Zoë Rhulen

Zoë Rhulen is a Colorado-grown, New York-based playwright. Her writing is motivated by wildness, myths, and sexuality. Zoë's plays include Dirt (Princess Grace Award Winner), Six Red Seeds (The Tank, Theater Accident), Mommy and The Pirate (Theater Accident), Dirty Pretty (SPACE on Ryder Farm Creative Residency Semifinalist), Slippery (Slingshot Theater Company), and Star Country (New York University). Her play Medusa Prays was a Red Bull Theater Short New Play Festival Winner. Zoë is the 2025-26 Princess Grace Fellow at New Dramatists. Her work has been supported by Arts on Site, Curious Theatre Company, The Lark, New Dramatists, Rattlestick Theater, Red Bull Theater, Slingshot Theater Company, and Theater Accident. B.F.A.: Dramatic Writing, NYU, Tisch.

Zoë Rhulen is a Colorado-grown, New York-based playwright. Her writing is motivated by wildness, myths, and sexuality. Zoë's plays include Dirt (Princess Grace Award Winner), Six Red Seeds (The Tank, Theater Accident), Mommy and The Pirate (Theater Accident), Dirty Pretty (SPACE on Ryder Farm Creative Residency Semifinalist), Slippery (Slingshot Theater Company), and Star Country (New York University). Her play Medusa Prays was a Red Bull Theater Short New Play Festival Winner. Zoë is the 2025-26 Princess Grace Fellow at New Dramatists. Her work has been supported by Arts on Site, Curious Theatre Company, The Lark, New Dramatists, Rattlestick Theater, Red Bull Theater, Slingshot Theater Company, and Theater Accident. B.F.A.: Dramatic Writing, NYU, Tisch.

Scripts

Dirt

by Zoë Rhulen

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
drama,
fable/folktale,
fantasy

Dirt is a play about three sisters who are planted in their mother's garden. They each decide to pull up their roots in search of a better life, but they find home, and its dirt, difficult to outrun.

Dirt is a play about three sisters who are planted in their mother's garden. They each decide to pull up their roots in search of a better life, but they find home, and its dirt, difficult to outrun.

Six Red Seeds

by Zoë Rhulen

Cast Size
3
Genre
adaptation,
drama,
experimental,
tragedy

Six Red Seeds is an office drama about climate change, sexual currency, who holds the purse strings, and what we're willing to compromise for the promise of a better world. A contemporary adaptation of the Hades and Persephone myth, Six Red Seeds delves into the darker side of the myth, asking, “How much are you willing to sacrifice for what you believe in?”

Six Red Seeds is an office drama about climate change, sexual currency, who holds the purse strings, and what we're willing to compromise for the promise of a better world. A contemporary adaptation of the Hades and Persephone myth, Six Red Seeds delves into the darker side of the myth, asking, “How much are you willing to sacrifice for what you believe in?”

Slippery

by Zoë Rhulen

Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

Slippery is an exploration of the horrifying transformations that can accompany teenage girlhood.

Slippery is an exploration of the horrifying transformations that can accompany teenage girlhood.

Dirty Pretty

by Zoë Rhulen

Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
fable/folktale,
fantasy

Pretty lives in a cabin in the middle of the words. She likes her life. But when an old flame shows up on her doorstep, she has to decide what she's willing to give up, and how much of the past to leave in the past. Dirty Pretty is a play about love, loss, sex work, carpentry, baking, and the pull of the wild in all of us.

Pretty lives in a cabin in the middle of the words. She likes her life. But when an old flame shows up on her doorstep, she has to decide what she's willing to give up, and how much of the past to leave in the past. Dirty Pretty is a play about love, loss, sex work, carpentry, baking, and the pull of the wild in all of us.