Adrian Speth

Adrian (he/they) is a trans and queer artist forever unbecoming and unraveling, consistently on the road but based in Boston. Originally raised in a rural mountain town, his plays, poetry, and prose often focus on the remoteness and liminality of both location and identity, and how community and connection can remedy those feelings. He believes in the disruption of synapses and making graveyard art, dissected and resurrected, and is always exploring ghosts, time, and the other shadows that make up our world. He specializes in writing of all kinds, as well as dramaturgy and stage management, and prioritizes transness and community in his work. Above all, he seeks to challenge and reject current rules and regulations surrounding sanity, queerness, grief, and joy. Most recently, his work has...

Adrian (he/they) is a trans and queer artist forever unbecoming and unraveling, consistently on the road but based in Boston. Originally raised in a rural mountain town, his plays, poetry, and prose often focus on the remoteness and liminality of both location and identity, and how community and connection can remedy those feelings. He believes in the disruption of synapses and making graveyard art, dissected and resurrected, and is always exploring ghosts, time, and the other shadows that make up our world. He specializes in writing of all kinds, as well as dramaturgy and stage management, and prioritizes transness and community in his work. Above all, he seeks to challenge and reject current rules and regulations surrounding sanity, queerness, grief, and joy. Most recently, his work has appeared in Third Estate Books' Spectrum: An Autistic Horror Anthology, Sundress Publications’ Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature and the Silences Around Us, and his play Jesus On Ice was produced for Boston University's 2024 STAMP season.

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Scripts

Jesus on Ice

by Adrian Speth

Cast Size
5
Genre
drama

Two days before Christmas, a group of five friends still reeling from the death of a sixth decide to steal the Baby Jesus out of their local Mormon church's nativity scene. Birdie, the leader of the pack, has recently returned from a wilderness therapy program, and struggles to regain her relationships with her friends and girlfriend. As the night progresses, tensions rise and secrets threaten to bubble to the...

Two days before Christmas, a group of five friends still reeling from the death of a sixth decide to steal the Baby Jesus out of their local Mormon church's nativity scene. Birdie, the leader of the pack, has recently returned from a wilderness therapy program, and struggles to regain her relationships with her friends and girlfriend. As the night progresses, tensions rise and secrets threaten to bubble to the surface about life, love, and their friend's death.

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Drinks Over Reno

by Adrian Speth

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

After returning to his hometown for the first time in years to attend his estranged father's funeral, Kip stops by the only bar in the area for a drink and meets Georgie, one of his father's oldest friends, and possibly something more.

After returning to his hometown for the first time in years to attend his estranged father's funeral, Kip stops by the only bar in the area for a drink and meets Georgie, one of his father's oldest friends, and possibly something more.

Solar Twin

by Adrian Speth

Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
horror

Some houses are haunted. Some people are haunted. When Katja moves to the high-elevation town of Horizon, Colorado, looking for a fresh start, she realizes she might be dealing with both. Between trouble-shooting a broken grandfather clock, a growing romantic relationship with her neighbor Penny, and the return of an unwanted figure from her past, Katja must learn which ghost should be dragged into the light and...

Some houses are haunted. Some people are haunted. When Katja moves to the high-elevation town of Horizon, Colorado, looking for a fresh start, she realizes she might be dealing with both. Between trouble-shooting a broken grandfather clock, a growing romantic relationship with her neighbor Penny, and the return of an unwanted figure from her past, Katja must learn which ghost should be dragged into the light and which ones are better left in the shadows.

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whitewing

by Adrian Speth

Cast Size
9
Genre
adaptation,
fable/folktale,
fantasy,
horror

Hansel Riley has just been kicked out of his house again–this time with his younger sister in tow. Unable to adhere to any medication regimen for his schizoaffective disorder and battling the daily horrors of existing as trans in rural America, he hitches a ride out of his old life and into a nightmare. As he struggles with his absolutely-totally-not-feelings for someone whose path keeps crossing his own, the...

Hansel Riley has just been kicked out of his house again–this time with his younger sister in tow. Unable to adhere to any medication regimen for his schizoaffective disorder and battling the daily horrors of existing as trans in rural America, he hitches a ride out of his old life and into a nightmare. As he struggles with his absolutely-totally-not-feelings for someone whose path keeps crossing his own, the less-than pure intentions of an online date, and a looming psychotic
break, the lines between Hansel’s reality and fiction blur together, and the stories he tells himself to get by–as well as the ones concerning his sister–are called into question.

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