Mary Beth McNulty

Mary Beth McNulty

Mary Beth McNulty is Vermont-based educator, playwright, and co-founder of the playwrights’ theatre, Complications Company with Laura Roald. Recent works include developing her full-length play, Fixed Point with Little Candle Productions, Los Angeles; performances of Making Babies & Other Complications with Complications Company; Noh Mommy, as part of the 2016 Burlington Fringe Festival, Bird’s Nest, in the...
Mary Beth McNulty is Vermont-based educator, playwright, and co-founder of the playwrights’ theatre, Complications Company with Laura Roald. Recent works include developing her full-length play, Fixed Point with Little Candle Productions, Los Angeles; performances of Making Babies & Other Complications with Complications Company; Noh Mommy, as part of the 2016 Burlington Fringe Festival, Bird’s Nest, in the 2016 Burlington Wrecking Ball; Ifs and Oughts, at the 2016 Valley Players Ten Fest; and her plays, Baggage and Gesso were developed with U-32 High School, for the 2015 and 2019 Fringe Festival in Scotland. Her ten-minute plays Banana Gun, Ifs and Oughts, Frowny-Face Emoji, and Chasing Olivia Through the Jungle were performed in the 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2019 Boston Theatre Marathons. Mary Beth’s plays have been performed in Los Angeles and Romania. Mary Beth is a member of the Dramatist Guild.

Plays

  • Banana Gun
    Molly explores the benefits and limits of her new superhero powers in this short comedy about gun violence.

  • Frowny Face Emoji
    An office community comes together when their co-worker returns to work after a tragedy.
  • The Mayor's Dead Dog
    After a tragic car accident, two sisters try to reconnect.
  • Scalies
    Two architectural drawings consider their place in the world.
  • Doe
    Two people wake to discover they have no memory of how they arrived together in a morgue.
  • Making Babies
    A knocked up mosquito considers her life as a soon-to-be mom with her baby daddy.
  • Chasing Olivia Through the Jungle
    A mother reunites with her kidnapped daughter as an adult.
  • Dingoes Ate Your Baby
    Roz and Ted handle Roz's post-partum depression by pretending they've kidnapped their new baby.
  • Ifs and Oughts
    Part break-up play, part philosophical debate, Jack and Amy consider canceling their wedding in this comedy. Ifs and oughts, potato, potahto, will they call the whole thing off?
  • Baggage
    Performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the New England Drama Festival, this play for young audiences presents the realistic stories of kids in the foster care system. Blending comedy and drama, the play is a fantasy with a lot that's "all too real." Can easily incorporate details from your own state's foster system.

    "Structurally akin to A Chorus Line, the...
    Performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the New England Drama Festival, this play for young audiences presents the realistic stories of kids in the foster care system. Blending comedy and drama, the play is a fantasy with a lot that's "all too real." Can easily incorporate details from your own state's foster system.

    "Structurally akin to A Chorus Line, the emotional heart of Baggage lies within the honestly drawn snapshots of
    character." Reviewed by Joshua Clarke, Broadway Baby