Rhea MacCallum

Rhea MacCallum

Rhea MacCallum is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and script consultant, whose plays have been produced across the United States and six continents. She was honored to participate in the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and was named a finalist by the Actors Theatre of Louisville for the Heideman Award for her play, YESTERDAY ONCE MORE. Her play THE 7th DISORDER won TADA! Youth Theater’s 15th Annual One...
Rhea MacCallum is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter and script consultant, whose plays have been produced across the United States and six continents. She was honored to participate in the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and was named a finalist by the Actors Theatre of Louisville for the Heideman Award for her play, YESTERDAY ONCE MORE. Her play THE 7th DISORDER won TADA! Youth Theater’s 15th Annual One-Act Playwriting Contest and INDEPENDENCE DAY won Best Drama at the Life and Death Matters Film and Theatre Festival. Her work has been produced by companies such as Write Act Repertory, Shelterbelt, EBE Ensemble, ACME Theatre Productions, Theatre Encino, Whitefire Theatre, Boxfest Detroit, Cheeky Monkey Theatre Company, Small Fish Radio, Parish Players, Artists’ Exchange, Articulate Theatre Company, Play Club West and the Women’s Theatre Project. Her plays and monologues have been published by Heuer Publishing, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, Original Works Publishing, Pioneer Drama Service, Routledge Publishing, JAC Publishing, themonologueshop.com, nowcasting.com and have been included in several of Smith & Kraus’ “Best of” anthologies. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Los Angeles Females Playwrights Initiative, International Centre of Women Playwrights, Playground-LA’s Writer’s Pool (2016-2018), Skylight Theatre’s PlayLAb and a Lifetime Member of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights. Rhea earned her BA from USC and her MFA from the Actors Studio Drama School/New School for Drama in New York City. @rheaplaywright rheamaccallum.com

Plays

  • Asking For It
    Ten-Minute: When a young woman reports that she’s been the victim of a hit and run driver she is met with an unexpected and intrusive interrogation.
  • Exceeding The Purchasable Calories
    Ten-minute: In a quest for comfort food one woman discovers the importance of reading the fine print.
  • Kill Me, Please!
    Ten-Minute: It’s late at night. The street is deserted. A serial killer is on the loose. A young woman sits and waits. Expectantly.
  • Lunch With "Friends"
    Ten-Minute: When old “friends” meet for lunch a guest with unexpected news joins them.
  • Resurrection For Dummies
    Ten-Minute: Eddie attempts to bring his father back to life.
  • Zombies R Us
    Ten-minute: He cooks. He cleans. He’s the perfect boyfriend. He’s Eric the Zombie.
  • Baby Secrets
    Full-Length: Friends gather to help Valerie with last minute wedding preparations. The gathering takes a turn when Leah, the mother of four, announces that she’s pregnant again. Denise discovers a wedding dress hidden in the back of Kelly’s closet. John, Kelly’s live in boyfriend, returns home the following morning to discover Kelly wearing the wedding dress and a positive EPT stick in the trash can and...
    Full-Length: Friends gather to help Valerie with last minute wedding preparations. The gathering takes a turn when Leah, the mother of four, announces that she’s pregnant again. Denise discovers a wedding dress hidden in the back of Kelly’s closet. John, Kelly’s live in boyfriend, returns home the following morning to discover Kelly wearing the wedding dress and a positive EPT stick in the trash can and decides to propose. Kelly and John marry a few days later at City Hall with Leah and her husband, Alan, in attendance. That evening, at Kelly’s wedding reception a series of secrets are revealed, wrecking havoc on the women’s friendships with each other as well as their romantic relationships. Two months later, Kelly believes she is pregnant and calls the women together again, attempting to mend the fractured friendships on which each has grown to rely.
  • Soraya's Eyes
    Soraya's Eyes is about Somalian filmmaker and female genital mutilation survivor, Soraya Mire, as she evolves from a precocious young girl into a fierce human rights activist.