Monte D. Monteleagre

Monte D. Monteleagre

When Monte D. Monteleagre was young, he wanted to be an astronaut. Then he found theatre, writing, and music. He's been on a trip to the moon ever since.

Monte graduated with a BFA in Theatre Studies from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 2018. His work has been published by Drama Notebook, Z Publishing, and The Flintlock. He also self publishes role-playing games on Drive Thru RPG.
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When Monte D. Monteleagre was young, he wanted to be an astronaut. Then he found theatre, writing, and music. He's been on a trip to the moon ever since.

Monte graduated with a BFA in Theatre Studies from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 2018. His work has been published by Drama Notebook, Z Publishing, and The Flintlock. He also self publishes role-playing games on Drive Thru RPG.

Monte spent the last year in the Twin Cities and is now based in New York

Plays

  • Highly Entropic Beings by Monte D. Monteleagre
    Cast: 
    20–9999
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: unproduceable, large cast + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, horror, musical
    Keyword: unproduceable, large cast, denny's, Flooding, A mistake, collaboration, chaos, anarchy, coffee, theft
    Highly Entropic Beings is a collaboration between me, two of my good friends, and random chance under the name Professor Dank. It was written to be unpronounceable. It requires you to break the law. There are technically musical numbers.
  • Flicker by Monte D. Monteleagre
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, movement/physical + 1 more
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    Keyword: All Woman Cast, young woman + 7 more
    Genre: drama, movement/physical, tragedy
    Keyword: All Woman Cast, young woman, asexual character, mother and daughter, poverty, work, chronic unemployment, early draft, 2 person play
    EARLY DRAFT

    A Mother and her high school age Daughter live together in their small apartment after the electricity goes out. The two of them have to figure out how to make ends meet while reconciling the differences between them as winter draws closer.
  • programming by Monte D. Monteleagre
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: artificial intelligence, stem + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, science fiction
    Keyword: artificial intelligence, stem, science fiction, LGBT, women in STEM, adult comedy, pornography, Pornography addiction, asexuality exploration, nonbinary identities
    Trevor and Candice have done the impossible: They've created an artificial super intelligence housed in a humanoid chassis, and they've named them Auto. Slowly and surely, they're trying to teach it the right things, up until Auto finds some unsavory websites in Trevor's search history.
  • And Everything Was Perfect by Monte D. Monteleagre
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 3 more
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    Keyword: work, office + 8 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, mystery/thriller, satire, verse
    Keyword: work, office, masculine, art, regret, poetry, verse, identity, differences, secrets
    Five identical men sit at five identical desks, silently scrutinizing the others while bemoaning their own choice to turn their back on the Moon.
  • How Not to Fall for a Scam: A Children's Play by Monte D. Monteleagre
    Cast: 
    1–3
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
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    Keyword: adult humor, sock puppets + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: adult humor, sock puppets, check scam, play that goes wrong, BDSM, sock puns, banking
    THIS IS NOT A CHILDREN'S SHOW.

    The Puppeteer and his two friends, Calvin and Sir Flops-A-Lot have teamed up to put on a family friendly play to educated children on the dangers of falling for a check scam. Except Sir Flops-A-Lot doesn't know his lines. And the puppets aren't getting paid. And the puppeteer might have turned their box shelter into this stage. Whatever happens, this...
    THIS IS NOT A CHILDREN'S SHOW.

    The Puppeteer and his two friends, Calvin and Sir Flops-A-Lot have teamed up to put on a family friendly play to educated children on the dangers of falling for a check scam. Except Sir Flops-A-Lot doesn't know his lines. And the puppets aren't getting paid. And the puppeteer might have turned their box shelter into this stage. Whatever happens, this is not going to be a show appropriate for children.
  • Midwestern Gothic: A Triptych by Monte D. Monteleagre
    Cast: 
    5–9
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 1 more
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    Keyword: midwest, female majority cast + 6 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, tragedy
    Keyword: midwest, female majority cast, one-acts, fight, farms, Train Station, drought, gothic
    Midwestern Gothic is composed of three one-acts, connected by theme and setting. They are titles Birth, Life, and Death.

    Birth follows a farmer's wife who is left at home when a confident salesman shows up with a promise.
    Life follows a daughter trying to be a run away but arriving a moment too late.
    Death follows three young daughters playing out their families secret drama...
    Midwestern Gothic is composed of three one-acts, connected by theme and setting. They are titles Birth, Life, and Death.

    Birth follows a farmer's wife who is left at home when a confident salesman shows up with a promise.
    Life follows a daughter trying to be a run away but arriving a moment too late.
    Death follows three young daughters playing out their families secret drama while planning their own escapes.
  • When the River Thaws by Monte D. Monteleagre
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: prop heavy, winter + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, mystery/thriller, tragedy
    Keyword: prop heavy, winter, isolation, cabin, dark, character study, cold
    A long time ago, the Person made a promise. That's what brought them to this cabin. Now they're trapped here for the winter, alone aside from the ghosts of their recent past and their inner demons. How much longer until the river thaws?
  • Meat. by Monte D. Monteleagre
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: grocery store, meat + 7 more
    Genre: biography, comedy, dark comedy, experimental, farce, political, satire
    Keyword: grocery store, meat, autobiography, double casting, gender bending, american cheese, corporate culture, puppets, capitalism and late Capitalism
    What's the worst job you've ever had? For Author Monte D. Monteleagre (23, M, real person), it was the summer he spent slaving away in a grocery store in Portland, cutting meat and writing this play where Monte (20, GN, character) and his main man Mr. Bone Can (ageless, GN, talking trash can) cut meat and try to navigate layers of management, competent and incompetent co-workers, and their place in the world.
  • H+ by Monte D. Monteleagre
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: science fiction, female lead + 8 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, mystery/thriller, science fiction
    Keyword: science fiction, female lead, Politics, Police State, prosthetic, immortality, platonic friendship, asexuality, cybernetics, women in STEM
    John is a politician with a disease who needs help fast. He's sent to Ally, a cybernetic surgeon working in secret. Something like a friendship forms between them while John pursues his political ambition and Ally continues her cybernetic research.