Grace McLeod

Grace McLeod

Grace McLeod is a queer playwright and screenwriter from New York City. She is a current member of the Virtual Realm at the Playwrights Realm and a winner of the 2020 Ashland New Plays Festival. She was a 2017-2018 Trellis playwright-in-residence at Chicago's Greenhouse Theater Center, where she developed her play HERLAND, which received a 2018-2019 National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere at MOXIE...
Grace McLeod is a queer playwright and screenwriter from New York City. She is a current member of the Virtual Realm at the Playwrights Realm and a winner of the 2020 Ashland New Plays Festival. She was a 2017-2018 Trellis playwright-in-residence at Chicago's Greenhouse Theater Center, where she developed her play HERLAND, which received a 2018-2019 National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere at MOXIE Theatre in San Diego, Redtwist Theatre in Chicago, and Greenway Court Theatre in Los Angeles. Grace's plays have been presented, developed, and/or commissioned by Goodman Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, First Floor Theater, The New Colony, Commission Theatre, The 24 Hour Plays, and Millikin University, among others. Grace is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she was the recipient of the 2018 Olga and Paul Menn Foundation Prize for Playwriting.

Plays

  • Herland by Grace McLeod
    Recommendations: 6
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: Bruce Springsteen, coming of age + 1 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: Bruce Springsteen, coming of age, queer
    After graduating from high school, Natalie gets a summer internship working for Jean, a recently-divorced woman in her 70s who has no plans to move into a typical retirement home. Natalie helps Jean and her two best friends design an alternative: a DIY utopia where they can live out the next chapter of their lives. They plot the future together inside Jean’s garage, where relics of Jean’s ex-husband (and his...
    After graduating from high school, Natalie gets a summer internship working for Jean, a recently-divorced woman in her 70s who has no plans to move into a typical retirement home. Natalie helps Jean and her two best friends design an alternative: a DIY utopia where they can live out the next chapter of their lives. They plot the future together inside Jean’s garage, where relics of Jean’s ex-husband (and his locally famous Bruce Springsteen cover band) still linger. HERLAND is a play about women growing up, growing old, and rocking out to the beat of their own drums.
  • The Communist Revolution: A Ninth-Grade European History Project (There Will Be a Practical Demonstration) by Grace McLeod
    Recommendations: 3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: communism, capitalism + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: communism, capitalism, White Fragility, queer, coming of age
    Sasha takes her ninth-grade European history class project to the extreme by pitching a tent in the backyard of her family’s Westchester home and inviting Tommy Rivera, a boy in her class, to move in and start the Communist Revolution with her. The targets of her righteous anger are her dad, Mark, a self-made venture capitalist hell-bent on proving to her that having money doesn’t automatically make you a bad...
    Sasha takes her ninth-grade European history class project to the extreme by pitching a tent in the backyard of her family’s Westchester home and inviting Tommy Rivera, a boy in her class, to move in and start the Communist Revolution with her. The targets of her righteous anger are her dad, Mark, a self-made venture capitalist hell-bent on proving to her that having money doesn’t automatically make you a bad person, and her mom, Caroline, whose true stances on the issues are overshadowed by her desire to make everyone get along. Parents vs. kids, house vs. tent, capitalism vs. communism: the ultimate showdown ensues in this black comedy about rich white liberals whose desire to be “good” runs up against their own fragility.
  • 2007 by Grace McLeod
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: Britney Spears, coming of age + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: Britney Spears, coming of age, queer, motherhood
    It’s February 2007 and Lucy’s world is falling apart around her. Her mom Eileen has just been diagnosed with breast cancer, high school isn't what she expected, she can’t ignore her growing feelings for her best friend Alison, and her idol -- a certain world-famous, blonde pop star -- is newly bald and undergoing a very public breakdown. 2007 is a queer coming-of-age comedy about mothers and daughters,...
    It’s February 2007 and Lucy’s world is falling apart around her. Her mom Eileen has just been diagnosed with breast cancer, high school isn't what she expected, she can’t ignore her growing feelings for her best friend Alison, and her idol -- a certain world-famous, blonde pop star -- is newly bald and undergoing a very public breakdown. 2007 is a queer coming-of-age comedy about mothers and daughters, what it really means to be a "good" role model, and the crippling pressure to maintain our public selves in times of private crisis.
  • ZOOMPROMMM.mp4 by Grace McLeod
    Recommendations: 1
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: zoom, high school romance + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy, zoom
    Keyword: zoom, high school romance, rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, existentialism, prom
    Annabelle and Max hate each other. But for the next hour, they have to create a video presentation on "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" for their final project of high school. It's May 2020, and the thin line between meaninglessness and meaning, living and surviving, and Zoom and real life is growing thinner by the second. Also, they have a Zoom Prom later. Ew. Tacky.
  • Scare Me by Grace McLeod
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: halloween, queer + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: halloween, queer, coming of age
    When Alex gets hired at a Halloween pop-up store in Chicago, she's thrilled to start her gap year with her first real job. As she and her older, jaded co-workers scramble to meet their sales goal and push superhero capes and fake blood on strangers, they each struggle to distinguish the masks they wear from the masks they sell. SCARE ME is a dark comedy about the fear of being yourself, the desire to be...
    When Alex gets hired at a Halloween pop-up store in Chicago, she's thrilled to start her gap year with her first real job. As she and her older, jaded co-workers scramble to meet their sales goal and push superhero capes and fake blood on strangers, they each struggle to distinguish the masks they wear from the masks they sell. SCARE ME is a dark comedy about the fear of being yourself, the desire to be somebody else, and the danger of getting attached to something that was always meant to be temporary.
  • you, too by Grace McLeod
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: Sisters, coming of age + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: Sisters, coming of age, motherhood, queer
    Kat and Sam are sisters. Sometimes best friends. Sometimes enemies. Sometimes acquaintances. Always sisters. “you, too” follows them from early childhood in the 70s through adulthood in the present, chronicling the specific frustrations and joys of sisterhood, aging, and navigating the relationship between our younger selves, older selves, and all the selves in the middle.
  • Harder, Faster by Grace McLeod
    Cast: 
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    Genre: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    Alone in her bedroom, a horny queer teenager journeys deep into her own personal dreamscape in search of satisfaction. A ten-minute play about having your First Orgasm.