Eliza Frakes

Eliza Frakes is a writer working out of New York, Los Angeles, and, most recently, Austin, where she is a Michener Center for Writers fellow in playwriting. Her plays have been produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2023), the Echo Theater in LA (2023), 21ten in Portland, OR (2024) and The Tank in NYC (2025). Her poetry and prose have been published in The Albion Review, Portland Review, and Rocksalt Journal. She is the founding director of Nine Twenty Collective, an interdisciplinary production company dedicated to supporting early career artists in the generation of collaborative new media. When she’s not writing, she runs a small scale regenerative aquaculture farm in midcoast Maine, where she grows sugar kelp with her partner and her short legged dog.

Eliza Frakes is a writer working out of New York, Los Angeles, and, most recently, Austin, where she is a Michener Center for Writers fellow in playwriting. Her plays have been produced at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2023), the Echo Theater in LA (2023), 21ten in Portland, OR (2024) and The Tank in NYC (2025). Her poetry and prose have been published in The Albion Review, Portland Review, and Rocksalt Journal. She is the founding director of Nine Twenty Collective, an interdisciplinary production company dedicated to supporting early career artists in the generation of collaborative new media. When she’s not writing, she runs a small scale regenerative aquaculture farm in midcoast Maine, where she grows sugar kelp with her partner and her short legged dog.

Scripts

Girl Time

by Eliza Frakes

Synopsis

Jocelyn has had a bad night. Like, a really bad night. She needs a little Girl Time. Luckily, she has a thousand dollars to burn and a babysitter with a drinking problem. Total win-win! A queer-femme take on the kitchen sink drama, this dark comedy explores class, intergenerational democrats, and accountability through cookies, hair braiding, and karaoke.

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Jocelyn has had a bad night. Like, a really bad night. She needs a little Girl Time. Luckily, she has a thousand dollars to burn and a babysitter with a drinking problem. Total win-win! A queer-femme take on the kitchen sink drama, this dark comedy explores class, intergenerational democrats, and accountability through cookies, hair braiding, and karaoke.

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Certain Death and Other Considerations

by Eliza Frakes

Synopsis

The world will end in 80 years. Just enough time to have a baby! Certain Death and Other Considerations is a dark comedy grounded in eco-anxiety that follows two couples (and a surrogate) as they navigate bringing life into a dying world.

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The world will end in 80 years. Just enough time to have a baby! Certain Death and Other Considerations is a dark comedy grounded in eco-anxiety that follows two couples (and a surrogate) as they navigate bringing life into a dying world.

*All rights are reserved. Please contact for reading or production inquiries.

Moleman

by Eliza Frakes

Synopsis

David McDeaver has decided to live the rest of his days waist deep in a kiddie pool full of sand. His adult daughter Gail, who lives downstairs, is not thrilled about it. And when her boyfriend Calvin gets involved, things only get worse. Moleman is a play about the impact of a choice. It is a story about self assertion, family, boomers, fame, live streaming, paper airplanes, and learning to love someone you...

David McDeaver has decided to live the rest of his days waist deep in a kiddie pool full of sand. His adult daughter Gail, who lives downstairs, is not thrilled about it. And when her boyfriend Calvin gets involved, things only get worse. Moleman is a play about the impact of a choice. It is a story about self assertion, family, boomers, fame, live streaming, paper airplanes, and learning to love someone you might never understand— even when that someone is yourself.