Becky Schlomann

Becky Schlomann

Becky is an emerging playwright and longtime actor, director, and k-16 theatre teacher. BA in theatre: Knox College; MFA in Drama and Theatre for Youth: U.Texas-Austin. Becky lives in Indianapolis, is a member of the Dramatists Guild, and serves on the Steering Committee of the Indiana Playwrights Circle, where her teaching focuses on translating the tools of stagecraft for writers.

Plays

  • Pirates and Rapscallions by Becky Schlomann
    Recommendations: 3
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    Genre: drama, holiday
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    Keyword: christmas, holiday + 7 more
    Genre: drama, holiday
    Keyword: christmas, holiday, pirates, teenage girls, Sisters, Bechdel Test, families, death and grief, great roles for young actors
    Ten-minute holiday play. Is there ever a time when it’s okay to do something morally wrong? Do the ends ever justify the means? Charlotte and Glory are teenagers trying to make it on their own--and make it through the first Christmas after the death of their parents. But as the sisters struggle to support each other while grieving, an unsettling secret is revealed: the girls are “porch pirates” who steal their...
    Ten-minute holiday play. Is there ever a time when it’s okay to do something morally wrong? Do the ends ever justify the means? Charlotte and Glory are teenagers trying to make it on their own--and make it through the first Christmas after the death of their parents. But as the sisters struggle to support each other while grieving, an unsettling secret is revealed: the girls are “porch pirates” who steal their neighbors’ packages and resell the contents.
  • Sky is Falling by Becky Schlomann
    Recommendations: 4
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    5–6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: Chicken Little, fable + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fable/folktale, horror, political
    Keyword: Chicken Little, fable, spying, Drones, conspiracy theory, anxiety, absurd comedy, dark comedy, plot twist, twist ending
    Ten minute play. A (grownup) Chicken Little for our time. Penny is meditating on a park bench when a propeller clatters to the ground beside her. Convinced that government drones are spying on her, Penny persuades three passers-by to join in her increasingly anxious conspiracy theory--and her quest to find the mayor. One part dark comedy, one part dystopian fable. Twist at the end.
  • Cornered by Becky Schlomann
    Recommendations: 7
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: bad date, date + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, political, zoom
    Keyword: bad date, date, rattlesnakes, snakes, American society and politics, Democratic-Republican divide
    Ten-minute play. Works on Zoom or live. Written in June 2020, after an actor friend mused, "Right now we need plays about trying to connect emotionally when we can't connect physically." While hiking, Man and Woman are cornered on opposite ends of a cave by an angry (and invisible to the audience) rattlesnake. As their disastrous third date unfolds, Man and Woman discover that they're on...
    Ten-minute play. Works on Zoom or live. Written in June 2020, after an actor friend mused, "Right now we need plays about trying to connect emotionally when we can't connect physically." While hiking, Man and Woman are cornered on opposite ends of a cave by an angry (and invisible to the audience) rattlesnake. As their disastrous third date unfolds, Man and Woman discover that they're on opposite sides of the American political divide, and must confront their fears about a world that's rapidly unraveling around them.

    This play is published in the Smith & Kraus Best Ten-Minute Plays 2021 Anthology. It's currently a finalist for the Kairos Italy Theater (KIT)'s International Political Theater competition in New York.
  • Dolly by Becky Schlomann
    Recommendations: 8
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    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: love, loneliness + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, romantic comedy
    Keyword: love, loneliness, marriage, doll, unique wedding ideas, Salvador Dali, women, middle age, Surrealism
    Ten-minute play. Gwendolyn arrives at Melissa's door at 4:57 AM wearing a wedding veil, toting a doll (er, dolly---Salvador Dali, that is), and convinced that Melissa's pastor husband should perform her wedding. Struggling to connect, the two women reflect on the many forms that love and loneliness take. *Now updated with simpler staging.*