Recommended by Kate Busselle

  • Kate Busselle: PassionSculpt

    This is a phenomenal script for those who have always been a little creeped out by those cult-like group exercise classes. A wonderful play for women actors that has many dark and gory twists!

    This is a phenomenal script for those who have always been a little creeped out by those cult-like group exercise classes. A wonderful play for women actors that has many dark and gory twists!

  • Kate Busselle: The Smiths

    This play reminds me of "‘Night Mother" in its dynamic, hyper-realistic relationship between mother and daughter. A great play that carefully builds and suspends anxiety and worry while waiting for answers that might not come. A great play for scene studies or emerging directors!

    This play reminds me of "‘Night Mother" in its dynamic, hyper-realistic relationship between mother and daughter. A great play that carefully builds and suspends anxiety and worry while waiting for answers that might not come. A great play for scene studies or emerging directors!

  • Kate Busselle: Being Black Outside

    This apocalyptic, absurdist comedy is a true delight! The snappy, hilarious, realistic arguments between Vee and Niecy are often interrupted by the bizarre. You never know where this play will lead with its delightful (and sometimes horrifying) twists and turns. Woven throughout is hard-hitting commentary of the challenges of religion, mental health, and racism in the black American diaspora. Incredible, dynamic scenes for scene study/acting classes as well as enthralling design opportunities with this play!

    This apocalyptic, absurdist comedy is a true delight! The snappy, hilarious, realistic arguments between Vee and Niecy are often interrupted by the bizarre. You never know where this play will lead with its delightful (and sometimes horrifying) twists and turns. Woven throughout is hard-hitting commentary of the challenges of religion, mental health, and racism in the black American diaspora. Incredible, dynamic scenes for scene study/acting classes as well as enthralling design opportunities with this play!

  • Kate Busselle: Alien of Extraordinary Ability

    This is a play where nothing happens and everything happens simultaneously through the existential crisis of waiting to be approved for immigration visas. While immigration is often a newsworthy topic, it is rare to encounter a work that provides a true slice-of-life into the challenges of the variety of immigration processes. This play also takes unexpected (yet delightful!) twists and turns that would be a design team's dream to tackle!

    This is a play where nothing happens and everything happens simultaneously through the existential crisis of waiting to be approved for immigration visas. While immigration is often a newsworthy topic, it is rare to encounter a work that provides a true slice-of-life into the challenges of the variety of immigration processes. This play also takes unexpected (yet delightful!) twists and turns that would be a design team's dream to tackle!

  • Kate Busselle: Bambiland

    As a fellow Michigander, it was delightful to experience this play's challenge to the larger "Detroit is dead" narrative. There are incredible, lyrical movement interludes throughout the play that would be a delight to tackle through design. A play akin to the film "Spotlight," this journalistic investigative play will stun you with its factual revelations.

    As a fellow Michigander, it was delightful to experience this play's challenge to the larger "Detroit is dead" narrative. There are incredible, lyrical movement interludes throughout the play that would be a delight to tackle through design. A play akin to the film "Spotlight," this journalistic investigative play will stun you with its factual revelations.

  • Kate Busselle: Dupe

    Dupe is an incredibly complex tour-de-force for 4 incredible women actors. Dupe weaves together the complexities of literary publication, trauma from family separation, and cultural appropriation. There are delightful misunderstandings between many of the characters that only add to the intrigue of the play.

    Dupe is an incredibly complex tour-de-force for 4 incredible women actors. Dupe weaves together the complexities of literary publication, trauma from family separation, and cultural appropriation. There are delightful misunderstandings between many of the characters that only add to the intrigue of the play.

  • Kate Busselle: All the Emilies in All the Universes

    This play absolutely encompasses the variety and complexities of post-trauma coping mechanisms that real women grapple with. The delightful convention of the Emilie multiverse creates almost infinite design possibilities. The scenes between any of the Emilies and Jeff are fantastic options for scene study/acting classes as well as directing classes. A must-read!

    This play absolutely encompasses the variety and complexities of post-trauma coping mechanisms that real women grapple with. The delightful convention of the Emilie multiverse creates almost infinite design possibilities. The scenes between any of the Emilies and Jeff are fantastic options for scene study/acting classes as well as directing classes. A must-read!

  • Kate Busselle: Stand Your Ground

    This play is the best case study of how far a character is willing to go for an (absurd) objective and overcoming as many obstacles as possible. There was zero predicting as to what would happen in this play when I experienced it at the Great Plains Theatre Conference. A perfect snapshot of the complexities of Stand Your Ground laws in a visceral (and sometimes delightfully cringeworthy) depiction of Florida.

    This play is the best case study of how far a character is willing to go for an (absurd) objective and overcoming as many obstacles as possible. There was zero predicting as to what would happen in this play when I experienced it at the Great Plains Theatre Conference. A perfect snapshot of the complexities of Stand Your Ground laws in a visceral (and sometimes delightfully cringeworthy) depiction of Florida.

  • Kate Busselle: Pivot

    A fantastic play for midwest regional theatres! The characters are so realistic and complex. Many surprise twists throughout. Amazing roles for actors of a variety of ages, all trying to figure out how to move forward. Fantastic scenes for class and studio work!

    A fantastic play for midwest regional theatres! The characters are so realistic and complex. Many surprise twists throughout. Amazing roles for actors of a variety of ages, all trying to figure out how to move forward. Fantastic scenes for class and studio work!

  • Kate Busselle: Oddsville

    This play is bonkers in all of the right ways! Oddsville is a delightful, snappy, satirical comedy that reveals later on to not be what it seems...a great show for colleges/universities to consider as well as a large ensemble for women and non-binary actors!

    This play is bonkers in all of the right ways! Oddsville is a delightful, snappy, satirical comedy that reveals later on to not be what it seems...a great show for colleges/universities to consider as well as a large ensemble for women and non-binary actors!