Anthea Carns

Anthea Carns

Anthea Carns is a Seattle-based playwright and dramaturg whose work focuses on adaptation, remixing, and retelling though a female- and queer-focused lens. After growing up in Anchorage, AK, she received a BFA in Dramaturgy from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.

Plays

  • Are You Now or Have You Ever? by Anthea Carns
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: HUAC, lillian hellman + 6 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama, experimental
    Keyword: HUAC, lillian hellman, witch hunts, Joan of Arc, feminism, LGBTQ, house unamerican activies committee, McCarthyism
    On the eve of her testimony before HUAC, Lillian Hellman converses with Joan of Arc and Martha Dobie, wrestling with her principles and her self-preservation. Hopscotching through time and space, ARE YOU NOW ... gives the audience a loose biography of Hellman and wonders what takes precedence when we're pressed: the truth, or a good story.
  • The C-Word by Anthea Carns
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, science fiction
    Genre: comedy, science fiction
    Look, I can't make you believe in aliens, but you can't make me NOT believe in them. I'm not afraid to ask questions about the things the government doesn't want us to know. It's not a conspiracy theory if there really is a conspiracy!

    Inspired by a collaboration with science writer Jane C. Hu.
  • The Frame Job by Anthea Carns
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    What inspires an art heist? Monetary gain? Or something more ineffable?
  • TFW THE PUBLIC BATHROOM SINK HAS BETTER SECURITY THAN MY NEW IPHONE by Anthea Carns
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: bathroom
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: bathroom
    Motion-detecting sinks are truly the worst.