Amina Henry

Amina Henry is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Selected productions include: The Animals, Ducklings, Hunter John and Jane and The Johnsons, all at JACK (Brooklyn, NY), P.S. produced by Ars Nova (New York, NY), Little Rapes at Long Island University (The New Group), Nothing, Nothing at HERO Theatre (Los Angeles, CA), The Great Novel at New Light Theater, Happily Ever at Brooklyn College, and Bully at Interrobang Theater (Baltimore, MD), Clubbed Thumbs 2019 Winterworks, and SUNY Purchase, among other venues. Her work has been produced, developed by and/or presented by: The New Group, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, The Flea, Page 73, Project Y Theatre, National Black Theater, Dixon Place, The Brooklyn Generator, The Brick, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, OR), Kitchen Dog Theater (Dallas, TX)...

Amina Henry is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Selected productions include: The Animals, Ducklings, Hunter John and Jane and The Johnsons, all at JACK (Brooklyn, NY), P.S. produced by Ars Nova (New York, NY), Little Rapes at Long Island University (The New Group), Nothing, Nothing at HERO Theatre (Los Angeles, CA), The Great Novel at New Light Theater, Happily Ever at Brooklyn College, and Bully at Interrobang Theater (Baltimore, MD), Clubbed Thumbs 2019 Winterworks, and SUNY Purchase, among other venues. Her work has been produced, developed by and/or presented by: The New Group, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, The Flea, Page 73, Project Y Theatre, National Black Theater, Dixon Place, The Brooklyn Generator, The Brick, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, OR), Kitchen Dog Theater (Dallas, TX), HERE Arts Center, and the cell. She is a 2020 recipient of the Sarah Verdone Writing Award and is an affiliate artist of New Georges. She is a member of the Women's Project 2022-2024 Lab.

Scripts

BULLY

by Amina Henry

Cast Size

6

Genre

adaptation,

adventure,

drama,

experimental,

melodrama

A loose re-imagining of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, BULLY looks at the exhausting
world of women. Aerobics teacher WREN and her followers TANISHA and SIMONE get
together on the weekends and beat up other women - for fun. Two of their victims unknowingly attend the same aerobics class, When victim BREE realizes who her attackers were, she plots with fellow victim DELILAH and friend CANDACE to get revenge...

A loose re-imagining of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, BULLY looks at the exhausting
world of women. Aerobics teacher WREN and her followers TANISHA and SIMONE get
together on the weekends and beat up other women - for fun. Two of their victims unknowingly attend the same aerobics class, When victim BREE realizes who her attackers were, she plots with fellow victim DELILAH and friend CANDACE to get revenge. Their plot takes all of the women out of the aerobics studio and into the woods where all of them must confront the darkness that lurks inside of them.