Leah Plante-Wiener

Originally from Montreal, Canada, Leah is a New York-based playwright and performer currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at Columbia University. Showings of Leah’s work include Bonefruit at The Tank, the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and Playwrights Horizons Theatre School; Process Play at 938 Collective; Clothmommy, Wiremommy at Columbia University; and Tilly Birdbones at The Road Theatre’s Summer Playwrights Festival. Leah’s work has also been produced through Soho Playhouse, the Chain Theatre, SUNY Purchase, Round the Bend, We Who Wander, and the Broke People Play Festival. Upcoming projects include Warm Science (The Brick, ?! New Works Festival), Gutbelly (Columbia University) and a reading of Bonefruit (American Stage, Fresh Ink). Leah is a fan of the absurd...

Originally from Montreal, Canada, Leah is a New York-based playwright and performer currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at Columbia University. Showings of Leah’s work include Bonefruit at The Tank, the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and Playwrights Horizons Theatre School; Process Play at 938 Collective; Clothmommy, Wiremommy at Columbia University; and Tilly Birdbones at The Road Theatre’s Summer Playwrights Festival. Leah’s work has also been produced through Soho Playhouse, the Chain Theatre, SUNY Purchase, Round the Bend, We Who Wander, and the Broke People Play Festival. Upcoming projects include Warm Science (The Brick, ?! New Works Festival), Gutbelly (Columbia University) and a reading of Bonefruit (American Stage, Fresh Ink). Leah is a fan of the absurd and the unpleasant. BFA: NYU Tisch.

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Scripts

Gutbelly

by Leah Plante-Wiener

6
Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
fable/folktale,
horror

In a room in a house in the middle of a snowstorm, the Maries weave-- until an unexpected presence arrives at their door.

In a room in a house in the middle of a snowstorm, the Maries weave-- until an unexpected presence arrives at their door.

Bonefruit

by Leah Plante-Wiener

13
Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
science fiction

In a chapel in the middle of the desert, two girls meet for the first time in years. Together, they must grapple with their beliefs, an act of forgiveness, and the thought of an existence beyond the violence that has forged them.

In a chapel in the middle of the desert, two girls meet for the first time in years. Together, they must grapple with their beliefs, an act of forgiveness, and the thought of an existence beyond the violence that has forged them.

Tilly Birdbones

by Leah Plante-Wiener

4
Cast Size
4
Genre
drama,
fable/folktale

An adult fairytale about grief, isolation, motherhood, and autonomy, Tilly Birdbones tells the story of a family's final year with its youngest child, as recounted by the tutor who bore witness to her metamorphosis into a bird.

An adult fairytale about grief, isolation, motherhood, and autonomy, Tilly Birdbones tells the story of a family's final year with its youngest child, as recounted by the tutor who bore witness to her metamorphosis into a bird.

Of Flesh and Feathers

by Leah Plante-Wiener

1
Cast Size
6
Genre
drama,
horror,
tragedy

A calculating life model is drawn into the strange and seductive underworld of an older artist, his gruesome works, his troubled ambitions, and his sharp-eyed wife in this interpolation of the Icarus myth.

A calculating life model is drawn into the strange and seductive underworld of an older artist, his gruesome works, his troubled ambitions, and his sharp-eyed wife in this interpolation of the Icarus myth.

Process Play

by Leah Plante-Wiener

3
Cast Size
3
Genre
experimental,
movement/physical

Writing sucks.

Writing sucks.

Clothmommy, Wiremommy

by Leah Plante-Wiener

2
Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
horror,
science fiction

Two scientists conducting unorthodox research in behavioural science take a coffee break.

Two scientists conducting unorthodox research in behavioural science take a coffee break.

Hard Times at MILF Bunker, or: On Freudian Bread and Circuses

by Leah Plante-Wiener

1
Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
satire

In a dystopian future, things get dire on hit reality competition MILF Bunker.

In a dystopian future, things get dire on hit reality competition MILF Bunker.

Marguerite and The Girls

by Leah Plante-Wiener

1
Cast Size
1
Genre
drama

The lone survivor of a cult recounts her story in an interrogation room.

The lone survivor of a cult recounts her story in an interrogation room.