Fiona Gorry-Hines

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...
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 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 BA from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study where she concentrated in “Construction and Analysis of the Play” and is currently pursuing her MFA in playwriting at Columbia University.

Plays

  • It Will Rise Soon Enough by Fiona Gorry-Hines
    Cast: 
    8–25
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: climate, labor + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, science fiction
    Keyword: climate, labor, class, climate change, environmental crisis, flood
    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...
    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
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, fantasy, immersive
    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
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: full length, family
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: full length, family
    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
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: mythology, Depression + 6 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: mythology, Depression, mother and daughter, 1980s, Ireland, selkie, teenagers, ocean
    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
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: roommates, birds + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, romantic comedy
    Keyword: roommates, birds, pets
    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.