Amelia Merrill

Amelia Merrill is a playwright, dramaturg, producer, and arts journalist based in New York. A former editor at American Theatre magazine, her writing has also been published in New York Theatre Guide, 3Views, Bitch Media, TheaterMania, Hey Alma, and more. She has worked as a production and new-play dramaturg, a stage manager, and a teaching assistant. Her playwriting has been developed with Paper Kraine Productions and LakeHouseRanchDotPNG and has been staged at A.R.T./NY. In her other life, she's a social media manager and an adjunct professor of communications. And a dog mom! B.A. Dickinson College, M.S. Newhouse School at Syracuse University.

Amelia Merrill is a playwright, dramaturg, producer, and arts journalist based in New York. A former editor at American Theatre magazine, her writing has also been published in New York Theatre Guide, 3Views, Bitch Media, TheaterMania, Hey Alma, and more. She has worked as a production and new-play dramaturg, a stage manager, and a teaching assistant. Her playwriting has been developed with Paper Kraine Productions and LakeHouseRanchDotPNG and has been staged at A.R.T./NY. In her other life, she's a social media manager and an adjunct professor of communications. And a dog mom! B.A. Dickinson College, M.S. Newhouse School at Syracuse University.

Scripts

I don't know, then we die

by Amelia Merrill

1
Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy

Mona and Claire, best friends for life, lock themselves in the girls' bathroom and get ready for one last school dance before the climate apocalypse ruins everything — including their makeup. Claire knows a secret about the mysterious and deadly Floodwater Flu ravaging their town, but Mona might be too self-absorbed to listen. "I don't know, then we die" is a one-act two-hander about teenage girls who just want...

Mona and Claire, best friends for life, lock themselves in the girls' bathroom and get ready for one last school dance before the climate apocalypse ruins everything — including their makeup. Claire knows a secret about the mysterious and deadly Floodwater Flu ravaging their town, but Mona might be too self-absorbed to listen. "I don't know, then we die" is a one-act two-hander about teenage girls who just want to know if the end of the world is for real this time.

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Dear Kitty (or, not another anne frank play): a travesty

by Amelia Merrill

Cast Size
5
Genre
adaptation,
biography,
docudrama/historic,
drama,
experimental,
fable/folktale,
fantasy,
movement/physical,
tragedy,
verse

Trapped somewhere unknown and unescapable, a girl sits at a desk: writing and erasing, creating and destroying. Five women simulate the life (and afterlife) of Anne Frank, but when it comes time for one to be sacrificed, they must decide who the real Anne is—or if such a determination is even possible. "dear kitty" is a dance-theatre piece in verse inspired by Greek tragedy, Anne Frank and Charlotte Salomon...

Trapped somewhere unknown and unescapable, a girl sits at a desk: writing and erasing, creating and destroying. Five women simulate the life (and afterlife) of Anne Frank, but when it comes time for one to be sacrificed, they must decide who the real Anne is—or if such a determination is even possible. "dear kitty" is a dance-theatre piece in verse inspired by Greek tragedy, Anne Frank and Charlotte Salomon, and the early-pandemic experience of being trapped in your childhood bedroom.

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