Jacqueline Bircher

Jacqueline Bircher

Jacqueline Bircher is a playwright born and raised in New York City. Her work has been produced and/or developed with Gulfshore Playhouse, Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playhouse on Park, Market Garden Theatre, City Theatre, Campfire Theatre Festival, Phoenix Theatre Company, Prologue Theatre, and the Sam French Off Off Broadway Festival, among others. Full-length plays include Another Revolution,...
Jacqueline Bircher is a playwright born and raised in New York City. Her work has been produced and/or developed with Gulfshore Playhouse, Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playhouse on Park, Market Garden Theatre, City Theatre, Campfire Theatre Festival, Phoenix Theatre Company, Prologue Theatre, and the Sam French Off Off Broadway Festival, among others. Full-length plays include Another Revolution, Webster's Bitch, The Once and Future Casey Colman, Enduring Atlas, and The Rule of Thirds. 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 City Theatre's 2020 National Award for Short Playwriting and the 2023 Woodward/Newman Award for Drama.

Plays

  • Enduring Atlas by Jacqueline Bircher
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama, movement/physical + 1 more
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    Keyword: science, outer space + 6 more
    Genre: drama, movement/physical, period
    Keyword: science, outer space, space exploration, marriage, love, NASA, 1970s, california
    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
    Recommendations: 7
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: dictionary, gender bias + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: dictionary, gender bias, gender politics, Twitter, Wage gap, office politics, adult language, social media
    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
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, docudrama/historic + 3 more
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    Keyword: science, outer space + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, period, political
    Keyword: science, outer space, 1960s, university politics, Vietnam era, activism, friendship, graduate school, college age, astrophysics
    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
    Recommendations: 7
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: psychic, teenage girls + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, science fiction
    Keyword: psychic, teenage girls, mother and daughter, podcast, cats, dreams, Bechdel Test, coming of age, ensemble piece
    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
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Sisters, secrets + 6 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, melodrama
    Keyword: Sisters, secrets, Family Secrets, interracial relationships, addiction, Staten Island, multiple sclerosis, Chronic Illness
    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
    Recommendations: 10
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, farce
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    Keyword: adult, office + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, farce
    Keyword: adult, office, gender bias, gender politics, LGBTQ, dictionary, Twitter
    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
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: ice skating, teenage girls + 3 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: ice skating, teenage girls, Olympics, teenagers, figure skating
    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
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: graveyard, gravedigger + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: graveyard, gravedigger, inspired by Shakespeare, death, imprisonment, prison, New York City
    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.