Caity-Shea Violette

Caity-Shea Violette is a scrappy midwestern playwright and screenwriter obsessed with tenderness, spectacle, and women breaking systems. Her plays include RX MACHINA (Kennedy Center’s Harold & Mimi Steinberg Award, Clauder Competition Gold Prize, Judith Royer Award Finalist), REAP THE GROVE (Jean Kennedy Smith Award, ScreenCraft’s Stage Writing Award Runner-Up), SLOW JAM (Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival Winner, Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award), TARGET BEHAVIOR (National Partners of American Theatre Award), and others. Her work has been developed, commissioned, or presented by Roundabout Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, Portland Stage Company, Great Plains Theatre Commons, The New Harmony Project, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Climate Change Theatre Action, San Pedro...

Caity-Shea Violette is a scrappy midwestern playwright and screenwriter obsessed with tenderness, spectacle, and women breaking systems. Her plays include RX MACHINA (Kennedy Center’s Harold & Mimi Steinberg Award, Clauder Competition Gold Prize, Judith Royer Award Finalist), REAP THE GROVE (Jean Kennedy Smith Award, ScreenCraft’s Stage Writing Award Runner-Up), SLOW JAM (Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival Winner, Gary Garrison National Ten-Minute Play Award), TARGET BEHAVIOR (National Partners of American Theatre Award), and others. Her work has been developed, commissioned, or presented by Roundabout Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, Portland Stage Company, Great Plains Theatre Commons, The New Harmony Project, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Climate Change Theatre Action, San Pedro Playhouse, Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Mirrorbox Theatre, Matrix Theatre Company, Commission Theatre Company, and more. Her pilot CULTURE FIT was a semifinalist for Austin Film Festival’s Drama Teleplay Pilot Competition and the AMC One-Hour Pilot Award. Caity-Shea’s plays are published by Concord Theatricals and Applause Books. MFA in Playwriting: Boston University. More at www.caitysheaviolette.com

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Scripts

paper cuts

by Caity-Shea Violette

Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
romantic comedy

On the eve of their tenth anniversary, an estranged couple finds themselves trapped by a literal storm in a possibly haunted beach house that seems determined to meddle in their marriage. As flickering memories and old patterns surface, so does the question of whether long-term love can survive transformation–or if it should. paper cuts is an intimate, offbeat romantic dramedy that time-slips through the messy...

On the eve of their tenth anniversary, an estranged couple finds themselves trapped by a literal storm in a possibly haunted beach house that seems determined to meddle in their marriage. As flickering memories and old patterns surface, so does the question of whether long-term love can survive transformation–or if it should. paper cuts is an intimate, offbeat romantic dramedy that time-slips through the messy, magical process of letting go of the marriage you had to make space for the people you’ve become.

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Rx Machina

by Caity-Shea Violette

10
Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
movement/physical,
political

An ambitious drug rep's relentless pursuit of a principled pain management doctor leads to an intoxicating, forbidden connection that comes with a cost. Ethical boundaries are blurred in a literal manifestation of doctors being in bed with drug reps, forming a love triangle fueled by money, sex, and power. Illuminating the everyday impact of pharmaceutical marketing in the opioid epidemic, RX MACHINA searches...

An ambitious drug rep's relentless pursuit of a principled pain management doctor leads to an intoxicating, forbidden connection that comes with a cost. Ethical boundaries are blurred in a literal manifestation of doctors being in bed with drug reps, forming a love triangle fueled by money, sex, and power. Illuminating the everyday impact of pharmaceutical marketing in the opioid epidemic, RX MACHINA searches for humanity in a healthcare system that profits from pain, interrogating who gets to get better and who gets left behind.

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Reap The Grove

by Caity-Shea Violette

5
Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental

Sandra's estranged family is reunited to spend her final days together before she ends her life on her own terms following a terminal diagnosis. While Sandra bounces from reality to a timeless space between life and death, her daughters are also in personal moments of transformation- one passionately committed to saving the planet even if she can't save her marriage, the other has recently found success in...

Sandra's estranged family is reunited to spend her final days together before she ends her life on her own terms following a terminal diagnosis. While Sandra bounces from reality to a timeless space between life and death, her daughters are also in personal moments of transformation- one passionately committed to saving the planet even if she can't save her marriage, the other has recently found success in substance use treatment and arrives six months pregnant. Reap The Grove is a darkly comedic drama that interrogates what we owe to the people who raised us and asks if grief before death can create new beginnings.

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Slow Jam

by Caity-Shea Violette

7
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
romantic comedy

Following their sex therapist's advice, Jamie and Charlie try to set the mood as they practice staying present during physical intimacy. A tenderly clumsy attempt to reclaim sexual connection in the wake of trauma. Available for licensing at www.concordtheatricals.com

Following their sex therapist's advice, Jamie and Charlie try to set the mood as they practice staying present during physical intimacy. A tenderly clumsy attempt to reclaim sexual connection in the wake of trauma. Available for licensing at www.concordtheatricals.com

Credible

by Caity-Shea Violette

3
Cast Size
1
Genre
biography,
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
political

CREDIBLE is a raw, darkly funny, and boldly theatrical one-woman show exploring gender bias in the medical system and living with chronic pain during the opioid epidemic. This true story follows a decade-long discovery process from the inside out, illuminating the life-saving power of having your pain seen and believed.

CREDIBLE is a raw, darkly funny, and boldly theatrical one-woman show exploring gender bias in the medical system and living with chronic pain during the opioid epidemic. This true story follows a decade-long discovery process from the inside out, illuminating the life-saving power of having your pain seen and believed.