Susan Champagne

Susan Champagne has an MFA in Playwriting from Brandeis University. She was a student, and then playwright with the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival and Workshop in Southern California for many years, where she directed a lot of her own work. Susan's plays have been produced by Magic Theatre, Theatre of Note and Brooklyn Playworks, among others. Four of her plays are published and included in various anthologies. Her plays have won several awards, including an L.A. Weekly Award and a Drama-Logue Award. Susan's Carly’s Time was a finalist in Boomerang Theatre's 2014 First Flight Competition. Ben and Mindy Get Dirty received a reading at Abingdon Theatre in New York in the fall of 2012, was a semi-finalist in the Trustus Playwriting Competition in 2014, and one of two finalists in Alleyway...

Susan Champagne has an MFA in Playwriting from Brandeis University. She was a student, and then playwright with the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival and Workshop in Southern California for many years, where she directed a lot of her own work. Susan's plays have been produced by Magic Theatre, Theatre of Note and Brooklyn Playworks, among others. Four of her plays are published and included in various anthologies. Her plays have won several awards, including an L.A. Weekly Award and a Drama-Logue Award. Susan's Carly’s Time was a finalist in Boomerang Theatre's 2014 First Flight Competition. Ben and Mindy Get Dirty received a reading at Abingdon Theatre in New York in the fall of 2012, was a semi-finalist in the Trustus Playwriting Competition in 2014, and one of two finalists in Alleyway Theatre's Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition in 2016.

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Scripts

Ben and Mindy Get Dirty

by Susan Champagne

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
political,
satire

It’s 2008, and Peggy and Maureen are working hard at their union jobs and making big plans. Peggy’s going to buy a new car, and Maureen has her eyes on a house, but the economy takes a turn and... Ben, the new V.P. of the company plans on taking advantage of the bad economy and doing a little restructuring, i.e. layoffs of some long-term employees. To assist in this, he hires Mindy, as his head of Human...

It’s 2008, and Peggy and Maureen are working hard at their union jobs and making big plans. Peggy’s going to buy a new car, and Maureen has her eyes on a house, but the economy takes a turn and... Ben, the new V.P. of the company plans on taking advantage of the bad economy and doing a little restructuring, i.e. layoffs of some long-term employees. To assist in this, he hires Mindy, as his head of Human Resources, and she soon becomes his mistress. After witnessing some brutal layoffs, experiencing a huge pay cut, and miscalculating her meds, Maureen has a chance encounter that might just turn her luck around.

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Carly's Time

by Susan Champagne

Cast Size
7—9
Genre
comedy,
drama

Duffy’s holding a memorial for her sister, Carly. She’s prepared a slide show and hopes for a few choice speakers to offer some kind words, but she’s got a teenaged son who’d rather be elsewhere and a husband who’s, well, doing his best, and the speeches and speakers don’t turn out to be just what and whom she expected.

Duffy’s holding a memorial for her sister, Carly. She’s prepared a slide show and hopes for a few choice speakers to offer some kind words, but she’s got a teenaged son who’d rather be elsewhere and a husband who’s, well, doing his best, and the speeches and speakers don’t turn out to be just what and whom she expected.