Lily Rushing

Lily Rushing

Lily Rushing is from the hot, inland metropolis known as Sacramento, CA. She recently graduated from The Theatre School at DePaul University with a BFA in Playwriting. She is the 2018 recipient of The Playwriting Initiative award at Interrobang Theatre Project, where she wrote Cowboy Play. Three of her plays, Office Romance, Desert Stories for Lost Girls, and a one-act called Lights Out were developed into...
Lily Rushing is from the hot, inland metropolis known as Sacramento, CA. She recently graduated from The Theatre School at DePaul University with a BFA in Playwriting. She is the 2018 recipient of The Playwriting Initiative award at Interrobang Theatre Project, where she wrote Cowboy Play. Three of her plays, Office Romance, Desert Stories for Lost Girls, and a one-act called Lights Out were developed into staged readings as a part of the Wrights of Spring festival at The Theatre School. Desert Stories received a full production in April 2018, directed by Ann Filmer. Her ten-minute play, The Dog, was recently commissioned by Victory Gardens and presented at their College Night. She has also worked with Sacramento Theatre Company and the School Partnership Program, putting on plays at urban schools with kids from her neighborhood, in her beloved hometown.

Plays

  • Desert Stories For Lost Girls by Lily Rushing
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    6–7
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    Genre: adventure, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: Native American, New Mexico + 6 more
    Genre: adventure, dark comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, experimental, fantasy
    Keyword: Native American, New Mexico, family, healing, identity, assimilation, Northern California, Adolescence
    Do you believe your ancestors walk with you? When 18-year-old Carrie moves in with her grandmother, Rosa, she is thrown into a world of memory, danger, and mysticism as she seeks to uncover the truth about her family's past. Carrie unearths objects that link her to the ghosts of those lost to the Southwest’s bloody history. Each time Carrie and Rosa touch an object they are launched into Rosa’s memories...
    Do you believe your ancestors walk with you? When 18-year-old Carrie moves in with her grandmother, Rosa, she is thrown into a world of memory, danger, and mysticism as she seeks to uncover the truth about her family's past. Carrie unearths objects that link her to the ghosts of those lost to the Southwest’s bloody history. Each time Carrie and Rosa touch an object they are launched into Rosa’s memories that bring her closer to knowing the truth about where she comes from. This is where we meet Rosita and Joe, a young couple living on undisclosed Genizaro territory in Ojo Caliente, New Mexico in the 1950’s. They flee one night after stealing the bones of their familial ancestors, Nicholas and Josefa from a mysterious woman named Placida. As we watch both their journeys unfold, we also bear witness to a battle between the ancestral patriarch and matriarch as they fight for ownership of Carrie’s mind and body.
  • Cowboy Play by Lily Rushing
    Cast: 
    1–3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: Adolescence, American Mid 20th Century Western + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, political
    Keyword: Adolescence, American Mid 20th Century Western, gothic
    When an older woman passes she ends up back in the 1940s and on the very day when, at 16, she is crowned Rodeo Queen. As she haunts her old childhood ranch and interacts with her younger self she is reminded of how much her world has changed. This is a world where memory, sexuality and the Wild West all come together and two selves collide.
  • The Dog by Lily Rushing
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: racism, bad white people + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: racism, bad white people, Native American
    Taryn talks about her vacation.
  • Office Romance by Lily Rushing
    Cast: 
    3–4
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
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    Keyword: queer
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: queer
    When office ambition clashes with personal romance, Layla and Marni find themselves caught up in the head spinning craziness of falling in love and running into a future with a new boo. Cute stuff ensues.
  • Lights Out by Lily Rushing
    Cast: 
    6–7
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, science fiction
    Is love a curse? After Marlo loses her first big love, she wonders if a person can be genetically unloveable. As a Californian, present-day noir heroine Marlo must go down a psychedelic rabbit hole to find out the truth. She's joined by a chorus of ghosts, her hippie mother, and a talking chihuahua.