Emily Breeze

Emily Breeze

Emily Breeze is a lesbian writer based in Manhattan; her plays focus on queerness, sisterhood, and mental illness. Her full-length plays include HALLMARK, HEDY, FALLOUT, and TITLE NINE, as well as a collection of short plays produced for Fast & Furious and 7x7 at The Tank. Her ensemble piece YOU OWE ME YOUR BONES was set to be performed as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2020, through a...
Emily Breeze is a lesbian writer based in Manhattan; her plays focus on queerness, sisterhood, and mental illness. Her full-length plays include HALLMARK, HEDY, FALLOUT, and TITLE NINE, as well as a collection of short plays produced for Fast & Furious and 7x7 at The Tank. Her ensemble piece YOU OWE ME YOUR BONES was set to be performed as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2020, through a commission from CalArts. She has assisted on shows at Hampstead Theatre, The National Theatre, The Public and more. She has developed work at The Sheen Center, Judson Memorial, The Tank, Vassar College, and Long Wharf Theatre. Most recently, she was named as a recipient of the 2020/21 Guilford Performing Arts Festival Artist Award. She is a current Dairy Hollow writer-in-residence, a former Long Wharf Theatre Artistic Resident and former Hot Bread Writer-in-Residence. BA Vassar College.

Plays

  • MOTHER SAYS SHE'S SHOCKED HER CHILDREN ARE UPSET (PART 5) by Emily Breeze
    Cast: 
    9–20
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: Ancient Greek Myth, genderqueer + 3 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, dark comedy, experimental, movement/physical, political, tragedy
    Keyword: Ancient Greek Myth, genderqueer, bond between sisters, violence, LGBTQ
    Things are weird in Thebes. There’s a book or maybe a podcast or maybe a TedTalk that’s been
    going around telling women they need to recalibrate. Dr. Phil keeps leaping out of the TV screen
    to help solve (or induce) familial trauma, and two sisters find themselves pulled away from their
    palace and maternal duties into the woods. The longer they’re there, the hungrier they get.
  • YOU OWE ME YOUR BONES by Emily Breeze
    Cast: 
    5–17
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    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy + 7 more
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    Keyword: Mental Health, All femme+ cast + 2 more
    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy, drama, experimental, fable/folktale, fantasy, horror, political, tragedy
    Keyword: Mental Health, All femme+ cast, magic, destructive religion
    Something weird is happening at Heartland Behavioral Health Center, or it's not and Lois is just going crazy because that's what people at behavioral health centers tend to do over Fourth of July weekend. Between between her ward-mates, the nurses who seem to switch names at random, and the TV that keeps telling her about an impending heat wave, Lois is having a hard time improving. Maybe she needs to...
    Something weird is happening at Heartland Behavioral Health Center, or it's not and Lois is just going crazy because that's what people at behavioral health centers tend to do over Fourth of July weekend. Between between her ward-mates, the nurses who seem to switch names at random, and the TV that keeps telling her about an impending heat wave, Lois is having a hard time improving. Maybe she needs to calm down. 

    Commissioned by CalArts for Edinburgh 2020.
  • ALL MY DEAD UNCLES by Emily Breeze
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    1–2
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: queer, features LGBTQ character + 3 more
    Genre: biography, comedy, dark comedy, drama, tragedy
    Keyword: queer, features LGBTQ character, comedy, A Play for One Actor, solo performance
    ALL MY DEAD UNCLES is a narcissistic nepotic self-effacing deep-diving long-winded political/familial/parodical cathartic comi-tragic backstory of one woman’s collection of dead uncles. There are run-on sentences. There are jokes. There is also a minor amount of theatrical magic, but mostly it’s a queer woman explaining how all of her uncles died in less than an hour.
  • TITLE NINE by Emily Breeze
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: queer, Non-Binary + 5 more
    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy, drama, political, tragedy
    Keyword: queer, Non-Binary, femme, women, sports, rugby, college
    Fall 2013, toxic queer friendships cause catastrophe on a collegiate rugby team. TITLE NINE is still in the process of being developed.
  • HALLMARK by Emily Breeze
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: suicide, queer + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: suicide, queer, Gay and LGBTQ, family
    Hallmark is a queer astrological exploration of family dynamics in the middle of a very weird crisis, specifically the crisis of your dad's girlfriend's suicide attempt. HALLMARK is a work in progress.
  • HEDY by Emily Breeze
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: prom, teenagers + 4 more
    Genre: adaptation, dark comedy, drama, tragedy
    Keyword: prom, teenagers, Drugs, Sex, suicide, women
    HEDY takes place the night after prom, in Tim's dad's beach house. Last night was weird and the xanax is running low and Elijah's out of rehab just in time to see his friends fall apart.
  • FALLOUT by Emily Breeze
    Cast: 
    6–11
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: women, queer + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: women, queer, sexual assault
    Kate, with the help of her cohort (including but not limited to her sister, therapist, kind-of-straight-except-for-that-one-time best friend, thesis advisor, ex-girlfriend, and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand), sorts her way through queer femme existence with a broken ankle.
  • CALL YOUR AUNT BOBBI, PLEASE by Emily Breeze
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: dark comedy
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    Keyword: funny, COVID 19 + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy
    Keyword: funny, COVID 19, COVID, A Family Comedy, a short Zoom play
    A short zoom monologue, written for Deirdre Lovejoy as part of The 24 Hour Plays. An aunt goes off and can't get back on track.
  • YOU WOULDN'T BE PRETTY IF YOUR FACE DIDN'T LOOK LIKE THAT by Emily Breeze
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: ghosts, Sisters + 1 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: ghosts, Sisters, possession
    Three sisters, one stupid rude ghost.
  • THE INTERVIEW by Emily Breeze
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: women, Politics + 1 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: women, Politics, feminism
    A new body has been chosen to complete the horrible work of 2016.
  • NECK-HAIRS by Emily Breeze
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: dark comedy, political
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    Keyword: audition monologue, comic monologue + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, political
    Keyword: audition monologue, comic monologue, dark
    A monologue from FALLOUT, Kate contemplates what it would mean to act on her weirdest subway impulses.