Conner McLean

Hello there, I'm Conner,

Conner McLean is an emerging 27-year-old playwright with a Bachelors in Theatre Arts from Columbus State University. With scripts that focuses on LGBTQ+, social justice, and mental health. The works are both provocative and try to cultivate greater dialogues on life's more complex issues that without theatricality don't get highlighted or presented. A 2024 Del Shores Writer's Search finalist, a 2024 New York Script Awards Semi-finalist, and a 2025 Inkslinger Playwriting Contest semi-finalist, Conner's works are both modern and timely. Conner is located currently in Atlanta, Georgia. Feel free to contact him for any inquires, questions, or any other details of his works at his email of [email protected].

Hello there, I'm Conner,

Conner McLean is an emerging 27-year-old playwright with a Bachelors in Theatre Arts from Columbus State University. With scripts that focuses on LGBTQ+, social justice, and mental health. The works are both provocative and try to cultivate greater dialogues on life's more complex issues that without theatricality don't get highlighted or presented. A 2024 Del Shores Writer's Search finalist, a 2024 New York Script Awards Semi-finalist, and a 2025 Inkslinger Playwriting Contest semi-finalist, Conner's works are both modern and timely. Conner is located currently in Atlanta, Georgia. Feel free to contact him for any inquires, questions, or any other details of his works at his email of [email protected].

Scripts

Bridge 1959

by Conner McLean

Synopsis

Starting in a derelict television studio, Bridge follows two detectives stumbling upon the main office for Right Dial TV, they soon encounter figures from the studio’s past all while a newfound threat lurks close by: a ominous killer is hunting them down. When Dottie, one of the staff gets attacked, she finds they are things worse than purgatory as she is transcended into the tv broadcast itself. Soon she comes...

Starting in a derelict television studio, Bridge follows two detectives stumbling upon the main office for Right Dial TV, they soon encounter figures from the studio’s past all while a newfound threat lurks close by: a ominous killer is hunting them down. When Dottie, one of the staff gets attacked, she finds they are things worse than purgatory as she is transcended into the tv broadcast itself. Soon she comes face to face with the tv show’s star Susan. Susan is a housewife that has it all, she hides secrets that both the tv show, Dottie, and detectives need. When the killer begins lurking in the broadcast itself, Susan begins to doubt her mono-colored world, breaking the façade, and the truth is revealed. The television show and Susan are all products of someone’s mind, but whose? Susan, not wanting to relinquish control, starts to immerse herself in the real world and her host’s mind blurring what is real and what is facade. A play off 1950’s sitcoms, Bridge, is a callback to noir terror and thrills of early television. Unravel the mystery and discover the right frequency for suspense on tonight’s line-up: Bridge.

Thicket: A Southern-Gothic Parable

by Conner McLean

Synopsis

Gale, Kenneth, Rue, and Jane are all recent high-school graduates from their sleepy southern town of Blyder's Bluff, Georgia. When Gale one of the few people of color in the town starts to receive threats to her life and goes missing. Her friends try to help uncover the truth of what's going on, however, digging-deeper Jane and her friends unravel a sinister plot beneath their town's facade. Thicket: A Southern...

Gale, Kenneth, Rue, and Jane are all recent high-school graduates from their sleepy southern town of Blyder's Bluff, Georgia. When Gale one of the few people of color in the town starts to receive threats to her life and goes missing. Her friends try to help uncover the truth of what's going on, however, digging-deeper Jane and her friends unravel a sinister plot beneath their town's facade. Thicket: A Southern-Gothic Parable, is a story that examines modern race relations, and the extent people will go to preserve ideology with a southern-gothic twist.

A "Straight" Play

by Conner McLean

Synopsis

Tim is average. He also is gay. So when Tim's bestfriend Sam announces her engagement, Tim is utterly shocked. Tim realizes he is the now the only average, gay, single friend still in his friend group. A "Straight" Play dives into the stereotypes of the gay best friend in the rom-com genre, and what happens when Tim unravels the complex world of relationships. With a scorned past experience, Tim has to determine...

Tim is average. He also is gay. So when Tim's bestfriend Sam announces her engagement, Tim is utterly shocked. Tim realizes he is the now the only average, gay, single friend still in his friend group. A "Straight" Play dives into the stereotypes of the gay best friend in the rom-com genre, and what happens when Tim unravels the complex world of relationships. With a scorned past experience, Tim has to determine the greatest threat to both his friendships and love life; himself. Hilarity, Queerness, and the many forms love can take are all explored in this adult comedy.