Christine Deavel

Christine Deavel is a playwright, poet, and essayist. Her full-length play BLUE TO BLUE was a 2025 mainstage production at Annex Theatre and was nominated for a Gregory Award for Outstanding Original Script and a Sound on Stage Award for Original Production. Short plays from her DOCUMENT SERIES have been performed as part of the Maple Valley Creative Arts Center Short Play Festival, Aspire Repertory Theatre Creator’s Series, and 18th & Union’s Portable Play Festival. She is co-author with J.W. Marshall of VICINITY/MEMORYALL, a full-length play that received a GAP Award from Artist Trust toward its production and was published by Entre Ríos Books. Her collection of poetry "Woodnote" (Bear Star Press) was awarded the Washington State Book Award. Born and educated in the Midwest, she is a...

Christine Deavel is a playwright, poet, and essayist. Her full-length play BLUE TO BLUE was a 2025 mainstage production at Annex Theatre and was nominated for a Gregory Award for Outstanding Original Script and a Sound on Stage Award for Original Production. Short plays from her DOCUMENT SERIES have been performed as part of the Maple Valley Creative Arts Center Short Play Festival, Aspire Repertory Theatre Creator’s Series, and 18th & Union’s Portable Play Festival. She is co-author with J.W. Marshall of VICINITY/MEMORYALL, a full-length play that received a GAP Award from Artist Trust toward its production and was published by Entre Ríos Books. Her collection of poetry "Woodnote" (Bear Star Press) was awarded the Washington State Book Award. Born and educated in the Midwest, she is a long-time resident of Seattle.

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Scripts

Betty

by Christine Deavel

Cast Size
6—7
Genre
docudrama/historic,
drama,
period

More comfortable with horses than humans, 28-year-old Betty lives with her parents on their truck farm in 1946 rural Indiana. Over the next 16 years, the life she has made for herself proves increasingly tenuous, affected not only by loss, but by how her community sees her and how she sees herself.

More comfortable with horses than humans, 28-year-old Betty lives with her parents on their truck farm in 1946 rural Indiana. Over the next 16 years, the life she has made for herself proves increasingly tenuous, affected not only by loss, but by how her community sees her and how she sees herself.

Blue to Blue

by Christine Deavel

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
experimental,
movement/physical,
verse

What do you do when your mother dies, your father decides to mail you box after random box of her things, and Emily Dickinson poems begin appearing in everyone’s pockets? If you’re Beryl, you head to your job at the coffin-making shop and look for guidance from the two-person Greek chorus that now accompanies your changed life. Unfolding over three days in the 1990s and set in the ancient neighborhood of grief,...

What do you do when your mother dies, your father decides to mail you box after random box of her things, and Emily Dickinson poems begin appearing in everyone’s pockets? If you’re Beryl, you head to your job at the coffin-making shop and look for guidance from the two-person Greek chorus that now accompanies your changed life. Unfolding over three days in the 1990s and set in the ancient neighborhood of grief, “Blue to Blue” presents the timeless search for solace after loss and the unexpected ways it arrives.

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Vicinity/Memoryall

by Christine Deavel

Cast Size
4—7
Genre
docudrama/historic,
drama,
political

In violence-filled human history, who and how do we memorialize—or forget? Co-written by Christine Deavel and J.W. Marshall, “Vicinity/Memoryall” follows Del and Lee, two close friends and former lovers, as they search for a public memorial in their rapidly changing city, their circuitous journey drawing them into unexpected places, conversations, and acts. Threaded through their narrative are appearances by...

In violence-filled human history, who and how do we memorialize—or forget? Co-written by Christine Deavel and J.W. Marshall, “Vicinity/Memoryall” follows Del and Lee, two close friends and former lovers, as they search for a public memorial in their rapidly changing city, their circuitous journey drawing them into unexpected places, conversations, and acts. Threaded through their narrative are appearances by Clare, a “docent at the edges,” whose strange and haunting monologues offer a bridge between the audience and the story.

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The Prescription (10-minute play; may be performed by itself or as part of the Documents Trilogy, which also includes "The Rental Agreement" and "The Official Diagram")

by Christine Deavel

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy

In the pharmacy department of a big-box store, a person arrives at the counter and rings the bell. It’s not clear, however, what the prescription is or who is filling it.

In the pharmacy department of a big-box store, a person arrives at the counter and rings the bell. It’s not clear, however, what the prescription is or who is filling it.

The Official Diagram (10-minute play; may be performed by itself or as part of the Documents Trilogy, which also includes "The Prescription" and "The Rental Agreement")

by Christine Deavel

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy

A forgotten relative appears for a game of hangman in the midst of wedding preparations.

A forgotten relative appears for a game of hangman in the midst of wedding preparations.

The Rental Agreement (10-minute play; may be performed by itself or as part of the Documents Trilogy, which also includes "The Prescription" and "The Official Diagram")

by Christine Deavel

Cast Size
2—3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
movement/physical

You and I were just going to have a little row on the lake in a little rented boat, then another craft appeared.

You and I were just going to have a little row on the lake in a little rented boat, then another craft appeared.

Is There a Doctor (10-minute play)

by Christine Deavel

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

A family makes an outing to the theater only to find that they have become the drama and their roles are not what they expected.

A family makes an outing to the theater only to find that they have become the drama and their roles are not what they expected.