Madison Fargo

Madison Fargo

Madison Fargo is an NYC based playwright. She has a BFA in Playwriting from The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago, where she was the recipient of the 2019 Lawrence Bundschu and Warren P. Snoddy Endowed Playwriting Prize. The prize included a year long commission with Shattered Globe Theatre. She is a 2022 Edith Wharton Writer's in Residence finalist, and her monologue THE CURTAIN SPEECH (...
Madison Fargo is an NYC based playwright. She has a BFA in Playwriting from The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago, where she was the recipient of the 2019 Lawrence Bundschu and Warren P. Snoddy Endowed Playwriting Prize. The prize included a year long commission with Shattered Globe Theatre. She is a 2022 Edith Wharton Writer's in Residence finalist, and her monologue THE CURTAIN SPEECH (published in The Avalanche Biannual) premiered at The Brick Theatre in April 2023.

Plays

  • Masticate by Madison Fargo
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: restaurant, Ensemble Comedy + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: restaurant, Ensemble Comedy, monologues for women, monologues for men, service workers
    The fragile ecosystem of a casual dining establishment gets flipped on its head by the arrival of a strange new waitress. As pressures mount and tensions arise, chaos becomes inevitable in this dark comedy about rage, desire, and providing stellar customer service as the world collapses in on itself.
  • Tiny Dead Things by Madison Fargo
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: coming of age, Psychedelic drugs + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, mystery/thriller, political, science fiction
    Keyword: coming of age, Psychedelic drugs, pop culture, l, post apocalypse USA, religious cults
    Finalist- Edith Wharton Writers in Residence

    A group of teens have escaped from the pop culture worshiping death cult they were born into. Now they are struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With a limited food supply and an incoming flood, they must ask themselves, what can we consume when there is nothing left to consume, and how can we grow up on a planet that's already dead?
  • Bad Luck (And Terrible Timing) by Madison Fargo
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, fantasy
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    Keyword: apocalypse, social media influence + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, fantasy
    Keyword: apocalypse, social media influence, ensemble cast
    The aftermath of a horrific plane crash finds four people falling in and out of each other's lives in increasingly spectacular and bizarre ways. Haunted by the ghosts of the deceased, a rapidly changing climate and visions of the approaching apocalypse, they are forced to question if they deserved to live while others perished, and if they survived the impossible only to die in the inevitable.
  • Jeff and the Dead Girl by Madison Fargo
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: loneliness, reality bending + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, farce
    Keyword: loneliness, reality bending, ghosts, kink
    Jeff seems like a totally normal guy, except that his job is going to people’s funerals and pretending he knew the deceased. Today, he is the boyfriend of Emily Dawson, a young woman who recently committed suicide. He was not expecting her to jump out of her casket and ask for his help. Jeff is thrown into the twisted world of the Dawson Family, where truth and reality are often muddled, and the family dog...
    Jeff seems like a totally normal guy, except that his job is going to people’s funerals and pretending he knew the deceased. Today, he is the boyfriend of Emily Dawson, a young woman who recently committed suicide. He was not expecting her to jump out of her casket and ask for his help. Jeff is thrown into the twisted world of the Dawson Family, where truth and reality are often muddled, and the family dog looks an awful lot like Dad. Jeff must find the space between fantasy and reality if he is to reunite Emily with her parents, and get her the hell out of his apartment.
  • Good Samaritans by Madison Fargo
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: dysfunctional family, destructive religion + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: dysfunctional family, destructive religion, American suburbs
    For this prodigal daughter, returning home may have been a big mistake. Her family are your basic church-going, God-fearing people. Except that her brother’s face is covered in mysterious cuts and bruises, and Mom’s new beau just so happens to be a nineteen year old boy, sitting naked in their living room. A pitch black comedy, this family portrait depicts a crisis of faith, a desire for pain, and the surprising endurance of love.
  • The Curtain Speech- A Monologue by Madison Fargo
    Recommendations: 6
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: absurd comedy, monologue
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: absurd comedy, monologue
    It's opening night. The Playwright steps onstage to give his curtain speech. Things do not go as planned.
  • Funny Valentine by Madison Fargo
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    A tiny apartment floating out in space. Black holes rip the sky open, bleeding into the idyllic life of Karen and Rachel. In a matter of minutes, a world is created and destroyed.
  • Dawn Soap Commercial- A Monologue by Madison Fargo
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    Not just for dishes.