Jeana Scotti

Jeana Scotti is a New York born and raised playwright. She is a 2025-2027 member of the Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group, a 2026 Creative Capital awardee, a 2025 MacDowell Fellow and a 2025 New Georges Audrey recipient. She was a member of Clubbed Thumb’s 2021/2022 Early Career Writers Group,New Perspective’s 2021 Women’s Short Work Lab, and a New Georges affiliated artist. Recent: A Necessary Killing directed by Laura Dupper(Clubbed Thumb's Winterworks), oh, Honey directed by Carsen Joenk (site-specific performance). She produces work with her company, Ugly Face. BA Purchase College, MFA Playwriting, Rutgers Mason Gross.
https://jeanascotti.com/

Jeana Scotti is a New York born and raised playwright. She is a 2025-2027 member of the Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group, a 2026 Creative Capital awardee, a 2025 MacDowell Fellow and a 2025 New Georges Audrey recipient. She was a member of Clubbed Thumb’s 2021/2022 Early Career Writers Group,New Perspective’s 2021 Women’s Short Work Lab, and a New Georges affiliated artist. Recent: A Necessary Killing directed by Laura Dupper(Clubbed Thumb's Winterworks), oh, Honey directed by Carsen Joenk (site-specific performance). She produces work with her company, Ugly Face. BA Purchase College, MFA Playwriting, Rutgers Mason Gross.
https://jeanascotti.com/

Scripts

A Necessary Killing

by Jeana Scotti

Synopsis

A group meets to discuss the stats of their lantern fly killings until they're told they no longer should be killing them.
Presented in Clubbed Thumb's 2025 Winterworks.

A group meets to discuss the stats of their lantern fly killings until they're told they no longer should be killing them.
Presented in Clubbed Thumb's 2025 Winterworks.

oh, Honey

by Jeana Scotti

Synopsis

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, and the SA allegations against their college sons.

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, and the SA allegations against their college sons.

The Possessed Girls of St.Mary's

by Jeana Scotti

Synopsis

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...

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.

Hey Hey Ho Boppity Hop

by Jeana Scotti

Synopsis

Theatre teaching artists during summer orientation who initiate the new hire and lose themselves when they are asked to become their childlike selves during a process drama.

Short play: 30 minutes

Theatre teaching artists during summer orientation who initiate the new hire and lose themselves when they are asked to become their childlike selves during a process drama.

Short play: 30 minutes

Marie

by Jeana Scotti

Synopsis

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.

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

by Jeana Scotti

Synopsis

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.

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.

My Ugly Kid

by Jeana Scotti

Synopsis

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.

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.

Like Jelly

by Jeana Scotti

Synopsis

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.