Linsey Watkins

Linsey Watkins is a 27-year-old playwright/screenwriter from Tennessee, currently residing in London, UK. She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in theatre and creative writing and is currently enrolled in the MA dramaturgy and writing for performance program at Goldsmiths University of London.

Linsey Watkins is a 27-year-old playwright/screenwriter from Tennessee, currently residing in London, UK. She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in theatre and creative writing and is currently enrolled in the MA dramaturgy and writing for performance program at Goldsmiths University of London.

Scripts

The Sandcastle Man

by Linsey Watkins

Synopsis

Isa is a teenager who has just moved in with her grandmother in a small beach town. Conroy is a man in his 70's who moved to the town after retirement and became ‘The Sandcastle Man’. Isa meets Conroy the day after she wrecks one of his castles. The Sandcastle Man is a 10 minute play about how we balance grief, pain and the joy of unlikely friendships. What happens when we choose creation instead of destruction?

Isa is a teenager who has just moved in with her grandmother in a small beach town. Conroy is a man in his 70's who moved to the town after retirement and became ‘The Sandcastle Man’. Isa meets Conroy the day after she wrecks one of his castles. The Sandcastle Man is a 10 minute play about how we balance grief, pain and the joy of unlikely friendships. What happens when we choose creation instead of destruction?

Spirit Guides and Shit Eaters

by Linsey Watkins

Synopsis

A person grappling with moving forward in life, desperate to just be told what to do and who to be now, meets someone trying to evade mortality by doing and being as much as possible. Their unique separate existential crises lead them to embark on a project together researching dead people and taking time to closely follow the path those people followed when alive. Weaving through these two people's first...

A person grappling with moving forward in life, desperate to just be told what to do and who to be now, meets someone trying to evade mortality by doing and being as much as possible. Their unique separate existential crises lead them to embark on a project together researching dead people and taking time to closely follow the path those people followed when alive. Weaving through these two people's first meeting, their time spent working together, and their last meeting. Evaluating the concept of the people who come into our lives: why and when. A nonlinear depiction and experience of grief and what it means to live and die.

Oh Righteous God And Sinful Me

by Linsey Watkins

Synopsis

A coming-of-age dark comedy about young women taking their sexual urges into their own hands. When new student Evie arrives at an all-girls Catholic boarding school, she quickly discovers that her classmates are ignorant about their own bodies. Thus, Evie becomes the girls' sex-ed teacher, leading them on a journey of sexual discovery. Giving young women their long deserved voice in the narrative of their sexual...

A coming-of-age dark comedy about young women taking their sexual urges into their own hands. When new student Evie arrives at an all-girls Catholic boarding school, she quickly discovers that her classmates are ignorant about their own bodies. Thus, Evie becomes the girls' sex-ed teacher, leading them on a journey of sexual discovery. Giving young women their long deserved voice in the narrative of their sexual awakening and highlighting the importance and dangers of not educating young people about their bodies.