Judy Lawrence

Judy Lawrence is a playwright and performer based in Chicago. She is a recent graduate of Northwestern University where she studied theatre with a focus in playwriting. Current projects include Pity The Woman Who Never Spills, Boy Crush, and Lost In Space. She has had her work developed with Jackalope Theatre Company, PrideArts Chicago, and Cedar Falls Community Theatre. When she’s not writing plays, she spends her time songwriting and performing in Chicago bars with her band, safety scissors.

Judy Lawrence is a playwright and performer based in Chicago. She is a recent graduate of Northwestern University where she studied theatre with a focus in playwriting. Current projects include Pity The Woman Who Never Spills, Boy Crush, and Lost In Space. She has had her work developed with Jackalope Theatre Company, PrideArts Chicago, and Cedar Falls Community Theatre. When she’s not writing plays, she spends her time songwriting and performing in Chicago bars with her band, safety scissors.

Scripts

Pity The Woman Who Never Spills

by Judy Lawrence

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Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
drama

Sammy and Mary are best friends who are attached at the hip. When Ms. Sanders (their new choir teacher) arrives at their school, everything changes. A triangle of attention forms, and both Sammy and Mary are forced to confront their sexualities and identities as they reach the end of their senior year. In Judy Lawrence’s coming-of-age play, Pity The Woman Who Never Spills, two high school girls come of age as...

Sammy and Mary are best friends who are attached at the hip. When Ms. Sanders (their new choir teacher) arrives at their school, everything changes. A triangle of attention forms, and both Sammy and Mary are forced to confront their sexualities and identities as they reach the end of their senior year. In Judy Lawrence’s coming-of-age play, Pity The Woman Who Never Spills, two high school girls come of age as they teeter along the blurred line between platonic and romantic love.

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Boy Crush

by Judy Lawrence

2
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy

Esther and Mia build a boy out of jelly beans and a bag of hair from eBay. He looks just like their favorite pop star. He lives in Esther’s room. They have to deal with the consequences.

Esther and Mia build a boy out of jelly beans and a bag of hair from eBay. He looks just like their favorite pop star. He lives in Esther’s room. They have to deal with the consequences.

Lost in Space

by Judy Lawrence

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

June is digging a hole in her sister’s front yard. Well, no, her sister doesn’t live there anymore, and now the front yard belongs to Max. June is going back and forth through time and is digging the hole nonetheless, trying to find her sister, hoping to make sense of the world along the way.

June is digging a hole in her sister’s front yard. Well, no, her sister doesn’t live there anymore, and now the front yard belongs to Max. June is going back and forth through time and is digging the hole nonetheless, trying to find her sister, hoping to make sense of the world along the way.

couch creature

by Judy Lawrence

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Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy

Sylvia lives on her couch in New York City. Her older sister, Alex, lives in a house 45 minutes away in New Jersey. They haven’t spoken in months, but they’re about to! When more than 1 family member dies in the span of 2 weeks, Sylvia and Alex are forced to reckon with their fractured relationship, secrets of their childhood, and the (at times) painful love that they will always have for each other.

Sylvia lives on her couch in New York City. Her older sister, Alex, lives in a house 45 minutes away in New Jersey. They haven’t spoken in months, but they’re about to! When more than 1 family member dies in the span of 2 weeks, Sylvia and Alex are forced to reckon with their fractured relationship, secrets of their childhood, and the (at times) painful love that they will always have for each other.