Scott Stolnack

Scott Stolnack

Scott Stolnack has published in a wide range of forms, including science fiction, travel and adventure writing, book reviews, scientific reports and peer-reviewed research, poetry, and literary fiction. His award-winning short plays have been produced in the US and UK, and are seen regularly around Seattle, while his longer dramatic work has been finalist or semifinalist in national playwriting competitions. He...
Scott Stolnack has published in a wide range of forms, including science fiction, travel and adventure writing, book reviews, scientific reports and peer-reviewed research, poetry, and literary fiction. His award-winning short plays have been produced in the US and UK, and are seen regularly around Seattle, while his longer dramatic work has been finalist or semifinalist in national playwriting competitions. He holds degrees in English (summa cum laude), biology, and fisheries ecology from the University of Washington. Between 2008 and 2019, he was a senior biologist coordinating recovery of endangered salmon in the Seattle area. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Pacific Play Company’s Next Wave Playwrights Project.

Plays

  • The Wrong Jane by Scott Stolnack
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, science fiction
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    Keyword: artificial intelligence, ai + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, science fiction
    Keyword: artificial intelligence, ai, Robots, androids
    Jane Smith encounters Robert Twelve, a domestic android, given to her (mistakenly) by some other Jane Smith’s deceased Aunt Mildred. (Winner -- Audience Favorite Award)
  • STOPPAGE TIME by Scott Stolnack
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, fantasy, radio drama, science fiction
    What if time just ... stopped?
  • SPIDER BITES by Scott Stolnack
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: alien romance, interspecies romance
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, fantasy, melodrama, science fiction
    Keyword: alien romance, interspecies romance
    An ill-fated romance between a nice young man with strange tastes and a giant spider-woman.
  • HOWARD ON THE BOUNCE: A Ten-Minute Play in Three Acts by Scott Stolnack
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: afterlife, bardo + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, fable/folktale, fantasy
    Keyword: afterlife, bardo, reincarnation, blues, fugue state
    Howard finds him- (or her-) self in the afterlife. He's not alone.
  • The Devil and the Bootleggers by Scott Stolnack
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: fable/folktale, fantasy + 1 more
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    Keyword: deal with the devil
    Genre: fable/folktale, fantasy, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: deal with the devil
    Two bootleggers, Jake (the boss) and Frankie, encounter the devil, come to collect Jake’s soul.
    (Winner -- Critic's Choice award)
  • ONE MORE THING by Scott Stolnack
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: family, love + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: family, love, art, redemption, trauma
    Sally has finally found the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption twenty-three years ago –- Lil is a tough, smart, troubled young woman, unlucky in love and suspicious of her newly discovered ‘mother.’ Add in an awkward private investigator and Lil’s clueless biological father. A serious comedy. With teeth in surprising places.
  • Grand Canyon by Scott Stolnack
    Recommendations: 6
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: nature, connection + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, experimental, fantasy
    Keyword: nature, connection, spiritual, mother
    Sam arrives at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, after driving 25 hours non-stop from Chicago, to scatter his mother's ashes. "Tender and a bit edgy" -- Eugene Register-Guard.
  • The Spot by Scott Stolnack
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: nature, war + 2 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: nature, war, redemption, veterans
    Bending time and space, a military veteran home from war hikes into a remote campsite in the wilderness, while tending to his best friend and comrade, who lies wounded on a battlefield.
  • The Dogs by Scott Stolnack
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 1 more
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    Keyword: transformation, war + 2 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, movement/physical
    Keyword: transformation, war, experimental, stream-of-consciousness
    A homeless vet with psychological issues. A privileged drunk looking for someone named Paul. Their lives intersect for a few moments in an alley at two a.m.
  • The Terrible and the Sublime by Scott Stolnack
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: aging, adult relationships
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: aging, adult relationships
    Winner -- Adjudicator's Choice Award, Spokane Playwrights' Forum Festival

    Old-timers (and ex-lovers) Kevin and Jerry haven’t seen each other in years. Kevin has retreated to a shabby single-wide mobile home in the shadow of Mount Rainier, where he reads Emerson and communes with nature. Jerry wants him to move back to the city. As the visit progresses, the history of their relationship...
    Winner -- Adjudicator's Choice Award, Spokane Playwrights' Forum Festival

    Old-timers (and ex-lovers) Kevin and Jerry haven’t seen each other in years. Kevin has retreated to a shabby single-wide mobile home in the shadow of Mount Rainier, where he reads Emerson and communes with nature. Jerry wants him to move back to the city. As the visit progresses, the history of their relationship is revealed in all its dark humor, complexity and pathos.
  • ONE THING by Scott Stolnack
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: family, Chicago + 1 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: family, Chicago, ghosts
    Selection, Akropolis Performance Lab's "New Year New Play Salon," 2019. (reading)
    Selection, Seattle Playwrights Salon, 2019 (staged reading)
    Finalist, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, 2019

    On a hot summer night on the South Side of Chicago, three siblings, estranged for many years, gather at the family home to bury their father, settle old scores, and confront...
    Selection, Akropolis Performance Lab's "New Year New Play Salon," 2019. (reading)
    Selection, Seattle Playwrights Salon, 2019 (staged reading)
    Finalist, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, 2019

    On a hot summer night on the South Side of Chicago, three siblings, estranged for many years, gather at the family home to bury their father, settle old scores, and confront old ghosts. This work explores the connections that endure within an estranged family, and the karmic burden of the past.
  • Real Change by Scott Stolnack
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: forgiveness, homelessness + 1 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: forgiveness, homelessness, spiritual
    Vince, recently released from jail, confronts Manny, the one who put him there.
    Note: Real Change is a weekly progressive street newspaper based in Seattle, Washington, USA written by professional staff and sold by self-employed vendors, many of whom are homeless. The paper provides them with an alternative to panhandling and covers a variety of social justice issues, including homelessness and poverty. [Wikipedia]
  • Upstream by Scott Stolnack
    Cast: 
    4–5
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    Genre: comedy, experimental
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    Keyword: salmon
    Genre: comedy, experimental
    Keyword: salmon
    Three salmon returning to their home river to spawn.
  • I [Heart] You by Scott Stolnack
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: marriage, Relationships
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: marriage, Relationships
    Gladys is experiencing a little chest pain. Sam, her husband of forty years, is unable to believe it. A brief, comic, bittersweet investigation of interdependence.
  • Bucket List (a monologue) by Scott Stolnack
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: monologue
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: monologue
    BRIAN (or BRIANNA) is addressing his (her) secret elementary school crush.
  • Howard in the Bardo (a monologue) by Scott Stolnack
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    Howard finds him- (or her-) self in the afterlife.
  • Three Wishes (a monologue) by Scott Stolnack
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    DEBBIE confronts her husband, who’s been out drinking.
  • Real Change (a monologue) by Scott Stolnack
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    VINCE, fresh from prison, confronts the man who put him there.
  • Spin (a monologue) by Scott Stolnack
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    CADY (any gender) describes their secret crush
  • The Suspect (a monologue) by Scott Stolnack
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: monologue
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: monologue
    DEBBIE has a little interview with the police.