Sarah Caroline Billings

Sarah Caroline Billings

Sarah Caroline (SC) Billings is from the Concho Valley in Texas and has lived in Queens, NYC since 2016. She is currently a Terrence McNally New Works Incubator lab semi-finalist, Premiere Stages’ Play Festival finalist, and was a DGF Fellows finalist for 2024. Her work has been performed in NYC at the Barrow Group, Cherry Lane Theater, and Club Cumming. SC was a founding member of Fight Club (a writer’s group...
Sarah Caroline (SC) Billings is from the Concho Valley in Texas and has lived in Queens, NYC since 2016. She is currently a Terrence McNally New Works Incubator lab semi-finalist, Premiere Stages’ Play Festival finalist, and was a DGF Fellows finalist for 2024. Her work has been performed in NYC at the Barrow Group, Cherry Lane Theater, and Club Cumming. SC was a founding member of Fight Club (a writer’s group for women in theater and film in NYC), and a new play reader for Orlando Shakespeare Theater. She is mentored by Jenny Rachel Weiner and a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Librettist Workshop. SC's work centers women making the "wrong choice" and seeks to lift the collective burden of existential shame. Sometimes in a fun way. :)

Plays

  • Bad Influence: A New Original Musical by Sarah Caroline Billings
    Cast: 
    10–18
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    Genre: dark comedy, horror + 1 more
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    Keyword: reality tv
    Genre: dark comedy, horror, satire
    Keyword: reality tv
    Story:
    Bad Influence is musical comedy that’s like if a bunch of Bachelor contestants and Bravo-lebrities were trapped in a tropical Little Shop of Horrors. We follow Jamie, fundamentally opposed to lying and social media as she navigates a world where both of those things are exalted. Bad Influence asks - is murder worth it if you get that sponsored content coin?

    Sound:
    BI sounds...
    Story:
    Bad Influence is musical comedy that’s like if a bunch of Bachelor contestants and Bravo-lebrities were trapped in a tropical Little Shop of Horrors. We follow Jamie, fundamentally opposed to lying and social media as she navigates a world where both of those things are exalted. Bad Influence asks - is murder worth it if you get that sponsored content coin?

    Sound:
    BI sounds like all your faves from the WeHo Pride lineup got together to make the bubblegum synth banger bash of your dreams. Drawing inspiration from artists like Kim Petras, Slayyyter, MUNA, and Carly Rae Jepsen, with powerful vocals and catchy hooks, you’ve never heard a show quite like this.
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    Creators:
    Colby Lapolla (of Girl Fieri, Selling Sunset) - music and lyrics
    Sarah Caroline Billings (of nothing you have probably heard of) - book, concept, some lyrics.
  • The Sound by Sarah Caroline Billings
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Childhood, Inner Child Healing
    Genre: comedy, drama, fantasy
    Keyword: Childhood, Inner Child Healing
    The Sound, a semi-autobiographical fantasia, follows a young girl and a woman as they investigate the girl's memories of a traumatic time through imaginative play.
  • Disarming Girls by Sarah Caroline Billings
    Cast: 
    6–12
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    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic, experimental, movement/physical, tragedy, young audiences
    a play co-written with Kallen Prosterman.
    Truus is a men's clothes-wearing aspiring soldier, Hannie is a law student, and Freddie (the younger sister of Truus) is just here for a good time. Disarming Girls reimagines the incredible true story of these three women living in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. In 1941, three young women are recruited by the Dutch Council of Resistance. This recruitment...
    a play co-written with Kallen Prosterman.
    Truus is a men's clothes-wearing aspiring soldier, Hannie is a law student, and Freddie (the younger sister of Truus) is just here for a good time. Disarming Girls reimagines the incredible true story of these three women living in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. In 1941, three young women are recruited by the Dutch Council of Resistance. This recruitment leads to their ultimate mission: enticing Nazi soldiers out to the woods where a member of the Resistance shoots them. A chorus of three other women build the world with physical movement and also inhabit characters of that world. Truus, Hannie, and Freddie’s three distinct journeys are revealed as each grapples with what, if anything, is honorable in wartime.
  • The Mouse: A Callback by Sarah Caroline Billings
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: Shakespeare, contemporary + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: Shakespeare, contemporary, acting, theater
    A high-stakes callback is lent depth by the plot and words of Hamlet.

    Runs 90 minutes with no intermission or scene breaks. Set in a rehearsal room. 1W/2M. You in yet?
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    A director calls back a young unknown actor.
    "Hamlet" is going up on Broadway in six months, and a move to stay relevant, the director has decided Hamlet will be played by a woman.
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    A high-stakes callback is lent depth by the plot and words of Hamlet.

    Runs 90 minutes with no intermission or scene breaks. Set in a rehearsal room. 1W/2M. You in yet?
    --
    A director calls back a young unknown actor.
    "Hamlet" is going up on Broadway in six months, and a move to stay relevant, the director has decided Hamlet will be played by a woman.
    Throughout that evening, the true nature of the two is revealed and tension escalates as the text of "Hamlet" gives words to their conflict. The power shifts between the director and the actor, reality shifts, and blackmail ends the play. Or does it? And the question remains: is revenge actually wild justice?