Fiona Gorry-Hines

Fiona Gorry-Hines (she/they) is a playwright and multimedia theatre artist. She was raised in Lexington, MA with five siblings and caught the theatre bug when she started acting as a child and realized she could get a lot of attention for it all while playing make-believe well past the socially acceptable age. Their play Of The Sea was workshopped at Dixon Place and staged at Access Theatre and was a finalist for the inaugural Thomas Wolfe International Play Prize. Other produced work includes Bug in Mouth Disease (Larking House), It Will Rise Soon Enough (Columbia University), You Can’t Touch My Sister I Ate In the Womb! (Columbia University) Our House (Gallatin Theatre Troupe), Helena’s Bird (Emerging Artists Theatre, Acorn Theatre), and Bruised (Midtown International Theatre Festival)...

Fiona Gorry-Hines (she/they) is a playwright and multimedia theatre artist. She was raised in Lexington, MA with five siblings and caught the theatre bug when she started acting as a child and realized she could get a lot of attention for it all while playing make-believe well past the socially acceptable age. Their play Of The Sea was workshopped at Dixon Place and staged at Access Theatre and was a finalist for the inaugural Thomas Wolfe International Play Prize. Other produced work includes Bug in Mouth Disease (Larking House), It Will Rise Soon Enough (Columbia University), You Can’t Touch My Sister I Ate In the Womb! (Columbia University) Our House (Gallatin Theatre Troupe), Helena’s Bird (Emerging Artists Theatre, Acorn Theatre), and Bruised (Midtown International Theatre Festival). She received her MFA in playwriting at Columbia University and is currently based in Los Angeles.

Scripts

Roost

by Fiona Gorry-Hines

Synopsis

A group of employees at a massive poultry producer stages a production of their late co-workers musical adaptation of “The Brementown Musicians,” which leads to unexpected conversations and consequences among the company's labor force.

A group of employees at a massive poultry producer stages a production of their late co-workers musical adaptation of “The Brementown Musicians,” which leads to unexpected conversations and consequences among the company's labor force.

It Will Rise Soon Enough

by Fiona Gorry-Hines

Synopsis

2030. A mother and her child tread water with a delivery person in a flooding Greenwich Village apartment during a category four hurricane. 2060. A group of rogue individuals struggle to find new identities and homes in the wreckage of once familiar landscapes. 2090. The firstborn of a self-governed settlement questions whether to follow his own will or the will of his people. It Will Rise Soon Enough is a cross...

2030. A mother and her child tread water with a delivery person in a flooding Greenwich Village apartment during a category four hurricane. 2060. A group of rogue individuals struggle to find new identities and homes in the wreckage of once familiar landscapes. 2090. The firstborn of a self-governed settlement questions whether to follow his own will or the will of his people. It Will Rise Soon Enough is a cross-generational work of speculative theatre that examines how we might be forced to rethink our relationships to labor and capital as it pertains to our identities as we face increasingly dramatic changes to our climate.

You Can't Touch My Sister I Ate In The Womb!

by Fiona Gorry-Hines

Synopsis

In the unbearable state of frustration and loneliness that comes with “becoming a woman” Viola calls to the twin sister that she absorbed in the womb and thus Olimpia is born. Leaving Olimpia to take over her life in high school, Viola embarks on a journey to Europe where she hopes she can be mysterious and maybe even a little bit sexy somehow. As the play splits open, both twins encounter the painful untruths...

In the unbearable state of frustration and loneliness that comes with “becoming a woman” Viola calls to the twin sister that she absorbed in the womb and thus Olimpia is born. Leaving Olimpia to take over her life in high school, Viola embarks on a journey to Europe where she hopes she can be mysterious and maybe even a little bit sexy somehow. As the play splits open, both twins encounter the painful untruths of the myth of virginity and learn to consider consent, attention, and what it means to try and consider the wants and needs of others when you’re still trying to figure out who the hell you are.

Bug In Mouth Disease

by Fiona Gorry-Hines

Synopsis

Six siblings meet for lunch to discuss a huge family problem: three of them have bugs coming out of their mouths. In their attempt to discover the reasons why this impossible medical phenomenon could be ailing them, the siblings uncover and weaponize truths about one another that have been held back for years.

Six siblings meet for lunch to discuss a huge family problem: three of them have bugs coming out of their mouths. In their attempt to discover the reasons why this impossible medical phenomenon could be ailing them, the siblings uncover and weaponize truths about one another that have been held back for years.

Of The Sea

by Fiona Gorry-Hines

Synopsis

Aoife searches for magic everywhere—in her books, in herself, and especially in the waters that surround her home on the Arranmore Islands of Ireland. The lore of the Selkies tells of half-human, half-seal creatures kidnapped off the shores and forced into marriage and child rearing and haunts Aoife as she reads one story over and over. A single discovery about her distant and single mother’s mysterious past is...

Aoife searches for magic everywhere—in her books, in herself, and especially in the waters that surround her home on the Arranmore Islands of Ireland. The lore of the Selkies tells of half-human, half-seal creatures kidnapped off the shores and forced into marriage and child rearing and haunts Aoife as she reads one story over and over. A single discovery about her distant and single mother’s mysterious past is all it takes to send Aoife spiraling on a journey to find the truth about her mother, the Selkies, and the existence of magic.

Helena's Bird

by Fiona Gorry-Hines

Synopsis

Sometimes you just really, really want something. When Helena brings home a pet cockatiel, her roommates have trouble believing the bird isn't about something more.

Sometimes you just really, really want something. When Helena brings home a pet cockatiel, her roommates have trouble believing the bird isn't about something more.