Brittany Fisher

Brittany is a playwright from Richmond, VA, and a graduate of Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. Her play How to Bruise Gracefully won the 2021 Kennedy Center Lorraine Hansberry Award, and was recognized by the Rosa Parks and Paula Vogel Award. Her play, Your Regularly Scheduled Programming was a 2022 O’Neill NPC selection and recognized by the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Award. She was a 2018-2020 Pipeline New Works Playwriting Fellow, and her work has been featured at or developed with the Kennedy Center, The Classical Theatre of Harlem, Great Plains Theatre Conference, The Alliance Theatre’s Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition, Cadence Theatre Company and Virginia Repertory Theatre. She received her B.A. from James Madison University.

Brittany is a playwright from Richmond, VA, and a graduate of Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. Her play How to Bruise Gracefully won the 2021 Kennedy Center Lorraine Hansberry Award, and was recognized by the Rosa Parks and Paula Vogel Award. Her play, Your Regularly Scheduled Programming was a 2022 O’Neill NPC selection and recognized by the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Award. She was a 2018-2020 Pipeline New Works Playwriting Fellow, and her work has been featured at or developed with the Kennedy Center, The Classical Theatre of Harlem, Great Plains Theatre Conference, The Alliance Theatre’s Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition, Cadence Theatre Company and Virginia Repertory Theatre. She received her B.A. from James Madison University.

Scripts

Your Regularly Scheduled Programming

by Brittany Fisher

Cast Size
6—7
Genre
dark comedy,
experimental,
political

A family living in the Deep South struggles to come together—and the tension surrounding their very different beliefs reaches a boiling point—in this bizarre and darkly funny exploration of race, identity, and the deep-rooted trauma that continues to haunt the Black race in America.

A family living in the Deep South struggles to come together—and the tension surrounding their very different beliefs reaches a boiling point—in this bizarre and darkly funny exploration of race, identity, and the deep-rooted trauma that continues to haunt the Black race in America.

How to Bruise Gracefully

by Brittany Fisher

2
Cast Size
8—10
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
period,
political

A young YouTuber, Vi, is hiding something. What begins as a typical workday at Burger King soon spirals into a deep exploration of fear, trauma, and inner strength through the eyes of women who have both nothing and everything to lose. This is a crash course on survival and how to cope with the reality of not being in control of your own body.

A young YouTuber, Vi, is hiding something. What begins as a typical workday at Burger King soon spirals into a deep exploration of fear, trauma, and inner strength through the eyes of women who have both nothing and everything to lose. This is a crash course on survival and how to cope with the reality of not being in control of your own body.