Sophie McIntosh

Sophie is a New York—based playwright whose work has been developed by Good Apples Collective, the Chain Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, the Boston Theater Marathon, and the Unicorn Theatre. She is a proud graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and holds an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.

Sophie is a New York—based playwright whose work has been developed by Good Apples Collective, the Chain Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, the Boston Theater Marathon, and the Unicorn Theatre. She is a proud graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and holds an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.

Scripts

macbitches

by Sophie McIntosh

Synopsis

*Now published and available for licensing via Theatrical Rights Worldwide!*

When a freshman is unexpectedly given the coveted role of Lady Macbeth, a few upperclassmen actresses invite her over to “celebrate” her casting and reassert their positions at the top of the theatre department’s hierarchy. As the Fireball and Svedka flow, the girls interrogate their own sense of ambition as well as the power...

*Now published and available for licensing via Theatrical Rights Worldwide!*

When a freshman is unexpectedly given the coveted role of Lady Macbeth, a few upperclassmen actresses invite her over to “celebrate” her casting and reassert their positions at the top of the theatre department’s hierarchy. As the Fireball and Svedka flow, the girls interrogate their own sense of ambition as well as the power structures that have shaped their theatrical education.

Rights inquires and requests for perusal copies of the script may now be submitted via www.theatricalrights.com/show/macbitches/

cunnicularii

by Sophie McIntosh

Synopsis

Mary is an expectant mother. Mary gives birth to a rabbit. Mary must adjust her expectations.

A piercing fable about the wonder and brutality of motherhood, cunnicularii interrogates the crushing pressure new parents face and questions how much of ourselves we can truly give to our offspring.

Mary is an expectant mother. Mary gives birth to a rabbit. Mary must adjust her expectations.

A piercing fable about the wonder and brutality of motherhood, cunnicularii interrogates the crushing pressure new parents face and questions how much of ourselves we can truly give to our offspring.

Eleven Weeks of Nuclear Summer

by Sophie McIntosh

Synopsis

When an unfortunately-timed nuclear apocalypse strands the staff of Camp Aster's in the Maine wilderness, the team of young women must fight for survival while navigating shifting leadership hierarchies and disaster after endless disaster.

When an unfortunately-timed nuclear apocalypse strands the staff of Camp Aster's in the Maine wilderness, the team of young women must fight for survival while navigating shifting leadership hierarchies and disaster after endless disaster.

benevolent

by Sophie McIntosh

Synopsis

In 1917, a group of “fallen women” confined to the Inwood House reformatory reckon with their own power and consider how far they might go to break free.

(Content warnings for graphic sexual situations, abortion, and violence.)

(Formerly titled "light as light.")

In 1917, a group of “fallen women” confined to the Inwood House reformatory reckon with their own power and consider how far they might go to break free.

(Content warnings for graphic sexual situations, abortion, and violence.)

(Formerly titled "light as light.")

ROAD KILLS

by Sophie McIntosh

Synopsis

What happens to the stains you can’t get out? Owen is a roadkill collector. Jaki was busted for drunk driving. And for the next six Saturdays, they’re stuck with each other. As they traverse the highways of Wisconsin, they connect over their common ground as outsiders, challenge each other on issues of faith and family, and careen towards a collision that threatens to shatter them both. Road Kills forces us to...

What happens to the stains you can’t get out? Owen is a roadkill collector. Jaki was busted for drunk driving. And for the next six Saturdays, they’re stuck with each other. As they traverse the highways of Wisconsin, they connect over their common ground as outsiders, challenge each other on issues of faith and family, and careen towards a collision that threatens to shatter them both. Road Kills forces us to confront the long-lasting repercussions of abuse — and urges us not to look away. *CW for violence against animals, sexual abuse, alcoholism, and suicide.*

cityscrape

by Sophie McIntosh

Synopsis

A play about Bad Art Friends, that feeling when your college roommates are getting engaged and you’ve never actually had a boyfriend, and the question of whether sharing a vibrator collection means you’re officially co-dependent.

Now licensed by Theatrical Rights Worldwide!

A play about Bad Art Friends, that feeling when your college roommates are getting engaged and you’ve never actually had a boyfriend, and the question of whether sharing a vibrator collection means you’re officially co-dependent.

Now licensed by Theatrical Rights Worldwide!

the after wife

by Sophie McIntosh

Synopsis

It’s 1963, and Nora is the perfect housewife. She was built to be. The most authentically humanoid robot prototype yet created, she’s undergoing a trial run in the home of robotic engineer Martin and his teenage kids, Ruth and Wally. But Ruth can’t get over how much Nora looks like her own mother Lillian, who has disappeared without a trace. Martin faces surging pressure from his employers to make Nora the new...

It’s 1963, and Nora is the perfect housewife. She was built to be. The most authentically humanoid robot prototype yet created, she’s undergoing a trial run in the home of robotic engineer Martin and his teenage kids, Ruth and Wally. But Ruth can’t get over how much Nora looks like her own mother Lillian, who has disappeared without a trace. Martin faces surging pressure from his employers to make Nora the new and improved model for motherhood, and Ruth is forced to work against her father and the powerful corporation behind him as she desperately tries to track down her real mother.

what if everyone lives

by Sophie McIntosh

Synopsis

When an adaptation of The Seagull is derailed mid-performance after an actor has an aneurysm onstage, audience members with medical training leap to provide first aid. As the shaken cast attempts to reassure each other, each person present grapples with twin crises of purpose and powerlessness while waiting for updates from the ER on their friend's condition. "what if everyone lives" is a play about being a...

When an adaptation of The Seagull is derailed mid-performance after an actor has an aneurysm onstage, audience members with medical training leap to provide first aid. As the shaken cast attempts to reassure each other, each person present grapples with twin crises of purpose and powerlessness while waiting for updates from the ER on their friend's condition. "what if everyone lives" is a play about being a doctor, and being an actor, and being a witness to a tragedy, and being capable and knowledgeable and helpless.

the cutoff

by Sophie McIntosh

Synopsis

Two patients share their hopes and fears while awaiting an unusual medical procedure.

Two patients share their hopes and fears while awaiting an unusual medical procedure.

queen of the blacktar plains

by Sophie McIntosh

Synopsis

13-year-old Rhya’s best friend Katrina has been abducted from the parking lot of a Wisconsin shopping mall, and Rhya decides to stake out the site she was taken from. Sloane, a twenty-something employee at the mall's sunglasses kiosk, decides to stick around and watch over her. As more details about the lead-up to Katrina's kidnapping emerge, Sloane must weigh her desire to protect Rhya's innocence against her...

13-year-old Rhya’s best friend Katrina has been abducted from the parking lot of a Wisconsin shopping mall, and Rhya decides to stake out the site she was taken from. Sloane, a twenty-something employee at the mall's sunglasses kiosk, decides to stick around and watch over her. As more details about the lead-up to Katrina's kidnapping emerge, Sloane must weigh her desire to protect Rhya's innocence against her desire to protect Rhya from the brutal and sickening realities she faces simply by existing in the body of an adolsecent woman.

kill two birds

by Sophie McIntosh

Synopsis

Strix sees signs in the birds. Mel learns to read them. Bird hits the window. Bad things are coming.

Strix sees signs in the birds. Mel learns to read them. Bird hits the window. Bad things are coming.

4044 4040 4409

by Sophie McIntosh

Synopsis

PEACHES, Yellow Flesh. PLUMS, Black. PEARS, Bartlett/Williams/WBC.

PEACHES, Yellow Flesh. PLUMS, Black. PEARS, Bartlett/Williams/WBC.