Jen Plants

Jen Plants

As a deviser, actor, director, dramaturg, and playwright, Jen’s work has been seen in the UK, Hungary, and across the United States. Jen teaches playwriting, performance studies, critical race theory, and community based theatre-making at UW-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin. Recent Madison directing projects include The Spitfire Grill and When the Music Stops: The Anita O’Day Story (both Four Seasons Theatre) and...
As a deviser, actor, director, dramaturg, and playwright, Jen’s work has been seen in the UK, Hungary, and across the United States. Jen teaches playwriting, performance studies, critical race theory, and community based theatre-making at UW-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin. Recent Madison directing projects include The Spitfire Grill and When the Music Stops: The Anita O’Day Story (both Four Seasons Theatre) and the world premiere opera The Queen of the Night (Fresco Opera Theatre). As a playwright, her recent feminist punk adaptation of Lysistrata premiered in spring 2019 as Broom Street Theatre's 50th anniversary production.

Plays

  • Lysistrata (a new adaptation) by Jen Plants
    Cast: 
    10–12
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: Lysistrata, feminist + 4 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, immersive, political, satire
    Keyword: Lysistrata, feminist, feminism, Riot Grrrl, punk, Ancient Greek comedy
    Lysistrata is sick of it. She’s sick of war. She’s sick of the patriarchy. She’s is done with white feminism and TERFs. She’s building a revolution girl style NOW. Powered by punk rock, zines, and anybody ready to reject toxic masculinity, this adaptation puts Lysistrata’s fight in a context designed for immersive theatre and audience-centered productions. (Full-length)
  • The First Sip by Jen Plants
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: addiction, alcoholism + 5 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: addiction, alcoholism, Alcohol, Alcoholics Anonymous, wine, drinking, drinking problem
    A recovering alcoholic wrestles with the idea that she may have never been an addict at all. (Ten-Minute Play)
  • The Bowery Waltz by Jen Plants
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, docudrama/historic + 1 more
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    Keyword: dance, contemporary New York City + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, docudrama/historic, movement/physical
    Keyword: dance, contemporary New York City, New York City history, Lower East Side history, Bowery history, real estate, gentrification
    A comedy (with dancing) -- On a rooftop in the Bowery, a woman reckons with her privilege through a ferocious dance. (Ten-Minute Play)

Recommended by Jen Plants

  • Toaster Problem by Ashley Lauren Rogers
    17 Mar. 2020
    “ Love this one-minute play--an excellent example of something that wants to be told as theatre as opposed to any other form of storytelling. ”