Charlotte Lang

Charlotte Lang

Charlotte Lang is a playwright, screenwriter, and director whose work has been performed both nationally and internationally at The Tank, Naked Angels, and the Union Theatre in London, among others. Charlotte was a 2018 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Tennessee Williams Scholar and a two-time finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She was also a finalist for the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Seven...
Charlotte Lang is a playwright, screenwriter, and director whose work has been performed both nationally and internationally at The Tank, Naked Angels, and the Union Theatre in London, among others. Charlotte was a 2018 Sewanee Writers’ Conference Tennessee Williams Scholar and a two-time finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She was also a finalist for the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, and the Amoralists Theater Company's ‘Wright Club. In 2020, amidst the initial lockdown phase of the pandemic, Charlotte wrote and directed the short film “I Guess This Is the End” as part of the London-based Lockdown Anthology series produced by Faded Neon Films. In 2022 she attended the Valdez Theatre Conference in Alaska. Charlotte holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Plays

  • Rocket Yourself to the Moon by Charlotte Lang
    Recommendations: 7
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    Cast: 
    8–11
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: capitalist dread, corporate power + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental
    Keyword: capitalist dread, corporate power, betrayal
    During a presentation to the shareholders of Sandra's Old Timey Yoghurt Shoppe, Eli, Marketing Director, reveals to Gabe, the Director of Marketing, a top-secret core value that threatens to unravel the fabric of the corporate facade he's worked so hard to maintain. Meanwhile, Jade, the CEO and heiress to the Sandra's empire, preps to rocket herself to the moon while factory workers plot an uprising.
  • Wisconsin by Charlotte Lang
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: Thanksgiving, brothers + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, holiday
    Keyword: Thanksgiving, brothers, Surreal, dark comedy
    Two brothers, Aaron and Ben, stand in their backyard on Thanksgiving cooking a garbage can turkey. Aaron's girlfriend, Sasha, may not be who she says she is. A play with whiskey and antlers.
  • That Feeling When You're the County Sheriff by Charlotte Lang
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental
    Three county sheriffs discuss their respective jurisdictions while navigating a complicated love triangle.
  • Liminal Space by Charlotte Lang
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: technology
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental
    Keyword: technology
    Sasha and Mallory are BFFs working at the local grocery store during summer break with their other BFF Ashley, who has gone missing. Does the new bag boy, Kevin, have something to do with it, or is it the work of a serial killer? Meanwhile, Sasha's phone becomes sentient and gives her ominous clues about Ashley's disappearance through the voice of Siri. Can Sasha and Mallory work out their...
    Sasha and Mallory are BFFs working at the local grocery store during summer break with their other BFF Ashley, who has gone missing. Does the new bag boy, Kevin, have something to do with it, or is it the work of a serial killer? Meanwhile, Sasha's phone becomes sentient and gives her ominous clues about Ashley's disappearance through the voice of Siri. Can Sasha and Mallory work out their interpersonal dramas and find their friend before it's too late?
  • You Are the River, You Are the Void by Charlotte Lang
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: baba yaga, forest + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, fable/folktale, political
    Keyword: baba yaga, forest, woods, alcoholism, Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, poverty, time, aging
    The Baba Yaga leads us on a journey through the woods to our local AA meeting, where our heroes struggle to overcome their substance abuse issues while the play itself crumbles around them. An adult fairytale about depression, drugs, and the transformative power of art.

    Don't bring your kids.
  • Tarot Readings by Debbie* by Charlotte Lang
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: tarot, mysticism + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, political
    Keyword: tarot, mysticism, activism, police, cops, arrest, mental illness, product placement
    Step across the threshold of your own ambivalence and enter the realm of the Divine. Consulting the Tarot, oracle reader and professional clairvoyant Debbie O’Malley-Salazar takes us on a journey deep into ourselves, where rivers run deep, the office is having mass layoffs, and occasionally deer lie dead in the road. What lies beyond the veil?

    *sponsored by Dunkin Donuts
  • The Connecticut Play by Charlotte Lang
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: Depression, addiction + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, experimental, holiday, tragedy
    Keyword: Depression, addiction, sexuality, mental illness, Musicians, suicide, alcoholism
    Albion wants to be a normal 19th-century boy and explore his sexuality with his neighbor-friend, Shirley, but Slayton, his troubled musician father, and Eleanor, his repressed mother, have other plans for him. Meanwhile Muriel, his older sister, watches down on him from the attic and hopes to save him from the same fate that befell her.