Allyson Dwyer

Allyson Dwyer

I'm an NJ/NYC playwright who is interested in cycles, technology, navigating the world as a woman, and how being a woman and technology intersect. Sometimes I write about these things together, sometimes separate. I'm currently working on a podcast as part of the inaugural SoundLab at The Brick, and a member of Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writer's Group.

I received my BFA...
I'm an NJ/NYC playwright who is interested in cycles, technology, navigating the world as a woman, and how being a woman and technology intersect. Sometimes I write about these things together, sometimes separate. I'm currently working on a podcast as part of the inaugural SoundLab at The Brick, and a member of Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writer's Group.

I received my BFA from Eugene Lang, The New School for Liberal Arts, in 2012, with a concentration in Writing, and my Playwriting MFA at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, MN, in 2018.

Plays

  • Nothing Remained But Voice And Bones by Allyson Dwyer
    Recommendations: 10
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    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: body dysmorphia, eating disorders + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental
    Keyword: body dysmorphia, eating disorders, self-confidence, internal monologue, elderly, overweight, dark comedy, experimental
    In second grade, Narcissus visits overweight Mel and informs her that she is cursed to search for perfection but to never find it. Unable to grapple with this truth, she spends a lifetime letting this curse define every relationship, even those between her past selves. Only Mel can find a way to break out of a cycle of self-hatred that keeps her from realizing what is truly beautiful about her body and her existence.
  • The Hub by Allyson Dwyer
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: internet, community + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, experimental, period
    Keyword: internet, community, fandom, video games, computers, Y2K, chat room, cybersex, online dating
    In the midst of puberty, 12-year-old Marissa discovers The Hub, a chat room where a group of young losers and outcasts can do or be anything, and together escape the confines of reality. Under the alias Ami-chan, Marissa begins her first relationship with a sixteen year old gamer, but soon finds that even online, it's hard to hide who she really is. As Marissa learns to grow up in this new digital frontier...
    In the midst of puberty, 12-year-old Marissa discovers The Hub, a chat room where a group of young losers and outcasts can do or be anything, and together escape the confines of reality. Under the alias Ami-chan, Marissa begins her first relationship with a sixteen year old gamer, but soon finds that even online, it's hard to hide who she really is. As Marissa learns to grow up in this new digital frontier, she will begin to understand just how much control she has over her own existence.

Recommended by Allyson Dwyer

  • Light Switch by Dave Osmundsen
    8 Mar. 2021
    “ A vulnerable time-spanning story that treats the personal as a delicate epic, much like the Victorian romance novels that Henry reads. These stories are so inherent to who he is that in sharing them he gives a piece of himself each time. This play is no different - a fearless sharing that demands its audience weigh each word, each interaction, as we come to experience the world through Henry's eyes. Very beautifully crafted and moving. ”
  • This is How you Got Me Naked or My Sexy Fairytale by Catherine Weingarten
    7 Oct. 2020
    “ A modernly funny play, but also incredibly theatrical, and wondrous, and full of surprises. Catherine does an incredible job of ruminating not just on how painful it is for young women to navigate their sexuality, but also how absurd, especially with the added complicated layer of detached, millennial irony that seems to now permeate all of our communications. It's hard not to shiver at how real some of this is, but that makes it that much more powerful! ”