Annalise Cain

Hailing from the backroads of Western Massachusetts, Annalise Cain is a playwright, teaching artist and audiobook narrator. She has her BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University, and her MFA in Playwriting from Indiana University Bloomington. Her plays include What Screams I Hear Are Mine (National Partners of the American Theatre Playwriting Award 2017, Playhouse on Park Reading Series, The Tribe Theatre Company Reading Series, O’Neill Conference Semi-finalist) Hurry Up and Wait (Queens Theatre, Violet Surprise), The Rebound (Strident Theatre, Emerging Artists Theatre New Works Festival) A Brief History of Terrible Advice Given To and By Me (National Society of Arts and Letters Hegarty Award 2021, O’Neill Conference Semi-finalist, Indiana University Reading), Dumb Bitch Juice (IU At...

Hailing from the backroads of Western Massachusetts, Annalise Cain is a playwright, teaching artist and audiobook narrator. She has her BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University, and her MFA in Playwriting from Indiana University Bloomington. Her plays include What Screams I Hear Are Mine (National Partners of the American Theatre Playwriting Award 2017, Playhouse on Park Reading Series, The Tribe Theatre Company Reading Series, O’Neill Conference Semi-finalist) Hurry Up and Wait (Queens Theatre, Violet Surprise), The Rebound (Strident Theatre, Emerging Artists Theatre New Works Festival) A Brief History of Terrible Advice Given To and By Me (National Society of Arts and Letters Hegarty Award 2021, O’Neill Conference Semi-finalist, Indiana University Reading), Dumb Bitch Juice (IU At First Sight Festival, IATI Theatre Cimientos) and Crises of Abundance (IU At First Sight Festival). Her work was published in Applause Theatre, NextStage Press and Cinema Books’ Best Men’s Monologues from New Plays 2019..

Scripts

A Brief History of Terrible Advice Given To and By Me

by Annalise Cain

Synopsis

Something happened to Celly’s voice, and the only way she’s been able to get it back is by doing drag as her mentor/father figure/mom’s ex-boyfriend/rockstar/old friend Wardo. Then he shows up on her doorstep, begging her to go back on tour with him. A Brief History of Terrible Advice Given To and By Me is a (mainly) two person, six character show that invites you to look through a broken kaleidoscope of memory...

Something happened to Celly’s voice, and the only way she’s been able to get it back is by doing drag as her mentor/father figure/mom’s ex-boyfriend/rockstar/old friend Wardo. Then he shows up on her doorstep, begging her to go back on tour with him. A Brief History of Terrible Advice Given To and By Me is a (mainly) two person, six character show that invites you to look through a broken kaleidoscope of memory and bad advice.

The Rebound

by Annalise Cain

Synopsis

Everyone knows Hal's been in a bit of a slump since his ex dumped him three months ago-but his roommate Eli has the perfect plan to pull him out of it! Can a blind date restore Hal to his former glory?

A Friends' episode that's eating itself.

Everyone knows Hal's been in a bit of a slump since his ex dumped him three months ago-but his roommate Eli has the perfect plan to pull him out of it! Can a blind date restore Hal to his former glory?

A Friends' episode that's eating itself.

Nevere's Love Potion

Book-Writer, Lyricist by Annalise Cain

Synopsis

Nevere is the brightest young witch at Spellwright School for Wizardry, she's got her best friend Taolo, a slightly annoying familiar Cletus, and her loving-if-out-of-touch mom--so why does she feel like something is really wrong? After a class on the danger of love potions, Nevere snatches her professor's spell book, just a week before the Spring Fling. Does Nevere have her eye set on a special witch or wizard...

Nevere is the brightest young witch at Spellwright School for Wizardry, she's got her best friend Taolo, a slightly annoying familiar Cletus, and her loving-if-out-of-touch mom--so why does she feel like something is really wrong? After a class on the danger of love potions, Nevere snatches her professor's spell book, just a week before the Spring Fling. Does Nevere have her eye set on a special witch or wizard, or something else entirely?

Nevere's Love Potion is a TYA play about mental health, the definition of love, and finding the bravery to ask for help.

What Screams I Hear Are Mine

by Annalise Cain

Synopsis

A fourteen year old believes she heard a woman being raped last night. But none of the adults seem to believe her--even her older sister dismisses her. As she takes herself and those around her on a tumultuous journey to uncover the perpetrator, she must weigh what truths must be told, and which lies end up structuring your life.

A fourteen year old believes she heard a woman being raped last night. But none of the adults seem to believe her--even her older sister dismisses her. As she takes herself and those around her on a tumultuous journey to uncover the perpetrator, she must weigh what truths must be told, and which lies end up structuring your life.

Why Liliya Why

by Annalise Cain

Synopsis

A young woman, Liliya, is dropped from the skies, and takes out her own heart. She travels home to a tower she and her M'other shared, finding a worm occupying her room. While she doesn't initially intend to stay, Theo the worm invites her to rest, and she takes the opportunity. A surrealist, Lynchian fairy tale of family, forged and found.

