Audrey Lang

Audrey Lang

Audrey Lang (she/her/hers) is a lesbian Jewish playwright born and raised in New York City. Her play YOU HAVE TO PROMISE received a developmental workshop and reading via Zoom in the 2020 Pride Plays. An audio excerpt of LILY INEFFABLE was recorded with the Jewish Plays Project, for which it is a 2022 Finalist. Audrey has worked on BIRDIE AND CAIT AND THE BOOK OF LIFE as a member of The Workshop Theater's...
Audrey Lang (she/her/hers) is a lesbian Jewish playwright born and raised in New York City. Her play YOU HAVE TO PROMISE received a developmental workshop and reading via Zoom in the 2020 Pride Plays. An audio excerpt of LILY INEFFABLE was recorded with the Jewish Plays Project, for which it is a 2022 Finalist. Audrey has worked on BIRDIE AND CAIT AND THE BOOK OF LIFE as a member of The Workshop Theater's Writers Intensive and Original Idiots' group The Generator. She has been a semi-finalist for The Civilians' R&D Group, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and Jewish Plays Project's Jewish Playwriting Contest. Other favorites: two short plays at Theatre503 in London and two Viral Monologues with The 24 Hour Plays. Audrey is an associate member of the Dramatists Guild, a member of Ring of Keys, and was a 2020 Theatremacher with the Alliance for Jewish Theatre. She was also a 2017 resident at SPACE on Ryder Farm and is an alumna of the MCC Theater Youth Company Playwriting Lab. She has taught playwriting at her former high school, Bronx Science. B.A. Theatre Studies, Ithaca College. www.audreyglang.com

Plays

  • You Have To Promise by Audrey Lang
    Recommendations: 12
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: family, lesbian teenagers + 6 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: family, lesbian teenagers, stepmother, half-siblings, love, dreams, homophobia, Upstate New York
    [PRIDE PLAYS 2020] Seventeen-year-olds Maeve and Nessa have been best friends their entire lives. Three months ago, they discovered what they had was more than a friendship. When they decide to come out to their families together, Nessa's father kicks her out and the girls scramble to come up with a solution, all the while lying to Maeve's stepmother Rachael and trying to dream their way to being grown-up.
  • Birdie and Cait and the Book of Life by Audrey Lang
    Recommendations: 7
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: adventure, drama + 6 more
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    Keyword: London, Jewish identity + 8 more
    Genre: adventure, drama, fable/folktale, faith-based, fantasy, holiday, movement/physical, musical
    Keyword: London, Jewish identity, Sisters, yom kippur, grief, loss, homophobia, queer, magical realism, Rosh Hashanah
    [JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT FINALIST 2023] “On Rosh Hashanah it is inscribed, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed.” When Birdie’s mother dies and her older sister Annika relocates her from New York to London, the sacred Jewish words she’s heard year after year during the High Holidays start to ring truer than ever before. She enlists her new friend Caitriona to help her on a quest to find the Book of Life, as Annika and...
    [JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT FINALIST 2023] “On Rosh Hashanah it is inscribed, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed.” When Birdie’s mother dies and her older sister Annika relocates her from New York to London, the sacred Jewish words she’s heard year after year during the High Holidays start to ring truer than ever before. She enlists her new friend Caitriona to help her on a quest to find the Book of Life, as Annika and Cait’s sister Siobhan struggle to parent their teenage siblings. But can Birdie really pull off the miracle she’s hoping for before the gates close on Yom Kippur?

    New draft as of 06.01.2021
  • alex getting better by Audrey Lang
    Recommendations: 6
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    Cast: 
    3–6
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    Genre: drama, radio drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: sexual assault, college + 7 more
    Genre: drama, radio drama, zoom
    Keyword: sexual assault, college, middle school, memory, repressed memories, young women, New York City, Ithaca, Therapy
    [U.K. PREMIERE JUNE 2022] College sophomore Alex tries to sort through the reemergence of an old trauma as she spends time with middle school friends, revisits former stomping grounds, and with help from her therapist, finds the words for what happened to her in seventh grade.

