Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

FULL LENGTH. Miami hospice nurse, Marina Johnson, wakes one day to find a stranger in her apartment, telling her she has been tapped to be God's climate change prophet. A comedy for a species on the brink of self-destruction.

FULL LENGTH. Three Baby Boomer women take matters into their own hands as they fight (for the second time) to secure access to safe, legal abortions. A comedy about things that aren't funny.

FULL LENGTH. A dramedy about marriage, motherhood, and the women who came before us and paved our way. Liz, a native New Yorker, is forced to relocate to the Texas Hill Country for her husband’s job. She is visited by her long-dead grandmothers, who help her adapt to her new life and remind her that an uprooted woman can grow wherever she is replanted when she knows who she is and carries the people and places she loves inside her.

FULL LENGTH. A retelling of the Jesus story from the point of view of his younger brother, James, who is left trying to hold the family together and keep everyone out of trouble while Jesus is off preaching radical civil disobedience and a new world order.

FULL LENGTH. The executive director of an environmental nonprofit has used the nonprofit’s money to buy himself a yacht, unbeknownst to his staff. Now Ronan Farrow is coming by the office at noon for an interview, and he and his staff must scramble to cover up the evidence of his embezzlement before they all end up in federal prison.

FULL LENGTH. (Formerly "Queen Mari's Castle: Live!") It's day one of the North American tour of "Queen Mari's Castle: Live!", the live stage adaptation of a popular children's television show. As the cast and crew work their way through their first 4-matinee day, they realize that they just might be in hell. A comedy about the dreams we can't shake, the souls that we sell, and what it means to be an artist.

FULL LENGTH. Written for 365 Women a Year, "She Tunes the Violin" follows Martha Jefferson and those closest to her from her first marriage at age 18 to her death at 33, as she struggles to find her way and her power in a society built by and for white men.

FULL LENGTH. A romantic comedy about people who aren't good at romance, "Jacob Romano" follows Jenny through the rise and fall of her relationship with Mike at 25, juxtaposing it with the rise and fall of her almost-relationship with Jacob Romano, the boy she had a crush on in elementary school. Jenny believes her mistakes with Jacob Romano have somehow jinxed her love life, and she is determined to break the curse.

ONE ACT. It's day one of the North American tour of "Queen Mari's Castle: Live!", the live stage adaptation of a popular children's television show. As the cast and crew work their way through their first 4-matinee day, they realize that they just might be in hell. A comedy about the dreams we can't shake, the souls that we sell, and what it means to be an artist.

10 MIN. A pair of thieves try to steal the Hope Diamond out of the Smithsonian, and it doesn't go great.

10 MIN. Leslie suddenly finds herself vacationing alone when her friend bails on their girls’ weekend - but then a professional chorus arrives to narrate Leslie’s life and brighten her day.

10 MIN. A man takes an earlier-than-planned flight home from his business trip in the hope of catching his wife having an affair.

10 MIN. Joe has won an all expense paid trip to the moon! He's not happy about it.

10 MIN. A high school football team about to play The Big Game is given some bad news, causing a crisis of conscience.

10 MIN. Claire and Brian were supposed to go away for Christmas. They're not. Brian tries to make it up to Claire with a gift he thinks she'll appreciate. She doesn't.
*Written for the Playwrights Thriving 2023 Secret Santa Title Exchange*

10 MIN. The Old Beggar Woman returns to the palace of Belle and the former Beast to correct a mistake.

10 MIN. A merman is cursed into becoming a human and must find a way to get his fin back and return to the sea.

10 MIN. An angel and an extraterrestrial talk to a human about the state of Earth. A short comedy about climate change.

10 MIN. The Little Drummer Boy shows up to worship the newborn king in Bethlehem, and it doesn’t go great.

10 MIN. Stuck at her in-laws' house for Thanksgiving, Heather volunteers to do the dishes in an attempt to escape from everyone and go to a happy place in her mind.
*Written for the Playwrights Thriving 2024 Secret Santa Title Exchange*

MONOLOGUE. A 40-year-old playwright who was a 20-year-old NYU student on 9/11 was feeling sad on the 20th anniversary, so she wrote a monologue.

1 MIN. Recently-deceased Beth is greeted by the three people she said she most wanted to meet in Heaven. Everyone is disappointed.