Grace Hoffman

Grace Hoffman is a playwright, dramaturg and poet from the Bay Area. She graduated from Emerson College in 2016 with a BFA in playwriting and is finishing her MFA in playwriting at SFSU. She’s participated in Emerson College’s New Works Festivals, TheatreWorks’ Amendment Project, The Dragon’s Monday Night Play Space Series, The Ohlone Playwrights Festival, and Bench Plays at Los Altos Stage Company. An Aquarium Play was made into an audio play through Theater Viscera in 2021 and can be found on Spotify and Apple podcast. Curtain Call was a 2024 semifinalist for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill. She’s a proud alumna of Company One’s Play Lab in Boston and TheatreWorks’ Susan Fairbrook Core Writers Group.

Grace Hoffman is a playwright, dramaturg and poet from the Bay Area. She graduated from Emerson College in 2016 with a BFA in playwriting and is finishing her MFA in playwriting at SFSU. She’s participated in Emerson College’s New Works Festivals, TheatreWorks’ Amendment Project, The Dragon’s Monday Night Play Space Series, The Ohlone Playwrights Festival, and Bench Plays at Los Altos Stage Company. An Aquarium Play was made into an audio play through Theater Viscera in 2021 and can be found on Spotify and Apple podcast. Curtain Call was a 2024 semifinalist for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill. She’s a proud alumna of Company One’s Play Lab in Boston and TheatreWorks’ Susan Fairbrook Core Writers Group.

Scripts

Curtain Call

by Grace Hoffman

Cast Size
7
Genre
dark comedy

All hell breaks loose when high school freshman, Christy, convinces five of her older peers to take part in a seance, bringing back their recently deceased director to address unfinished business. However, they soon learn their mentor is not who they thought he was. The man they’ve put on a pedestal kept many secrets, some of them unforgivable.

All hell breaks loose when high school freshman, Christy, convinces five of her older peers to take part in a seance, bringing back their recently deceased director to address unfinished business. However, they soon learn their mentor is not who they thought he was. The man they’ve put on a pedestal kept many secrets, some of them unforgivable.

Loner

by Grace Hoffman

Cast Size
4—5
Genre
dark comedy,
romantic comedy

The Grim Reaper has been hapless in romance until they meet Jose, a kind, tattooed bartender getting by in New York City. Everything is finally clicking for the Grim Reaper, except for the fact that Jose’s “death date” is looming near.

The Grim Reaper has been hapless in romance until they meet Jose, a kind, tattooed bartender getting by in New York City. Everything is finally clicking for the Grim Reaper, except for the fact that Jose’s “death date” is looming near.

Gathering on Maple

by Grace Hoffman

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
holiday,
zoom

With the pandemic in full swing, the holidays will look a little different for neighborhood friends Mary Anne, Joyce, Deb and Carol. They are paring down their traditions and finding new ways to safely spread cheer, well everyone except for Joyce. Gathering on Maple is a Zoom play about friendship and the grey area that we have all come to be acutely familiar with during these unprecedented times.

With the pandemic in full swing, the holidays will look a little different for neighborhood friends Mary Anne, Joyce, Deb and Carol. They are paring down their traditions and finding new ways to safely spread cheer, well everyone except for Joyce. Gathering on Maple is a Zoom play about friendship and the grey area that we have all come to be acutely familiar with during these unprecedented times.

An Aquarium Play

by Grace Hoffman

Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy,
experimental

After a sudden loss in her family, Nikki returns home to help her parents grieve. She spends time in an aquarium in an effort to get away and befriends a teen conservation worker (CJ) and a broadnose sevengill shark (Malcom). Their friendships evolve, but Malcom begins taking on human feelings that can't live in a shark body.

After a sudden loss in her family, Nikki returns home to help her parents grieve. She spends time in an aquarium in an effort to get away and befriends a teen conservation worker (CJ) and a broadnose sevengill shark (Malcom). Their friendships evolve, but Malcom begins taking on human feelings that can't live in a shark body.