Charlotte Lang-Bush

Charlotte Lang-Bush has been writing plays since before she knew what they were. She has trained as both a medievalist and a special educator for young children.

She’s written for All Out Arts, AMiOS, CAPS LOCK Theatre, Exquisite Corpse Company, Fresh Ground Pepper, Turn to Flesh Productions, and Undiscovered Countries.

Her play, "Parlor Tricks," opened the 2019 Fresh Fruit Festival and won four Fruitie awards from its board and audience. She has used her historian’s training to help research for Carmen Maria Machado and Gail Carson Levine, and has written scripts for mobile and console games for Ubisoft Entertainment SA. She was the co-lead narrative designer on a magical-realist educational RPG for tweens, and a dialogue writer for games from Deconstructeam.

Currently, she's writing a...

Charlotte Lang-Bush has been writing plays since before she knew what they were. She has trained as both a medievalist and a special educator for young children.

She’s written for All Out Arts, AMiOS, CAPS LOCK Theatre, Exquisite Corpse Company, Fresh Ground Pepper, Turn to Flesh Productions, and Undiscovered Countries.

Her play, "Parlor Tricks," opened the 2019 Fresh Fruit Festival and won four Fruitie awards from its board and audience. She has used her historian’s training to help research for Carmen Maria Machado and Gail Carson Levine, and has written scripts for mobile and console games for Ubisoft Entertainment SA. She was the co-lead narrative designer on a magical-realist educational RPG for tweens, and a dialogue writer for games from Deconstructeam.

Currently, she's writing a campus-horror fantasy novel, and works as a Narrative Designer at Ascend Learning.

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Scripts

Parlor Tricks

by Charlotte Lang-Bush

1
Cast Size
8
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
fantasy,
horror,
melodrama,
period

Theydies and Gentlethems, we summon you to our Parlor. Witness as the Mystic Thornes peer beyond the veil of death and prove that sometimes, the most terrifying hauntings are those committed by the patriarchy.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Thorne sisters are trying to eke out a living on their own by conning their sleepy New York town into Spiritualism. When their youngest sister makes a sinister claim...

Theydies and Gentlethems, we summon you to our Parlor. Witness as the Mystic Thornes peer beyond the veil of death and prove that sometimes, the most terrifying hauntings are those committed by the patriarchy.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Thorne sisters are trying to eke out a living on their own by conning their sleepy New York town into Spiritualism. When their youngest sister makes a sinister claim about her relationship with the spirits, the elder sisters find their commitment to "reality" shaken. And who is the mysterious woman who visits their home and makes its walls scream?

"Parlor Tricks" is a clarion call for turnt seers, happy queers, and healing tears, harnessing horror for radical femme+ joy. Join us, and you may become enlightened, whether you wish it, or not.

CW: Assault, Death, Trauma, Violence

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þæt wæs gōd cyning

by Charlotte Lang-Bush

2
Cast Size
4
Genre
adaptation,
fantasy,
horror,
movement/physical,
tragedy,
verse

Beowulf, translated back into its vital, violent glory, in contemporary alliterative meter.

A family of women on the outskirts struggling to defend itself is faced with an intruder.
A social worker with the best intentions.
A mother.
A daughter.
A dragon. Maybe.
Unspeakable violence.

Hwæt!

CW: Intergenerational Violence

Beowulf, translated back into its vital, violent glory, in contemporary alliterative meter.

A family of women on the outskirts struggling to defend itself is faced with an intruder.
A social worker with the best intentions.
A mother.
A daughter.
A dragon. Maybe.
Unspeakable violence.

Hwæt!

CW: Intergenerational Violence