Jenna Denomme

I am a 23-year-old writer based in Cheshire, Connecticut. I'm a recent graduate of Wheaton College (MA), where I earned a Bachelor's Degree in Creative Writing. I have been a fan of theater since I was a child, with a love of musicals that remains to this day, but taking IB Theater in high school and playwriting classes at college is what really made me invested in it as a storytelling medium. At Wheaton, I had the opportunity to have some of the plays I wrote be performed, including three plays written for five-minute play festivals (each written in a span of 72 hours) and my full one-act play written for my Advanced Playwriting class, The Mooreeffoc Effect.
My writing tends to start with fantastical premises but uses them to tell character-driven stories. The Mooreeffoc Effect, for...

I am a 23-year-old writer based in Cheshire, Connecticut. I'm a recent graduate of Wheaton College (MA), where I earned a Bachelor's Degree in Creative Writing. I have been a fan of theater since I was a child, with a love of musicals that remains to this day, but taking IB Theater in high school and playwriting classes at college is what really made me invested in it as a storytelling medium. At Wheaton, I had the opportunity to have some of the plays I wrote be performed, including three plays written for five-minute play festivals (each written in a span of 72 hours) and my full one-act play written for my Advanced Playwriting class, The Mooreeffoc Effect.
My writing tends to start with fantastical premises but uses them to tell character-driven stories. The Mooreeffoc Effect, for example, follows characters who make contact with alternate universe versions of themselves and, through their continued communication with them, begin to question the beliefs they've built their self-conceptions on and what they want from their lives.
I tend to find myself drawn to stories with metafiction elements and pairs of characters with complicated relationships; the kind who can hurt each other like no one else but would still choose each other over anything else.

Scripts

The Mooreeffoc Effect

by Jenna Denomme

Cast Size

6

Genre

drama,

science fiction

In one world, Kate Lynn is a scientist. In another world, her name is Eva, and she's a self-proclaimed psychic.
In one world, Cass is a programmer with big dreams, deeply in love with their girlfriend Ellie. In another, they're Xander, an artist seemingly content with having no plans, no partner, and no close friends.
In one world, there's Ellie, bright and bubbly, who has done everything she can to leave her...

In one world, Kate Lynn is a scientist. In another world, her name is Eva, and she's a self-proclaimed psychic.
In one world, Cass is a programmer with big dreams, deeply in love with their girlfriend Ellie. In another, they're Xander, an artist seemingly content with having no plans, no partner, and no close friends.
In one world, there's Ellie, bright and bubbly, who has done everything she can to leave her past behind. In another, there's Beth, dour and cynical, holding on to the memories of a fixture of her past that, in the present, has slipped out of her grasp.

Over a week of getting to know these alternative versions of themselves (thanks to Kate and Eva making first contact), Cass, Xander, Ellie, and Beth are made to question their understandings of the world, the beliefs they've built their self-conceptions on, and what they want from their lives.
They come to learn how much who were are is defined by the people we share our lives with, and how you can't take anything for granted. No person is an island. Nothing in life, good or bad, is guaranteed. And there are infinite possible futures ahead of them.

[A one-act play written to be performed at my college.]

How to Start Living Outside the Time Loop

by Jenna Denomme

1

Cast Size

2

Genre

drama

Beck and Kels spent months trapped in a time loop together, growing from strangers to close friends. One week after they escape, they meet to catch up — and find that they've still got a few things to address before they can start living the rest of their lives.
[One scene play, written April 2023]

Hypothetically

by Jenna Denomme

Cast Size

2

Genre

drama,

science fiction

"If you had to forget the entirety of either the first ten years of your life, or the past five... which would you be more willing to lose?"
In the near(?) future, two friends propose hypothetical questions to pass the time. Their musings turn out to have real stakes neither of them predicted. A mediation on memory and what it means to be a person.
[One scene play, written October 2022]

De Poetica

by Jenna Denomme

Cast Size

2

Genre

drama,

fable/folktale

The embodiments of Comedy and Tragedy have a conversation about humanity and divinity while overlooking a world approaching its end.
[One scene play, written April 2022]

Taradiddles

by Jenna Denomme

Cast Size

2

Genre

drama,

romantic comedy

Chronicles the brief relationship between a pedantic poet and her biggest (only) fan. A four-scene play about the difficulties of expressing yourself through art, and what it means to be heard and understood.
[Written February 2022]