Ruth Geye

Ruth Geye

Ruth Geye is an NYC-based playwright, producer, and lyricist. She is a member of the queer Yiddish theatre collective GLYK, a frequent collaborator of Western Massachusetts-based theatre collective Theater Between Addresses, the founding producer of the Lower East Side Play Festival, and a member of Gingold Theatrical Group’s Speaker’s Corner. She’s a proud member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre...
Ruth Geye is an NYC-based playwright, producer, and lyricist. She is a member of the queer Yiddish theatre collective GLYK, a frequent collaborator of Western Massachusetts-based theatre collective Theater Between Addresses, the founding producer of the Lower East Side Play Festival, and a member of Gingold Theatrical Group’s Speaker’s Corner. She’s a proud member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and the Dramatists Guild of America. 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.

Plays

  • These and Those by Ruth Geye
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: college, New York + 7 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: college, New York, colleges and high schools, judaism, Jewish, shabbat, Anti-Semitism, Orthodox Judaism, free speech
    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: 
    3–5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: dentistry, Dentists + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental
    Keyword: dentistry, Dentists, receptionists, Jews
    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...
    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?
  • The Elephant by Ruth Geye
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, tragedy
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    Keyword: colleges and high schools, gay high schooler + 2 more
    Genre: drama, tragedy
    Keyword: colleges and high schools, gay high schooler, high school, butch lesbians
    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: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
    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.
  • The Straits by Jane Rose, translated by Ruth Geye
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, translation
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    Keyword: Yiddish, translation + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, translation
    Keyword: Yiddish, translation, free love, border, heterosexuality
    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.
  • Silence. by Ruth Geye
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: colleges and high schools, high school + 6 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: colleges and high schools, high school, about theater, abuse by teacher, gay students and teachers, rust belt, midwest, Cleveland
    Three dancers clean out their high school auditorium in the wake of a beloved teacher's firing.
  • Sacred Heart by Ruth Geye
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, mystery/thriller
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    Keyword: catholic school, Nuns + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: catholic school, Nuns, Chickens, lesbians, catholic and queer, colleges and high schools, high school
    [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: 
    8
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    Genre: dark comedy
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    Keyword: family, aging + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy
    Keyword: family, aging, Midwestern, midwest, divorce, caring for elderly parents
    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: 
    2–3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: climate apocalypse, climate activist + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, political, satire, science fiction
    Keyword: climate apocalypse, climate activist, Youtube, teen angst
    [PlayGround-NY 10-minute play] Hello and welcome to my channel. We're definitely all going to die.
  • Chelm, KS by Ruth Geye
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: fable/folktale, holiday + 2 more
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    Keyword: hanukkah, Chanukah + 7 more
    Genre: fable/folktale, holiday, horror, period
    Keyword: hanukkah, Chanukah, Kansas, Golem, The Golem, dreidel, American Jews, judaism, tya
    Heshy has a little dreidel. He made it out of clay. Now, it's come out to play.