Tori Lassman

Tori Lassman

Tori Lassman was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She is an alumnus of Young Playwrights Inc. and a graduate of SUNY Purchase college, where she studied playwriting. Her plays are inspired by power and class dynamics, smut, and the theatrical possibilities of the human body and mind. Tori’s oeuvre is centered around making lowbrow signifiers beautiful, emotional and humanistic. Past plays have been seen and...
Tori Lassman was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She is an alumnus of Young Playwrights Inc. and a graduate of SUNY Purchase college, where she studied playwriting. Her plays are inspired by power and class dynamics, smut, and the theatrical possibilities of the human body and mind. Tori’s oeuvre is centered around making lowbrow signifiers beautiful, emotional and humanistic. Past plays have been seen and workshopped with Young Playwrights Inc., Breaking and Entering Theater, The Dionysian Magazine, the Casa Na Ilha residency in São Paulo, Brazil, MOMENTUM 6 in La Paz Mexico and New Georges.

Plays

  • Sweet Shop by Tori Lassman
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: feminist, anti-capitalist + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, parody/spoof, political, romantic comedy, satire, science fiction
    Keyword: feminist, anti-capitalist, dictatorship, sex robots, romantic comedy
    SWEET SHOW is an anti-capitalist rom-com about a woman named Jay who works in a sweat shop for sex bots and can't stop falling in love.

  • unadjusted aka milk is dairy days are daily by Tori Lassman
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: Alienated teenager, crisis of masculinity + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental
    Keyword: Alienated teenager, crisis of masculinity, gender and sexuality, sexual consent, childhood friendship, sexual repression, gay
    Unadjusted AKA Milk Is Dairy Days Are Daily takes place over one summer in a broken down neighborhood near a beach. Shrimp and Neil are two 15 year old boys who spend the majority of their time together sharing a language of isolation and an obsession with Daisy, the girl next door. As the summer progresses, their kinship becomes resentment, and their expressions of sexuality and "manhood" diverge....
    Unadjusted AKA Milk Is Dairy Days Are Daily takes place over one summer in a broken down neighborhood near a beach. Shrimp and Neil are two 15 year old boys who spend the majority of their time together sharing a language of isolation and an obsession with Daisy, the girl next door. As the summer progresses, their kinship becomes resentment, and their expressions of sexuality and "manhood" diverge. Unadjusted AKA Milk Is Dairy Days Are Daily explores how gender, friendship and trauma influence one’s growth in their adolescent years.
  • The Cult of Domina by Tori Lassman
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: feminist, political + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, political
    Keyword: feminist, political, experimental, BDSM, dominatrix, sex work
    The Cult of Domina lives asymmetrically within a type of Berlin during the rise of the Nazi party in the early 1930’s inside a brothel where the women work as dominatrixes. The growing fascism of the outside world seeps into the brothel walls when Anton, a young but growing Nazi youth appears as their new client. This play focuses on themes of gender, power and the horror that human nature is capable of creating.
  • The Dance of The Dung Beetle by Tori Lassman
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 3 more
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    Keyword: female insects, sex lives of bugs + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, experimental, horror, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: female insects, sex lives of bugs, Truckers, American Midwest, female criminals, murder
    Dance of The Dung Beetle tells through movement through the American
    West and Midwest the life of Hazel Leota Head, a real-life missing
    fugitive wanted by the FBI. Hazel was a hitch-hiking, truck stop
    lingering, waitress who shoot her personals section found husband in
    the back of the head in a trailer park. This reimagined version of her life
    considers her crime through her...
    Dance of The Dung Beetle tells through movement through the American
    West and Midwest the life of Hazel Leota Head, a real-life missing
    fugitive wanted by the FBI. Hazel was a hitch-hiking, truck stop
    lingering, waitress who shoot her personals section found husband in
    the back of the head in a trailer park. This reimagined version of her life
    considers her crime through her loves, her losses, her ingrained
    dependence on men and the sex lives of female insects.
  • I Am Still There by Tori Lassman
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: colonialism, Eco-tourism + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, fantasy, mystery/thriller, political
    Keyword: colonialism, Eco-tourism, tourist town, spirituality, shamanism
    I AM STILL THERE is about Beautiful Island. A tropical paradise exposed to the spread of tourism is visited by a disjointed family for their week-long family vacation. The island’s foundations of belief are confronted when Mr. Fiesta, the families perma-tourist tour guide, brings Doug, the father to the community's shaman and some ambiguous magic occurs. I AM STILL THERE is an expedition of the tourism...
    I AM STILL THERE is about Beautiful Island. A tropical paradise exposed to the spread of tourism is visited by a disjointed family for their week-long family vacation. The island’s foundations of belief are confronted when Mr. Fiesta, the families perma-tourist tour guide, brings Doug, the father to the community's shaman and some ambiguous magic occurs. I AM STILL THERE is an expedition of the tourism industry and our commercialism of both paradise and spirituality.
  • VDAY by Tori Lassman
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2–5
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental
    This play is a funnel through 3 segments. The first inside a movie about a scorned man and his girlfriend who he put in the trunk of his pick-up truck, the second second between woman and man on their first date watching the movie and the last between the woman and a cockroach in the man's bathroom.