Avery Ingvarson

Avery L. Ingvarson is a Manhattan-based playwright, dramaturg, and director, except for when they’re a performer, producer, photographer, or art historian.

It is the request of the playwright that their work be produced with cast and creative teams no less than 50% artists of color.

Avery L. Ingvarson is a Manhattan-based playwright, dramaturg, and director, except for when they’re a performer, producer, photographer, or art historian.

It is the request of the playwright that their work be produced with cast and creative teams no less than 50% artists of color.

Scripts

Don't Jump

by Avery Ingvarson

2
Cast Size
2
Genre
drama

"Have you noticed that, about the Greeks? They called it ob skena - off stage. All the violence happens in between the scenes and we’re just told about it later. It becomes about the morality behind the action, not the action itself.

That’s where we get the word obscene. Though now obscenity is in vogue on stage, or on film. Audiences crave it. We’ve gotten so obsessed with realism in our escapism that they...

"Have you noticed that, about the Greeks? They called it ob skena - off stage. All the violence happens in between the scenes and we’re just told about it later. It becomes about the morality behind the action, not the action itself.

That’s where we get the word obscene. Though now obscenity is in vogue on stage, or on film. Audiences crave it. We’ve gotten so obsessed with realism in our escapism that they feel cheated to talk about death but not see it."

Maxine collects stories, and maybe something else too. Oliver wouldn't necessarily say they have a story to share. Agree to disagree.

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And Eat It Too

by Avery Ingvarson

2
Cast Size
7
Genre
comedy,
drama

I love a terrible party play.

Described as a mix between The Boys in the Band, The Exterminating Angel, and No Exit, And Eat It Too follows a long term friend group through what should be a normal unspecific game night hang, if not for each member bringing in their own self centered baggage to derail the evening.

I love a terrible party play.

Described as a mix between The Boys in the Band, The Exterminating Angel, and No Exit, And Eat It Too follows a long term friend group through what should be a normal unspecific game night hang, if not for each member bringing in their own self centered baggage to derail the evening.

Death of a Junco

by Avery Ingvarson

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

10% about gender, 30% about falling in love with your best friend, and 60% about the truths we tell ourselves and each other.

10% about gender, 30% about falling in love with your best friend, and 60% about the truths we tell ourselves and each other.

Wyoming, WA

by Avery Ingvarson

Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
drama

SETTING

A vaguely mid 2010s-hipster-friendly bar. Once trendy, now passé, with little effort made to catch it up. Can you picture flannel clad androgynous people playing shuffleboard and splitting an artisanal soft pretzel? Then you’ve sort of got the idea. It was cleanly within that mold when it opened, but has since slid dive-ier.

A small town in Washington State near the Cascades. An every-face-accounted...

SETTING

A vaguely mid 2010s-hipster-friendly bar. Once trendy, now passé, with little effort made to catch it up. Can you picture flannel clad androgynous people playing shuffleboard and splitting an artisanal soft pretzel? Then you’ve sort of got the idea. It was cleanly within that mold when it opened, but has since slid dive-ier.

A small town in Washington State near the Cascades. An every-face-accounted-for place. This town having this bar was always highly ambitious.

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Who Do You Think I Am

by Avery Ingvarson

Cast Size
4
Genre
drama

A play about solipsism, about thinking you have your shit together, and about knowing others do not. A play about the ways we’re similar to the people we love, and a play about all the ways we like to deny that fact. A play about being a writer and also being a person. And, occasionally, about bowling.

ANJA: Nice is different than good.
LUCAS: Not good, not nice, just right.
ALEC: The farther you run, the...

A play about solipsism, about thinking you have your shit together, and about knowing others do not. A play about the ways we’re similar to the people we love, and a play about all the ways we like to deny that fact. A play about being a writer and also being a person. And, occasionally, about bowling.

ANJA: Nice is different than good.
LUCAS: Not good, not nice, just right.
ALEC: The farther you run, the more you feel undefined.
JORDAN: The false hopes, the goodbyes, the reverses.

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Bracing for the Wind

by Avery Ingvarson

Cast Size
2
Genre
drama

For the B's in my life, all of whom I love dearly

For the B's in my life, all of whom I love dearly