Charlotte Lang-Bush

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, Turn to Flesh Productions, and Undiscovered Countries.

Her play, "Parlor Tricks," opened the 2019 Fresh Fruit Festival and won...
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, 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 queer superhero romance games for Ubisoft Entertainment SA.

She is currently co-lead narrative designer on a magical-realist educational RPG for tweens, and a dialogue editor for Deconstructeam's latest game.

Plays

  • Parlor Tricks by Charlotte Lang-Bush
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    Cast: 
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: anachronistic, spiritualism + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fantasy, horror, melodrama, period
    Keyword: anachronistic, spiritualism, ghosts, Con Artists, Sisters, History, feminism, Bechdel Test
    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...
    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
  • A Witch Story by Charlotte Lang-Bush
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    Genre: comedy, docudrama/historic + 7 more
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    Keyword: teens, History + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, docudrama/historic, drama, experimental, fantasy, horror, immersive, period, tragedy
    Keyword: teens, History, dark comedy, memory, witches, Role Playing Games, queer romance, trauma, healing, interactive
    CW: Assault, Violence, Abuse

    This work in progress is all about accusations, recovery, and memory.

    In "A Witch Story" three timelines (2019, 1699, and 1999) are braided together by three separate strands in a homebrewed RPG concocted by four suburban teens.

    In the 1990s, four teens (Avery, Chloe, Mia, and Nichole) make a new game. It doesn't have a...
    CW: Assault, Violence, Abuse

    This work in progress is all about accusations, recovery, and memory.

    In "A Witch Story" three timelines (2019, 1699, and 1999) are braided together by three separate strands in a homebrewed RPG concocted by four suburban teens.

    In the 1990s, four teens (Avery, Chloe, Mia, and Nichole) make a new game. It doesn't have a name, but it feels realer than history somehow. In the late 1690s, the world of the Game, two teenaged girls fall in something like love. When one crosses a boundary neither has words for, it triggers one of the most fascinating and deadly witch hunts in European history. When one of the 1990s teens vanishes during a Game night, the other three are rocked by the trauma, and part ways, reunited only in 2019, when the body of their missing friend is discovered.

    The malleability of truth, the intensity of young love, and the distorting power of trauma are all huge themes in this big, messy, somewhat-interactive play.
  • þæt wæs gōd cyning by Charlotte Lang-Bush
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    Genre: adaptation, fantasy + 4 more
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    Keyword: family, matriarchy + 7 more
    Genre: adaptation, fantasy, horror, movement/physical, tragedy, verse
    Keyword: family, matriarchy, Beowulf, grendel, sorcery, dragon, children, social work, evaluation
    Beowulf, translated back into its vital, violent glory, in contemporary alliterative meter.

    A family of women+ 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
  • Haredi by Charlotte Lang-Bush
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Jewish, space travel + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, science fiction
    Keyword: Jewish, space travel, dark comedy, orthodoxy, feminist
    In the not-too-far future, the state of Israel has taken to the skies. Interrogating Zionism, observance, and homogenous representation at warp speed, it's Haredi.

    This play in progress is the story of three maintenance workers on the USS Herzl: Mica, Zohar, and Avi, all Jewish women+, and all seen as less-than enough by the Orthodox passengers to be the "Shabbos Goyim" of the...
    In the not-too-far future, the state of Israel has taken to the skies. Interrogating Zionism, observance, and homogenous representation at warp speed, it's Haredi.

    This play in progress is the story of three maintenance workers on the USS Herzl: Mica, Zohar, and Avi, all Jewish women+, and all seen as less-than enough by the Orthodox passengers to be the "Shabbos Goyim" of the ship. When the ship's rebbetzin comes to them with a troubling request, all four women+ will have to wrestle with their God to make the right choice.

    Part feminist stoner buddy comedy and part religious thriller, this all-Jewish sci-fi is the representation we need right now, bringing the wide spectrum of Jewish women+ to the future, and beyond!