Brooke Bethel

Brooke Bethel

Brooke Bethel is an early career playwright and recent graduate of the MFA Dramatic Writing program at Tisch School of the Arts . Brooke is originally from rural Idaho, but now calls New York City home. In her writing she seeks to amplify female voices and dissect the human experience. She writes to understand the world around her and hopes that her work reaches audiences as strange as she is.

Plays

  • The Baby Maker by Brooke Bethel
    Recommendations: 1
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: pregnancy, Maternity + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, holiday
    Keyword: pregnancy, Maternity, Relationships, family, Holidays, motherhood, illness
    When Molly becomes pregnant, she learns that her boyfriend, Andrew, has different plans for her life than she does. As she advances in her pregnancy, and becomes sick, she becomes terrified of losing her agency and becoming a mom instead of a person. "The Baby Maker" is a commentary on modern relationships, and the impulse to define women by the people they create, instead of the people that they are.
  • Good Christian Girls by Brooke Bethel
    Recommendations: 1
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    4
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    Genre: comedy, faith-based + 1 more
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    Keyword: religion, sexuality + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, faith-based, satire
    Keyword: religion, sexuality, LGBTQ, progressive christianity, American college students
    When Eleanor, Josie, and Meg embark on their freshman year of college, they are stunned to find out that being good Christian girls is not as easy or fun as it once was. When Eleanor pursues a romance with a boy from work, Josie and Meg make it their mission to stop her from having sex (and therefore falling into a life of sin) at all costs. This play is an exploration of who God is and what the church is. It...
    When Eleanor, Josie, and Meg embark on their freshman year of college, they are stunned to find out that being good Christian girls is not as easy or fun as it once was. When Eleanor pursues a romance with a boy from work, Josie and Meg make it their mission to stop her from having sex (and therefore falling into a life of sin) at all costs. This play is an exploration of who God is and what the church is. It is a conversation about being raised in your parents’ church, and what it means when you find God for yourself...or don’t.
  • Buen Fucking Camino by Brooke Bethel
    Recommendations: 1
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    Genre: adventure, comedy
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    Keyword: feminism, religion + 3 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy
    Keyword: feminism, religion, catholic and queer, christian faith, contains some LGBTQ characters
    On the verge of a quarter life crisis, four friends head to Spain to walk the Camino de Santiago and rekindle their fizzling relationships. The challenge proves to be not just physical but emotional as well as they uncover past secrets, make friends with saints, and wrestle with the ever-pressing question : What the fuck am I doing with my life?