KARA DAVIDSON

FULL LENGTH - A woman seeks to overwrite memories in her past using an experimental technology which allows her to jump to a version of herself in another dimension. During this play, the audience will vote from three possible endings to decide the main character’s fate…and their own.

The year is 2050 and The Briar Institute of Undeniable and Irrevocable Happiness is here to help! Cutting edge and publicly unreleased technology is now exploding the opportunity for individuals to identify a specific moment in time where a life-altering decision was made: a decision that sent them on one path instead of the other, a decision that broke or healed relationships, a decision that chose one career over another. If you could go back to that moment in time and choose a different path, would you? What would your life look like now if you did?

FULL LENGTH - Unproduced. Set sometime in the near future, maybe 2025, when the world is still dealing with the ups and downs of multiple global long-lasting pandemics, two neighbors strike up an unlikely friendship through their picture windows. While Bennet begins to find her escape by starting to tempt her fate and health in the outside world, Shell finds solace by retreating to the recesses of her mind where "life's a beach" and Matt Damon is the postman. When tensions test their friendship and carelessness creates a life-threatening situation, Shell faces a challenge that she may not be able to overcome. This two-hander stitches together reality with fantasy as it dissects how connection and friendship become lifelines in an increasingly isolated world.

FULL LENGTH - 10 episodes
Script by Kara Davidson
Score by Kevin O'Donnell

After living in exile for almost 500 years, an elusive shapeshifter has begun a stealthy mission to regain
the name and power they once commanded. Possessing a magic that allows them to morph into any
human shape they have seen, Dracula plots out their new dominion and sets their sights on conquering
England. However, the humans that stand in their way aren't as easy of prey as they once were.

Inspired by the classic novel by Bram Stoker, this re-imagined serial audio play was presented in 10
episodes with an original score developed in tandem with the script. Emulating the epistolary style of
the novel, the episodes flow through varying perspectives of the narrative, including characters both
familiar and forgotten.

FULL LENGTH - a puppet-filled portrait of a prodigy in peril

Charlotte, a young orphan, has made a life for herself thieving on the streets of 18th Century London. She wiggles her way into employment for an eccentric Italian puppeteer, Pietro. We watch them become an efficient pair, entertaining crowds, collecting coins, and skirting the law. As their partnership flourishes, so does Charlotte’s vivid imagination, which transforms the violent Punch and Judy puppets into larger-than-life beings. Her escape into the puppet world allows her to make sense of grown-up injustices around her.

But dangers lurk around every corner for Charlotte and Pietro, and corruption is perpetuated by those who are supposed to keep us safe. The two must learn how they operate as a team as they fight to escape from their own violent end.

FULL LENGTH - TYA. Commissioned and performed by Latin School Chicago in Fall 2019, Lost Things follows the journey of Leonora, a member of a superhero high school who mysteriously loses her powers right before her aptitude exams and is sent to the "Maker's" School to start a new life for herself. Runner Up in the 32nd Annual Jackie White Memorial National Playwriting Contest for 2021.

FULL LENGTH - TYA. A teenager whose parents have recently separated struggles to find her place in her new family dynamic and in her birth town. After a near-death experience, she accepts assistance from an ethereal being who has been “sent by the moon mother”, to help her cope and adapt. But the magical assistance doesn’t come without consequence, and the girl soon finds that she is putting her family and the town in peril by inviting such a powerful being into their lives.

10 minute play - A musher reaches her breaking point while training for the iconic Iditarod dog sled race in Alaska.

10 Minute Play - Two ants encounter each other on their journey to escape their mundane life and break through ant stereotypes.

10-minute play - Two people on a blind date start discover how to open up to someone new after loss and heartache.

10 Minute Play - Meg's life is disrupted when her sister and her sister's new boyfriend come back into town after their mother's funeral. Tension grows when it is revealed that Meg already knows something about the boyfriend's mysterious past.

ONE ACT - A preschool teacher relives her past 24 hours, rewinding her memories through key moments that the classroom hamster, Kirk, has also been privy to. Kirk Can Swim was selected as a featured one act for the Omaha Fringe festival in 2020, and was presented virtually.