Maxine Dillon

Maxine Dillon is a playwright who is doing her part to Keep Austin Weird. Some of her work includes THE NEGROES HAVE RISEN, Small Planet, GIRLSWITHGUNS, and unbury your gays. Her plays have been developed by Playwrights Foundation, Playwrights Realm, Atlantic Theater Company, and Broad Theatre. She is a proud alumna of Ground Floor Theatre Writes and 24 Hour Plays: Nationals. She graduated with a degree in English from Yale University, where she spent more time in rehearsals than in the library. She is a first year MFA candidate in Playwriting at the University of Texas at Austin.

Maxine Dillon is a playwright who is doing her part to Keep Austin Weird. Some of her work includes THE NEGROES HAVE RISEN, Small Planet, GIRLSWITHGUNS, and unbury your gays. Her plays have been developed by Playwrights Foundation, Playwrights Realm, Atlantic Theater Company, and Broad Theatre. She is a proud alumna of Ground Floor Theatre Writes and 24 Hour Plays: Nationals. She graduated with a degree in English from Yale University, where she spent more time in rehearsals than in the library. She is a first year MFA candidate in Playwriting at the University of Texas at Austin.

Scripts

THE NEGROES HAVE RISEN

by Maxine Dillon

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
political

Welcome to the Edwards Estate, as presented by its Living History Interpreters - the group of Black twentysomethings who work there as plantation museum tour guides. As the work of giving costumed tours becomes too much, the Interpreters struggle to stay in character and remember their lines. That is, until they find evidence of a failed slave uprising that appears nowhere in the history of the estate and with...

Welcome to the Edwards Estate, as presented by its Living History Interpreters - the group of Black twentysomethings who work there as plantation museum tour guides. As the work of giving costumed tours becomes too much, the Interpreters struggle to stay in character and remember their lines. That is, until they find evidence of a failed slave uprising that appears nowhere in the history of the estate and with it, the chance to make another kind of Living History.

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unbury your gays

by Maxine Dillon

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
drama,
period

At a sleepover the night before their first middle school dance, Sawyer declares she will kiss a Boy while the chaperones aren't looking. A pinky promise leaves Carolina with no other choice but to help. Meanwhile, a 19th century Necromancer unearths a Corpse and her last secret as she digs up the truth of what they were to each other. Historians will say They Were Really Good Friends.

At a sleepover the night before their first middle school dance, Sawyer declares she will kiss a Boy while the chaperones aren't looking. A pinky promise leaves Carolina with no other choice but to help. Meanwhile, a 19th century Necromancer unearths a Corpse and her last secret as she digs up the truth of what they were to each other. Historians will say They Were Really Good Friends.

Strange Flesh

by Maxine Dillon

Cast Size
6—7
Genre
drama,
period,
tragedy

In the winter of 1674, Puritan Elea Bradshaw carries the secret of an unfathomable act. Her mother Rebecca and the venerable Reverend Mathews, with only their fears, begin to think the worst. As they edge nearer the truth concerning an encounter in the woods, they all must confront the nature of desire and the way an unspoken thing becomes unspeakable.

In the winter of 1674, Puritan Elea Bradshaw carries the secret of an unfathomable act. Her mother Rebecca and the venerable Reverend Mathews, with only their fears, begin to think the worst. As they edge nearer the truth concerning an encounter in the woods, they all must confront the nature of desire and the way an unspoken thing becomes unspeakable.