Chris Woodworth

Chris Woodworth

Chris Woodworth writes plays of archival topography, weaving together historical artifacts with the distinct contours of rural landscapes. She was selected as the “Write Here” playwright for the Syracuse Stage Cold Read Festival for her full-length play Fossenvue (March 2022—canceled due to COVID). Fossenvue has received staged readings at Women's Rights National Historical Park (Seneca Falls, NY), Three...
Chris Woodworth writes plays of archival topography, weaving together historical artifacts with the distinct contours of rural landscapes. She was selected as the “Write Here” playwright for the Syracuse Stage Cold Read Festival for her full-length play Fossenvue (March 2022—canceled due to COVID). Fossenvue has received staged readings at Women's Rights National Historical Park (Seneca Falls, NY), Three Bears Historic Courthouse (Ovid, NY), Historic Geneva (NY), and the Ulysses Historical Society (Trumansburg, NY). Her full-length play Petrichor was a semi-finalist in the 2023 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and the 2023 Ashland New Plays Festival. Her 10-minute play The Last Bee received a world premiere in Alleyway Theatre’s Buffalo Quickies #32 (Buffalo, NY). Something Blue was a winner of the Stage It! 10-Minute Play Festival, selected for both publication and a world premiere production. Her (very, very short) plays have been produced as part of the One-Minute Play Festival at the Kitchen Theatre (Ithaca, NY). Several of her 10-minute plays have received public readings including Sure. (Barrow Group’s First Friday), What to Expect (Geneva Theatre Guild), and All That Remains (Fisher Center for the Study of Gender and Culture). All That Remains also made it to the final round of the PAC New Venture Short Play Festival. Chris is also a director (Full Member of SDC) and theatre historian. Her experience has been that theatre artistry, pedagogy, and scholarship can be woven together in such a way that each enriches the others. For more information on her artistry and scholarship, visit: www.thisworldofyes.com

Plays

  • Petrichor by Chris Woodworth
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: suicide (discussed and described), women in academia + 3 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: suicide (discussed and described), women in academia, guns, gun violence, higher education
    What happens to those left behind in the wake of an on-campus suicide? Madeleine (a professor) and Julie (a student) try to make sense of this seemingly senseless act. As the women navigate their respective grief (and guilt) journeys, they grapple with the challenges of recovering a research protocol and reckoning with their roles in higher education. In these moments of acute stress, unlikely friendships are...
    What happens to those left behind in the wake of an on-campus suicide? Madeleine (a professor) and Julie (a student) try to make sense of this seemingly senseless act. As the women navigate their respective grief (and guilt) journeys, they grapple with the challenges of recovering a research protocol and reckoning with their roles in higher education. In these moments of acute stress, unlikely friendships are forged, and others are fractured.

    CONTENT WARNING:
    This play contains references to suicide by gun, including some graphic descriptions, as well as reference to mass shooting.
  • Fossenvue by Chris Woodworth
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: suffrage and race, mothers and daughters + 1 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: suffrage and race, mothers and daughters, suffrage history
    Fossenvue is a play about mothers and daughters, weaving together past and present. Set on the shore of Seneca Lake, it imagines a Finger Lakes summer camp created by 19th century suffragists and raises difficult questions about the legacies of race and suffrage activism today. How do we reckon with the echoes and reverberations of the predominantly white women’s suffrage movement in the present? How do we...
    Fossenvue is a play about mothers and daughters, weaving together past and present. Set on the shore of Seneca Lake, it imagines a Finger Lakes summer camp created by 19th century suffragists and raises difficult questions about the legacies of race and suffrage activism today. How do we reckon with the echoes and reverberations of the predominantly white women’s suffrage movement in the present? How do we acknowledge the harms of the past without denying or whitewashing? How do we grapple with all of these thorny questions while navigating the loving and also tumultuous personal landscapes of mothers and daughters?
  • The Last Bee by Chris Woodworth
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: climate change, climate apocalypse
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: climate change, climate apocalypse
    How would you spend your final moments at the end of the world? The Last Bee has a plan. But when Someone No One unexpectedly arrives, the world ends in a surprising way.
  • Something Blue by Chris Woodworth
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Photographer and Activist have two very different ideas about what's going to happen when the sun sets at the shore of a lake.