M Sloth Levine

M Sloth Levine (they/them/theirs) is a transgender writer and director in Brooklyn, NY. They are the 2021 Parity Commission winner for At Hotel MacGuffin, which received a workshop at The Duplex in 2022. The Castle of Ghoul Hammond and How It Fell Into the Void has been developed by The Fled and Sparkhaven Theatre/Central Square Theatre. Nosferatu, The Vampyr was produced by Sparkhaven Theatre, but fell victim to the pandemic in March 2020 before reviving on Zoom with thanks to HowlRound Theatre Commons and Homesick Play Project. Sloth co-created and lead the writers room on Tales from Camp Strangewood, a virtual campfire anthology that streamed over the summer of 2020 with a grant from the Mayor’s Office of Boston. The Interrobangers was produced by Tufts University and developed at...

M Sloth Levine (they/them/theirs) is a transgender writer and director in Brooklyn, NY. They are the 2021 Parity Commission winner for At Hotel MacGuffin, which received a workshop at The Duplex in 2022. The Castle of Ghoul Hammond and How It Fell Into the Void has been developed by The Fled and Sparkhaven Theatre/Central Square Theatre. Nosferatu, The Vampyr was produced by Sparkhaven Theatre, but fell victim to the pandemic in March 2020 before reviving on Zoom with thanks to HowlRound Theatre Commons and Homesick Play Project. Sloth co-created and lead the writers room on Tales from Camp Strangewood, a virtual campfire anthology that streamed over the summer of 2020 with a grant from the Mayor’s Office of Boston. The Interrobangers was produced by Tufts University and developed at University of Massachusetts Amherst, Company One, and the Trans Theatre Project. …Wrath of the Swampy Thing… premiered at the JP Porch Fest in collaboration with Open Theatre Project in Boston, MA. They are a Company One Play Lab Unit alum and member of The Fled Collective. In 2016 they received a BA in Theatre Studies: Directing & Playwriting from Emerson College.

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Scripts

At Hotel MacGuffin

by M Sloth Levine

4
Cast Size
4
Genre
adventure,
dark comedy,
melodrama,
period

Sometime in the middle of the 20th century, a thriller named “At Hotel MacGuffin” was not released to cinemas. This play, which does exist, is an adaptation of that movie, which does not exist. Miss Olivia Blonde, a mysterious transsexual, checks in to the Hotel MacGuffin. She flees her apartment, plagued by a cockroach infestation, only to find the hotel itself is infested- with spies. Alongside a precocious...

Sometime in the middle of the 20th century, a thriller named “At Hotel MacGuffin” was not released to cinemas. This play, which does exist, is an adaptation of that movie, which does not exist. Miss Olivia Blonde, a mysterious transsexual, checks in to the Hotel MacGuffin. She flees her apartment, plagued by a cockroach infestation, only to find the hotel itself is infested- with spies. Alongside a precocious heirex, dashingly incompetent concierge, and brassy lounge singer, Miss Blonde is swept up into a very queer case of missing persons, missing jewels, and missing the point. Drag, melodrama, noir, and cabaret combine into the feeling that you’ve been here before, you’ll be here again, and you’ll still be looking for that last piece. An instant classic from a time that didn’t happen, you never loved the original and can now enjoy all the nostalgia you don’t remember in an evening you’ll never forget.

Winner of the 2021 Annual Parity Commission by Parity Productions

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The Interrobangers

by M Sloth Levine

14
Cast Size
9—10
Genre
adventure,
dark comedy,
fantasy,
horror,
mystery/thriller,
science fiction

Four groovy teens and a dog search the woods in their van to solve a mystery while exploring drugs, queerness, and the fear that men in rubber masks are scarier than monsters. The four question the world they know, looking into the parts of their history they would rather avoid.

Four groovy teens and a dog search the woods in their van to solve a mystery while exploring drugs, queerness, and the fear that men in rubber masks are scarier than monsters. The four question the world they know, looking into the parts of their history they would rather avoid.

The Castle of Ghoul Hammond and How It Fell Into the Void

by M Sloth Levine

3
Cast Size
6—1000
Genre
adventure,
biography,
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
fable/folktale,
fantasy,
farce,
horror,
melodrama,
pageant,
pantomime,
romantic comedy,
satire,
science fiction,
tragedy

A penny dreadful epic in the Ridiculous tradition exploring queer shame, gender dysphoria, mental illness, cannibalism, loneliness, folk religion, oral sex, the rise of cinema over vaudeville, werewolves, biology, masculinity, femininity, exhaustion, confetti cake, chiastic failure, literacy, memory, and death. Ghoul Hammond is a creature born in a castle laboratory, sewn together from 13 corpses and powered by...

A penny dreadful epic in the Ridiculous tradition exploring queer shame, gender dysphoria, mental illness, cannibalism, loneliness, folk religion, oral sex, the rise of cinema over vaudeville, werewolves, biology, masculinity, femininity, exhaustion, confetti cake, chiastic failure, literacy, memory, and death. Ghoul Hammond is a creature born in a castle laboratory, sewn together from 13 corpses and powered by a radio transmission from the void by one Dr. Bartimouse Hammond. We follow Ghoul as it consumes its creator and goes on to become an international star of stage and screen until it ultimately directs a movie musical adaptation of it's own life, casting as each other the circle of fiends who surrounded Doctor Hammond while he built Ghoul.

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Nosferatu, The Vampyr: A Palimpsest

by M Sloth Levine

3
Cast Size
5—10
Genre
adaptation,
dark comedy,
fable/folktale,
horror,
melodrama,
parody/spoof,
science fiction

A kaleidoscope of all the things that scare us about vampires, told with drama, song, film, riddle, and lip-sync. Newlywed queers Harker and Will are divided when Harker is sent to sell a house to the eccentric old Count Orlok. A story for those who fear that pleasure will lead to plague.

A kaleidoscope of all the things that scare us about vampires, told with drama, song, film, riddle, and lip-sync. Newlywed queers Harker and Will are divided when Harker is sent to sell a house to the eccentric old Count Orlok. A story for those who fear that pleasure will lead to plague.

All Is In Wonder

by M Sloth Levine

Cast Size
8—12
Genre
adaptation,
adventure,
comedy,
dark comedy,
fable/folktale,
fantasy,
political,
young audiences

An adaptation of Alice In Wonderland through the lens of a transgender girl determined to make sense of an ever-changing world that refuses to afford her body any kind of comfort. Based on the relationship between Alice and the unnamed sister she leaves behind, this is a contemporary reflection of the classic nonsense fable.

An adaptation of Alice In Wonderland through the lens of a transgender girl determined to make sense of an ever-changing world that refuses to afford her body any kind of comfort. Based on the relationship between Alice and the unnamed sister she leaves behind, this is a contemporary reflection of the classic nonsense fable.

When they came from, It’s the Wrath of the Swampy THING, from the Pond, it just Jumped Out Of Nowhere, then, and it, and attacked aLIENS?!?!

by M Sloth Levine

Cast Size
7—10
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
fable/folktale,
fantasy,
immersive,
melodrama,
movement/physical,
science fiction

It's a sunny day in Fairford Pond, USA, and the community has rallied for a picnic concert when local ingenue Joyce comes warning that ze has been attacked by a Swamp Monster. Following in quick succession are alien invaders, an army of zombies, and a haywire Mayoral campaign. How will the day be saved?

It's a sunny day in Fairford Pond, USA, and the community has rallied for a picnic concert when local ingenue Joyce comes warning that ze has been attacked by a Swamp Monster. Following in quick succession are alien invaders, an army of zombies, and a haywire Mayoral campaign. How will the day be saved?