Adelina Marinello

Adelina Marinello (she/her) is a New York-born, South Florida-raised, and Chicago-based performer and playwright. She graduated from Northwestern University in 2024, where she studied Theatre, with concentrations in Musical Theatre and Playwriting, as well as a minor in Environmental Policy & Culture. Adelina is deeply passionate about centering femme multidimensionality, catharsis, and joy through storytelling. She recently completed a commission for the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where she and composer/lyricist Matthew Millin co-wrote a TYA Musical for BCPA’s 2024-25 and 2025-26 Seasons. Other recent projects include The Good Girls (2026 Ojai Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist, 2026 Eugene O'Neill NPC Semi-Finalist, Artemisia Theatre's 2024...

Adelina Marinello (she/her) is a New York-born, South Florida-raised, and Chicago-based performer and playwright. She graduated from Northwestern University in 2024, where she studied Theatre, with concentrations in Musical Theatre and Playwriting, as well as a minor in Environmental Policy & Culture. Adelina is deeply passionate about centering femme multidimensionality, catharsis, and joy through storytelling. She recently completed a commission for the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where she and composer/lyricist Matthew Millin co-wrote a TYA Musical for BCPA’s 2024-25 and 2025-26 Seasons. Other recent projects include The Good Girls (2026 Ojai Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist, 2026 Eugene O'Neill NPC Semi-Finalist, Artemisia Theatre's 2024 #WeWomen Festival, SheNYC 2024 Festival Semi-Finalist, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre First Contact Play Reading Series, Agnes Nixon Playwriting Festival at Northwestern University); MATERNAL (Vertigo Productions’ 2024 10-Minute Play Festival); SPILL YOUR GUTS! (Nothing Without a Company’s 2023 24-hour Play Festival); and My Body Has a Mind of Its Own (Fletcher URG Prize 2023 Semi Finalist).

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Scripts

The Good Girls

by Adelina Marinello

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Cast Size
7
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
dark comedy,
mystery/thriller,
period,
young audiences

In The Good Girls by Adelina Marinello, a group of teenagers arrive at an all-girls forensic science camp to investigate mansplaining, menstrual cycles, and…murder. But when the line between pretend and reality blurs, the girls must embrace their differences to crack the case. This new comic thriller examines girlhood in a world where it’s dangerous to be a girl.

In The Good Girls by Adelina Marinello, a group of teenagers arrive at an all-girls forensic science camp to investigate mansplaining, menstrual cycles, and…murder. But when the line between pretend and reality blurs, the girls must embrace their differences to crack the case. This new comic thriller examines girlhood in a world where it’s dangerous to be a girl.

INTERP

Book by Adelina Marinello

Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
drama,
musical,
young audiences

It is the most anticipated week of the Speech and Debate calendar year: Nationals. Suddenly, high school best friends Bri and Camille find themselves being pitted against each other, as each progresses to the Final Round. Tensions threaten to boil over as the team makes their way through the final round of the tournament, and everyone waits with bated breath to see which student (and which story) will win it all...

It is the most anticipated week of the Speech and Debate calendar year: Nationals. Suddenly, high school best friends Bri and Camille find themselves being pitted against each other, as each progresses to the Final Round. Tensions threaten to boil over as the team makes their way through the final round of the tournament, and everyone waits with bated breath to see which student (and which story) will win it all. Adelina Marinello and Matthew Millin’s new musical, INTERP, invites young audiences to reflect on the ways they navigate questions of identity and community in an individualistic and competitive culture.

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HAPPY HOUR :)

by Adelina Marinello

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Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
farce,
satire

When exhausted mother Beth dares to defy the company-ordered hour of happiness, personalities collide to disastrous results as Richie attempts to hold it all together. A typical day at the office quickly descends into corporate absurdity in HAPPY HOUR, Adelina Marinello’s surrealist workplace farce.

When exhausted mother Beth dares to defy the company-ordered hour of happiness, personalities collide to disastrous results as Richie attempts to hold it all together. A typical day at the office quickly descends into corporate absurdity in HAPPY HOUR, Adelina Marinello’s surrealist workplace farce.

MATERNAL

by Adelina Marinello

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Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
holiday,
horror,
melodrama,
mystery/thriller

Young lesbian couple Nora and Mari are ready to take their relationship to the next level, but their Christmas Eve visit to Nora’s elusive mother is anything but festive. After persevering through small talk about ex-boyfriends and cheesy hors d'oeuvres, the two find themselves face-to-face with the most horrifying of familial atrocities…the maternal bond.

Young lesbian couple Nora and Mari are ready to take their relationship to the next level, but their Christmas Eve visit to Nora’s elusive mother is anything but festive. After persevering through small talk about ex-boyfriends and cheesy hors d'oeuvres, the two find themselves face-to-face with the most horrifying of familial atrocities…the maternal bond.

SPILL YOUR GUTS!

by Adelina Marinello

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Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
immersive

Ever since they found themselves at the same LGBTQ+ Youth Support group in downtown Chicago nine years ago, Abhi, Claire, and Lee have been forever friends. More than that. They have been family. So, when Lee drops a blood-related bomb at the group’s not-quite-annual-yet-they- do-it-yearly tradition, the trio must confront the true purpose of chosen family – and the work it takes to maintain it.

Ever since they found themselves at the same LGBTQ+ Youth Support group in downtown Chicago nine years ago, Abhi, Claire, and Lee have been forever friends. More than that. They have been family. So, when Lee drops a blood-related bomb at the group’s not-quite-annual-yet-they- do-it-yearly tradition, the trio must confront the true purpose of chosen family – and the work it takes to maintain it.