Bailey Jordan Garcia

Bailey Jordan Garcia

Bailey Jordan Garcia (they/them) is a playwright/actor who has just earned their BFA in Playwriting from The New School. Bailey aims to write work that is dark, dangerous, and thought-provoking that usually speaks to the LGBT community and/or ponders on the wonders and dangers of the technological world.

Bailey has won "Best Play" at The Players Theatre's Short Play Festival, had...
Bailey Jordan Garcia (they/them) is a playwright/actor who has just earned their BFA in Playwriting from The New School. Bailey aims to write work that is dark, dangerous, and thought-provoking that usually speaks to the LGBT community and/or ponders on the wonders and dangers of the technological world.

Bailey has won "Best Play" at The Players Theatre's Short Play Festival, had shorts featured on podcasts, had readings of full lengths with well-established companies, was one of the winners of The Blank's "Young Playwright Festival", and had a staged reading of their play "Pedo Punchers" with The Blank back in 2021.

Currently, Bailey's in Playground-Ones' Residency program under commission for their new full-length.

Plays

  • Pedo Punchers by Bailey Jordan Garcia
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: dark comedy
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    Keyword: pedophilia, teenagers + 6 more
    Genre: dark comedy
    Keyword: pedophilia, teenagers, homophobia, Projections, technology, Grindr, Youtube influencer, Youtube
    Synopsis: The Pedo Punchers (short for Pedophile Punchers) are a group of college-aged kids who come together and tackle pedophilia head first by luring men, exclusively from Grindr, to meet them in the back of a Walmart and exposing them on camera for thousands of followers. Tonight, this group uses a 15 year old as bait for their biggest sting ever.
  • Eternal Contrast by Bailey Jordan Garcia
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy
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    Keyword: Columbine, hotel room + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy
    Keyword: Columbine, hotel room, road trip, Memorial, dark comedy, queer, lesbians
    Two teenage girls, Regan and Vanessa, embark on a five day long road trip to honor their idols. But these idols aren’t pop stars or athletes -- they are Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris: The Columbine Shooters. As they make their way to the memorial of the 20th Anniversary of the shooting, the girls egg each other on to embrace the darkness and danger within themselves, causing death and destruction in their wake...
    Two teenage girls, Regan and Vanessa, embark on a five day long road trip to honor their idols. But these idols aren’t pop stars or athletes -- they are Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris: The Columbine Shooters. As they make their way to the memorial of the 20th Anniversary of the shooting, the girls egg each other on to embrace the darkness and danger within themselves, causing death and destruction in their wake. They ask themselves, how far would you go for someone you love?
  • What to Expect When You're Expecting Our Lord and Savior by Bailey Jordan Garcia
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: religion, religious fanaticism + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, faith-based
    Keyword: religion, religious fanaticism, LGBTQ, gay men, Relationships, gay relationships, Baby Jesus, gay pregnancy
    Finding out you’re “with child” is a shock to any relationship, but when it’s your boyfriend telling you that he’s suddenly become pregnant with the next reincarnation of Jesus, it becomes a tad more complicated. This queer tragicomedy looks at the intricacies in relationships and faithfulness, and truly asks what can you expect when you’re expecting our lord and savior?
  • The We Heart Christopher H. Mahoney Through Time and Space Forever Club by Bailey Jordan Garcia
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    Best friends and middle schoolers Amanda, Hillary, and Rhys have started "The We Heart Christopher H. Mahoney Through Time and Space Forever Club" to pay homage to their crush, Christopher H. Mahoney. But when feelings may be lost, what happens to their club and their friendships?
  • Thanks for the Mammaries! by Bailey Jordan Garcia
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: Non-Binary, top surgery + 5 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: Non-Binary, top surgery, boobs, breasts, workplace comedy, Transgender, transgender comedy
    After years of wrestling with the decision, Bailey faces the challenge of having to fire their worst employees -- their boobs. And these breasts, who act like two vaudevillian old men, won't go down without a fight.
  • Good Bones; Or the Writing Workshop of Brutus, Cassius, Casca, and Marc Antony on the Eulogy of Julius Caesar by Bailey Jordan Garcia
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, parody/spoof
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    Keyword: Julius Caesar, four actors + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, parody/spoof
    Keyword: Julius Caesar, four actors, comedy, based on Shakespearean characters, Shakespeare parody
    A 10 MINUTE COMEDY!

