Majkin Holmquist

Majkin Holmquist is a playwright originally from the Smoky Valley region in central Kansas where she was co-founder of The Next Stage Theatre Company. Her plays include Every Anne Frank, Tent Revival, Quickmatch, The Dog Pack Play, Stargazers, and Skinflint. Other credits include The Quonsets (co-written with Alex Lubischer, Yale Cabaret), Broken Melodies (WVIT Women in Theatre Festival), and Styx Songs (contributing writer, Yale Cabaret). Her work has been developed at New York Stage and Film and Roundabout Theatre Company. She has taught at the O’Neill Playwriting Program at New Haven’s Cooperative Arts High School and at the Yale School of Drama. She holds a BA in Secondary English Education from Bethany College and an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.

Majkin Holmquist is a playwright originally from the Smoky Valley region in central Kansas where she was co-founder of The Next Stage Theatre Company. Her plays include Every Anne Frank, Tent Revival, Quickmatch, The Dog Pack Play, Stargazers, and Skinflint. Other credits include The Quonsets (co-written with Alex Lubischer, Yale Cabaret), Broken Melodies (WVIT Women in Theatre Festival), and Styx Songs (contributing writer, Yale Cabaret). Her work has been developed at New York Stage and Film and Roundabout Theatre Company. She has taught at the O’Neill Playwriting Program at New Haven’s Cooperative Arts High School and at the Yale School of Drama. She holds a BA in Secondary English Education from Bethany College and an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.

Scripts

Tent Revival

by Majkin Holmquist

Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
period

Rural Kansas, 1957. A farmer-turned-preacher searches for inspiration, his wife for hope, and their daughter for a sense of stability. When a seeming miracle turns their church on its head, young Ida follows her parents across the state as they spread the word of their newfound faith. But when the miracles begin to multiply, and the demand for spiritual healing grows faster than anyone expected, Ida must...

Rural Kansas, 1957. A farmer-turned-preacher searches for inspiration, his wife for hope, and their daughter for a sense of stability. When a seeming miracle turns their church on its head, young Ida follows her parents across the state as they spread the word of their newfound faith. But when the miracles begin to multiply, and the demand for spiritual healing grows faster than anyone expected, Ida must confront the cost of deeds done to inspire devotion.

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Every Anne Frank

by Majkin Holmquist

2
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
political

For Majkin, a white public school teacher, the lessons of The Diary of Anne Frank feel impossible to instill within her students who seem to disrupt her teaching at every turn. For Destiny, an eighth grader whose office referrals are quickly accruing, those lessons are already manifest in the daily struggle of being a Latina student in the middle of Kansas. For Mrs. B, being a principal means being pressured to...

For Majkin, a white public school teacher, the lessons of The Diary of Anne Frank feel impossible to instill within her students who seem to disrupt her teaching at every turn. For Destiny, an eighth grader whose office referrals are quickly accruing, those lessons are already manifest in the daily struggle of being a Latina student in the middle of Kansas. For Mrs. B, being a principal means being pressured to adopt the rigid and punitive systems of punishment of her male counterparts. Every Anne Frank is an exploration of how history, betrayal, and power repeat themselves unrelentingly – even in the most mundane corners of everyday American life.

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Stargazers

by Majkin Holmquist

Cast Size
8—12
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
political

Stargazers is a play about land. A piece of land that hosts friends and lovers, enemies and prospectors, those that stay and those that leave, campfires and funeral pyres, pasture parties and picnic tables, Abba and boxed wine, electricity and ghosts, and skeletons buried in the corral. It is a story about women who love the land and the agricultural communities who have no place for them. But most of all, it’s...

Stargazers is a play about land. A piece of land that hosts friends and lovers, enemies and prospectors, those that stay and those that leave, campfires and funeral pyres, pasture parties and picnic tables, Abba and boxed wine, electricity and ghosts, and skeletons buried in the corral. It is a story about women who love the land and the agricultural communities who have no place for them. But most of all, it’s about the land.

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Skinflint

by Majkin Holmquist

Cast Size
7
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
fable/folktale,
political

Once upon a time, in a land destroyed by unfettered capitalism, rugged individualism, and toxic masculinity, where a person’s worth is literally a person’s worth, a narrator tells the tale of a bear of a man, felled by the forces he himself has promoted. Lovers scrounge for post-coital sustenance, neglected girls hunt for a prize to justify their care, and a son challenges his father for his life’s savings...

Once upon a time, in a land destroyed by unfettered capitalism, rugged individualism, and toxic masculinity, where a person’s worth is literally a person’s worth, a narrator tells the tale of a bear of a man, felled by the forces he himself has promoted. Lovers scrounge for post-coital sustenance, neglected girls hunt for a prize to justify their care, and a son challenges his father for his life’s savings. Skinflint is a nihilistic fairy tale about surviving a world that values a person only for the coins in her pocket and the meat on her bones.

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