Robynne Graffam

Robynne Graffam is a Philadelphia-based teacher and writer and a recent graduate of PlayPenn's The Foundry. Her plays have been read or developed through The Bechdel Group, The Storefront Theater, ETC Theater Company and the Inkubator New Works Development Lab, and her play A Rising Tide (Lifts All Boats) was named as a finalist for the B Street Theater New Comedies Festival. The Penis Play was produced as part of the Academy of Art University's One Act Festival and The Pharmacy Theater's short play festival.

Robynne Graffam is a Philadelphia-based teacher and writer and a recent graduate of PlayPenn's The Foundry. Her plays have been read or developed through The Bechdel Group, The Storefront Theater, ETC Theater Company and the Inkubator New Works Development Lab, and her play A Rising Tide (Lifts All Boats) was named as a finalist for the B Street Theater New Comedies Festival. The Penis Play was produced as part of the Academy of Art University's One Act Festival and The Pharmacy Theater's short play festival.

Scripts

Reunion

by Robynne Graffam

Synopsis

Beth faces down her twenty-fifth high school reunion, still stinging from the shame of being ditched by her prom date. Back in her childhood home, navigating her mother's grief and her sister's sudden engagement, she is forced to confront the ghosts of more than just high school, including a shocking lie that sparks her to reexamine everything she thought was true--about her family, her past, and most...

Beth faces down her twenty-fifth high school reunion, still stinging from the shame of being ditched by her prom date. Back in her childhood home, navigating her mother's grief and her sister's sudden engagement, she is forced to confront the ghosts of more than just high school, including a shocking lie that sparks her to reexamine everything she thought was true--about her family, her past, and most importantly, herself.

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: A Climate Change Comedy

by Robynne Graffam

Synopsis

Bob and Sandy live in a flooded house, in a flooded neighborhood where Leonard the alligator lurks in the front yard and most of their neighbors have fled. When a ferocious storm hits during a dinner party with the minister and his prophetic wife, Cassie, rising waters force them to retreat to the roof for coffee and dessert. Miraculously, a neighbor appears with a boat to save them, and Sandy and Bob must...

Bob and Sandy live in a flooded house, in a flooded neighborhood where Leonard the alligator lurks in the front yard and most of their neighbors have fled. When a ferocious storm hits during a dinner party with the minister and his prophetic wife, Cassie, rising waters force them to retreat to the roof for coffee and dessert. Miraculously, a neighbor appears with a boat to save them, and Sandy and Bob must decide whether to face the truth of their dire situation and go, or cling to the chimney and their delusional hope that all will be well in the end.

The Penis Play

by Robynne Graffam

Synopsis

Senator Throckmorton comes home to find a young woman in his living room, and she wants something from him. Something very personal, to which he is very much attached.

Senator Throckmorton comes home to find a young woman in his living room, and she wants something from him. Something very personal, to which he is very much attached.

Mary Pops In

by Robynne Graffam

Synopsis

Kristin and Gary, a young couple with no children, suddenly find their lives at sixes-and-sevens when Mary, a British nanny with a strange resemblance to that other British Mary, marches into their home and begins "tidying up" their marriage.

Kristin and Gary, a young couple with no children, suddenly find their lives at sixes-and-sevens when Mary, a British nanny with a strange resemblance to that other British Mary, marches into their home and begins "tidying up" their marriage.

Love For Sale

by Robynne Graffam

Synopsis

Edna, an arthritic grandmother, sets up shop on Tina's regular corner, disrupting business in ways that Tina and her prospective clients never saw coming, and teaches a surprising lesson about the kind of love people really need.

Edna, an arthritic grandmother, sets up shop on Tina's regular corner, disrupting business in ways that Tina and her prospective clients never saw coming, and teaches a surprising lesson about the kind of love people really need.

Love Story

by Robynne Graffam

Synopsis

Jeremy has to break some news to Caitlin about their relationship, but she really, really doesn't want to hear it. Especially because it means that even though they love each other, things will never be the same between them.

Jeremy has to break some news to Caitlin about their relationship, but she really, really doesn't want to hear it. Especially because it means that even though they love each other, things will never be the same between them.