John Yearley

John Yearley

John Yearley is the author of Leap (Mickey Kaplan New American Play Prize, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park) and Ephemera (John Gassner Award, Summer Play Festival), and Another Girl (PlayPenn, developed by Naked Angels). His plays All in Little Pieces and A Low-Lying Fog are published by Samuel French, and his work is in Best Monologues for Women and One on One: Contemporary Monologues for Kids Ages 7-15. His...
John Yearley is the author of Leap (Mickey Kaplan New American Play Prize, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park) and Ephemera (John Gassner Award, Summer Play Festival), and Another Girl (PlayPenn, developed by Naked Angels). His plays All in Little Pieces and A Low-Lying Fog are published by Samuel French, and his work is in Best Monologues for Women and One on One: Contemporary Monologues for Kids Ages 7-15. His most recent play, Eight Minutes, Twenty Seconds was commissioned by the Blue Coyote Theatre Company in New York. His work for young audiences includes The Last Wish, won the Macy’s New Play Prize for Young Audiences, and an adaptation of Antigone, which will be produced by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park in 2016. He is currently writing for the PBS Kids show Arthur, and worked as a “script doctor” for New Line Cinema. Author of the forthcoming book, Daddy’s Not Tall Enough to Touch the Moon. Member of the Writer’s Guild of America, Dramatists Guild, and twice a MacDowell Fellow.

Plays

  • Eight Minutes, Twenty Seconds by John Yearley
    Recommendations: 9
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Late one night, a small disagreement erupts into a fight that threatens to end a decade-long marriage. In this 90 minute play, we watch in real time as Ruth and Bo try to get past their disappointments, in life and each other, to answer the question - can you ever really begin again?
  • Another Girl by John Yearley
    Recommendations: 2
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    Genre: dark comedy
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    Keyword: music, dreams
    Genre: dark comedy
    Keyword: music, dreams
    Aidan, a pregnant, almost-famous musician at the end of her rope, returns to the home she has not seen in over 20 years. She expected to see the sister she hasn't spoken to in years. What she didn't expect was the young mother next door to idolize her and leave her husband. And she really didn't expect to be courted by the mysterious man who lives in her mother’s attic. And what to do with baby...
    Aidan, a pregnant, almost-famous musician at the end of her rope, returns to the home she has not seen in over 20 years. She expected to see the sister she hasn't spoken to in years. What she didn't expect was the young mother next door to idolize her and leave her husband. And she really didn't expect to be courted by the mysterious man who lives in her mother’s attic. And what to do with baby growing inside her when she can't even face her own mother on her deathbed?