Julia Jennings

JULIA JENNINGS is a Maine-based writer/director. National Theater Institute Spring ’22; BA: Bowdoin College. Her works include: In the End we all go to Providence (Maine state winner, Clauder Competition 2023), happy heterosexual summer (Bowdoin One Acts Festival Winner 2023), and GOODBYE RHODA.

JULIA JENNINGS is a Maine-based writer/director. National Theater Institute Spring ’22; BA: Bowdoin College. Her works include: In the End we all go to Providence (Maine state winner, Clauder Competition 2023), happy heterosexual summer (Bowdoin One Acts Festival Winner 2023), and GOODBYE RHODA.

Scripts

TOTALITY PLAY

by Julia Jennings

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Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

It's the eclipse and Mona and Heidi are on a hilltop in Maine, waiting for the end of the world. So what happens when a forlorn twenty-something wanders across their path? A play about wanting to change and changing your mind.

* Audience Choice Award Winner, Maine Playwrights Festival 2025

It's the eclipse and Mona and Heidi are on a hilltop in Maine, waiting for the end of the world. So what happens when a forlorn twenty-something wanders across their path? A play about wanting to change and changing your mind.

* Audience Choice Award Winner, Maine Playwrights Festival 2025

The Wash (fka In the End, we all go to Providence)

by Julia Jennings

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Cast Size
5—6
Genre
comedy,
drama

Oh no! The pandemic has struck and we’re all trapped in a house together. And we’re all women. And some of us are related. And shoot, the next door neighbor is directing bad Shakespeare in his backyard and we can’t escape from it!! A birthday, a bugbite, who’s eating the house?? A play about talking to the sister you haven’t seen in seven years, what happens to things when we die, and whether or not you can kiss...

Oh no! The pandemic has struck and we’re all trapped in a house together. And we’re all women. And some of us are related. And shoot, the next door neighbor is directing bad Shakespeare in his backyard and we can’t escape from it!! A birthday, a bugbite, who’s eating the house?? A play about talking to the sister you haven’t seen in seven years, what happens to things when we die, and whether or not you can kiss the girl who’s renting from your grandmother.

Maine State Winner, Portland Stage Clauder Competition

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happy heterosexual summer

by Julia Jennings

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy

What do we do while we wait for the toaster? We fall in love. Four theater artists at your least favorite summer residency congregate around a broken toaster to gossip, impersonate Jennifer Coolidge, and fall in and out of love.

What do we do while we wait for the toaster? We fall in love. Four theater artists at your least favorite summer residency congregate around a broken toaster to gossip, impersonate Jennifer Coolidge, and fall in and out of love.

GOODBYE RHODA

by Julia Jennings

Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
drama

We can't tell Rhoda we crashed the van--but the woman at Whole Foods definitely saw us do it?? Are you my mother? Oh I wasn't asking, that's just the book I'm reading. And who is Rhoda's friend? I love her/I want her/I want to be with her/I want to be her/I just want to get out of the theater.

We can't tell Rhoda we crashed the van--but the woman at Whole Foods definitely saw us do it?? Are you my mother? Oh I wasn't asking, that's just the book I'm reading. And who is Rhoda's friend? I love her/I want her/I want to be with her/I want to be her/I just want to get out of the theater.

What if this were a wedding?

by Julia Jennings

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Cast Size
4—6
Genre
drama,
faith-based,
immersive

Is Annie dead?? We’re at the funeral she never would have wanted. Out of the explosive silence of a Quaker meeting, her mother/sisters/lover & God(?) are left to construct a narrative of her life, and now their own lives without her. Oh and Annie gets to watch the whole show.

Is Annie dead?? We’re at the funeral she never would have wanted. Out of the explosive silence of a Quaker meeting, her mother/sisters/lover & God(?) are left to construct a narrative of her life, and now their own lives without her. Oh and Annie gets to watch the whole show.