ash bell

ash bell is a New York based playwright, screenwriter, ghost story teller, and part-time Oompa Loompa. She holds a BA in Theatre and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University. Her full-length plays include scouts (O'Neill Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival Semi-Finalist, Stanley Drama Award Semi-Finalist), Freshly Killed Things, End of the World Club: A Protest Play for University Students, The Rise and Fall and Fall Again of Phaedra, and DARK ROOM.

Her work usually includes a descent into madness, something grotesque, friends holding hands, a theatrical experiment, a cacophony of sound, and has been described as “written by a deranged kindergartner. But in a good way.”

ash bell is a New York based playwright, screenwriter, ghost story teller, and part-time Oompa Loompa. She holds a BA in Theatre and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University. Her full-length plays include scouts (O'Neill Semifinalist, Austin Film Festival Semi-Finalist, Stanley Drama Award Semi-Finalist), Freshly Killed Things, End of the World Club: A Protest Play for University Students, The Rise and Fall and Fall Again of Phaedra, and DARK ROOM.

Her work usually includes a descent into madness, something grotesque, friends holding hands, a theatrical experiment, a cacophony of sound, and has been described as “written by a deranged kindergartner. But in a good way.”

Scripts

scouts

by ash bell

Synopsis

Five unsupervised teens gather in a spooky cabin in the woods to perform Frankenstein-inspired witchcraft-revenge on men who have hurt them, something they learned from a 2008 TeenVogue magazine.

Five unsupervised teens gather in a spooky cabin in the woods to perform Frankenstein-inspired witchcraft-revenge on men who have hurt them, something they learned from a 2008 TeenVogue magazine.

DARK ROOM

by ash bell

Synopsis

Tammy, a photographer, wants to get the perfect portrait of her estranged daughter, Miranda, before she loses her sight to a mysterious eye disease. An experimental play that gets darker and darker, both thematically and literally, as Tammy gets closer to total blindness.

Tammy, a photographer, wants to get the perfect portrait of her estranged daughter, Miranda, before she loses her sight to a mysterious eye disease. An experimental play that gets darker and darker, both thematically and literally, as Tammy gets closer to total blindness.

The Rise and Fall and Fall Again of Phaedra

by ash bell

Synopsis

Phaedra, an up and coming feminist filmmaker, really wants a Best Picture award. When a Woody Allen bio-pic script lands in her hands, she knows this is the movie that will get her there. But this script carries a curse that causes Phaedra to develop confusing, lustful desires for her own step-son, Henry, a men's rights activist. A semi-loose adaptation of Euripides' Hippolytus that includes a chorus of...

Phaedra, an up and coming feminist filmmaker, really wants a Best Picture award. When a Woody Allen bio-pic script lands in her hands, she knows this is the movie that will get her there. But this script carries a curse that causes Phaedra to develop confusing, lustful desires for her own step-son, Henry, a men's rights activist. A semi-loose adaptation of Euripides' Hippolytus that includes a chorus of cancelled artists – Roman Polanski and JK Rowling, to name a couple.

We Still Have Time Yet

by ash bell

Synopsis

5 MIN PLAY. Standing in knee deep water that continues to rise, A and B must decide when is the right time to leave their jobs working for the world's largest polluter.

5 MIN PLAY. Standing in knee deep water that continues to rise, A and B must decide when is the right time to leave their jobs working for the world's largest polluter.

Metal on Metal

by ash bell

Synopsis

When eighth graders, Taylor and Mel, ditch their classmates on a field trip to go subway surfing, the course of their friendship – and their lives – change forever.

When eighth graders, Taylor and Mel, ditch their classmates on a field trip to go subway surfing, the course of their friendship – and their lives – change forever.