Liz Appel

Liz Appel is a playwright originally from Toronto. Her play BELLS LIKE HOOVES was featured in the 2022 Roundabout Underground Reading Series, and she is a 2022 Ucross Fellow, VCCA Fellow and Tofte Lake Resident. A current member of New Georges The Jam, she has been a Finalist for the Princess Grace Award, the Leah Ryan FEWW Emerging Playwright Prize (twice), PlayPenn, BAPF, Ashland New Plays Festival and was a winner of the Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women and an Honorable Mention for the Annual Parity Commission (Parity Productions). Her short play, SNOW, was produced at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London, and her play MOONSHINE, received a staged reading at the Cherry Lane Theater through Primary Stages, ESPA Drills. Her one-act play, REMEMBER, is published in Blackbird. MFA...

Liz Appel is a playwright originally from Toronto. Her play BELLS LIKE HOOVES was featured in the 2022 Roundabout Underground Reading Series, and she is a 2022 Ucross Fellow, VCCA Fellow and Tofte Lake Resident. A current member of New Georges The Jam, she has been a Finalist for the Princess Grace Award, the Leah Ryan FEWW Emerging Playwright Prize (twice), PlayPenn, BAPF, Ashland New Plays Festival and was a winner of the Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women and an Honorable Mention for the Annual Parity Commission (Parity Productions). Her short play, SNOW, was produced at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London, and her play MOONSHINE, received a staged reading at the Cherry Lane Theater through Primary Stages, ESPA Drills. Her one-act play, REMEMBER, is published in Blackbird. MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College (Dec, '21), where she was awarded a Roberts Foundation Fellowship. Current member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. She interviews writers and directors for Vogue.com.

She has developed work at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Kennedy Center, the Banff Centre, Pataphysics Playwriting Workshops at the Flea Theater and more. Liz holds a B.A. and MPhil from the University of Cambridge, an M.A. and MPhil in English from Yale University.

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Scripts

BELLS LIKE HOOVES

by Liz Appel

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Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
drama,
experimental,
mystery/thriller

Jo's fiancee is dead. Or is she? Time is splitting open, no one knows what's real, and truth can only be found in the language of stars. BELLS LIKE HOOVES is a play about how we hurt and heal through each other. It's about ghosts, ghosting, and how to crack open the universe.

Jo's fiancee is dead. Or is she? Time is splitting open, no one knows what's real, and truth can only be found in the language of stars. BELLS LIKE HOOVES is a play about how we hurt and heal through each other. It's about ghosts, ghosting, and how to crack open the universe.

HARBOR

by Liz Appel

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Cast Size
4
Genre
drama,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
mystery/thriller,
political,
tragedy

In a farmhouse in fictitious Europe the orderly life of the Percy family is disrupted by the discovery of a girl hiding in their fields. She is alone, will not speak, and is of unclear provenance: is she a soldier or a civilian? The decision to take her in sets off a chain of events that has wide repercussions for the Percy family, and the world beyond. Boundaries between people, culture and language break...

In a farmhouse in fictitious Europe the orderly life of the Percy family is disrupted by the discovery of a girl hiding in their fields. She is alone, will not speak, and is of unclear provenance: is she a soldier or a civilian? The decision to take her in sets off a chain of events that has wide repercussions for the Percy family, and the world beyond. Boundaries between people, culture and language break down as a new world dawns.

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Moonshine

by Liz Appel

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Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
movement/physical,
mystery/thriller,
tragedy

Wolf and Rooster are on the run after a violent family event. They are alone, in the dark and desperate to start a fire to keep away the night. A single night turns into endless night as the brothers struggle to keep their dueling versions of the past alive.

This play explores the sibling relationship and asks questions such as: Are there parts of ourselves we’ve stowed away in other people for safekeeping...

Wolf and Rooster are on the run after a violent family event. They are alone, in the dark and desperate to start a fire to keep away the night. A single night turns into endless night as the brothers struggle to keep their dueling versions of the past alive.

This play explores the sibling relationship and asks questions such as: Are there parts of ourselves we’ve stowed away in other people for safekeeping? Can we ever reclaim these parts, or are they lost to us forever? What happens when different versions of history collide? Can denying a memory be an act of love?

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Sky Gods

by Liz Appel

Cast Size
2
Genre
adaptation,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
tragedy

SKY GODS is a loose take on Euripides’s Bacchae. Inspired by the idea that Zeus created a twin Dionysus out of sky to distract Hera, the play centers on Hera and this decoy (Skyonysus), and imagines their life together. It explores how we hold each other hostage and how we might set each other free.

SKY GODS is a loose take on Euripides’s Bacchae. Inspired by the idea that Zeus created a twin Dionysus out of sky to distract Hera, the play centers on Hera and this decoy (Skyonysus), and imagines their life together. It explores how we hold each other hostage and how we might set each other free.

The Return

by Liz Appel

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
fantasy,
mystery/thriller,
tragedy

After having disappeared nine years ago, Diana has suddenly returned to the home of her mother, Moira. As mother and daughter try to understand each other after nearly a decade of silence, the fate of a child hangs in the balance.

After having disappeared nine years ago, Diana has suddenly returned to the home of her mother, Moira. As mother and daughter try to understand each other after nearly a decade of silence, the fate of a child hangs in the balance.