Brianna Barrett

Brianna Barrett

Brianna Barrett is a playwright, screenwriter and performance artist from Portland, Oregon. Her full-length theatrical work has been developed at Artists Repertory Theater, Theatre33, Fertile Ground Festival, HART Theatre, and UCLA. Her TV work has been developed with Stuber, Farah Films, and Hollywood Laundromat. She has performed at venues such as Pickathon, FolkLife Festival, and her own limited series...
Brianna Barrett is a playwright, screenwriter and performance artist from Portland, Oregon. Her full-length theatrical work has been developed at Artists Repertory Theater, Theatre33, Fertile Ground Festival, HART Theatre, and UCLA. Her TV work has been developed with Stuber, Farah Films, and Hollywood Laundromat. She has performed at venues such as Pickathon, FolkLife Festival, and her own limited series podcast with Bag & Baggage Productions. Her work has been published by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals and Applause Books. She is a proud member of LineStorm Playwrights, the Dramatist Guild and the Playwrights Center.

Plays

  • Acts of Creation by Brianna Barrett
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: family, family drama + 8 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: family, family drama, artificial consciousness, artificial intelligence, computers, digital, death, grief, mortality, digital immortality
    | Full Length | A woman creates an artificial intelligence algorithm to write her a masterpiece before she dies, and her family reckons with what it means to honor someone's legacy.
  • Still Harvey Still by Brianna Barrett
    Cast: 
    6–7
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: cancer, illness + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: cancer, illness, drug addiction, drug abuse, tarot, new age, body swap, movie tropes
    | Full Length | A classic body swap comedy is turned on it's head when Evan (a cancer patient) and Harvey (his drug-addict best friend) swap bodies during a stem-cell transplant gone awry.
  • 36 Perfectly Appropriate Mealtime Conversations by Brianna Barrett
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
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    Keyword: LGBTQ, sex comedy + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: LGBTQ, sex comedy, Any Gender, gender neutral casting, social commentary, bisexuality
    | Full Length | Cameron is a hopeless romantic trying to turn online dates into real relationships to no avail until a chance second encounter with Parker. Newlyweds Morgan and Terry want to "spice things up" when they get a lot more spice than they bargained for. With a script designed such that every character can be played by an actor of any gender without changing a single line of dialogue, six...
    | Full Length | Cameron is a hopeless romantic trying to turn online dates into real relationships to no avail until a chance second encounter with Parker. Newlyweds Morgan and Terry want to "spice things up" when they get a lot more spice than they bargained for. With a script designed such that every character can be played by an actor of any gender without changing a single line of dialogue, six actors trade roles each night to present a series of conversations that carry different implications with every performance.
  • Florence Fane in San Francisco by Brianna Barrett
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    10–20
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: US history, feminism + 5 more
    Genre: biography, comedy, period, political, romantic comedy
    Keyword: US history, feminism, History, based on a true story, Civil War, social commentary, Mark Twain
    | Full Length | A Civil War Era romantic comedy inspired by real columns from the city's most popular weekly newspaper: The Golden Era. A serious young woman enters the Lick House Hotel Saloon, looking for a job as a journalist -- she begrudgingly agrees to write a gossip column in the persona of a young single lady out on the town. What she finds is a new side of herself she didn't know she had, and...
    | Full Length | A Civil War Era romantic comedy inspired by real columns from the city's most popular weekly newspaper: The Golden Era. A serious young woman enters the Lick House Hotel Saloon, looking for a job as a journalist -- she begrudgingly agrees to write a gossip column in the persona of a young single lady out on the town. What she finds is a new side of herself she didn't know she had, and a chance at a life she didn't know she wanted. Battles rage between North and South, between rival publishing companies, and between her relationship with her own alter ego.
  • After This Episode by Brianna Barrett
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    8–40
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: high school, cancer + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: high school, cancer, female friendship, high school appropriate, high school actors, cancer awareness, social media
    | Full Length | Rae is diagnosed with cancer during her senior year in high school. Her sister Margo stays home from college to care for her. TV shows and social media posts become their main outlets to the world outside, as Rae copes with isolation in a highly-connected digital world.
  • Moderates by Brianna Barrett
    Cast: 
    6–8
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    Genre: dark comedy, melodrama + 2 more
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    Keyword: American political protest, prohibition + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, melodrama, period, political
    Keyword: American political protest, prohibition, feminism, black lives matter, 19th century, History
    | One Act | Abe Lincoln wants to leave a legacy. Helen Sparrow wants to shut down all the saloons in Portland, Oregon. Three women in prison after a protest consider what women might accomplish if only they can take power not afforded to them in the 1870s.
  • Namesake by Brianna Barrett
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: based on a true story, women's history + 5 more
    Genre: biography, comedy, docudrama/historic, period
    Keyword: based on a true story, women's history, 19th century, oregon, Portland, History, feminist
    | 10-Minute | Noted Oregon historian Frances Fuller Victor is known to have spent most of her life as a
    struggling artist, selling beauty products door to door when she was unable to afford publishing
    costs for her books. She arrives at the home of Judge Matthew Deady and convinces him to help her
    with research for her book on the early history of Oregon. Based on a true story.
  • The Princess Who Would Be a Prince by Brianna Barrett
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: adventure, fable/folktale
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    Keyword: fairy tale, folktale + 8 more
    Genre: adventure, fable/folktale
    Keyword: fairy tale, folktale, Romanian, giant, princess, knight, trans, gender, gender transition, fight scenes
    | 10-Minute | Based on the Romanian folktale, this short play follows a knight's quest to save a beautiful princess from a giant.
  • How You Get Burned by Brianna Barrett
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: Able-bodied/disabled Tensions, cancer + 1 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: Able-bodied/disabled Tensions, cancer, disability
    | 10-Minute | A fraud investigator is caught by the person he's investigating. She has some questions
  • M-I-S-S by Brianna Barrett
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: Transgender, transgender issues + 4 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: Transgender, transgender issues, Relationships, LGBTQ, modern, love
    | 10-Minute | At first they appear to be two young strangers waiting for the bus. A young couple confronts questions of gender, sexuality, and who they really are.
  • Relationship Tests by Brianna Barrett
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: Relationships, love + 8 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: Relationships, love, Sex, Politics, abortion, Plan B, Reproductive Rights, STDs, sexual health, marriage
    | One Act | Time blurs together as Liz remembers a romantic past filled with tests both literal and figurative.
  • Slipper Tongue by Brianna Barrett
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, fable/folktale + 2 more
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    Keyword: fairy tale, Cinderella + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, fable/folktale, parody/spoof, period
    Keyword: fairy tale, Cinderella, Lesbian, gay, LGBTQ
    | 10-minutes | Cinderella with a twist
  • Two White Ladies in an Airport Talk About Race by Brianna Barrett
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: Politics, COVID + 8 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: Politics, COVID, pandemic, racism, whiteness, Race, media, conservatism, Republicans, Democrats
    | 10-minutes | Two women clash over "identity politics" in an airport convenience store in 2020.
  • The Fountain of Youth by Brianna Barrett
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: aging, Camping + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: aging, Camping, outdoors, The Fountain of Youth, magic, transformation, illnesss, marriage, fear of the future
    | 10-Minute | On a hiking trip, a group of men discover the fountain of youth and are faced with questions about the future when they bring their finding back to their wives.