Stefanie Zadravec

Stefanie Zadravec is a Core Writer at the Playwright’s Center of Minneapolis, and a 2018 Working Farm Resident at SPACE at Ryder Farm. Her full length plays include: TINY HOUSES (JAWfest, Theatreworks, Arts Emerson); Colony Collapse (Theatre@Boston Court: Kilroys List); The Electric Baby (Two River Theater, Quantum Theatre); Honey Brown Eyes (Theater J, Working Theatre, SF Playhouse); and currently – The Boat (Working Theater Commission), and This Is Your World (NYU Joint Stock Commission).
Honors include the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, the Francesca Primus Prize (TheElectric Baby), the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play (Honey Brown Eyes), a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, Women in Arts & Media Collaboration Award (The Electric Baby), as well as fellowships from...

Stefanie Zadravec is a Core Writer at the Playwright’s Center of Minneapolis, and a 2018 Working Farm Resident at SPACE at Ryder Farm. Her full length plays include: TINY HOUSES (JAWfest, Theatreworks, Arts Emerson); Colony Collapse (Theatre@Boston Court: Kilroys List); The Electric Baby (Two River Theater, Quantum Theatre); Honey Brown Eyes (Theater J, Working Theatre, SF Playhouse); and currently – The Boat (Working Theater Commission), and This Is Your World (NYU Joint Stock Commission).
Honors include the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, the Francesca Primus Prize (TheElectric Baby), the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play (Honey Brown Eyes), a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, Women in Arts & Media Collaboration Award (The Electric Baby), as well as fellowships from NYFA, The Lark, Playwrights Realm, The Dramatists Guild, and Sewanee Writers Conference.
Stefanie has received support for her work through residencies, grants, and commissions from The Edgerton Foundation, Ford Foundation, Mellon, the NEA, The Lark, New York Stage & Film, Arts Emerson, SPACE at Ryder Farm, New Dramatists, JAWFest, Theatreworks, Play Penn, The Lilly Awards, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Kennedy Center, NYU Tisch School, The WP Theatre, Epic Theatre Ensemble, and The Barrow Group. Stefanie is a New Dramatists Alumni in addition to the WP Theater Lab, the Lark Playwright's Workshop, and Keen Company's Playwright Lab. Her plays are published by Dramatists Play Service and featured in Best Women’s Stage Monologues (Smith & Kraus) and The Kilroys: 97 Scenes & Monologues by Women & Trans Writers Volume I (TCG). Stefanie teaches beginning and advanced playwriting at Primary Stages ESPA, Fordham University, The DG Institute and Play Penn.

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Scripts

TINY HOUSES

by Stefanie Zadravec

4
Cast Size
7
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
fable/folktale,
fantasy,
political

Part political parable, part comic fairy-tail, TINY HOUSES follows four women who in the wake of the crash of Malaysian Air Flight MH17 over Eastern Ukraine, realize they can shake their status quo.

Part political parable, part comic fairy-tail, TINY HOUSES follows four women who in the wake of the crash of Malaysian Air Flight MH17 over Eastern Ukraine, realize they can shake their status quo.

Colony Collapse

by Stefanie Zadravec

1
Cast Size
10
Genre
drama

Woven together by a chorus of parents of missing children, and narrated by the ghost of a missing 15-year-old girl, Stefanie Zadravec's lyrical, edgy poetry explores the cost one family is willing to pay for a second chance. In an effort to get their lives on track, recovering addicts Mark and Julia have taken over an apple orchard in rural Oregon when their estranged son reappears in the middle of the night,...

Woven together by a chorus of parents of missing children, and narrated by the ghost of a missing 15-year-old girl, Stefanie Zadravec's lyrical, edgy poetry explores the cost one family is willing to pay for a second chance. In an effort to get their lives on track, recovering addicts Mark and Julia have taken over an apple orchard in rural Oregon when their estranged son reappears in the middle of the night, With little experience and a family in crisis, the couple quickly realizes they are in over their heads, yet they believe if they produce a viable crop, a new beginning is possible. Set against the contemporary plagues of meth addiction, missing children, and a failing ecology, Colony Collapse is equal parts Greek tragedy and American drama, illuminating a search for humanity in a world with little shelter from harm.

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The Electric Baby

by Stefanie Zadravec

4
Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
fable/folktale

After a deadly accident, a group of desperate souls come together around a magical dying baby, and begin to rewrite the stories of their lives.

After a deadly accident, a group of desperate souls come together around a magical dying baby, and begin to rewrite the stories of their lives.

Honey Brown Eyes.

by Stefanie Zadravec

1
Cast Size
6—7
Genre
drama

Winner of the 2009 Helen Hayes Award. Bosnia 1992: In two kitchens two soldiers recover a little of what they've lost during the war — a Serbian paramilitary must face the consequences of his own brutality, while a Bosnian resistance fighter, crippled by the limits of his own courage, seeks refuge with a kindred soul.

Winner of the 2009 Helen Hayes Award. Bosnia 1992: In two kitchens two soldiers recover a little of what they've lost during the war — a Serbian paramilitary must face the consequences of his own brutality, while a Bosnian resistance fighter, crippled by the limits of his own courage, seeks refuge with a kindred soul.