Star Finch

Star Finch is currently the Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Campo Santo and Crowded Fire Theater. She’s also an alumni of Playwrights Foundation's Resident Playwright Initiative (2018-2022).
Her plays include H.O.M.E. [Hookers on Mars Eventually] and BONDAGE (Relentless Award honorable mention) JOSEPHINE'S FEAST, and SHIPPING & HANDLING (Rella Lossy Award). She's contributed to various collaborative projects including, TheaterFirst’s PARTICIPANTS and Campo Santo’s ETHOS DE MASQUERADE. She’s held residencies in Crowded Fire’s R&D LAB and AlterTheater's Alter Lab.

Star Finch is currently the Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Campo Santo and Crowded Fire Theater. She’s also an alumni of Playwrights Foundation's Resident Playwright Initiative (2018-2022).
Her plays include H.O.M.E. [Hookers on Mars Eventually] and BONDAGE (Relentless Award honorable mention) JOSEPHINE'S FEAST, and SHIPPING & HANDLING (Rella Lossy Award). She's contributed to various collaborative projects including, TheaterFirst’s PARTICIPANTS and Campo Santo’s ETHOS DE MASQUERADE. She’s held residencies in Crowded Fire’s R&D LAB and AlterTheater's Alter Lab.

Scripts

Free Shipping

by Star Finch

Cast Size
6—7
Genre
drama,
experimental,
fantasy,
movement/physical,
political

FREE SHIPPING is an experimental play structured as an evening out at the theater told in reverse:
We first meet the actors at their end of the night afterparty out on The Patio; time reverses back to the middle with The Talkback by the playwright; finally we rewind to watch The Robot Play at the beginning of the evening. Every performance is opening night.
The choice to begin at the end is an attempt to undo...

FREE SHIPPING is an experimental play structured as an evening out at the theater told in reverse:
We first meet the actors at their end of the night afterparty out on The Patio; time reverses back to the middle with The Talkback by the playwright; finally we rewind to watch The Robot Play at the beginning of the evening. Every performance is opening night.
The choice to begin at the end is an attempt to undo expectations around Black plays, Black women, AI, and the acceptance of the future as inevitably apocalyptic. The play moves backwards to bring us forward. The tone is always Afro-Surreal.

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Bondage

by Star Finch

5
Cast Size
5
Genre
docudrama/historic,
drama,
horror,
mystery/thriller,
period,
political

As Zuri transitions into puberty, she begins to reject the roles she'll be expected to play and instead conjures a new present to chart her own path into womanhood on an island plantation. Hierarchies of race and gender collide in this AfroSurreal tale of an enslaved girl who dares to follow her own instincts.

Bondage draws on Afro-Surrealism to create a new story about liberation.

As Zuri transitions into puberty, she begins to reject the roles she'll be expected to play and instead conjures a new present to chart her own path into womanhood on an island plantation. Hierarchies of race and gender collide in this AfroSurreal tale of an enslaved girl who dares to follow her own instincts.

Bondage draws on Afro-Surrealism to create a new story about liberation.

H.O.M.E. (Hookers on Mars Eventually)

by Star Finch

3
Cast Size
5—6
Genre
drama,
melodrama,
political,
science fiction

An AfroSurreal mix of sex workers, Tupac, and space travel: H.O.M.E. follows the journey of Chima- a prostitute on a mission to reconnect with the son she abandoned. She believes that she must tell him their story in person as a form of rebirth before he crosses into his twentieth birthday. It just so happens that her son now lives on Mars.

An AfroSurreal mix of sex workers, Tupac, and space travel: H.O.M.E. follows the journey of Chima- a prostitute on a mission to reconnect with the son she abandoned. She believes that she must tell him their story in person as a form of rebirth before he crosses into his twentieth birthday. It just so happens that her son now lives on Mars.

Participants/Take the Ticket (a monologue)

by Star Finch

3
Cast Size
1
Genre
dark comedy,
political

A Black woman playwright shares her truth.

A Black woman playwright shares her truth.