    **Not written as a Zoom play, but translates easily to an online platform.
  • Balancé by Audrey Lang
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama, holiday
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    Keyword: ballet, dance + 8 more
    Genre: drama, holiday
    Keyword: ballet, dance, teenage girls, lesbian couple, christmas, hanukkah, new years, Depression, eating disorder, teacher
    Does life move on while you sit on the couch and watch "Dance Moms"? Ivy's mom Leigh, who used to be a vibrant high school drama teacher, lies in her bedroom all day most days, depressed after losing her job. But Ivy's starting to think that when she flicks through the channels mindlessly, it's not as different as she'd like to believe. While her best friends Kaley and Soph...
    Does life move on while you sit on the couch and watch "Dance Moms"? Ivy's mom Leigh, who used to be a vibrant high school drama teacher, lies in her bedroom all day most days, depressed after losing her job. But Ivy's starting to think that when she flicks through the channels mindlessly, it's not as different as she'd like to believe. While her best friends Kaley and Soph rehearse two ballet performances, and her older sister Nicole pursues a romance, Ivy struggles to find something, anything, to grab onto--whether it's the hope of returning to dance class, the possibility of getting her driver's license, or the remote chance that maybe her mom will get better in time for next year's Nutcracker.
  • Lily Ineffable by Audrey Lang
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: adaptation, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: Jewish, mythology + 5 more
    Genre: adaptation, drama, fable/folktale, faith-based, fantasy
    Keyword: Jewish, mythology, lilith, lesbian couple, Broadway, child actors, sexual assault
    [JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT FINALIST 2022] In the last two weeks of her run in the kids' ensemble of "Matilda," Lily makes the amulet of the Jewish mythological figure Lilith for a social studies project. She feels a kinship with Lilith that she can't explain to her friends, her sister, or her sister's girlfriend--a kinship she doesn't understand herself until she learns that Adam, the...
    [JEWISH PLAYS PROJECT FINALIST 2022] In the last two weeks of her run in the kids' ensemble of "Matilda," Lily makes the amulet of the Jewish mythological figure Lilith for a social studies project. She feels a kinship with Lilith that she can't explain to her friends, her sister, or her sister's girlfriend--a kinship she doesn't understand herself until she learns that Adam, the adult cast member she used to have a crush on, is coming back to "Matilda" as an emergency sub.
  • Karate Girls Are The Toughest by Audrey Lang
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama, movement/physical
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    Keyword: karate, teenage girls + 6 more
    Genre: drama, movement/physical
    Keyword: karate, teenage girls, New York City, fight choreography, queer, powerful women, martial arts, female athletes
    In the girls' changing room of a karate dojo in New York City, Addie, Lea, Rowen, Stella, and Joni are each other's fiercest competitors and fiercest supporters, maneuvering through tournaments, crushes, and the NYC high school application process.
  • Indoor Voices by Audrey Lang
    Cast: 
    6–8
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: elementary school, motherhood + 6 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: elementary school, motherhood, lesbian moms, lesbian couple, kids, children, students, teachers
    Sophie and Carina are having a Kid. Sophie’s fifth-grade students Janie and Avery are having their first crushes...on each other. When Janie’s twin brother Dylan and his best friend Noah push Janie and Avery too far, the girls have to figure out what this means for their friendship (which could be something more), and Sophie has to decide how much of herself she’s willing to reveal to show her students it’s okay to be themselves.
  • Rye Bread by Audrey Lang
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: internship, lesbian moms + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: internship, lesbian moms, cousins, Jewish, half Jewish, LGBTQ, Nick Kyrgios, Tennis, rabbi, New York City
    Rye (short for Riley) is a precocious sort-of high school graduate, trying to find meaning and purpose in the summer internship she's been forced to do for her cousin Tessa to make up the credit for her failed Econ class. But what meaning and purpose is there really to an office with rats running around and a fellow intern who won't let her so much as sit down at the computer? Her moms "Dr. Kate...
    Rye (short for Riley) is a precocious sort-of high school graduate, trying to find meaning and purpose in the summer internship she's been forced to do for her cousin Tessa to make up the credit for her failed Econ class. But what meaning and purpose is there really to an office with rats running around and a fellow intern who won't let her so much as sit down at the computer? Her moms "Dr. Kate" and "Rabbi Rachel" want her to stick it out, but Rye's not sure that even a goal as important as graduating high school can get her through this summer. 
  • Dear Anna by Audrey Lang
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: volleyball, anxiety + 7 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: volleyball, anxiety, Sisters, family, school, sports, lesbian couple, teacher, Coach
    Anna is Mallaigh's lifeline--her big sister, her best friend, the one person she trusts more than anyone else, the only one who can calm her down and understand her. But as Anna grows up, she starts to pull away from Mallaigh in favor of other relationships. Liz, a teacher at Anna and Mallaigh's high school, becomes the fulcrum in a delicate balancing act of secrets.
  • a/in/the/of by Audrey Lang
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, young audiences
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    Keyword: Sisters, graduation + 3 more
    Genre: drama, young audiences
    Keyword: Sisters, graduation, middle school, high school, college
    Sisters Jaden and Miranda discover their relationship is strained when they return Jaden's books to the campus bookstore ahead of Jaden's college graduation and Miranda's soon-to-follow middle school graduation.
  • Sierra Nevada by Audrey Lang
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: high school teacher, good teacher + 2 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: high school teacher, good teacher, teenage girls, child neglect
    Sierra's teacher tries to find out why she "BS'ed" a writing assignment on the story of her name, and what might be going on at home.
  • who's mom and who's mama by Audrey Lang
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: lesbian couple, Lesbian + 7 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: lesbian couple, Lesbian, women, new Moms, gay moms, motherhood, baby, adoption, gay adoption
    Sasha and Noelle, about to adopt their first child, deal with their hopes and anxieties far from home.
  • something you might not know about me by Audrey Lang
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, radio drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: sexual assault, Therapy + 4 more
    Genre: drama, radio drama, zoom
    Keyword: sexual assault, Therapy, women, college students, Childhood, memory
    Part 1 of ALEX GETTING BETTER, originally written as a stand-alone ten-minute play. After remembering a sexual assault from her childhood, Alex, now a college student, meets up with her middle school friend Jennie on their winter break to get some answers.

