Jeana Scotti

Jeana Scotti

Jeana Scotti is a New York born and raised playwright and teaching artist. Her plays have been performed at Rutgers Mason Gross, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Tank, Theatre for a New City, and Access Theater. She is currently a member of Clubbed Thumb’s 2021/2022 Early Career Writers Group. New Perspective’s 2021 Women’s Short Work Lab. Semi-finalist Playwrights’ Realm Fellowship 2021 (The Possessed...
Jeana Scotti is a New York born and raised playwright and teaching artist. Her plays have been performed at Rutgers Mason Gross, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Tank, Theatre for a New City, and Access Theater. She is currently a member of Clubbed Thumb’s 2021/2022 Early Career Writers Group. New Perspective’s 2021 Women’s Short Work Lab. Semi-finalist Playwrights’ Realm Fellowship 2021 (The Possessed Girls of
St. Mary’s), Finalist New Light New Voices 2017, semi-finalist SPACE on Ryder Farm’s Working Farm 2019. She currently lectures at Purchase College and is a teaching artist to humans of all different ages. BA Purchase College, MFA Playwriting, Rutgers Mason Gross.
https://jeanascotti.com/

Plays

  • The Possessed Girls of St.Mary's
    In 1969, thirteen-year-old Alex is about to make her Confirmation, but after rumors spread that she gave the monsignor a heart attack during her confession, she begins to bleed. She believes the bleeding can only be one thing, a sign that she's possessed. A possession she believes she brought onto herself because she can't stop masturbating to the idea of girls in her class telling her what to do and...
    In 1969, thirteen-year-old Alex is about to make her Confirmation, but after rumors spread that she gave the monsignor a heart attack during her confession, she begins to bleed. She believes the bleeding can only be one thing, a sign that she's possessed. A possession she believes she brought onto herself because she can't stop masturbating to the idea of girls in her class telling her what to do and Dick Van Dyke in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. It starts to spread to the other girls in the grade and threatens to take over the school, the country, and their bodies.
    Please reach out if you'd like to read the full play.
  • mondays are for lunch with the Girls
    Four women meet on the first Monday of each month in the same diner, at the same time (when they’re on time) where they complain about the slow service, their dietary restrictions, the latest Real Housewives episodes, bad-smelling tuna fish sandwiches, and their college sons’ sexual assault allegations.

  • Marie
    An adaptation of Georg Buchner's Woyzeck set in a knock off Red Lobster where Marie, that Marie who ends up being killed by her boyfriend in the original, works as a server to support her baby. Waymon, her boyfriend, just recently got out of prison and works in the kitchen. He's always hungry since he's on a special diet for a new experimental drug. Oh and there's a giant talking lobster that comes out at night.
  • Candy Girls
    Tanya reports the candy store owner for "being a creep." The store is infested with cockroaches and the manager is freaking out that they'll fail the health inspection. And Kate and Justine just want to "help" Tanya in whatever their definition of helping means, whether she likes it or not. Run time- 30 minutes.
    Created with New Perspectives' Women's Work Short Play Lab 2021.
  • Like Jelly
    The immortal jellyfish is a creature that can cycle back to infancy on the brink of death. Nineteen year old Celeste meets up with Meredith, a woman she met on a Craigslist ad, to finally road trip down to Florida to catch the jellyfish in time for their migration. Celeste has a jellyfish that once belonged to her mother (a bad gift from her father) that she wants to return to sea and Meredith may want to...
    The immortal jellyfish is a creature that can cycle back to infancy on the brink of death. Nineteen year old Celeste meets up with Meredith, a woman she met on a Craigslist ad, to finally road trip down to Florida to catch the jellyfish in time for their migration. Celeste has a jellyfish that once belonged to her mother (a bad gift from her father) that she wants to return to sea and Meredith may want to possibly become one. A play that dissects bodies, age, frogs, and Disney.
    A first twenty page sample is attached here. Please contact for the full play.
  • My Ugly Kid
    This ten minute play is inspired by Beowulf (and written thanks to Inversion Theatre's We Read Books festival.)
    A missing pomapoo, a kid that everyone thinks is ugly, a protective mom, and a neighbor (the one who can't stop singing Justin Bieber) who thinks the kid is always to blame.