Jessica Marie Fisher

Jessica Marie Fisher (She/They) is a Los Angeles-based playwright and voice actor originally from New Jersey. Jess graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2019 after studying musical theatre at The New Studio on Broadway as well as playwriting and devising at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. Their first play, Rules for Coming Out…, was a finalist at the Strawberry One Act Festival 2019 and was published by Original Works. It has since been performed at Muhlenberg College’s Fish Project Play Festival. More recently, Jess created the full-length Scrambled Eggs, a play about Doctor Walter Freeman and the Transorbital Lobotomy. Scrambled Eggs won best new script at the AriZoni Awards 2022 and has had production at B3 Theatre Company in Phoenix AZ, Firefly Theatre Company in North...

Jessica Marie Fisher (She/They) is a Los Angeles-based playwright and voice actor originally from New Jersey. Jess graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2019 after studying musical theatre at The New Studio on Broadway as well as playwriting and devising at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. Their first play, Rules for Coming Out…, was a finalist at the Strawberry One Act Festival 2019 and was published by Original Works. It has since been performed at Muhlenberg College’s Fish Project Play Festival. More recently, Jess created the full-length Scrambled Eggs, a play about Doctor Walter Freeman and the Transorbital Lobotomy. Scrambled Eggs won best new script at the AriZoni Awards 2022 and has had production at B3 Theatre Company in Phoenix AZ, Firefly Theatre Company in North Hollywood CA, and MT Pockets Theatre Company in Morgantown WV. Eggs was also a quarterfinalist for the ScreenCraft Stage Play Awards 2023. Jess’s other plays are The Best Babysitter (Imaginarium Theatre Company 2020), Imagined Dialogs (Broadwater Black Box 2023), Another Reason Not to Go (Semi Finalist - The Road Summer Playwrights Festival, Finalist - Lanford Wilson New Play Festival 2025, Finalist - Epiphanies New Works Festival 2025, Runner up - Savage Wonder's Full Lenghth Play Competition 2025), and Playback (Workshop at Los Angeles Library System 2025, Hollywood Fringe Festival June 2026, Semifinalist - Loud Karma Productions Emerging Female and Gender-diverse Playwright’s Award). Jess is a proud member of Dramatists Guild. JessicaMarieFisher.com.

Scripts

Playback

by Jessica Marie Fisher

Synopsis

It’s time for Expiration Date, Charlie’s latest viral podcast in which she interviews former couples about the demise of their relationships… starting with her own. But when information her ex-boyfriend doesn’t want released is shared without his consent, a dangerous power struggle ensues. Playback is a tense, controversial drama about narrative control, the violence of being turned into content, and our need to...

It’s time for Expiration Date, Charlie’s latest viral podcast in which she interviews former couples about the demise of their relationships… starting with her own. But when information her ex-boyfriend doesn’t want released is shared without his consent, a dangerous power struggle ensues. Playback is a tense, controversial drama about narrative control, the violence of being turned into content, and our need to replay relationships better left in the past.

Another Reason Not to Go

by Jessica Marie Fisher

Synopsis

While Gabby was in college in New York, she noticed her step family in Colorado Springs becoming increasingly religious. She felt less welcome each time she went home for holidays. One summer she saw physical abuse and made the impulse decision to move her mother out. With this choice, she saved her mom, but she also destroyed her family unit. Her step brothers stopped talking to her and her step father soon...

While Gabby was in college in New York, she noticed her step family in Colorado Springs becoming increasingly religious. She felt less welcome each time she went home for holidays. One summer she saw physical abuse and made the impulse decision to move her mother out. With this choice, she saved her mom, but she also destroyed her family unit. Her step brothers stopped talking to her and her step father soon died.

Four years later, Gabby is living with her fiance Autumn when she receives a wedding invitation from one of her ex-step-brothers. She's surprised to find that she actually wants to attend. At the wedding in the megachurch capital of the US, Gabby and Autumn confront her trauma, both of their feelings of loss, and the shortcomings of their life without community.

What is lost when you say goodbye to family? What is gained when you can hold again that which you let go? Why do we stay, and how does it feel to know we can never return? Why do we yearn to know for certain the things that we never possibly can?