    ** Not written as a Zoom play, but translates easily to an online platform.
  • For This Panic Attack by Audrey Lang
    Recommendations: 7
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: anxiety, panic attacks + 3 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: anxiety, panic attacks, mother daughter relationship, lesbian parents, New York City
    For This Panic Attack takes the audience through Nix's panic attack on her walk through New York City to meet her wife, Milo, at their daughter Hannie's school for the school musical.
  • The Real Witch by Audrey Lang
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: halloween, witches + 4 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, fantasy, holiday, young audiences
    Keyword: halloween, witches, trick-or-treating, costumes, kids, candy
    12-year-old veteran trick-or-treater Sydney meets first-timer Bel when they run directly into each other, both dressed as witches, on Halloween. Sydney's worried that this will be her last year trick-or-treating, but Bel has a secret that will change Sydney's mind. Is anyone ever too old to have some Halloween fun?
  • CS Minor by Audrey Lang
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Computer Science, college + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, zoom
    Keyword: Computer Science, college, misogyny, professor, student, zoom, girls who code, girls in STEM
    College junior Frankie just needs Nick, her minor advisor, to let her into Introduction to Data Structures so she can graduate on time. When Nick starts talking about department hierarchies, she realizes this is going to be more complicated than she thought. **Written with both Zoom and in-person stage directions.**
  • The Well of Miriam (monologue - 2 versions) by Audrey Lang
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: adaptation, docudrama/historic + 4 more
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    Keyword: miriam, Lesbian + 2 more
    Genre: adaptation, docudrama/historic, drama, fable/folktale, faith-based, zoom
    Keyword: miriam, Lesbian, Jewish, monologue
    What if everything we knew about Moses and Miriam crossing the Red Sea was wrong? A lesbian take on a story we all think we know from the Old Testament.

    Written for The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues - Round Fourteen: Pride Plays.
  • Graphing Calculator (monologue) by Audrey Lang
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: comedy, zoom
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    Keyword: teacher, high school + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, zoom
    Keyword: teacher, high school, math, students, monologue
    Mr. Schwartzman, everyone's favorite algebra teacher even though they'd never admit it, reminds his students what to bring to the Regents exam.

    Written for The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues - Round 29.
  • Leia's Moms (monologue) by Audrey Lang
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: drama, zoom
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    Keyword: adoption, foster care + 6 more
    Genre: drama, zoom
    Keyword: adoption, foster care, lesbian moms, teenage girl, Sisters, monologue, Video Chat, zoom
    Fifteen-year-old Leia video chats with her older sister Lizzie from her foster mothers' home to tell her she's getting adopted.