Maeve Chapman

Maeve has directed her original work Home's Kitchen (World Premiere, NOCCA, Broadway DNA), A Woman of No Importance (Central Square Theater Cambridge), & Vera, or the Nihilists (Emerson College.) Her film credits include Coda (Actor, Oscar Winning Best Picture). Maeve's work focuses on LGBTQ+ rights, the meaning of home, and emotional abuse. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of The Dyon Collective & an associate member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Union and the Dramatist Guild.

Maeve has directed her original work Home's Kitchen (World Premiere, NOCCA, Broadway DNA), A Woman of No Importance (Central Square Theater Cambridge), & Vera, or the Nihilists (Emerson College.) Her film credits include Coda (Actor, Oscar Winning Best Picture). Maeve's work focuses on LGBTQ+ rights, the meaning of home, and emotional abuse. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of The Dyon Collective & an associate member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Union and the Dramatist Guild.

Scripts

Home's Kitchen

by Maeve Chapman

Synopsis

Home's Kitchen follows the seemingly separate lives of Marianne Rose, a young and disillusioned obituary writer, and Richard Davenport, a TV celebrity chef who seemingly has it all. When Mari's parents divorce in her last semester of college, she throws her career, her love life, and her relationship with her dad away. Richard, a gay man raised under a Catholic mindset, must learn to accept himself in order to...

Home's Kitchen follows the seemingly separate lives of Marianne Rose, a young and disillusioned obituary writer, and Richard Davenport, a TV celebrity chef who seemingly has it all. When Mari's parents divorce in her last semester of college, she throws her career, her love life, and her relationship with her dad away. Richard, a gay man raised under a Catholic mindset, must learn to accept himself in order to save his crumbling relationships to his career, family, and himself. Home's Kitchen is a story of home, passion, and food for the soul.

Maybe Life Will Be Better the Third Time Around

by Maeve Chapman

Synopsis

It's Arden's twenty-seventh birthday and she's sitting in an expensive Williamsburg restaurant at an empty table. Only Tatum, basically a stranger, comes (two hours late!) to her birthday party. But maybe a near-total-stranger is exactly what Arden and Tatum need to discover they aren't alone as they thought they were. 'Maybe Life Will Be Better the Third Time Around' is a 'snowglobe' moment of life, that...

It's Arden's twenty-seventh birthday and she's sitting in an expensive Williamsburg restaurant at an empty table. Only Tatum, basically a stranger, comes (two hours late!) to her birthday party. But maybe a near-total-stranger is exactly what Arden and Tatum need to discover they aren't alone as they thought they were. 'Maybe Life Will Be Better the Third Time Around' is a 'snowglobe' moment of life, that captures how lonely adulthood can be, but also how impactful little moments can be, if you let them.

Death Owns an Ice Cream Parlor

by Maeve Chapman

Synopsis

Can't have Death without Life. Or Life without Death. When Girl suddenly meets her end, an out-of-time ice cream parlor wasn't where she expected to end up. And Death certainly wasn't expecting to feel anything other than pure apathy for the first time in a couple centuries. Can Girl escape her fate, does she want to?

By Maeve Aurora Chapman & Liam Corley

Can't have Death without Life. Or Life without Death. When Girl suddenly meets her end, an out-of-time ice cream parlor wasn't where she expected to end up. And Death certainly wasn't expecting to feel anything other than pure apathy for the first time in a couple centuries. Can Girl escape her fate, does she want to?

By Maeve Aurora Chapman & Liam Corley

Dorian Gray

by Maeve Chapman

Synopsis

Adapted from Wilde’s original novel, Dorian Gray uses text from Wilde’s letters, poems, and prose to highlight the parallel between the book’s plot and Wilde’s own life. 'Dorian Gray' explores the confines of masculinity in Victorian society and today.

Adapted from Wilde’s original novel, Dorian Gray uses text from Wilde’s letters, poems, and prose to highlight the parallel between the book’s plot and Wilde’s own life. 'Dorian Gray' explores the confines of masculinity in Victorian society and today.

Ever, Oscar

by Maeve Chapman

Synopsis

Ever, Oscar uses Oscar Wilde's fairytale, The Happy Prince as a narrative parallel as young writer Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, son of revolutionary poet Jane Wilde or 'Speranza', navigates his queer identity, his love for his family, and the ultimate betrayal by his partner Bosie which lands Wilde in prison, ultimately leading to his untimely death. Wilde lived a revolutionary and truly tragic life...

Ever, Oscar uses Oscar Wilde's fairytale, The Happy Prince as a narrative parallel as young writer Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, son of revolutionary poet Jane Wilde or 'Speranza', navigates his queer identity, his love for his family, and the ultimate betrayal by his partner Bosie which lands Wilde in prison, ultimately leading to his untimely death. Wilde lived a revolutionary and truly tragic life that is told through text, dance, and songs made from his poetry.

Blood like Water

by Maeve Chapman

Synopsis

Clemence Greenfeld, 14 year old artist, must navigate the concept of family, divorce, and teenage crushes. All on Christmas.

Clemence Greenfeld, 14 year old artist, must navigate the concept of family, divorce, and teenage crushes. All on Christmas.

A Star-Crossed Rebound

by Maeve Chapman

Synopsis

The stage is set for 16th century Verona as the two star-crossed lovers meet for what might be for the last time. However, an unpredicted past presence in the future pops in, to amend the rash lover's mistakes.

The stage is set for 16th century Verona as the two star-crossed lovers meet for what might be for the last time. However, an unpredicted past presence in the future pops in, to amend the rash lover's mistakes.