Natalie P. Wright

Natalie P. Wright is a playwright from Nashville, Tennessee. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with her Bachelors of Arts in May 2025. She was a 2024 Tennessee Playwrights Studio Fellow and a 2025 Concord Theatricals Off-Off Broadway New Play Festival Top 30 Playwright. Her plays Enter Macbeth. and Who’s Gonna Bury Me? were self directed and produced with Iceberg Theatre Company at Vanderbilt University.

Natalie P. Wright is a playwright from Nashville, Tennessee. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with her Bachelors of Arts in May 2025. She was a 2024 Tennessee Playwrights Studio Fellow and a 2025 Concord Theatricals Off-Off Broadway New Play Festival Top 30 Playwright. Her plays Enter Macbeth. and Who’s Gonna Bury Me? were self directed and produced with Iceberg Theatre Company at Vanderbilt University.

Scripts

Otolaryngology

by Natalie P. Wright

4
Cast Size
4
Genre
drama

A Deaf woman and her hearing partner debate the prospect of a cochlear implant surgery in a doctor’s office waiting room. Performed in American Sign Language with spoken translations by the characters’ “Voices,” Otolaryngology asks us to examine how we communicate and the distinction between hearing and listening.

A Deaf woman and her hearing partner debate the prospect of a cochlear implant surgery in a doctor’s office waiting room. Performed in American Sign Language with spoken translations by the characters’ “Voices,” Otolaryngology asks us to examine how we communicate and the distinction between hearing and listening.

Who's Gonna Bury Me?

by Natalie P. Wright

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

Siblings Jax and Roxie are back in their childhood home after the magnificent failures of their relationship and career path respectively. Their parents are off in Tampa for the funeral of an old friend, and so the siblings are left alone with each other and their own mortality. The play opens with a monologue from Roxie then Jax, each writing a note to their family in the event that they die young. The play...

Siblings Jax and Roxie are back in their childhood home after the magnificent failures of their relationship and career path respectively. Their parents are off in Tampa for the funeral of an old friend, and so the siblings are left alone with each other and their own mortality. The play opens with a monologue from Roxie then Jax, each writing a note to their family in the event that they die young. The play then progresses through the two character’s weekend together, located entirely in their living room. This play deals in endings: what happens when a door has shut, but the next one hasn’t opened yet.

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