Monica Flory

Monica Flory is a playwright, director, and teacher. She has enjoyed over 300 productions of her plays in the US and abroad. She especially loves capturing the rhythm of language, writing performer-centric and female-forward plays, and breathing fresh life into old stories.

Monica Flory is a playwright, director, and teacher. She has enjoyed over 300 productions of her plays in the US and abroad. She especially loves capturing the rhythm of language, writing performer-centric and female-forward plays, and breathing fresh life into old stories.

Scripts

Rosemallow House

by Monica Flory

Synopsis

On the outskirts of a sleepy American town, a mysterious mansion called Rosemallow House has fallen into disrepair and disarray. While a group of greedy grownups want to tear down the house to build a luxury mall, some clever and quirky kids use the site for adventure and exploration. With the help of the house’s haunting spirits, the kids hatch a plan to prevent town leaders from erasing the past in pursuit of...

On the outskirts of a sleepy American town, a mysterious mansion called Rosemallow House has fallen into disrepair and disarray. While a group of greedy grownups want to tear down the house to build a luxury mall, some clever and quirky kids use the site for adventure and exploration. With the help of the house’s haunting spirits, the kids hatch a plan to prevent town leaders from erasing the past in pursuit of profits.

Rosemallow House combines the creepy vibe of Stranger Things with the madcap mayhem of Scooby Doo in a challenging story where both kids and adults must come to terms with a buried past before they can build a future.

Brown-eyed Rapunzel

by Monica Flory

Synopsis

Rinnie studies fairy tales and spins a story she doesn’t need. (She’s biracial.) Her mom Karen tucks them away, especially the tough ones. (Yep, she’s white.) On a rooftop under the clouds, they must learn how to tell a new story together. A dance/shadow/time-travel poem about what it’s like to mother a multiracial family.

Rinnie studies fairy tales and spins a story she doesn’t need. (She’s biracial.) Her mom Karen tucks them away, especially the tough ones. (Yep, she’s white.) On a rooftop under the clouds, they must learn how to tell a new story together. A dance/shadow/time-travel poem about what it’s like to mother a multiracial family.

Medea

by Monica Flory

Synopsis

In this new adaptation of Euripides, Medea is a muralist who stopped painting when she became a mother. Her husband Jason has sculpted her many times over the years, but has now moved on to a new muse, Gryta, who is pregnant with his child. Surrounded by a chorus of women who are also Medea's past selves, she loses her grip on reality. When the inevitable comes to pass, can we understand Medea? Can we forgive...

In this new adaptation of Euripides, Medea is a muralist who stopped painting when she became a mother. Her husband Jason has sculpted her many times over the years, but has now moved on to a new muse, Gryta, who is pregnant with his child. Surrounded by a chorus of women who are also Medea's past selves, she loses her grip on reality. When the inevitable comes to pass, can we understand Medea? Can we forgive her?

Little Rose

by Monica Flory

Synopsis

A ghost of a soldier comes to visit Emily Dickinson so that he can inhabit her brother's body.

A ghost of a soldier comes to visit Emily Dickinson so that he can inhabit her brother's body.

Silence

by Monica Flory

Synopsis

Based on an Edgar Allen Poe story, a warrior is sent to a land that is rich with sound to fight a battle with a mysterious being.

Based on an Edgar Allen Poe story, a warrior is sent to a land that is rich with sound to fight a battle with a mysterious being.

monster

by Monica Flory

Synopsis

monster is a mix tape of fragments of the story of Frankenstein, the romance of Mary and Percy Shelley, and a contemporary story of a teenage-made monster. It plumbs the relationship between creator and created, between wildness without and within, between past and present. A beautiful nightmare with music and dreamscapes.

monster is a mix tape of fragments of the story of Frankenstein, the romance of Mary and Percy Shelley, and a contemporary story of a teenage-made monster. It plumbs the relationship between creator and created, between wildness without and within, between past and present. A beautiful nightmare with music and dreamscapes.

Sew What?

by Monica Flory

Synopsis

A post-election riff on the Emperor's New Clothes: the emperor is a joke, his daughters are mortified, his wife wants a divorce, and everyone in the kingdom stands to profit off each other's secrets. The truth will out, and when it does, so what?

A post-election riff on the Emperor's New Clothes: the emperor is a joke, his daughters are mortified, his wife wants a divorce, and everyone in the kingdom stands to profit off each other's secrets. The truth will out, and when it does, so what?

Americans in Breshkistan

by Monica Flory

Synopsis

Teenagers who are strangers find themselves in a windowless room, not knowing why they are there and how to get out. A pill provides some of the answers, and they might figure out how to get out together if they don't kill each other first.

Teenagers who are strangers find themselves in a windowless room, not knowing why they are there and how to get out. A pill provides some of the answers, and they might figure out how to get out together if they don't kill each other first.