Angela Gyurko

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...
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.

Plays

  • Proper: A Steampunk Comedy of Manners by Angela Gyurko
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Steampunk, comedy of manners + 4 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, melodrama, period
    Keyword: Steampunk, comedy of manners, feminist, sword fight, gender neutral casting, women inventors
    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?
  • A Tale of Two by Angela Gyurko
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: high school, teenage girls + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: high school, teenage girls, feminist, college, college application, Lesbian, Social Activism, volunteer
    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...
    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. Leila must practice all that she preaches as she confronts Sarai, knowing that we all are doomed if we cannot listen but struggling nonetheless with the idea that “fixing things” is always left to those with the least power.
  • Three Acts of Betrayal: Adventures in Growing Up and Finding Your People by Angela Gyurko
    Cast: 
    17–18
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: junior high, high school + 5 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: junior high, high school, teen pregnancy, first love, teenage girls, teenage boys, heartbreak
    Ideal for a progressive community theater seeking challenging roles for teen actors, Three Acts of Betrayal takes on the different levels of betrayal we all face growing up--betrayal by friends, betrayal by family, and betrayal by a first loves. Ending always on a hopeful note, the award-winning one-acts that make up this play remind the audience how hard it is to grow up.
  • Adults by Angela Gyurko
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: teen pregnancy, high school + 2 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: teen pregnancy, high school, controlling parents, feminist
    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: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: junior high, first love + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: junior high, first love, theater kids, coming out, young adult
    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.