Laylah Muran de Assereto

Laylah Muran de Assereto

Laylah is a San Francisco area playwright, actor, director, and producer. She is the Artistic Director of Spare Stage. From 2008-2014 she produced the annual short play festival “Sheherezade,” which received a TBA nomination for Outstanding Anthology. She has had numerous short plays produced in anthology productions including with The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco, Wily West Productions,...
Laylah is a San Francisco area playwright, actor, director, and producer. She is the Artistic Director of Spare Stage. From 2008-2014 she produced the annual short play festival “Sheherezade,” which received a TBA nomination for Outstanding Anthology. She has had numerous short plays produced in anthology productions including with The Playwrights' Center of San Francisco, Wily West Productions, PianoFight, and Playland Productions. She has completed two full-length plays, THE DRAGON'S EYE, a political thriller set in a Dungeons and Dragons world, which received a staged reading with Quantum Dragon Theatre (2018), and BORDERLINE, a parlor-room drama that places Juno, Minerva, and Jupiter in the middle of a war torn region with secrets to hide and lives on the line. It received a staged reading with The SF Olympians Festival (2018).

Laylah is also a director, having directed for B8 Theatre, PCSF, SF Olympians, and Spare Stage. In addition to plays she occasionally writes short fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry. See more at https://laylahmuran.co/about/

Plays

  • Under the Milky Way in the Light of Day by Laylah Muran de Assereto
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama, horror
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    Keyword: drama, supernatural + 3 more
    Genre: drama, horror
    Keyword: drama, supernatural, death and grief, Fathers and Daughters, sibling rivalry
    While on a business trip to negotiate a critical deal, Hattie takes a side excursion to Bali to spread her father, Ray’s ashes and deal with his villa on the island. When her estranged aunt turns up unexpectedly, her entire world is turned upside down. And then Ray walks through the door, decidedly alive – or is he? The impossible events bring up conflicting emotions as she realizes her family history is more...
    While on a business trip to negotiate a critical deal, Hattie takes a side excursion to Bali to spread her father, Ray’s ashes and deal with his villa on the island. When her estranged aunt turns up unexpectedly, her entire world is turned upside down. And then Ray walks through the door, decidedly alive – or is he? The impossible events bring up conflicting emotions as she realizes her family history is more complicated than she thought and maybe miracles aren’t always good things.
  • Underneath the Above and Below by Laylah Muran de Assereto
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: drama, Sisters + 2 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: drama, Sisters, guilt, betrayal
    Nadia is a career focused electrical engineer who makes a bad decision that helps the company complete a high profile project on time. Her decision ultimately leads to the death in an explosion at the jobsite. When her sister, Sydney, a budding journalist, discovers her share in the accident, will their relationship survive?
  • The Visit by Laylah Muran de Assereto
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, fantasy
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    Keyword: drama, environment + 3 more
    Genre: drama, fantasy
    Keyword: drama, environment, Sisters, dryads, nature
    Noelle drags her sister, Ina, to their family cabin in the hopes that Ina will change her mind about selling the place and letting Noelle renovate it for her nature preservation non-profit's use. Ina is hard set about selling, she wants nothing to do with the place, it's full of memories she doesn't want to remember. But then nature comes calling and she's got other ideas for Ina.
  • Shaving Bees by Laylah Muran de Assereto
    Cast: 
    2–3
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
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    Keyword: romantic comedy, environment + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: romantic comedy, environment, bees
    In this meet-cute romantic comedy, Lorraine is a young scientist living abroad in Sydney Australia. She is helping to track bee's migration by shaving and attaching tiny trackers to them. Work she is fiercely dedicated to and takes pride in. When she runs into a childhood friend, she misunderstands his interest in her to comedic effect.