Gracie Everett

Gracie Everett (she/her) is a playwright and actress based in Chicago, and hailing from the Lone Star State. She is a bi-local artist, most often based in Chicago but occasionally also in her hometown near Dallas, TX. Gracie is currently working with Chicago’s Raven Theatre on an exciting upcoming project… details to come!

Gracie’s first play, THE LAST SUNRISE OF AUGUST 1973, won the Texas Thespian Festival PLAYWORKS short play competition and received an Honorable Mention in the YouthPLAYS New Voices One Act Competition, thus kicking off her playwriting career. Since then, Gracie’s work has been seen at colleges and local theatres across the United States, and staged readings of her full-length plays, MEDIAN and BURY THE SNOWCATS were presented through DePaul University’s Wrights of...

Gracie Everett (she/her) is a playwright and actress based in Chicago, and hailing from the Lone Star State. She is a bi-local artist, most often based in Chicago but occasionally also in her hometown near Dallas, TX. Gracie is currently working with Chicago’s Raven Theatre on an exciting upcoming project… details to come!

Gracie’s first play, THE LAST SUNRISE OF AUGUST 1973, won the Texas Thespian Festival PLAYWORKS short play competition and received an Honorable Mention in the YouthPLAYS New Voices One Act Competition, thus kicking off her playwriting career. Since then, Gracie’s work has been seen at colleges and local theatres across the United States, and staged readings of her full-length plays, MEDIAN and BURY THE SNOWCATS were presented through DePaul University’s Wrights of Spring festival of new plays.

Gracie is passionate about advocating for a more inclusive, accessible theatre industry. In 2024, she wrote an original play for an autistic and neurodiverse audience, called THE ADVENTURES OF SPECTRUM SPARKS, commissioned by CenterStage Theatre Works, and she has also worked with Berklee College of Music’s Institute for Accessible Arts Education, including as a guest host on the ABLE Voices podcast and as a performer/speaker at their Day Sessions for young musicians with disabilities.

Gracie is fascinated by the way her own life impacts her art, and allows her identity as a queer, disabled, autistic woman from the American South to inform her every word. When she’s not writing, Gracie also loves performing onstage and on-camera, Dungeons & Dragons, her job as an escape room game master, and excitedly pointing out every dog she sees around Chicago.

BFA Playwriting (w/ Disability Studies certification): Theatre School @ DePaul University, 2025.

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Scripts

Median

by Gracie Everett

Synopsis

90 MINS.
Jane Conway is trapped between two worlds– too young for independence, but too smart for normalcy. When her mathematical prowess earns her early admission to college, Jane thrusts herself into a pretense of adulthood against her father’s wishes. Against the backdrop of rural East Texas, Jane's two lives grow more incongruent, yet more interconnected, and their eventual collision unearths long-buried...

90 MINS.
Jane Conway is trapped between two worlds– too young for independence, but too smart for normalcy. When her mathematical prowess earns her early admission to college, Jane thrusts herself into a pretense of adulthood against her father’s wishes. Against the backdrop of rural East Texas, Jane's two lives grow more incongruent, yet more interconnected, and their eventual collision unearths long-buried truths about Jane and the ones she loves.

Bury the Snowcats

by Gracie Everett

Synopsis

90 MINS
PowerHouse Cheer Elite is an underdog in the world of All-Star Cheer, boasting only one team worth their salt: the Snowcats, who can’t seem to shake this losing streak. After an embarrassing failure and serious injury on the mat, their best chance at a trip to Nationals is gone. Then, on their already-tense van ride home, a severe blizzard traps the Snowcats in the middle of nowhere with only each other...

90 MINS
PowerHouse Cheer Elite is an underdog in the world of All-Star Cheer, boasting only one team worth their salt: the Snowcats, who can’t seem to shake this losing streak. After an embarrassing failure and serious injury on the mat, their best chance at a trip to Nationals is gone. Then, on their already-tense van ride home, a severe blizzard traps the Snowcats in the middle of nowhere with only each other for company.

Entirely set within the confines of the Waffle House across the street from their motel, Bury the Snowcats chronicles the week following the team's worst failure to date. With their teammate’s prognosis still unclear, everyone searches for someone to blame. Hostility forms, rumors fly, and secrets come to light that make disbandment a real possibility. Unable to escape the storm, or each other, the Snowcats are forced to decide whether they should fight for something that’s supposedly doomed, or let their circumstances bury them alive.
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** SNOWCATS IS STILL ACTIVELY UNDERGOING REVISIONS! Stay tuned!

The Adventures of Spectrum Sparks!

by Gracie Everett

Synopsis

45-60 MINS.
Join Spectrum Sparks, a slightly offbeat robot, on an unforgettable journey fueled by the power of friendship! Spectrum, his quirky companions, and their friends in the audience work together to tell a story packed with life lessons especially for early learners and a neurodivergent/Autistic audience.
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** Commissioned by CenterStage Theatre Works in partnership with the City of Frisco, Texas.

