Elizabeth Shannon

Two twins go through life together before gun violence tears them apart.

Five estranged siblings, Barb, Joyce, Robin, Scott, and Jo, return to their recently deceased mother’s house. They must prepare for her funeral, and Barb is shouldering that burden, endlessly trying to coordinate flowers, eulogies, and other logistics while also cleaning her mother’s house. Her unresolved guilt from not visiting her mother the day she died continues to haunt her. The rest of the siblings commence sorting and cleaning the duplex, which is filled with items their mother hoarded. Joyce reflects on who she is become since moving away, and who her siblings still believe she is. Robin and Scott argue about who will give the only eulogy at their mother’s funeral, as specified in her will. Scott, a mama’s boy, wants to give it, while Robin wants the opportunity to tell attendees about who her mother really was - a selfish, manipulative, and toxic person. Jo, the youngest sibling who was conceived from an affair and the reason the oldest four’s father abandoned them, desperately tries to communicate and help her siblings, but reaches a breaking point. Filled with grief, trauma, childhood memories, and of course a lot of dolls, “Mama Bushwick is Dead” explores the complex family dynamics present regardless of place and time.

A modern adaptation of "Waiting for Godot", "Waiting for the 6 Train" follows three girls stuck at a subway platform late at night when their train keeps getting inexplicably delayed, shortly after a girl goes missing.

Delilah is a lesbian, and Claire is confused. She could never say that, though. What started off as a friendship everyone secretly believed would lead to Claire’s coming out is majorly disrupted when Claire gets a boyfriend. To make matters worse, Claire spirals down an internalized-homophobia-induced rabbit hole, fueling panic attacks. When one happens and Delilah tries to calm her down by touching her, Claire accuses her of assault to save her relationship with her boyfriend.

Three freshmen in college dress up as “fuck, marry, kill” for Halloween, attempting to have the “best Halloweekend ever” by going to a club. As they wait in line, their relationships are tested and they must reevaluate their expectations of college and friendships.

Five graduates recall their time at The School of St. Cecilia and the abuses they experienced, creating a rich depiction of the potential viciousness of adolescent friendship and its greater possibilities. - The Blank Theatre

Can your safe place be another person? A beautiful look at youth, the future, and the threat of climate change when two teenagers, Freja and Noor, from opposite sides of the globe collide in a tale of poetry, the Northern Lights, and queer love. - Wild Imaginings Waco

Two highschoolers with a complicated relationship run into each other at the grave of their recently deceased English teacher.

Two siblings play cards as their parents fight in another room.

(Co-written with Morgan Southwell) Set in a dystopian society, a paper trail of an illegal procedure ends up in the wrong mailbox. Now two sets of neighbors must reconcile their differences and decide whether the truth should be revealed or not.

Published with Playscripts. Partially a chorus and partially a memory, a group of high schoolers recount their experience (and lack thereof) with gun violence.

After getting dumped by her girlfriend of two years, Taylor, Riley decides to put herself “back out there” and go on a Tinder date, only to result in her and her date, Kat, being hate crimes and landing in the hospital. She and Kat must navigate their shared trauma, while she and Taylor reconnect and her friend Jen tries to dictate her romantic life. “Unlucky” is a modern and queer view of trauma, comfort, luck, loneliness, and normality through young adult female relationships.

Clem, Ari, and Ellie, the Ljecki sisters, have 15 minutes before their world ends. How do they spend it?

A teenage girl meets the ghost of her dead mother's friend.

COWRITTEN WITH MAGGIE MUNDAY ODOM. Set in the 1950s, four high schoolers find themselves in the same bathroom for various reasons, and explore topics like girlhood, periods, fame, and social dynamics.

Four students drive to Washington DC for senior skip day, unknowingly missing a mass shooting at their high school.

After yet another school shooting, an intense board meeting at a well-known gun rights association (you know the one) takes place.

In an attempt to get his students to stop doing drugs, a not-very-bright health teacher tells his students smoking weed will make them gay. A plethora of sexuality crises, defiances, and a viral video on YouTube ensue.

Pairs of high school and college students whose home is in Olympia, Washington reflect about their lives, relationships, struggles, and connections. Issues driven by and true to what teenagers today face. A collection of eight two person, ten minute scenes accompanied by a prelude, interlude, and epilogue, for a total of eighteen roles.

An ordinary hair appointment turns into a crisis of identity and the weight of the concept of “coming out”.

Four freshmen in college reconnect at the vigil, wake, and funeral of their friend from grade school.

Set in Sandstone, a dying Mormon mining town in Utah in 1893, three young women must fight for their agency and livelihood. When tragedy strikes the town, can Winnie, Ida, and Julia survive?