Angelle Whavers

Angelle Whavers is a graduate of Drew University with a bachelor’s degree in Theater and History. She has co-written for the show 4320p: Immersion with the Tectonic Theater Project, as well as had her full-length, Incubator, in the New York Theater Festival. In addition, Angelle won the 2020 New Play-Reading Festival at The Growing Stage in Netcong, NJ, and was given a production for her winning play, Boogie, in February of 2022. Her script Collar’d (formerly known as The Oreos) was a part of the Keegan Theatre’s Boiler Room Series and the North to Shore Festival in 2023.

Angelle has worked as a writer and performer with Parody in Blue’s: Year of Woman 3, Grab Them By The Parody!, 19th Amendment: 100 Years of Suf rage, and How to Succeed in Politics Without Even Leaving Your Couch...

Angelle Whavers is a graduate of Drew University with a bachelor’s degree in Theater and History. She has co-written for the show 4320p: Immersion with the Tectonic Theater Project, as well as had her full-length, Incubator, in the New York Theater Festival. In addition, Angelle won the 2020 New Play-Reading Festival at The Growing Stage in Netcong, NJ, and was given a production for her winning play, Boogie, in February of 2022. Her script Collar’d (formerly known as The Oreos) was a part of the Keegan Theatre’s Boiler Room Series and the North to Shore Festival in 2023.

Angelle has worked as a writer and performer with Parody in Blue’s: Year of Woman 3, Grab Them By The Parody!, 19th Amendment: 100 Years of Suf rage, and How to Succeed in Politics Without Even Leaving Your Couch! Furthermore, Angelle wrote for and performed in readings of From Uterus: From You to Us with Red Mic Rep and Unidentified Stages. Angelle’s other plays, monologues, and staged readings have been produced by T-Squared Production Company, Vivid Stage, Vulcan Theatre Company, Ghost Light Theatre Company, and the Columbus Black Theatre Festival.

Scripts

Sage Silverstein: Confessions of a Damsel in Distress

by Angelle Whavers

Synopsis

Is it a bird? A plane? No, it's Sage falling from the sky after another kidnapping by Dr. Malice. As the first plus-sized Black woman on the job as an on-the-field reporter (aka damsel in distress), she’s both loved and hated—yet she still wants out!

Is it a bird? A plane? No, it's Sage falling from the sky after another kidnapping by Dr. Malice. As the first plus-sized Black woman on the job as an on-the-field reporter (aka damsel in distress), she’s both loved and hated—yet she still wants out!

Collar'd

by Angelle Whavers

Synopsis

What happens when Marketing Associate Blaine and Twitch streamer Evette wake up to find… they’re black. In the same vein of Black Like Me and Watermelon Man, Collar’d explores race in the modern world through laughs, awkward encounters, and our pride as a “woke” society.

Trigger/Content Warning
Collar’d is intended for mature audiences. This play discusses racism, transphobia, misogyny, and cyber bullying. It...

What happens when Marketing Associate Blaine and Twitch streamer Evette wake up to find… they’re black. In the same vein of Black Like Me and Watermelon Man, Collar’d explores race in the modern world through laughs, awkward encounters, and our pride as a “woke” society.

Trigger/Content Warning
Collar’d is intended for mature audiences. This play discusses racism, transphobia, misogyny, and cyber bullying. It contains racist, sexist, and transphobic slurs, racial violence, and mentions of sexual violence.

Boogie

by Angelle Whavers

Synopsis

Not being able to sleep due to nightmares, Alex attempts to put an end to them after discovering the Boogie Man is the cause. However, after meeting this famous monster, Alex learns the truth about fears and that it’s okay to be afraid.

Not being able to sleep due to nightmares, Alex attempts to put an end to them after discovering the Boogie Man is the cause. However, after meeting this famous monster, Alex learns the truth about fears and that it’s okay to be afraid.

Incubator

by Angelle Whavers

Synopsis

Irene Johnson has been working as an Incubator tester at her practice for years now dealing with
more patients than she can count. As an Incubator Tester she helps recently impregnated women
see how successful their potential child will be in the future and determine whether abortion
is/should be an option. Though Irene believes in herself and what she does to be right, after a
difficult set of patients, she is...

Irene Johnson has been working as an Incubator tester at her practice for years now dealing with
more patients than she can count. As an Incubator Tester she helps recently impregnated women
see how successful their potential child will be in the future and determine whether abortion
is/should be an option. Though Irene believes in herself and what she does to be right, after a
difficult set of patients, she is made to question her actions.

The Tea Party

by Angelle Whavers

Synopsis

We all know the story of the Boston Tea Party: the Sons of Liberty valiantly threw British Tea into the Boston Harbor after a vicious hike on the tax of tea. However, history often works to create a linear story in favor of the “winners.” What happens when a playwright decides to tell the true unadulterated version where the Sons of Liberty were so drunk they almost killed a man and sent another one home naked...

We all know the story of the Boston Tea Party: the Sons of Liberty valiantly threw British Tea into the Boston Harbor after a vicious hike on the tax of tea. However, history often works to create a linear story in favor of the “winners.” What happens when a playwright decides to tell the true unadulterated version where the Sons of Liberty were so drunk they almost killed a man and sent another one home naked in the middle of Boston winter? (And yes, this is all true!) Drunk History has nothing on this.

Does Not Translate

by Angelle Whavers

Synopsis

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? BERNADETTE and COLLIN learn this when one really needs a copy of a play and the other really needs to meet his asshole quota for the day.

What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? BERNADETTE and COLLIN learn this when one really needs a copy of a play and the other really needs to meet his asshole quota for the day.

Krill's Quest

by Angelle Whavers

Synopsis

The journey of a Krill to save Princess Horseshoe!

The journey of a Krill to save Princess Horseshoe!

An Open Letter to My Brown Skin

by Angelle Whavers

Synopsis

An open letter is shared about my brown skin.

An open letter is shared about my brown skin.