    After assassinating Julius Caesar, the conspiratorial group of Brutus, Cassius, Casca, and Marc Antony workshop a speech intended to win over an angry mob and resolve the issue of Rome's power structure once and for all!
  • Good Good Girls by Bailey Jordan Garcia
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: good girls, young kids + 5 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: good girls, young kids, women led, slut shaming, breasts, vaginas, young women
    Three 5 year olds sit, bored. They're just waiting and waiting. For what? Well to grow up, of course! The girls try to understand what it means to be a woman and what it's like to HAVE BOOBS (sorry for saying boobs...) . The piece explores the toxic feminine traits that are ingrained in us from a young age and how we learn ourself worth, through the lens of children
  • Eve (10 Minute Version) by Bailey Jordan Garcia
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: fable/folktale, movement/physical
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    Keyword: Eve, adam and eve + 3 more
    Genre: fable/folktale, movement/physical
    Keyword: Eve, adam and eve, poetic language, Book of Genesis, the garden of eden
    The story of Genesis through Eve's eyes
  • This Is Beauty by Bailey Jordan Garcia
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: romantic comedy
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    Keyword: Snow, poem play + 1 more
    Genre: romantic comedy
    Keyword: Snow, poem play, choreopoem
    A choreopoem about young love in the snow.
  • Tvilah (or Arriving Where She Left) by Bailey Jordan Garcia
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: site-specific, Bethesda fountain + 3 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, faith-based, immersive
    Keyword: site-specific, Bethesda fountain, LGBTQ, queer, audience engagement
    She has been gone for a year now. No one is quite sure how or why. A group of those closest to Her, comes together at Bethesda Fountain, Her favorite spot, to try to... grieve? Relive old memories? Get Her back? This becomes a quirky, yet heart felt, exploration of how we mourn, the ways religion touches the most secular of us, and what we are truly, deeply afraid of.
  • An Abstinent Orgy; or Two Pigeons Fighting Over a Hotdog by Bailey Jordan Garcia
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: sex ed, sex education + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: sex ed, sex education, abstinence, zoom
    Set in an almost completely contactless world, a few years in the future, five high-school seniors take on one of their toughest tasks -- completing a power point presentation on abstinence. The piece plays with the idea of intimacy all while only being able to connect through their zoom windows.

    ** written with Taylor Monet Welch
  • Tyler Wallace's Graduation Send-Off by Bailey Jordan Garcia
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: dark humor, loner + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: dark humor, loner, breaking the fourth wall, graduation party
    Tyler Wallace has a list. No, not a bucket list, but rather, a "fuck-it list". A list of all the people he wants to make amends to -- and he's going to invite them all to a party! Between asshole jocks and a out-of-reach love interest, Tyler wants to make amends. And he'll do it by any means necessary.

    Based on the Short Story: "Hallway Parasite" by Taylor Monet Welch
  • K-I-S-S-I-N-G by Bailey Jordan Garcia
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: romantic comedy
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    Keyword: lesbians, queer joy + 2 more
    Genre: romantic comedy
    Keyword: lesbians, queer joy, queer love, two hander
    On a first date, two women imagine their future together.
  • ChuckEology by Bailey Jordan Garcia
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2–200
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    Genre: dark comedy, faith-based + 3 more
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    Keyword: Chuck E Cheese, post-apocalyptic
    Genre: dark comedy, faith-based, mystery/thriller, political, satire
    Keyword: Chuck E Cheese, post-apocalyptic
    100 years from now, the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the teens who quarantined themselves inside the Chuck E Cheese they worked at, still quarantined, have turned the play space into a home, sanctuary, and a church. But, their religion is challenged when a member brings some information about the outside world.
  • A Who's Done It! by Bailey Jordan Garcia
    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: comedy, parody/spoof + 1 more
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    Keyword: whodunit, whodunnit + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, parody/spoof, verse
    Keyword: whodunit, whodunnit, Dr. Seuss, rhyming, Law and Order SVU, comedy-mystery
    Mr. Mayor has been murdered on Mt. Crumpet and it's up to Cindy Lou Who and The Grinch to solve the case!

    *written with Eric Garcia
  • Princess Bootcamp by Bailey Jordan Garcia
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, young audiences
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    Keyword: birthday party, princess + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, young audiences
    Keyword: birthday party, princess, dragon, great roles for young actors
    In preparation for her princess birthday party, Mckenna takes it upon herself to train her classmate Julie on how to be the perfect princess. But, Julie seems to have more of an affinity for knights and dragons than balancing books on her head. 
  • The Condemnation of the High Minded by Bailey Jordan Garcia
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, faith-based
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    Keyword: clash over religious beliefs, religion + 7 more
    Genre: drama, faith-based
    Keyword: clash over religious beliefs, religion, gay teen, LGBTQ, christianity, grief, gay conversion therapy, Lesbian, park bench
    A long overdue conversation between a mother and her daughter, spanning being queer, religion, and what it means to love someone else.