Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend

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 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. 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. 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. Two strangers connected by a mutual acquaintance cross paths in a community hot tub.

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. 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.

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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.

FULL LENGTH. The time is the mid-1800s. The place is a fantasy realm where magic is real and anachronisms run rampant. Anna and the Wig Monster follows Anna, a sixteen-year-old daughter of a wigmaker/storyteller. She spends every day working in her dad's wig shop and listening to his stories, including her favorite, The Tale of the Wig Monster. One evening, when Anna comes face-to-face with the Wig Monster themself, she goes on the adventure - or advengture - of a lifetime. Along the way, she faces ferocious beasts, timid accountants, and astounding answers - both to life's greatest mysteries and to some very difficult math problems. A play for adults and children of all ages.

ONE ACT. A dead body is brought back to life, ostensibly to improve American vaccination rates, but really to impress the Ivy League.
*Written for Playwrights Thriving's Frightfully Inspired challenge, from the prompt, "The Mummy."*

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.

ONE ACT. Tiffany and Jessica need to get an autograph and photo of former professional English soccer player, Darren Anderton, in order to save Tiffany’s marriage - but it snowed, and he might be dead?
**Written for Playwrights Thriving's 2025 Secret Santa Title Exchange**

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

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

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*

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

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

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

10 MIN. Kate tries to rope Holly into activism for a good (?) cause.
*Written for the 2025 Playwrights Thriving Shared Title Challenge.*

10 MIN. At Christmas, Brenda returns to the small town where she was raised in order to accomplish two goals, one of which involves Gus, who never left their hometown.
*Written for the 2026 Playwrights Thriving Shared Title Challenge*

MONOLOGUE. Rachel is hiding in a custodial closet during first period - but everything is fine.

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.