Mollie Gordon

Mollie Gordon (she/her/hers) is a queer playwright and theatre-maker based in Newark, New Jersey. She is currently a member of the 2025-26 QueerSpeech cohort with The Cult Collective and was recently a member of CRY HAVOC/NY Shakespeare Exchange's Brave New Work cohort. Her play If It Weren't for the Women, We'd Still Be Stuck in the Desert was a 2024 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference semifinalist, the 2024 winner of the Scribe Playwriting Competition, is a finalist for the 2026 MOXIE Lamoise New Works Festival, and long listed for the 2026 Distillery New Works Festival. She was a 2023 finalist for the New Perspectives Women's Work LAB and a 2022 recipient of the David Lindsay-Abaire Award for Excellence in Playwriting. Mollie's plays have been developed with The Bechdel Group, CRY...

Mollie Gordon (she/her/hers) is a queer playwright and theatre-maker based in Newark, New Jersey. She is currently a member of the 2025-26 QueerSpeech cohort with The Cult Collective and was recently a member of CRY HAVOC/NY Shakespeare Exchange's Brave New Work cohort. Her play If It Weren't for the Women, We'd Still Be Stuck in the Desert was a 2024 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference semifinalist, the 2024 winner of the Scribe Playwriting Competition, is a finalist for the 2026 MOXIE Lamoise New Works Festival, and long listed for the 2026 Distillery New Works Festival. She was a 2023 finalist for the New Perspectives Women's Work LAB and a 2022 recipient of the David Lindsay-Abaire Award for Excellence in Playwriting. Mollie's plays have been developed with The Bechdel Group, CRY HAVOC/NY Shakespeare Exchange, Athena Project, Personal Pizza Party, and Sarah Lawrence College. She was The Bechdel Group's 2023-24 Resident Playwright and a member of the inaugural Personal Pizza Party Writers' Kitchen cohort. She has a BA in Theatre and Writing from Sarah Lawrence.

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Scripts

If It Weren't for the Women, We'd Still Be Stuck in the Desert

by Mollie Gordon

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
drama,
faith-based,
romantic comedy

Naomi Bensoussan is a fifth-year rabbinical student hard at work on her thesis about Rahab, the Tanakh's favorite sex worker. Naomi’s journey to complete the project is aided and interfered with by several patriarchs and matriarchs, a potential lover, and of course, Rahab herself.

Naomi Bensoussan is a fifth-year rabbinical student hard at work on her thesis about Rahab, the Tanakh's favorite sex worker. Naomi’s journey to complete the project is aided and interfered with by several patriarchs and matriarchs, a potential lover, and of course, Rahab herself.

Beyond Measure

by Mollie Gordon

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
adaptation,
period,
romantic comedy

Set immediately after the end of Measure for Measure, Isabella finds herself at a crossroads. A pivotal conversation with Mariana—featuring drinking, dancing, and friendship bracelets—opens the door to a different future for them both.

Set immediately after the end of Measure for Measure, Isabella finds herself at a crossroads. A pivotal conversation with Mariana—featuring drinking, dancing, and friendship bracelets—opens the door to a different future for them both.

The Tin Man's Daughter

by Mollie Gordon

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
fantasy

Tina, the Tin Man's teenage daughter, embarks on an epic adventure in search of a new body with her best friends, Beau and Rain. The trio's heartwarming journey features everything from magical beasts to Taylor Swift.

Tina, the Tin Man's teenage daughter, embarks on an epic adventure in search of a new body with her best friends, Beau and Rain. The trio's heartwarming journey features everything from magical beasts to Taylor Swift.

With the Lights Out

by Mollie Gordon

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
drama,
romantic comedy

A young queer couple, Cameron and Jules, are forced to evacuate their apartment due to an electrical fire. As they spend the day out and about (with their cats), secrets about their relationship are brought to light.

A young queer couple, Cameron and Jules, are forced to evacuate their apartment due to an electrical fire. As they spend the day out and about (with their cats), secrets about their relationship are brought to light.

juice

by Mollie Gordon

3
Cast Size
8—10
Genre
comedy,
drama

Juicy Moosey is a juice bar in a wealthy NYC neighborhood, and both a home and a hellscape to its little band of workers. The workers come together, fall apart, and grow up, all in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Juicy Moosey is a juice bar in a wealthy NYC neighborhood, and both a home and a hellscape to its little band of workers. The workers come together, fall apart, and grow up, all in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

untitled fanfiction play :).pdf

by Mollie Gordon

Cast Size
5
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
fantasy,
romantic comedy

Max is 17 and loves to write fanfiction about the YA fantasy series, Smells Like Teen Magic. Their favorite character, Isabel, is suddenly knocking on their door, but it's not just one Isabel. Both the character as Max envisioned her, and the character as the author originally imagined, have come barging into Max’s life. Magic and mayhem ensues.

Max is 17 and loves to write fanfiction about the YA fantasy series, Smells Like Teen Magic. Their favorite character, Isabel, is suddenly knocking on their door, but it's not just one Isabel. Both the character as Max envisioned her, and the character as the author originally imagined, have come barging into Max’s life. Magic and mayhem ensues.

Hartford, Or: A Hellish Haven for Exceptionally Strong Quirky Lesbian Sexual Trauma Survivors

by Mollie Gordon

5
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
immersive

It's a way too-early morning on a train platform at Hartford Union Station. We meet Babyface, a young woman who defines herself as "pedophile-bait." This is her story. She is alone until she isn't.

It's a way too-early morning on a train platform at Hartford Union Station. We meet Babyface, a young woman who defines herself as "pedophile-bait." This is her story. She is alone until she isn't.

E (and T) Go to the Pride Parade

by Mollie Gordon

2
Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
experimental,
fantasy,
movement/physical

It's the day of the Pride March, and longtime partners E and T are preparing for the big event. As they bicker and reminisce, E and T find themselves swept up in a world of surrealist art, transformation, and most importantly - love.

It's the day of the Pride March, and longtime partners E and T are preparing for the big event. As they bicker and reminisce, E and T find themselves swept up in a world of surrealist art, transformation, and most importantly - love.