Juliet Kang Huneke

JULIET KANG HUNEKE is a playwright and performer who is passionate about theatre that is larger than life. Juliet graduated from Northwestern University in 2022. In 2023, she was awarded the ReImagine: New Plays in TYA grant to develop her new play for young audiences, HANNAH AND HALMONI SAVE THE WORLD!, with Filament Theatre. Juliet is also a 24 Hour Plays Nationals alum! Other Chicago writing credits include: ECHO’S INFERNO (The Understudy), HOME FOR THE SUMMER (Theo Ubique, American Music Theatre Project), MYCELIUM (Playground Chicago), and MECHANICALS (Impostors Theater Co Footholds Vol. 4). When she’s not acting or writing, Juliet is a teaching artist at Chicago Children’s Theatre and Porchlight Music Theatre.

JULIET KANG HUNEKE is a playwright and performer who is passionate about theatre that is larger than life. Juliet graduated from Northwestern University in 2022. In 2023, she was awarded the ReImagine: New Plays in TYA grant to develop her new play for young audiences, HANNAH AND HALMONI SAVE THE WORLD!, with Filament Theatre. Juliet is also a 24 Hour Plays Nationals alum! Other Chicago writing credits include: ECHO’S INFERNO (The Understudy), HOME FOR THE SUMMER (Theo Ubique, American Music Theatre Project), MYCELIUM (Playground Chicago), and MECHANICALS (Impostors Theater Co Footholds Vol. 4). When she’s not acting or writing, Juliet is a teaching artist at Chicago Children’s Theatre and Porchlight Music Theatre.

Scripts

Echo's Inferno

by Juliet Kang Huneke

Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy

Echo is thirteen in 1880, fourteen in 1960, fifteen in 2020-- and puberty sucks. Her brothers are building the world’s first airplane and won’t stop shoving her off roofs, her other brother is the heartthrob of England’s first boy band while Echo ghost writes all his songs, and her first boyfriend is just using her to go viral on TikTok. And maybe she’s just been in love with her best friend Lola all this time...

Echo is thirteen in 1880, fourteen in 1960, fifteen in 2020-- and puberty sucks. Her brothers are building the world’s first airplane and won’t stop shoving her off roofs, her other brother is the heartthrob of England’s first boy band while Echo ghost writes all his songs, and her first boyfriend is just using her to go viral on TikTok. And maybe she’s just been in love with her best friend Lola all this time? But accompanied by her new seventeen-year-old hot (yes in a gay way) girl friend, Satan, Echo’s ready to take her puberty-driven rage and unleash some hell upon the world. And you’re gonna like it.

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Mycelium (10-minute version)

by Juliet Kang Huneke

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
drama,
fable/folktale

In a maple forest, a terminally ill young human stumbles upon two talking mushrooms who are experts on death.

In a maple forest, a terminally ill young human stumbles upon two talking mushrooms who are experts on death.

Mechanicals

by Juliet Kang Huneke

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
political,
science fiction

Someplace, somewhere that's not here but is close to here. Three trolley mechanics grapple with climate change, purpose, and hope. They also eat sandwiches.

Someplace, somewhere that's not here but is close to here. Three trolley mechanics grapple with climate change, purpose, and hope. They also eat sandwiches.