Brigitte Viellieu-Davis

Brigitte Viellieu-Davis

Brigitte Viellieu-Davis is an award-winning playwright, producer, performer, teaching artist and consultant, with her home base in Puerto Rico. She is an accomplished performer of stage and television. She has worked with theatrical pioneers like Anna Deavere Smith and Eve Ensler, and has created initiatives for and consulted with such organizations as The Rubin Museum of Art, NYU’s School for Art & Public...
Brigitte Viellieu-Davis is an award-winning playwright, producer, performer, teaching artist and consultant, with her home base in Puerto Rico. She is an accomplished performer of stage and television. She has worked with theatrical pioneers like Anna Deavere Smith and Eve Ensler, and has created initiatives for and consulted with such organizations as The Rubin Museum of Art, NYU’s School for Art & Public Policy, The Actors Fund Home, Educators for Social Responsibility, The Institute on the Arts & Civic Dialogue, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Urban Stages, & Womens Project Theater, as well as being an adjunct professor at Touro & Bloomfield colleges. She holds an M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University, and is a member of Actors Equity, SAG/AFTRA, Ensemble Studio Theatre, EST’s Playwrights Unit, and was an evaluator for Lark Play Development Company’s LitWing. She is currently Co-Ambassador to Puerto Rico for the Dramatists Guild. After 25 years in New York City & New Jersey, Brigitte is now based in San Juan, Puerto Rico where she helps organize a playwright collective.

Plays

  • IN A HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT by Brigitte Viellieu-Davis
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: marriage, gender roles + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: marriage, gender roles, middle age, aging, forgiveness, legacy
    Rewrite 8.15.20 [FULL LENGTH] With humor, heart, and a touch of the supernatural, IN A HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT tells the story of Joan & John, a long married couple who have come back to his Annapolis ancestral home to clear out the remnants of his recently deceased parents. But when Hurricane Norma heads for the coast, family secrets and the forces of tradition threaten to blow the couple apart. They find...
    Rewrite 8.15.20 [FULL LENGTH] With humor, heart, and a touch of the supernatural, IN A HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT tells the story of Joan & John, a long married couple who have come back to his Annapolis ancestral home to clear out the remnants of his recently deceased parents. But when Hurricane Norma heads for the coast, family secrets and the forces of tradition threaten to blow the couple apart. They find themselves struggling to survive the storms of middle age, long-told lies, and regret. A contemporary drama about legacy, forgiveness, and the price we pay for following all the rules.
  • THE KISS / EL BESO by Brigitte Viellieu-Davis
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: tenminuteplay, marriage + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: tenminuteplay, marriage, Mid-Life Crisis, mid-life relationships, english/spanish, Spanish language
    [10 minute play] (Disponible también la version en español. Spanish language version also available.) MIA and TONY are long-time running buddies, but then there is an "innocent" kiss in a parking lot, followed by a confession to MIA's husband, REY. The subsequent tremors of this mid-life confusion shake and roll who this long-married couple think they are.
  • DOMINION: Prelude to an Activist by Brigitte Viellieu-Davis
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic + 1 more
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    Keyword: environment, science + 3 more
    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic, drama
    Keyword: environment, science, ocean, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
    [7 PAGES] A little over 30 years before she wrote Silent Spring, her seminal book that ignited the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson, a young biologist, fell madly and completely in love with the ocean.
  • THE FUTURE by Brigitte Viellieu-Davis
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: zoom, American education + 3 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: zoom, American education, education biases, standardized testing, wealth disparity
    [TEN-MINUTE PLAY - ZOOM PLAY] In the pressure cooker of parental expectations, standardized testing and social distancing, a student and her tutor find themselves at an unexpected crossroads that might change the course of their lives.
  • QUARANTINE GREEN by Brigitte Viellieu-Davis
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy
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    Keyword: marriage, Quarantine + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy
    Keyword: marriage, Quarantine, confronting the patriarchy
    [TEN-MINUTE PLAY] It's a throwback picture perfect patriarchal marriage in the midst of a modern upheaval. Dorothy & George are playing their roles until it gets a little too real and too current for an antiquated hierarchy. All marriage comes with sacrifice, so who will choose who gets saved?
  • SECOND CHANCES by Brigitte Viellieu-Davis
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: American patriarchy, gender roles + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: American patriarchy, gender roles, aging
    [FIFTEEN-MINUTE PLAY] At the wedding weekend of Rachel's older sister, Rachel, 52, and her 80-year-old mother, Peg, are forced to share a hotel room. Old family wounds are inevitably opened as secrets and regrets are pulled out. Through these two women we experience how pain, fear and limiting beliefs get passed on, and how change and redemption can happen when we least expect it.
  • THE APPLICATION by Brigitte Viellieu-Davis
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, farce
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    Keyword: library, New Neighbors + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, farce
    Keyword: library, New Neighbors, absurd farce
    [TEN-MINUTE PLAY] It's Peequawk Public Library and Robin, a newcomer to town, has arrived to get a new library card. However, her encounter with the Librarian goes from weird to weirder until...
  • FLY GIRL FLY by Brigitte Viellieu-Davis
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: nature, The environment + 2 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: nature, The environment, graffiti, art making
    [TEN-MINUTE PLAY] A young graffiti artist discovers what it means to be “something” when she runs into a woman in the park sketching birds.
  • THE VOICE TEACHER by Brigitte Viellieu-Davis
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: acting class, actors + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: acting class, actors, voice training
    [TEN-MINUTE PLAY] Under the guise of vocal exercises, a sadistic vocal coach taunts and humiliates her students...and barely escapes with her life.
  • Frida Liberada, a play with music by Brigitte Viellieu-Davis
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic + 2 more
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    Keyword: Frida Kahlo, Mexico + 4 more
    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic, drama, young audiences
    Keyword: Frida Kahlo, Mexico, visual art, painter, November, Frida
    It is the Day of the Dead, and Mexican painter Frida Kahlo revisits the living world to tell her tale and inspire us to glories of being alive, even in the face of adversity. Through monologue and songs in Spanish and English and images of her striking self-portraits, Frida fascinates us with a life story rife with injury, triumph, creativity, addiction, heartbreak and surrender.
  • An Emerald World (a play with music for young audiences) by Brigitte Viellieu-Davis
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    1–10
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    Genre: fable/folktale, young audiences
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    Keyword: irish, Ireland + 2 more
    Genre: fable/folktale, young audiences
    Keyword: irish, Ireland, Celtic folk tale, folktale
    With Selkies, Leprechauns and Tall Tales, An Emerald World is a celebration of Ireland told through song, folk tales and a wee bit of magic. Peppered with poems and songs by the likes of James Joyce, Katharine Tynan, and Thomas Davis, An Emerald World delightfully weaves together 3 olden tales where we meet colorful characters and delightful storytelling. 40 minutes* for ages 5 and up. *can be shortened for younger audiences.
  • The Whole World's a Talkin' by Brigitte Viellieu-Davis
    Cast: 
    1–10
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    Genre: young audiences
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    Keyword: plays for young audiences, multi-cultural + 1 more
    Genre: young audiences
    Keyword: plays for young audiences, multi-cultural, folktale
    With a magic compass, our storyteller transports the audience all over the world, revealing folktales from India, Korea and Ghana. K-5. 28 pages plus two page of notes.

    Each tale can be performed on its own, as well.