Scrambled Eggs

by Jessica Marie Fisher

Synopsis

It is 1949, and Whitney feels isolated. James thinks Whitney is unwell. Doris is a homosexual...so is Maggie. Maggie is pregnant and anxious. Frank doesn't know how to help her. Richard has PTSD from the war and drinks too much. Helen doesn't know how to help him either. Doctor Walter Freeman II claims that he has a solution.

It is 1949, and Whitney feels isolated. James thinks Whitney is unwell. Doris is a homosexual...so is Maggie. Maggie is pregnant and anxious. Frank doesn't know how to help her. Richard has PTSD from the war and drinks too much. Helen doesn't know how to help him either. Doctor Walter Freeman II claims that he has a solution.

Rules for Coming Out When You're in the Driver's Seat of Your Mom's Camry

by Jessica Marie Fisher

Synopsis

It is senior year of winter break 2015, and best friends Lauren and Liam are parked in cars roughly 13 miles from each other. Liam calls Lauren frantically because he has a crush on a boy, which is new. These two 17-year-olds frantically discuss sexuality, family, relationships, all while grappling with their own imperfect friendship. *Perfect for virtual performance, as it is set over the phone*

It is senior year of winter break 2015, and best friends Lauren and Liam are parked in cars roughly 13 miles from each other. Liam calls Lauren frantically because he has a crush on a boy, which is new. These two 17-year-olds frantically discuss sexuality, family, relationships, all while grappling with their own imperfect friendship. *Perfect for virtual performance, as it is set over the phone*

Imagined Dialogs (as a Preparation for Real Conversations And/Or as a Means of Feeling Less Fucking Alone)

by Jessica Marie Fisher

Synopsis

Louisa spends her evenings pretending she isn’t all alone: imagining the conversations she should, could, and would have with the men in her life who are currently inaccessible.

Louisa spends her evenings pretending she isn’t all alone: imagining the conversations she should, could, and would have with the men in her life who are currently inaccessible.

Scrambled Egg

by Jessica Marie Fisher

Synopsis

Whitney is unwell. Maybe. Doctor Walter Freeman has a solution. James wants to take him up on it. Or maybe he doesn’t. Or maybe

Whitney is unwell. Maybe. Doctor Walter Freeman has a solution. James wants to take him up on it. Or maybe he doesn’t. Or maybe

Looping

by Jessica Marie Fisher

Synopsis

When Emily moves back to her hometown and opens a new recording studio she hires Arlo as the audio engineer. They broke up eighteen years ago... but Arlo is the best sound guy in town and Emily is now a mother (and a lesbian), so it’s fine. It’s fine.

When Emily moves back to her hometown and opens a new recording studio she hires Arlo as the audio engineer. They broke up eighteen years ago... but Arlo is the best sound guy in town and Emily is now a mother (and a lesbian), so it’s fine. It’s fine.

The Best Babysitter

by Jessica Marie Fisher

Synopsis

Corrine is a 17-year-old religious, hardworking girl living in 2010 Colorado Springs. Veronica used to be Corrine's babysitter, but is now a 27-year-old drug dealer. Corrine orders ritalin for studying and Veronica is the deliverer. It's an unexpected reunion that leads to plenty of discoveries. This play is about queerness, relationships, growing up, sex, imagination, and loneliness.

Corrine is a 17-year-old religious, hardworking girl living in 2010 Colorado Springs. Veronica used to be Corrine's babysitter, but is now a 27-year-old drug dealer. Corrine orders ritalin for studying and Veronica is the deliverer. It's an unexpected reunion that leads to plenty of discoveries. This play is about queerness, relationships, growing up, sex, imagination, and loneliness.

Cards! Let's Play Cards

by Jessica Marie Fisher

Synopsis

James and Whitney are married and they have just returned from Whitney's ex husband's funeral. Whitney is depressed, James wants to help.

James and Whitney are married and they have just returned from Whitney's ex husband's funeral. Whitney is depressed, James wants to help.

Couzinz Club!!!

by Jessica Marie Fisher

Synopsis

Three cousins who are probably too old to have to sleep in the Kids Room talk family, growing up, divorce, and booze in their grandma's attic.

Three cousins who are probably too old to have to sleep in the Kids Room talk family, growing up, divorce, and booze in their grandma's attic.