Ruth Geye

Ruth Geye is an NYC-based playwright, producer, and lyricist. She is a founding member of the queer Yiddish theatre collective GLYK, a member of the 2023 Gingold Theatrical Group’s Speaker’s Corner. Her plays include These and Those (JFest @ San Diego REP, Theatre Between Addresses @ NYTF; Semifinalist: O’Neill NPC, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, JPP Jewish Playwriting Contest), Chelm, KS (Linden Grove Theatre Co., Playground-NY), The Elephant (The Blank Theatre), and How can I help you? (Gingold Theatrical Group). BFA: NYU Tisch.

Ruth Geye is an NYC-based playwright, producer, and lyricist. She is a founding member of the queer Yiddish theatre collective GLYK, a member of the 2023 Gingold Theatrical Group’s Speaker’s Corner. Her plays include These and Those (JFest @ San Diego REP, Theatre Between Addresses @ NYTF; Semifinalist: O’Neill NPC, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, JPP Jewish Playwriting Contest), Chelm, KS (Linden Grove Theatre Co., Playground-NY), The Elephant (The Blank Theatre), and How can I help you? (Gingold Theatrical Group). BFA: NYU Tisch.

Scripts

These and Those

by Ruth Geye

4
Cast Size
6
Genre
drama,
political

October 27, 2018

Six college students pile into a small basement apartment for Shabbat lunch, but they can’t keep the outside world from showing up uninvited.

October 27, 2018

Six college students pile into a small basement apartment for Shabbat lunch, but they can’t keep the outside world from showing up uninvited.

How can I help you?

by Ruth Geye

Cast Size
3—5
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
experimental

Claire doesn't work Fridays. Claire has been called into the office on her day off to accommodate a 102 year old Holocaust survivor with a cracked tooth and a love of Wagner. The dental practice where Claire works is run by a dentist couple and their dentist son, all named Dr. Meyer. The elder Drs. Meyer are out on the island for the weekend, leaving the jittery young-Dr. Meyer in charge. The phone won't stop...

Claire doesn't work Fridays. Claire has been called into the office on her day off to accommodate a 102 year old Holocaust survivor with a cracked tooth and a love of Wagner. The dental practice where Claire works is run by a dentist couple and their dentist son, all named Dr. Meyer. The elder Drs. Meyer are out on the island for the weekend, leaving the jittery young-Dr. Meyer in charge. The phone won't stop ringing. Everyone keeps asking for Lorna. This play asks the question, if a tree falls in the forest and there’s no one around to see it — are you still a woman?

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The Elephant

by Ruth Geye

1
Cast Size
3
Genre
drama,
tragedy

Lauren got kicked out. Again. She finds refuge from the rain at her best friend Jacki's house, but any hope of a peaceful evening is ruined by Jacki's boyfriend, Adam, and the old stuffed elephant in the room.

Lauren got kicked out. Again. She finds refuge from the rain at her best friend Jacki's house, but any hope of a peaceful evening is ruined by Jacki's boyfriend, Adam, and the old stuffed elephant in the room.

the hole play

by Ruth Geye

Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
experimental

We've been sent a message. And it's burned on the ass of an underemployed queer who's been sunning their holes.

We've been sent a message. And it's burned on the ass of an underemployed queer who's been sunning their holes.

The Straits by Jane Rose, translated

by Ruth Geye

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
translation

Helen and Max live beyond their means in a tawny Lenox Ave apartment, with a little help from their border Lehman.

Originally published as Engshaft (1918), and serialized as Ven eyner vil nit zayn genart (1914) in the anarchist periodical Fraye arbeter shtime. Translated from the Yiddish.

Helen and Max live beyond their means in a tawny Lenox Ave apartment, with a little help from their border Lehman.

Originally published as Engshaft (1918), and serialized as Ven eyner vil nit zayn genart (1914) in the anarchist periodical Fraye arbeter shtime. Translated from the Yiddish.

Newtown Creek

by Ruth Geye

Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy

The boat is sinking.

The boat is sinking.

Silence.

by Ruth Geye

Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

Three dancers clean out their high school auditorium in the wake of a beloved teacher's firing.

Three dancers clean out their high school auditorium in the wake of a beloved teacher's firing.

Sacred Heart

by Ruth Geye

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
mystery/thriller

[Playground-NY 10 minute play] When a gesture of love goes horribly wrong, Carina tries to pin it on her girlfriend's ex-girlfriend.

[Playground-NY 10 minute play] When a gesture of love goes horribly wrong, Carina tries to pin it on her girlfriend's ex-girlfriend.

Death Do Us Part

by Ruth Geye

Cast Size
8
Genre
dark comedy

Adult siblings, Andy and Rob, struggling to find a financially viable solution for managing their senile and divorced parents, decide to move the two back in together, hoping they won't notice.

Adult siblings, Andy and Rob, struggling to find a financially viable solution for managing their senile and divorced parents, decide to move the two back in together, hoping they won't notice.

the end.

by Ruth Geye

Cast Size
2—3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
political,
satire,
science fiction

[PlayGround-NY 10-minute play] Hello and welcome to my channel. We're definitely all going to die.

[PlayGround-NY 10-minute play] Hello and welcome to my channel. We're definitely all going to die.

Chelm, KS

by Ruth Geye

Cast Size
3
Genre
fable/folktale,
holiday,
horror,
period

Heshy has a little dreidel. He made it out of clay. Now, it's come out to play.

Heshy has a little dreidel. He made it out of clay. Now, it's come out to play.