Ilana Turner

Ilana Turner

L.A. Stage Raw Playwriting award nominee for award-winning O Réjane (2014). Recipient of Max K. Lerner Fellowship for workshop, staged readings of Ollie & D at Inkwell Theater (2019). Member The Vagrancy writers’ program (2018-19); workshop and staged reading for resulting play Slur in Blossoming Festival (2019). Commission for new show set to premiere in Sweden (2020). Monologue Sugar Coat It published in...
L.A. Stage Raw Playwriting award nominee for award-winning O Réjane (2014). Recipient of Max K. Lerner Fellowship for workshop, staged readings of Ollie & D at Inkwell Theater (2019). Member The Vagrancy writers’ program (2018-19); workshop and staged reading for resulting play Slur in Blossoming Festival (2019). Commission for new show set to premiere in Sweden (2020). Monologue Sugar Coat It published in LGBTQ Comedic Monologues That Are Actually Funny (Applause Books). Coordinating Producer for Designing Hedwig on the Criterion Collection Special Edition of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" (2019). Final round of consideration for 2019 Sundance Episodic Lab for one-hour pilot Choke Point, co-written with Adam Scott Epstein; the project is currently repped by OAZ in Toronto. 2019 Final Draft Big Break Semi Finalist and Tracking Board Launch Pad Top 75 for one-hour pilot Government Girls, also co-written with Epstein. Dramaturge for Circle X Theatre’s production of punkplay (2019). BA in theater and dance from Hampshire College. Member SAG, AEA, Dramatists Guild, and the Playwrights Center.

Plays

  • O Réjane by Ilana Turner
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 7 more
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    Keyword: feminist, actress + 5 more
    Genre: biography, comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, experimental, farce, movement/physical, period, translation
    Keyword: feminist, actress, History, herstory, French, music, devised movement
    In Belle Époque Paris, rising star Réjane struggles to balance the realities of working motherhood and her on- and off-stage lives & lovers, even as she must ultimately fight a groundbreaking legal battle with her husband for control of her own career. This movement and music filled spectacle is based on the true story of trailblazing actress Réjane, whose story her granddaughter revealed to playwright Ilana Turner.
  • Ollie & D by Ilana Turner
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: Relationships, Sex + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, movement/physical, romantic comedy
    Keyword: Relationships, Sex, existential, death, purgatory
    Driving an endless loop of New England country road, two long-time friends-with-benefits discover they are imprisoned in a Maserati — and that only dealing with their relationshit will break them out. OLLIE & D takes a darkly comedic look at the intersection of love and the long-term relationship.
  • Slur by Ilana Turner
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    Genre: adaptation, biography + 9 more
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    Keyword: dance, Lesbian + 8 more
    Genre: adaptation, biography, docudrama/historic, drama, experimental, farce, movement/physical, pantomime, period, political, satire
    Keyword: dance, Lesbian, trials, law, slander, Persecution, class, press, Newspaper, publishing
    Propelled by a deep-seated need to make art and by sheer grit, Maud Allan has risen to world fame in pre-WW1 Europe as one of the first ‘modern’ dancers, only to find herself embroiled in a brutal legal fight for her reputation. As the war rages, misogynistic, homophobic ultra-conservative Member of Parliament (M.P.) Noel Pemberton Billing accuses her of promoting sexual deviancy and gathering German spies via...
    Propelled by a deep-seated need to make art and by sheer grit, Maud Allan has risen to world fame in pre-WW1 Europe as one of the first ‘modern’ dancers, only to find herself embroiled in a brutal legal fight for her reputation. As the war rages, misogynistic, homophobic ultra-conservative Member of Parliament (M.P.) Noel Pemberton Billing accuses her of promoting sexual deviancy and gathering German spies via her performances. Based on a true story, the disturbingly timely Slur delves into the hypocrisy of discriminatory moral mandates for women, the diabolical usage of guilt by association, and the power of words – which even in a pre-social media era could be amplified for better or, in this case, for worse.