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 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...

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.

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Scripts

Slur

by Ilana Turner

Cast Size
8
Genre
adaptation,
biography,
docudrama/historic,
drama,
experimental,
farce,
movement/physical,
pantomime,
period,
political,
satire

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.

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O Réjane

by Ilana Turner

2
Cast Size
6
Genre
biography,
comedy,
docudrama/historic,
drama,
experimental,
farce,
movement/physical,
period,
translation

Rising star Réjane takes Belle Époque Paris and the theatre world by storm only to find that for her, life really does equal art as she takes lovers, gives birth, marries – and even gets divorced – on stage & off in an age when women were taught to live anything but out loud. O Réjane is based on a true story almost lost to history, as told to playwright Ilana Turner by Réjane’s descendants – and features lyrics...

Rising star Réjane takes Belle Époque Paris and the theatre world by storm only to find that for her, life really does equal art as she takes lovers, gives birth, marries – and even gets divorced – on stage & off in an age when women were taught to live anything but out loud. O Réjane is based on a true story almost lost to history, as told to playwright Ilana Turner by Réjane’s descendants – and features lyrics & music by Adrien Reju, Réjane’s great-great granddaughter.

For the original production of O Réjane, Cara Pifko won the 2014 Stage Raw Award winner for Leading Female Performance. Turner received a Stage Raw Award nomination for Playwriting, and Alex Berry was nominated for Costume Design.

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Ollie & D

by Ilana Turner

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
movement/physical,
romantic comedy

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.

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.