Laura Jacqmin

Scripts

Residence

by Laura Jacqmin

2
Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

When new mom and medical supply saleswoman Maggie moves into an extended-stay hotel in Tempe, Arizona, she brings a troubled history and tenuous grasp on the future with her. While trying to secure her first sale since returning to work, she befriends two hotel employees whose careers and life paths are nearly as shaky as her own.

When new mom and medical supply saleswoman Maggie moves into an extended-stay hotel in Tempe, Arizona, she brings a troubled history and tenuous grasp on the future with her. While trying to secure her first sale since returning to work, she befriends two hotel employees whose careers and life paths are nearly as shaky as her own.

January Joiner

by Laura Jacqmin

1
Cast Size
6
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
horror

Eat less. Exercise more. Make healthy choices. Ignore the bloodthirsty vending machine when it speaks to you. Myrtle and her sister Terry enroll at Evolve in sunny Florida in order to transform their lives. But at what cost? A weight loss horror-comedy that asks: what happens when the people closest to us change?

World premiere Long Wharf Theatre, 2013, dir. Eric Ting

Recipient of a 2013 NEA Art Works Grant...

Eat less. Exercise more. Make healthy choices. Ignore the bloodthirsty vending machine when it speaks to you. Myrtle and her sister Terry enroll at Evolve in sunny Florida in order to transform their lives. But at what cost? A weight loss horror-comedy that asks: what happens when the people closest to us change?

World premiere Long Wharf Theatre, 2013, dir. Eric Ting

Recipient of a 2013 NEA Art Works Grant

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