Angela Gyurko

Angela Gyurko graduated from Columbia University in 1990, and like any good Tool of the Patriarchy, her love of dance and choreography gave way to a more responsible career path, including corporate consulting and teaching college. In February 2019, she completed her MFA in creative writing from Goddard College. While she’d planned to write novels, plays kept waking her in the middle of the night, demanding her attention.
Two of her one-act plays have been performed as part of Key City Public Theater’s annual PlayFest celebration of new works, one has been performed by Boston Conservatory Students, and her full length plays are regularly semi-finalists or short-listed for national competitions. Plays continue to wake her at all hours, and she looks forward to having the time to write them...

Angela Gyurko graduated from Columbia University in 1990, and like any good Tool of the Patriarchy, her love of dance and choreography gave way to a more responsible career path, including corporate consulting and teaching college. In February 2019, she completed her MFA in creative writing from Goddard College. While she’d planned to write novels, plays kept waking her in the middle of the night, demanding her attention.
Two of her one-act plays have been performed as part of Key City Public Theater’s annual PlayFest celebration of new works, one has been performed by Boston Conservatory Students, and her full length plays are regularly semi-finalists or short-listed for national competitions. Plays continue to wake her at all hours, and she looks forward to having the time to write them all.

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Scripts

Proper: A Steampunk Comedy of Manners

by Angela Gyurko

2
Cast Size
6
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
melodrama,
period

The Widow Agatha Augustine and her companion, Daisyana Dallymuch, hide their secret life as inventors, not wanting to disturb the expectations of the Victorian Steampunk town of Port Brassington, nor rattle the sensibilities of their friend, town archivist Edison Pennythrift. The arrival of Sterling Letchford and young Deedsworth Letchford upends their plans as Sterling attempts – by whatever means necessary –...

The Widow Agatha Augustine and her companion, Daisyana Dallymuch, hide their secret life as inventors, not wanting to disturb the expectations of the Victorian Steampunk town of Port Brassington, nor rattle the sensibilities of their friend, town archivist Edison Pennythrift. The arrival of Sterling Letchford and young Deedsworth Letchford upends their plans as Sterling attempts – by whatever means necessary – to procure the papers of The Widow’s late husband. He means to make his fortune and will stop at nothing, not even marriage, to get what he wants. But Sterling has never met anyone quite like The Widow. She thrives on experiments, and Sterling did say nothing could stop him. That was a challenge, wasn’t it?

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A Tale of Two

by Angela Gyurko

Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
drama,
political

In this frenemy spin on a relationship play, Leila and Sarai confront each other’s expectations of life, activism, and the college application process as they stand side-by-side at the entrance to their high school, attempting to recruit new members for their clubs. Their verbal sparring on gender-neutral language, women’s fashion, consent, racist historical figures, volunteering, coffee, pep rallies, and dating...

In this frenemy spin on a relationship play, Leila and Sarai confront each other’s expectations of life, activism, and the college application process as they stand side-by-side at the entrance to their high school, attempting to recruit new members for their clubs. Their verbal sparring on gender-neutral language, women’s fashion, consent, racist historical figures, volunteering, coffee, pep rallies, and dating turns personal when Sarai’s middle-class privilege speaks aloud those thoughts that so often are kept quiet. Both girls must evolve from their performative absolutes as they realize there isn’t just one answer to life’s questions and we all are doomed if we cannot connect.

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Adults

by Angela Gyurko

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
drama

ARIELLA and MALCOLM face the challenge of their young lives in this one-act play, proving that the youngest people in the room often are the most adult.

ARIELLA and MALCOLM face the challenge of their young lives in this one-act play, proving that the youngest people in the room often are the most adult.

Triangles

by Angela Gyurko

Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
drama

Lucy likes Gianni, but Gianni like Hope, and Hope likes Joe. The story of first crushes and first betrayals among a group of junior high theater kids, this one-act play captures the way life in junior high changes everything.

Lucy likes Gianni, but Gianni like Hope, and Hope likes Joe. The story of first crushes and first betrayals among a group of junior high theater kids, this one-act play captures the way life in junior high changes everything.