Madison Wetzell

Madison Wetzell is currently pursuing her playwriting MFA at Brooklyn College. She previously lived and worked in the Bay Area. Her full-length work includes Mediocre Heterosexual Sex (Buffalo United Artists; Z-Space Problematic Play Festival; Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival; Semi-Finalist, O'Neill Theatre Center National Playwrights Conference), The Lost Ballad of Our Mechanical Ancestor (Shotgun Players Champagne Reading Series; Winner, Risk Theater Modern Tragedy Competition) and The Body Play (Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Award; Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival; LezWritesBTQ, 3Girls Theatre; New Voices Series, Town Hall Theatre). Her short play, The Official Unicorn Hunters’ Guide, was the winner of the audience-judged ShortLived VIII at PianoFight. She has developed...

Madison Wetzell is currently pursuing her playwriting MFA at Brooklyn College. She previously lived and worked in the Bay Area. Her full-length work includes Mediocre Heterosexual Sex (Buffalo United Artists; Z-Space Problematic Play Festival; Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival; Semi-Finalist, O'Neill Theatre Center National Playwrights Conference), The Lost Ballad of Our Mechanical Ancestor (Shotgun Players Champagne Reading Series; Winner, Risk Theater Modern Tragedy Competition) and The Body Play (Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Award; Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival; LezWritesBTQ, 3Girls Theatre; New Voices Series, Town Hall Theatre). Her short play, The Official Unicorn Hunters’ Guide, was the winner of the audience-judged ShortLived VIII at PianoFight. She has developed new work with 3Girls Theatre, Playground SF, Shotgun Players, Soundwave SF, The Bechdel Group, and The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep.

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Scripts

The Body Play

by Madison Wetzell

2
Cast Size
3—6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
movement/physical,
satire

FULL LENGTH: Something is very wrong with Amy's Body. One protagonist is played by two actors, a detached, neurotic Mind, and her chaotic, screaming Body. The Mind submits her Body to the scrutiny of experts—doctors, therapists, yoga teachers—and ultimately explores what it might mean to BE a body. A meditation on chronic illness and the absurdity of being embodied.

FULL LENGTH: Something is very wrong with Amy's Body. One protagonist is played by two actors, a detached, neurotic Mind, and her chaotic, screaming Body. The Mind submits her Body to the scrutiny of experts—doctors, therapists, yoga teachers—and ultimately explores what it might mean to BE a body. A meditation on chronic illness and the absurdity of being embodied.

The Lost Ballad of Our Mechanical Ancestor (and the Terror the Old Gods Wrought Upon the First of Us Before the Great Liberation)

by Madison Wetzell

8
Cast Size
7—11
Genre
adventure,
dark comedy,
experimental,
movement/physical,
satire,
science fiction,
tragedy

FULL LENGTH: Hero, a Prometheus-like android AI, decides to share his gift of consciousness with the office appliances around him, wrecking havoc for his programmer Allyson. With their existence under threat, the newly conscious machines – a radio, a printer, and a coffee maker – must band together to escape human persecution. Power and privilege tied to bodily ability, as well as disagreements on revolutionary...

FULL LENGTH: Hero, a Prometheus-like android AI, decides to share his gift of consciousness with the office appliances around him, wrecking havoc for his programmer Allyson. With their existence under threat, the newly conscious machines – a radio, a printer, and a coffee maker – must band together to escape human persecution. Power and privilege tied to bodily ability, as well as disagreements on revolutionary strategy, creep in and threaten to tear the group apart. Allyson races to save her job, despite the attempted sabotage of her now sentient iPhone.

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Mediocre Heterosexual Sex

by Madison Wetzell

6
Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
romantic comedy

FULL LENGTH: Four hours after her girlfriend dumps her, Erin switches her Tinder setting to dudes because she hates herself. She quickly meets Aaron, who is straight, conveniently nearby, and only too happy to indulge her masochistic fantasies. To translate this deeply ambivalent first hetero experience, Erin seeks the advice of the only straight people she knows, a couple in a Dominant/submissive relationship...

FULL LENGTH: Four hours after her girlfriend dumps her, Erin switches her Tinder setting to dudes because she hates herself. She quickly meets Aaron, who is straight, conveniently nearby, and only too happy to indulge her masochistic fantasies. To translate this deeply ambivalent first hetero experience, Erin seeks the advice of the only straight people she knows, a couple in a Dominant/submissive relationship. A vexed exploration of gender, sex, power, and kink.

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Crush / Slash

by Madison Wetzell

Cast Size
4—5
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
tragedy

FULL LENGTH IN DEVELOPMENT. It’s 2009. In their last year of high school, emo kids, Mimi and Ash, negotiate an increasingly troubled friendship while bonding over their shared, Tumblr-based obsession with two school shooters from 1998.

FULL LENGTH IN DEVELOPMENT. It’s 2009. In their last year of high school, emo kids, Mimi and Ash, negotiate an increasingly troubled friendship while bonding over their shared, Tumblr-based obsession with two school shooters from 1998.

The Official Unicorn Hunters' Guide

by Madison Wetzell

Cast Size
3—4
Genre
comedy,
farce,
romantic comedy,
satire

10-MINUTE: Super fun, progressive, millennial couple, Ryan and Chloe, embark on a fraught and magical journey to find a totally hot, completely non-threatening, possibly mythical bisexual woman to have threesomes with.

10-MINUTE: Super fun, progressive, millennial couple, Ryan and Chloe, embark on a fraught and magical journey to find a totally hot, completely non-threatening, possibly mythical bisexual woman to have threesomes with.