A young woman, Liliya, is dropped from the skies, and takes out her own heart. She travels home to a tower she and her M'other shared, finding a worm occupying her room. While she doesn't initially intend to stay, Theo the worm invites her to rest, and she takes the opportunity. A surrealist, Lynchian fairy tale of family, forged and found.

The Zoo We Found Beneath the Blankets

by Annalise Cain

Synopsis

The Zoo We Found Beneath the Blankets is a surrealist plunge into the cramped apartment of a couple in March 2020. Craving the touch the world cannot offer her, She pleads for a pet. While He obliges, He dreams up a world of interior design for their furry friends. Each day their world becomes smaller and more populated with pets, living and dead. In parallel quests for purpose and connection, the couple must re...

The Zoo We Found Beneath the Blankets is a surrealist plunge into the cramped apartment of a couple in March 2020. Craving the touch the world cannot offer her, She pleads for a pet. While He obliges, He dreams up a world of interior design for their furry friends. Each day their world becomes smaller and more populated with pets, living and dead. In parallel quests for purpose and connection, the couple must re-evaluate who in their habitat is friend, or foe

Golden Hour

by Annalise Cain

Synopsis

In the wake of her mother's passing, Amanda seeks out her old child psychiatrist to recover an artifact from her past.

In the wake of her mother's passing, Amanda seeks out her old child psychiatrist to recover an artifact from her past.

Disintegration of a Marriage of Music Theorists in B Minor

by Annalise Cain

Synopsis

The marriage of Paylee and Kaul is shaken to the core when Paylee farts for the first time in front of Kaul.

The marriage of Paylee and Kaul is shaken to the core when Paylee farts for the first time in front of Kaul.

Hurry Up and Wait

by Annalise Cain

Synopsis

Love is in the air! Gemma and Raisel are about to get married! There’s only one problem: the building they want to get married in isn’t wheelchair accessible. Hurry Up and Wait follows this couple as they struggle to reconcile their very different lifestyles.

Love is in the air! Gemma and Raisel are about to get married! There’s only one problem: the building they want to get married in isn’t wheelchair accessible. Hurry Up and Wait follows this couple as they struggle to reconcile their very different lifestyles.

Dumb Bitch Juice

by Annalise Cain

Synopsis

Dumptruck wants what every girl wants: to be involved in a climate activist organization, meet the love of her life, and ride off into the sunset after they’ve solved the climate crisis. Cirrocumulus just wants to end the climate crisis, and if he has to spend the rest of his life recruiting VERY peppy post grads to do it, so be it. So . . . is this a date or is this a one on one? Is it either if time starts to...

Dumptruck wants what every girl wants: to be involved in a climate activist organization, meet the love of her life, and ride off into the sunset after they’ve solved the climate crisis. Cirrocumulus just wants to end the climate crisis, and if he has to spend the rest of his life recruiting VERY peppy post grads to do it, so be it. So . . . is this a date or is this a one on one? Is it either if time starts to loop and then break apart and they’re trapped in this empty work cafe with any semblance of hope quickly vanishing? Or is it something else entirely? Dumb Bitch Juice invites you to grab a straw (or bring your own), and get into the muck of organizing with us.

If You Give A Kid A Sucker

by Annalise Cain

Synopsis

Wasted in an Airbnb in Paris, Nadia asks herself: Is life worth living if nobody thinks you deserve to live? By turning back the clock, Nadia illuminates the events that left her shacked up with a girl she used to babysit when she was 16. If You Give A Kid A Sucker is the raucous confessional of a monster you didn’t know was hiding under your bed.

Wasted in an Airbnb in Paris, Nadia asks herself: Is life worth living if nobody thinks you deserve to live? By turning back the clock, Nadia illuminates the events that left her shacked up with a girl she used to babysit when she was 16. If You Give A Kid A Sucker is the raucous confessional of a monster you didn’t know was hiding under your bed.

The Hunchback of Camden, Maine

by Annalise Cain

Synopsis

Reggie Blumenthal, an intersex teenager with scoliosis who’s been locked up in their attic their whole life, is about to experience the world for the first time: they’re going to Camden High’s first comic convention! There’s just one problem . . . ok, there’s a couple: not only does Reggie have no idea what gender they are, but their terrifying sister/guardian Kennedy hates the comic convention. She would love...

Reggie Blumenthal, an intersex teenager with scoliosis who’s been locked up in their attic their whole life, is about to experience the world for the first time: they’re going to Camden High’s first comic convention! There’s just one problem . . . ok, there’s a couple: not only does Reggie have no idea what gender they are, but their terrifying sister/guardian Kennedy hates the comic convention. She would love nothing more than to lock up Reggie’s first crush, Tricia Curtis, the activist student behind the comic convention. Will Reggie soar above onto a genderless, glittering plane, or will they be crushed under Kennedy’s crushing binary influence?!