Molly Bicks

Molly Bicks

Molly Herron Bicks (the/them) is a Brooklyn-based playwright. They are the co-founder of Rat Queen Theatre Co., where they collaboratively create campy queer plays and musicals about history. Bicks was recently selected as a Lambda Literary Fellow and one of three artists chosen to participate in the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator. Writing credits include: The Goddamn Tooney Lunes, co-written with Rat...
Molly Herron Bicks (the/them) is a Brooklyn-based playwright. They are the co-founder of Rat Queen Theatre Co., where they collaboratively create campy queer plays and musicals about history. Bicks was recently selected as a Lambda Literary Fellow and one of three artists chosen to participate in the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator. Writing credits include: The Goddamn Tooney Lunes, co-written with Rat Queen Theatre Co., developed in Fresh Ground Pepper Playgroup and presented by Colt Couer; Judy Doomed Us All, co-written with Rat Queen Theatre Co., performed at The New Ohio’s Ice Factory; Lily, developed at WTF, selected as a finalist for the Clauder Awards; Swaggy, co-written with Reed Northrup, performed at The Brick Trans Theatre Fest; and Miss Atomic Power, which was a semi-finalist for the National Playwrights Conference and a runner-up for the Yale Drama Series Prize.

Plays

  • Judy Doomed Us All (Co- written with Carsen Joenk, Reed Northrup, and Raquel Loving) by Molly Bicks
    Cast: 
    9–12
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: political, History + 2 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, drama, fantasy, musical, political
    Keyword: political, History, musical, queer
    Co- written with Carsen Joenk, Reed Northrup, and Raquel Loving. Music by Nathan Leigh, Graham KG Garlington, J.L. Marlor, and Viraj Gandhi.

    In the late 80's Nancy Reagan is touring the country visiting small crime-ridden towns for a transparently puffy P.R campaign. Judy takes place on the fourth of July when a tornado traps  Nancy and her speechwriter, Anthony Dolan, in a particularly...
    Co- written with Carsen Joenk, Reed Northrup, and Raquel Loving. Music by Nathan Leigh, Graham KG Garlington, J.L. Marlor, and Viraj Gandhi.

    In the late 80's Nancy Reagan is touring the country visiting small crime-ridden towns for a transparently puffy P.R campaign. Judy takes place on the fourth of July when a tornado traps  Nancy and her speechwriter, Anthony Dolan, in a particularly unsavory town, forcing them to reckon with the 'degenerates' they condemned at a distance.  JUDY examines what occurs when class lines are intensified in the midst of a statewide-emergency.  

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  • Lily by Molly Bicks
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic, musical
    This is the story of two endings separated by forty years. This is the story of how when the world as you once knew it crumbles into a pile of meaningless dust, it may be time to sing about clambakes. This is the story of a moment when the only answers could be found in sketchy carnivals in deep woods Maine. This is the story of love that hurts more than we wish it did. This is the story of the making of the...
    This is the story of two endings separated by forty years. This is the story of how when the world as you once knew it crumbles into a pile of meaningless dust, it may be time to sing about clambakes. This is the story of a moment when the only answers could be found in sketchy carnivals in deep woods Maine. This is the story of love that hurts more than we wish it did. This is the story of the making of the infamous musical Carousel. Twice.
  • Miss Atomic Power (co-created with Carsen Joenk) by Molly Bicks
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic + 4 more
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    Keyword: beauty pageant, space aliens
    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic, fantasy, political, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: beauty pageant, space aliens
    Miss Atomic Power is inspired by the history of Vegas beauty pageants held to sell atomic testing in Nevada as a tourist attraction.The play tells the story of Charmaine Farrino, who was crowned Miss Atomic Power at a 1951 beauty pageant celebrating the first atomic bomb tested in Nevada. Twenty years later, Charmaine and her daughter Bets run a roadside attraction alongside two space aliens named Dave who are...
    Miss Atomic Power is inspired by the history of Vegas beauty pageants held to sell atomic testing in Nevada as a tourist attraction.The play tells the story of Charmaine Farrino, who was crowned Miss Atomic Power at a 1951 beauty pageant celebrating the first atomic bomb tested in Nevada. Twenty years later, Charmaine and her daughter Bets run a roadside attraction alongside two space aliens named Dave who are stranded in the desert under mysterious circumstances. Time hasn't been kind to Charmaine and Bets, who are recovering from the loss of Bets’ brother to complications from cancer. That summer, Bets enters the Miss Atomic Power Anniversary Competition hoping to leave her life behind. However, plans change when Bets and Charmaine are recruited as witnesses in a lawsuit against the federal government for knowingly poisoning Nevada locals during nuclear testing. Leading the case is Steven Lewis, a young lawyer whose commitment to professionalism barely conceals his personal history with the bomb. As past and present collide, all must reckon with a new understanding of their country, state, and each other.