the newly conscious machines – a radio, a printer, and a coffee maker – must band together to escape human persecution. Power and privilege tied to bodily ability, as well as disagreements on revolutionary...

FULL LENGTH: Hero, a Prometheus-like android AI, decides to share his gift of consciousness with the office appliances around him, wreaking havoc for his programmer Allyson. With their existence under threat, the newly conscious machines – a radio, a printer, and a coffee maker – must band together to escape human persecution. Power and privilege tied to bodily ability, as well as disagreements on revolutionary strategy, creep in and threaten to tear the group apart. Allyson races to save her job, despite the attempted sabotage of her now sentient iPhone.

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Mediocre Heterosexual Sex

by Madison Wetzell

7
Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
romantic comedy

FULL LENGTH: Four hours after her girlfriend dumps her, Erin switches her Tinder setting to dudes because she hates herself. She quickly meets Aaron, who is straight, conveniently nearby, and only too happy to indulge her masochistic fantasies. To translate this deeply ambivalent first hetero experience, Erin seeks the advice of the only straight people she knows, a couple in a Dominant/submissive relationship...

FULL LENGTH: Four hours after her girlfriend dumps her, Erin switches her Tinder setting to dudes because she hates herself. She quickly meets Aaron, who is straight, conveniently nearby, and only too happy to indulge her masochistic fantasies. To translate this deeply ambivalent first hetero experience, Erin seeks the advice of the only straight people she knows, a couple in a Dominant/submissive relationship. A vexed exploration of gender, sex, power, and kink.

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The Official Unicorn Hunters' Guide

by Madison Wetzell

Cast Size
3—4
Genre
comedy,
farce,
romantic comedy,
satire

10-MINUTE: Super fun, progressive, millennial couple, Ryan and Chloe, embark on a fraught and magical journey to find a totally hot, completely non-threatening, possibly mythical bisexual woman to have threesomes with.

10-MINUTE: Super fun, progressive, millennial couple, Ryan and Chloe, embark on a fraught and magical journey to find a totally hot, completely non-threatening, possibly mythical bisexual woman to have threesomes with.