Sam Friskey

Sam Friskey is a San Francisco-based playwright and a 2020 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Plays include Rabbit (2020 KCACTF John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play, 2019 Judy Lee Prize for Dramatic Writing, Penn Plays Fellow 2018-2019) and All the Dead Frogs (Oklahoma City University, Swarthmore New Play Festival, Voices of the Earth Festival at Bemidji State University). Their work has been presented or developed by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, UPenn Theatre Arts Department, Bates College Theatre Department, and The Kelly Writers House.

Sam Friskey is a San Francisco-based playwright and a 2020 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. Plays include Rabbit (2020 KCACTF John Cauble Award for Outstanding Short Play, 2019 Judy Lee Prize for Dramatic Writing, Penn Plays Fellow 2018-2019) and All the Dead Frogs (Oklahoma City University, Swarthmore New Play Festival, Voices of the Earth Festival at Bemidji State University). Their work has been presented or developed by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, UPenn Theatre Arts Department, Bates College Theatre Department, and The Kelly Writers House.

Scripts

Rabbit

by Sam Friskey

Cast Size
2
Genre
drama

Morgan and Ian are the parents of two twin daughters, Fiona and Emma. One day, Fiona stays home from school with chicken pox, and the unimaginable (or perhaps, too easily imaginable) happens. Told non-chronologically, Rabbit asks us to consider how the death of a loved one creates absences in our every day lives.

Trigger Warning: Mention of school shootings.

Morgan and Ian are the parents of two twin daughters, Fiona and Emma. One day, Fiona stays home from school with chicken pox, and the unimaginable (or perhaps, too easily imaginable) happens. Told non-chronologically, Rabbit asks us to consider how the death of a loved one creates absences in our every day lives.

Trigger Warning: Mention of school shootings.

All the Dead Frogs

by Sam Friskey

Cast Size
4—8
Genre
drama,
fantasy

Set in the not-so-distant future, Noa is unable to reconcile her desire for a child and her firm belief that reproduction in the age of global warming is unethical. As frogs override the city, Noa becomes convinced that the consequences of climate change have manifested themselves as a second coming of the Plagues of Exodus. All the Dead Frogs asks – how will we love, live, and grieve differently in the age of...

Set in the not-so-distant future, Noa is unable to reconcile her desire for a child and her firm belief that reproduction in the age of global warming is unethical. As frogs override the city, Noa becomes convinced that the consequences of climate change have manifested themselves as a second coming of the Plagues of Exodus. All the Dead Frogs asks – how will we love, live, and grieve differently in the age of impending ecological disaster?

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Into that Good Night

by Sam Friskey

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
drama,
romantic comedy

What if, six hours before your best friend moved to another country, you realized that you were in love with them? Alternatively titled The Bisexual Pillowtalk Play.

What if, six hours before your best friend moved to another country, you realized that you were in love with them? Alternatively titled The Bisexual Pillowtalk Play.