Sloka Krishnan

Sloka Krishnan is a playwright-lyricist interested in magic, extravagance, ritual, camp, and the disavowal of moral purity and coherent identity. His writing has been described as subversive, multilayered, and eviscerating (by a boy he once slept with) and as darkly surreal comedy (by a legitimate online publication).

Now based in San Francisco, he is a 2024-2025 Resident Playwright with the Playwrights Foundation. He was previously a 2020 recipient of an Artist Project Grant from the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, a 2017-2018 Horizon Theatre Playwright Apprentice (Atlanta, GA), and a 2017 Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting. His work has been developed and performed by Cutting Ball Theatre (San Francisco); Happy Accident Theatre, Horizon Theatre Company, Out Front...

Sloka Krishnan is a playwright-lyricist interested in magic, extravagance, ritual, camp, and the disavowal of moral purity and coherent identity. His writing has been described as subversive, multilayered, and eviscerating (by a boy he once slept with) and as darkly surreal comedy (by a legitimate online publication).

Now based in San Francisco, he is a 2024-2025 Resident Playwright with the Playwrights Foundation. He was previously a 2020 recipient of an Artist Project Grant from the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, a 2017-2018 Horizon Theatre Playwright Apprentice (Atlanta, GA), and a 2017 Lambda Literary Fellow in Playwriting. His work has been developed and performed by Cutting Ball Theatre (San Francisco); Happy Accident Theatre, Horizon Theatre Company, Out Front Theatre, and Working Title Playwrights (Atlanta); Forum Theatre and the Rainbow Theatre Project (DC).

Scripts

The Bugs

by Sloka Krishnan

Synopsis

Genevieve Ingleside, disgraced future Baroness of Savannah, has escaped her family’s stifling country estate and found a life for herself in the city, navigating newfound intimacies in a time of plague and surveillance. Her grandmother, meanwhile, remains at home. When both find themselves in the crossfire of a public health and/or -relations crisis, they are forced to reconsider the strength of their family...

Genevieve Ingleside, disgraced future Baroness of Savannah, has escaped her family’s stifling country estate and found a life for herself in the city, navigating newfound intimacies in a time of plague and surveillance. Her grandmother, meanwhile, remains at home. When both find themselves in the crossfire of a public health and/or -relations crisis, they are forced to reconsider the strength of their family ties ... and of their facility with a pair of gardening shears. (Approx. 90-minute run time.)

Maybe Politics Are Over

by Sloka Krishnan

Synopsis

In a fragmenting world, four politicians jockey for power and grapple with desire; three hapless do-gooders parrot rhetoric they've been fed and clamor for change they can’t envision; and a trio of outcasts retreat to the woods for a peace that they too find unsustainable. Moving with the lightning speed of the 24-hour news cycle, rich with music and movement, filthy with sex and boiling with rage, Maybe...

In a fragmenting world, four politicians jockey for power and grapple with desire; three hapless do-gooders parrot rhetoric they've been fed and clamor for change they can’t envision; and a trio of outcasts retreat to the woods for a peace that they too find unsustainable. Moving with the lightning speed of the 24-hour news cycle, rich with music and movement, filthy with sex and boiling with rage, Maybe Politics Are Over is an unsparing look at the fury, destructiveness, and exhaustion of our times. (Approx. 70-minute run time.)

The Grand Transsexual Draweth Nigh

by Sloka Krishnan

Synopsis

The Grand Transsexual Draweth Nigh is a darkly comedic magical trans Halloween revenge mystery; a plea for ritual and transcendence; and an exploration of identity, authenticity, assimilation, and the ways in which we are consumed and alienated by our own desires, specifically in the contexts of queer/trans subcultures and racialized and gendered hierarchies of desirability. It follows a young gay trans man of...

The Grand Transsexual Draweth Nigh is a darkly comedic magical trans Halloween revenge mystery; a plea for ritual and transcendence; and an exploration of identity, authenticity, assimilation, and the ways in which we are consumed and alienated by our own desires, specifically in the contexts of queer/trans subcultures and racialized and gendered hierarchies of desirability. It follows a young gay trans man of color and three of his friends on the night when they once and for all become the devourers, not the devoured. (Approx. 50-minute run time.)

Babble

by Sloka Krishnan

Synopsis

In a pristine library that has been emptied of books, three agitated stakeholders fight over the future of the institution and the future of knowledge. Babble is a campy and surreal parable about the dangers of decorum. (30-minute one-act.)

In a pristine library that has been emptied of books, three agitated stakeholders fight over the future of the institution and the future of knowledge. Babble is a campy and surreal parable about the dangers of decorum. (30-minute one-act.)

Trickle-Down

by Sloka Krishnan

Synopsis

Trickle-Down is a sweet coming-of-age lesbian revenge rom-com in the form of a gay romp across Ronald Reagan’s grave. (10-minute musical.)

Trickle-Down is a sweet coming-of-age lesbian revenge rom-com in the form of a gay romp across Ronald Reagan’s grave. (10-minute musical.)