Hope Lafferty

Hope Lafferty

Rural playwright and actor based on the US-Mexican border.
Founding member and artistic director of Dresden Collective (Marfa TX; a rural voice in new theatre).
Voice and creator of Hope Lafferty's Existential Crisis (podcast).
Founder and managing director of the Marfa Theatre Incubator.
Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive 2018

Plays

  • 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
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, fantasy + 1 more
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    Keyword: rural America, natural disaster + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, fantasy, period
    Keyword: rural America, natural disaster, midcentury
    A 10-minute play of 2 strangers meeting after the Category Five tornado hit Charles City IA in 1968.