Maeve Kelley Baker

Maeve Kelley Baker is a Manhattan-based playwright, director, and dramaturg. As a founding member of the Official Sidekick Productions Troupe (OSP) she wrote, directed, and produced Birds and Bats: A Parody Musical at Access Theater and its parody sequel Birds and Bats: The Sitcom (Both on Youtube). With OSP she has also written The Girl From Nothing (Co-written with Hannah Herbert-Hunt) and Fall On Line, directed Weekend at Jimmy's and Grave's Anatomy, adapted Princess and the Pauper and Les Femmes Mousquetaires, and produced the “Super Friends Powcast” podcast and wrote the music for the podcasts Holiday album.
​Notably she won the SPF BOO! competition with her show Escape from Margaritaville and won the NY TheaterFest's award for Most Creative Production with Les Femmes Mousquetaires...

Maeve Kelley Baker is a Manhattan-based playwright, director, and dramaturg. As a founding member of the Official Sidekick Productions Troupe (OSP) she wrote, directed, and produced Birds and Bats: A Parody Musical at Access Theater and its parody sequel Birds and Bats: The Sitcom (Both on Youtube). With OSP she has also written The Girl From Nothing (Co-written with Hannah Herbert-Hunt) and Fall On Line, directed Weekend at Jimmy's and Grave's Anatomy, adapted Princess and the Pauper and Les Femmes Mousquetaires, and produced the “Super Friends Powcast” podcast and wrote the music for the podcasts Holiday album.
​Notably she won the SPF BOO! competition with her show Escape from Margaritaville and won the NY TheaterFest's award for Most Creative Production with Les Femmes Mousquetaires. Currently, with OSP she has two musicals in development, one of which, Project: Library, had a staged reading through the Spark Theater Festival!
Independently, they have had their plays Buried and Push produced at MMC, their play I Lost the Cat produced at Secret Theatre, and readings for their new comedy Snowball performed at City Center (Daisy Theatricals), Theatre Row (The Rogue Theater Festival), and with theatrical company City Gate. The goal of all of Maeve’s work is to promote empathy and understanding through comedy and love as well as continuing to make theater more accessible for a wider range of audiences.

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Scripts

Jeff The Jester

by Maeve Kelley Baker

Cast Size
4—7
Genre
comedy,
farce,
parody/spoof

Chivalry! Rivalry! Revelry! The three most important things in romance. Jeff is an unofficial Jester (and the official photographer) at the Medieval Times. But his loyalties are tested when he falls head over heels for the actor who plays the princess. To prove his love Jeff has to get serious, because the one thing this jester doesn’t joke about - is love.

Chivalry! Rivalry! Revelry! The three most important things in romance. Jeff is an unofficial Jester (and the official photographer) at the Medieval Times. But his loyalties are tested when he falls head over heels for the actor who plays the princess. To prove his love Jeff has to get serious, because the one thing this jester doesn’t joke about - is love.

Snowball

by Maeve Kelley Baker

2
Cast Size
3—6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
melodrama,
mystery/thriller,
tragedy

A customer walks into a corner store asking for a product that’s not being sold there. As the customer keeps returning to the store for the item, tensions rise and patience dwindles. And everything snowballs from there.

A customer walks into a corner store asking for a product that’s not being sold there. As the customer keeps returning to the store for the item, tensions rise and patience dwindles. And everything snowballs from there.

Escape from Margaritaville

by Maeve Kelley Baker

Cast Size
3—6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
horror,
melodrama,
mystery/thriller,
parody/spoof

Margie and Jeff decide tonight is the night - the best date night of all time - so of course they go to Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville. While enjoying the themed food and the light show that goes off every thirty minutes, they realize (with the help of a regular) that they are stuck in Margaritaville. And if they can’t escape by 5:00pm, they’ll be stuck there forever.

Margie and Jeff decide tonight is the night - the best date night of all time - so of course they go to Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville. While enjoying the themed food and the light show that goes off every thirty minutes, they realize (with the help of a regular) that they are stuck in Margaritaville. And if they can’t escape by 5:00pm, they’ll be stuck there forever.

I Lost The Cat

by Maeve Kelley Baker

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
mystery/thriller

"I Lost the Cat '' is a short play about a roommate accidentally letting the cat out. This mini-comedy takes us on a fast-paced journey where tables turn, truths are revealed, and betrayal is imminent. Don't mess with Ginger.

"I Lost the Cat '' is a short play about a roommate accidentally letting the cat out. This mini-comedy takes us on a fast-paced journey where tables turn, truths are revealed, and betrayal is imminent. Don't mess with Ginger.