Libby Carr

Libby is a writer and dance artist from Houston whose work hangs out at the intersection of movement spectacle and ungroomed youth. Libby’s plays have been developed or produced at Playwrights Horizons, the Kennedy Center, the Workshop Theater, the University of Texas at Austin, MOtiVE Brooklyn, and Austin's Ground Floor Theater. Libby's thesis play, A Normal Misfortune: More or Less the Story of Iphis, was awarded the 2021 Trice Prize for Creative Scholarship in a Thesis. They were a 2021 finalist for Playwrights' Center's Jerome Fellowship and a 2021 and 2022 semifinalist for the Bay Area Playwrights' Workshop. They have a BA in Playwriting and a BA in Plan II Honors from the University of Texas at Austin, and they’re a proud member of EST/Youngblood.

Libby’s an only child raised by...

Libby is a writer and dance artist from Houston whose work hangs out at the intersection of movement spectacle and ungroomed youth. Libby’s plays have been developed or produced at Playwrights Horizons, the Kennedy Center, the Workshop Theater, the University of Texas at Austin, MOtiVE Brooklyn, and Austin's Ground Floor Theater. Libby's thesis play, A Normal Misfortune: More or Less the Story of Iphis, was awarded the 2021 Trice Prize for Creative Scholarship in a Thesis. They were a 2021 finalist for Playwrights' Center's Jerome Fellowship and a 2021 and 2022 semifinalist for the Bay Area Playwrights' Workshop. They have a BA in Playwriting and a BA in Plan II Honors from the University of Texas at Austin, and they’re a proud member of EST/Youngblood.

Libby’s an only child raised by three teachers. Their favorite part of the rodeo is mutton busting.

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Scripts

CALF SCRAMBLE

by Libby Carr

2
Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
drama,
movement/physical

In a barn outside Huntsville, Texas, five Future Farmers of America raise and ruin their prize-winning calves. CALF SCRAMBLE is a raucous rodeo of girls playing God, clambering for power over their animals, their bodies, and each other.

In a barn outside Huntsville, Texas, five Future Farmers of America raise and ruin their prize-winning calves. CALF SCRAMBLE is a raucous rodeo of girls playing God, clambering for power over their animals, their bodies, and each other.

sad girl hours

by Libby Carr

8
Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

It’s not the end of the world yet, but Sunday’s mom built a backyard fallout shelter just in case. Now it’s an underground clubhouse overflowing with tarot cards and the smell of hair bleach, ringing with chaotic queer energy and runoff full of gritty mud, fire ants, and oil. sad girl hours is a story of college admissions, found family, and potential energy in the face of torrential flood. What does it mean to...

It’s not the end of the world yet, but Sunday’s mom built a backyard fallout shelter just in case. Now it’s an underground clubhouse overflowing with tarot cards and the smell of hair bleach, ringing with chaotic queer energy and runoff full of gritty mud, fire ants, and oil. sad girl hours is a story of college admissions, found family, and potential energy in the face of torrential flood. What does it mean to aspire to something while planning and preparing how to die?

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Gay Bootcamp

by Libby Carr

Cast Size
7
Genre
comedy,
romantic comedy,
young audiences

It’s fall of 2008 and high school sophomore Owen is too distracted by the cute figure skater at her rink to keep any pucks out of the goal. When Owen confesses her love to her all-boy hockey team, they decide they’re the best ones to teach her how to ask the girl on a date. Gay Bootcamp is a Bend It Like Beckham-style rom com complete with baby gays, hockey skates, and toxic masculinity.

It’s fall of 2008 and high school sophomore Owen is too distracted by the cute figure skater at her rink to keep any pucks out of the goal. When Owen confesses her love to her all-boy hockey team, they decide they’re the best ones to teach her how to ask the girl on a date. Gay Bootcamp is a Bend It Like Beckham-style rom com complete with baby gays, hockey skates, and toxic masculinity.

Quit Your Job and Become A Woman

by Libby Carr

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
dark comedy,
experimental,
fantasy,
movement/physical

Chris is a woman. Gia is finally going to quit her job. Hunter is a self-described Old Soul. Weezie is growing wings. A family fights about how to stop and when to begin again— as immigrant, insect, or other.

Chris is a woman. Gia is finally going to quit her job. Hunter is a self-described Old Soul. Weezie is growing wings. A family fights about how to stop and when to begin again— as immigrant, insect, or other.