Hope Lafferty

Hope Lafferty

Founder and producer, CrashMat Productions (2022–)
Instructor of Writing, Angelo State University (2018-2019), UC San Diego (2020-)
Founder and managing director, Marfa Theatre Incubator (2018-2020)
Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive (2018)
Member, the Dramatists Guild of America (2019-)
Birth mother, FRINGE MARFA (2020)
Professional Training Program, Dell'Arte...
Founder and producer, CrashMat Productions (2022–)
Instructor of Writing, Angelo State University (2018-2019), UC San Diego (2020-)
Founder and managing director, Marfa Theatre Incubator (2018-2020)
Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive (2018)
Member, the Dramatists Guild of America (2019-)
Birth mother, FRINGE MARFA (2020)
Professional Training Program, Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre (2021-2022)

Plays

  • Negotiation (aka The Prius Plays) by Hope Lafferty
    Cast: 
    2–6
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    Genre: comedy, political
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    Keyword: Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, political
    Keyword: Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning, man vs. machine, smart technology, Border issues, borderlands, boundaries, setting boundaries
    Told through two-actor scenes between a person and their car, this 3-act microplay explores boundary issues and border politics through machine learning, artificial intelligence, and smart-ass technology. The "negotiations" involve the bargaining of a designated driver to fill their car beyond capacity, the jealousy arising after an urgent request to drive a pregnant woman to the hospital, and the...
    Told through two-actor scenes between a person and their car, this 3-act microplay explores boundary issues and border politics through machine learning, artificial intelligence, and smart-ass technology. The "negotiations" involve the bargaining of a designated driver to fill their car beyond capacity, the jealousy arising after an urgent request to drive a pregnant woman to the hospital, and the debate over what citizens deserve to be helped and who—or what—drives that decision.
  • Our Bodies, Our Shelves by Hope Lafferty
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: comedy, political
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    Keyword: feminist, medical + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, political
    Keyword: feminist, medical, health and wellness, gynecology, personal agency, period poverty, abortion politics, class race and gender politics, a woman's right to choose, American medicine
    a Vagina Monologue for the Post-Roe Era

    This staged 10-minute piece demystifies a woman's most dreaded medical appointment by chronicling the experience of a young woman teaching medical students how to perform pelvic exams.

  • Four A.M. Feeding by Hope Lafferty
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: pregnancy, women + 5 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: pregnancy, women, contraception, Cannabis, grief, divorce, In-vitro fertilization
    The predawn existential crisis of a 40-something nulliparous insomniac in conversation with her second husband after a mutual friend discloses her latest failed round of IVF.
  • Chucktown by Hope Lafferty
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, fantasy + 1 more
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    Keyword: rural America, natural disaster
    Genre: comedy, fantasy, period
    Keyword: rural America, natural disaster
    A 10-minute play of 2 strangers meeting after the Category Five tornado hit Charles City IA in 1968.