Jacqueline Bircher

Jacqueline Bircher is a playwright born and raised in New York City. Full-length plays include Another Revolution, Webster's Bitch, Enduring Atlas, The Once and Future Casey Colman, and The Rule of Thirds. Her work has been produced and/or developed with Gulfshore Playhouse, the Keegan Theatre, Constellation Stage, Playhouse on Park, Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Phoenix Theatre Company, and the Sam French Off-Off Broadway Festival, as well as seen at universities across the country, including Caltech, Colgate, LSU, and the University of Oklahoma. She has been a finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, The Lark Playwrights' Week, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, the NNPN National Showcase of New Plays, and she was the first-place winner of the Woodward...

Jacqueline Bircher is a playwright born and raised in New York City. Full-length plays include Another Revolution, Webster's Bitch, Enduring Atlas, The Once and Future Casey Colman, and The Rule of Thirds. Her work has been produced and/or developed with Gulfshore Playhouse, the Keegan Theatre, Constellation Stage, Playhouse on Park, Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Phoenix Theatre Company, and the Sam French Off-Off Broadway Festival, as well as seen at universities across the country, including Caltech, Colgate, LSU, and the University of Oklahoma. She has been a finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, The Lark Playwrights' Week, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, the NNPN National Showcase of New Plays, and she was the first-place winner of the Woodward/Newman Award for Drama and City Theatre's National Award for Short Playwriting.

Scripts

Enduring Atlas

by Jacqueline Bircher

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH: In the 1970s, the Atlas space mission upends the lives of three people who work in its proximity, including Grant, the project leader; Nina, a gifted artist; and Amy, the trajectory coordinator. When the mission’s scientific potential is discovered to be greater than initially planned, careers begin to skyrocket, but the pressure of success results in desperation, betrayal, and an unraveling of...

FULL LENGTH: In the 1970s, the Atlas space mission upends the lives of three people who work in its proximity, including Grant, the project leader; Nina, a gifted artist; and Amy, the trajectory coordinator. When the mission’s scientific potential is discovered to be greater than initially planned, careers begin to skyrocket, but the pressure of success results in desperation, betrayal, and an unraveling of everything their lives were before. An exploration of the costs of exploration, and how looking out at the universe is sometimes just a deeper way to look back at ourselves.

Webster's Bitch (Full-Length)

by Jacqueline Bircher

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH: When their Editor-in-Chief gets caught using some unexpected profanity, the employees of Webster's Dictionary find themselves at the center of an internet uprising over gender and obscenity in the age of social media. As office politics collide with ambition, morality, and lexicography, the future of the English language hangs in the balance. A play about vulgar words and the people who define them.

FULL LENGTH: When their Editor-in-Chief gets caught using some unexpected profanity, the employees of Webster's Dictionary find themselves at the center of an internet uprising over gender and obscenity in the age of social media. As office politics collide with ambition, morality, and lexicography, the future of the English language hangs in the balance. A play about vulgar words and the people who define them.

Another Revolution

by Jacqueline Bircher

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH: Kat and Henry, two graduate students from opposing scientific disciplines, are forced to share a lab at Columbia University in 1968. Amid interpersonal differences, a campus devolving into political chaos, and the uncertainty and turmoil of the outside world, they each discover what it’s like to be thrown into someone else’s orbit.

FULL LENGTH: Kat and Henry, two graduate students from opposing scientific disciplines, are forced to share a lab at Columbia University in 1968. Amid interpersonal differences, a campus devolving into political chaos, and the uncertainty and turmoil of the outside world, they each discover what it’s like to be thrown into someone else’s orbit.

The Once and Future Casey Colman

by Jacqueline Bircher

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH: Crystal Plains, Kansas is a town filled with psychics. Maybe. No one’s exactly sure, but there’s definitely something weird going on. When 17-year-old Casey weasels her way into a seminar hosted by her psychic podcasting hero Miss Angela, she’s sure that her mysterious dreams are just the beginning. But, as a cat begins slinking around town predicting untimely deaths, Casey must confront the...

FULL LENGTH: Crystal Plains, Kansas is a town filled with psychics. Maybe. No one’s exactly sure, but there’s definitely something weird going on. When 17-year-old Casey weasels her way into a seminar hosted by her psychic podcasting hero Miss Angela, she’s sure that her mysterious dreams are just the beginning. But, as a cat begins slinking around town predicting untimely deaths, Casey must confront the possibility that maybe her dream come true isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

The Rule of Thirds

by Jacqueline Bircher

Synopsis

FULL LENGTH: Years after their mother's death, sisters Leslie and Stef return to Staten Island to clean out the childhood home their widowed father left behind. When their estranged younger sister Christine arrives, the three women find themselves unearthing not just family heirlooms, but the deep secrets and harsh realities of their past lives and decisions.

FULL LENGTH: Years after their mother's death, sisters Leslie and Stef return to Staten Island to clean out the childhood home their widowed father left behind. When their estranged younger sister Christine arrives, the three women find themselves unearthing not just family heirlooms, but the deep secrets and harsh realities of their past lives and decisions.

Webster's Bitch (One-Act)

by Jacqueline Bircher

Synopsis

15 MINUTE: When their Editor-in-Chief gets caught using some rather colorful profanity, the employees of Webster's dictionary find themselves at the center of a Twitter uprising over gender, obscenity, and the future of the English language itself.

15 MINUTE: When their Editor-in-Chief gets caught using some rather colorful profanity, the employees of Webster's dictionary find themselves at the center of a Twitter uprising over gender, obscenity, and the future of the English language itself.

Thin Ice

by Jacqueline Bircher

Synopsis

10 MINUTE: The women's Olympic figure skating team is preparing to dominate the competition. But, there's three of them, and only one gold medal.

10 MINUTE: The women's Olympic figure skating team is preparing to dominate the competition. But, there's three of them, and only one gold medal.

The Gravediggers

by Jacqueline Bircher

Synopsis

10 MINUTE: Two men dig graves in a potter’s field. But, for who? And how did they end up here? A modern take on Shakespeare’s gravediggers.

10 MINUTE: Two men dig graves in a potter’s field. But, for who? And how did they end up here? A modern take on Shakespeare’s gravediggers.