45-60 MINS.
Join Spectrum Sparks, a slightly offbeat robot, on an unforgettable journey fueled by the power of friendship! Spectrum, his quirky companions, and their friends in the audience work together to tell a story packed with life lessons especially for early learners and a neurodivergent/Autistic audience.
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** Commissioned by CenterStage Theatre Works in partnership with the City of Frisco, Texas.

Letters for Adelaide

by Gracie Everett

Synopsis

20-30 MINUTES.
The story of the intimate and vulnerable love between two artists, including the secrets they had to keep from the world, unfolds via an exchange of letters in the years leading up to the Great Depression.

20-30 MINUTES.
The story of the intimate and vulnerable love between two artists, including the secrets they had to keep from the world, unfolds via an exchange of letters in the years leading up to the Great Depression.

The Last Sunrise of August 1973

by Gracie Everett

Synopsis

10-15 MINUTES.
After two weeks missing, a free-spirited teen runaway returns home to pack her bags before leaving for good, only to be found by her best friend, who believes she has come home to stay.

**Winner of the Texas Thespian Festival PLAYWORKS New Plays competition (2019). Honorable Mention recipient from the YouthPLAYS New Voices One Act competition (2021).**

10-15 MINUTES.
After two weeks missing, a free-spirited teen runaway returns home to pack her bags before leaving for good, only to be found by her best friend, who believes she has come home to stay.

**Winner of the Texas Thespian Festival PLAYWORKS New Plays competition (2019). Honorable Mention recipient from the YouthPLAYS New Voices One Act competition (2021).**

Ice Cream Friday

by Gracie Everett

Synopsis

15-20 MINUTES.
After their lives are turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic, best friends Katie and Carmen seek a sense of normalcy by inviting a new friend to join in an old childhood tradition.

15-20 MINUTES.
After their lives are turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic, best friends Katie and Carmen seek a sense of normalcy by inviting a new friend to join in an old childhood tradition.

Asscrack, Nowhere, USA: a monologue

by Gracie Everett

Synopsis

<10 MINUTES.
18-year-old Cleo defies the odds of her small town, and her father's wishes, by moving away for college.

<10 MINUTES.
18-year-old Cleo defies the odds of her small town, and her father's wishes, by moving away for college.

28:28

by Gracie Everett

Synopsis

10-15 MINUTES.
Two women in a 19th-century lunatic asylum discover that their fellow patient’s affliction may be more dangerous than it seems.

10-15 MINUTES.
Two women in a 19th-century lunatic asylum discover that their fellow patient’s affliction may be more dangerous than it seems.

Does A Bird Dream of Flight?

by Gracie Everett

Synopsis

15-20 MINUTES.
1841, Massachusetts. A female poet burdened, yet infatuated, with sick fantasies of death meets a traditionalist publisher quietly mourning the loss of his young daughter. They struggle to find common ground as a woman who has considered ending her life, and a man who would do anything to bring his late child back.

15-20 MINUTES.
1841, Massachusetts. A female poet burdened, yet infatuated, with sick fantasies of death meets a traditionalist publisher quietly mourning the loss of his young daughter. They struggle to find common ground as a woman who has considered ending her life, and a man who would do anything to bring his late child back.

Cass: a short play for one woman

by Gracie Everett

Synopsis

<10 MINUTES.
When the prophecies aren't enough to subdue Cass, Apollo finds a new method of psychological torture to control her.
A modern play inspired by the characters and events of Greek mythology.

<10 MINUTES.
When the prophecies aren't enough to subdue Cass, Apollo finds a new method of psychological torture to control her.
A modern play inspired by the characters and events of Greek mythology.

The Day The Music Died

by Gracie Everett

Synopsis

10 MINUTES.
Fina doesn’t want to let her sister go, but Lizzie knows her time is coming.
A (very loose) adaptation of Little Women, with music from ‘American Pie’ by Don McLean.

10 MINUTES.
Fina doesn’t want to let her sister go, but Lizzie knows her time is coming.
A (very loose) adaptation of Little Women, with music from ‘American Pie’ by Don McLean.

Painless Regression

by Gracie Everett

Synopsis

60-75 MINUTES.
An experimental chronic pain treatment program promises to cure its patients by allowing them to revisit childhood memories. Past and present bleed together when the treatment goes sideways, forcing patients to decide which they'd rather save: their bodies, or their minds.

60-75 MINUTES.
An experimental chronic pain treatment program promises to cure its patients by allowing them to revisit childhood memories. Past and present bleed together when the treatment goes sideways, forcing patients to decide which they'd rather save: their bodies, or their minds.