Toby Tieger

Toby Tieger (he/him) is a Philadelphia-based writer who often expends a great deal of time and energy doing simple household chores that frankly don’t need to be done right now. (If a mug was already clean, it probably didn’t need to be washed again. Twice.) Between unscheduled mug maintenance, he also sometimes fits in writing, teaching, and coaching.

Toby writes humanist coming-of-age scripts about people figuring out who they want to be in a world they don’t fully understand. Like many other children, Toby grew up in a used bookshop and spent most of his childhood pacing the stacks of remainder bookshops, libraries, and estate sales. (Some people have suggested that this might be why he writes about people who don’t understand the world, but he doesn’t see it.) His pilot Louis The...

Toby Tieger (he/him) is a Philadelphia-based writer who often expends a great deal of time and energy doing simple household chores that frankly don’t need to be done right now. (If a mug was already clean, it probably didn’t need to be washed again. Twice.) Between unscheduled mug maintenance, he also sometimes fits in writing, teaching, and coaching.

Toby writes humanist coming-of-age scripts about people figuring out who they want to be in a world they don’t fully understand. Like many other children, Toby grew up in a used bookshop and spent most of his childhood pacing the stacks of remainder bookshops, libraries, and estate sales. (Some people have suggested that this might be why he writes about people who don’t understand the world, but he doesn’t see it.) His pilot Louis The Monster Conservationist was a semifinalist in the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition (top 2% of 11,000 entries). His television scripts are available on his website at www.tobytieger.com.

Scripts

Juliet Must Die

by Toby Tieger

Synopsis

When Juliet discovers that there are 400 years of retellings of the Romeo and Juliet story, she steals the Loom for Fate in order to find a version that has a non-tragic ending. Now, the Chorus must chase her through the multiverse in order to try to get the story back on track… by convincing Juliet to kill herself.

When Juliet discovers that there are 400 years of retellings of the Romeo and Juliet story, she steals the Loom for Fate in order to find a version that has a non-tragic ending. Now, the Chorus must chase her through the multiverse in order to try to get the story back on track… by convincing Juliet to kill herself.

Some Assembly Required

by Toby Tieger

Synopsis

When Madeline Munzel wakes up trapped with her estranged ex-husband, she assumes she's in Hell. But when she discovers that they're actually stuck in a mourning machine that saves copies of dead loved ones, she must work with her former spouse and the boy who put her there to figure out how to escape. A play about how far we will go to hold onto the things and people that we love... and what it means to let go.

When Madeline Munzel wakes up trapped with her estranged ex-husband, she assumes she's in Hell. But when she discovers that they're actually stuck in a mourning machine that saves copies of dead loved ones, she must work with her former spouse and the boy who put her there to figure out how to escape. A play about how far we will go to hold onto the things and people that we love... and what it means to let go.

Dignity

by Toby Tieger

Synopsis

A young woman and her mother try to maintain their dignity and connect long-distance when faced with an impossible diagnosis.

A young woman and her mother try to maintain their dignity and connect long-distance when faced with an impossible diagnosis.

The Orphan Queen and the Troll

by Toby Tieger

Synopsis

A modern fairy tale about two people trying to connect.

A modern fairy tale about two people trying to connect.