Felice Locker

Felice Locker

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts selected Felice Locker for its 2020-2021 core Playwrights’ Group, a year-long residency. She is also part of Theatre 29 Denver’s inaugural CoLAB 2020-2021, a commission, development, and production opportunity for Colorado playwrights. Felice’s plays include MUD SEASON (Semi-Finalist, O'Neill NPC 2021, Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2020, Sacred Fools...
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts selected Felice Locker for its 2020-2021 core Playwrights’ Group, a year-long residency. She is also part of Theatre 29 Denver’s inaugural CoLAB 2020-2021, a commission, development, and production opportunity for Colorado playwrights. Felice’s plays include MUD SEASON (Semi-Finalist, O'Neill NPC 2021, Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2020, Sacred Fools New Works Reading Series 2020, Theatre Made in Boulder Festival 2018), PIED NOIR ( O'Neill NPC Semi-Finalist 2017, Special Consideration The American Playwriting Foundation’s Relentless Award 2018-2019, Semi-Finalist Unicorn Theater 2017-2018 In-Progress New Play Reading Series, Semi-Finalist MultiStages 2017 New Works Contest, Winner 2017 Playwrights Voiced Festival Relative Theatrics), LEONARD AND DAPHNE (Semi-Finalist “On Your Feet Series” The Edge Theatre), 50 STEPS TO THE BEACH, KILL VAN KULL, THE JOY OF HAPPY, JOSTLED, and FERRY QUEEN.

Her plays have been developed and performed by The Catamounts (CO), Relative Theatrics (WY), Thunder River Theatre Co. (CO), The Edge Theatre (CO), Bas Bleu Theatre Co. (CO), LOCAL Theater Co. (CO), Westcliffe Center for the Performing Arts at the Jones Theatre (CO), Stagecrafters Second Stage (MI), Turnip Festival (NY), and Liverpool Playhouse (Liverpool). Felice has a BA (English) and an MBA, both from Harvard. She is also an arts mentor for youth & seniors and organizes and performs in readings of French language plays in her community.

Plays

  • MUD SEASON by Felice Locker
    Recommendations: 6
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: American West, disability + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, fantasy
    Keyword: American West, disability, magical realism, Fantasy, environment, fracking, unrepresented voice, marginalized
    MUD SEASON, full-length,O'NEILL 2021 Semi-Finalist, BAPF 2020 Finalist. Jane, resilient but restless, decamps to rural Colorado where she thinks hard work and even harder weather are the answer to almost everything. While enduring her slippery sister and sliding mud, Jane, who is disabled, embarks on a journey with mythical time travelers and a magical eagle to discover her place in the changing American West.
  • A WINTER'S TELL (a monologue) by Felice Locker
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: monologue
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: monologue
    MONOLOGUE When a ski accident pauses Samantha’s life, she must confront her mistakes and issues so that she can press Play again.
  • PIED NOIR by Felice Locker
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: colonization, racism + 7 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: colonization, racism, multi-cultural, identity, Muslim, fear, nostalgia, empowerment, hopeful
    PIED NOIR, full-length,O'NEILL 2017 Semi-Finalist, UNICORN 2018 Semi-Finalist. Police respond to a deadly attack in the South of France with an early morning raid on Muslim extremists. When a young Muslim woman crashes into the home office of Claude, a physical therapist, her hijab and refusal to be treated for her injury trigger nostalgia for his colonial life in Algeria when it was part of France. How...
    PIED NOIR, full-length,O'NEILL 2017 Semi-Finalist, UNICORN 2018 Semi-Finalist. Police respond to a deadly attack in the South of France with an early morning raid on Muslim extremists. When a young Muslim woman crashes into the home office of Claude, a physical therapist, her hijab and refusal to be treated for her injury trigger nostalgia for his colonial life in Algeria when it was part of France. How can Magida, a Muslim born in France but not yet a citizen, and Claude, reliving his colonial superiority, face their fears and agree to share a national identity? This play intimately explores the racist roots of violence, multiculturalism, and the search for home and identity.

  • RINSED by Felice Locker
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    NEW! SEEKING FEEDBACK AND DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS. Full-length. Rinsed tells the story of Angela, a minimum wage caregiver, and Clarissa, the client recovering from surgery that hired her, who confuse giving and taking. During a morning shift filled with chitchat and chores, Angela gives Clarissa the news that it’s her last day on the job, but Clarissa refuses to let her go. Class and privilege are probed as...
    NEW! SEEKING FEEDBACK AND DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS. Full-length. Rinsed tells the story of Angela, a minimum wage caregiver, and Clarissa, the client recovering from surgery that hired her, who confuse giving and taking. During a morning shift filled with chitchat and chores, Angela gives Clarissa the news that it’s her last day on the job, but Clarissa refuses to let her go. Class and privilege are probed as the two women suffer their pain and desires, manipulate truths, and reveal the darker side of compassion to remind us that we don’t know someone until we do.
  • 50 STEPS TO THE BEACH by Felice Locker
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    One Act. Two women from the same friend group in college meet up for a fun weekend at the beach, but sand is getting into everything, and the house feels so cold. As the sun begins to set, this play asks the question: what do you need to let go of the past?

  • LEONARD AND DAPHNE by Felice Locker
    Cast: 
    4–7
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: friendship, betrayal + 7 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: friendship, betrayal, love, memory, storytelling, self, growth, aging, self-esteem
    LEONARD AND DAPHNE is the story of Leonard who just lost his wife Daphne in an Alzheimer’s-related incident. Although he still gently hears Daphne, Leonard expects much more out of life and, even at his age, is willing to make changes to get it. The play explores grief, sexual intimacy later in life, and the conflicts between love and self, friendship and betrayal. What would we do for love? In grief? And...
    LEONARD AND DAPHNE is the story of Leonard who just lost his wife Daphne in an Alzheimer’s-related incident. Although he still gently hears Daphne, Leonard expects much more out of life and, even at his age, is willing to make changes to get it. The play explores grief, sexual intimacy later in life, and the conflicts between love and self, friendship and betrayal. What would we do for love? In grief? And after?

    This play's mixture of realism and a magical element reflects the conflict between Leonard’s life as it is an what he would like it to be. LEONARD AND DAPHNE tackles aging without turning Leonard and Blake, both in their 80s, into caricatures, but also encourages us to ask how the younger characters like Hank will turn out. LEONARD AND DAPHNE explores the way we live our lives and how we can grow even as we get older. This play also explores the complex connections between our actions and self-esteem at any age.

    In this world, Daphne’s cello plays, going out of tune as the play progresses. This is also a world where it may be okay to lie about our past. Who are we without our memories? Who is a reliable storyteller? And how much can we control the story of our lives?

  • Do I Have To? by Felice Locker
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: American West, disability + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, fantasy
    Keyword: American West, disability, magical realism, Fantasy, environment, fracking, unrepresented voice, marginalized
    Do I Have To? is the incorrect title for the play called MUD SEASON.
    MUD SEASON, full-length, BAPF 2020 Finalist, O'NEILL 2021 Semi-Finalist, Athena Project Plays in Progress Series Semi-Finalist 2022. Jane, resilient but restless, decamps to rural Colorado where she thinks hard work and even harder weather are the answer to almost everything. While enduring her slippery sister and sliding mud,...
    Do I Have To? is the incorrect title for the play called MUD SEASON.
    MUD SEASON, full-length, BAPF 2020 Finalist, O'NEILL 2021 Semi-Finalist, Athena Project Plays in Progress Series Semi-Finalist 2022. Jane, resilient but restless, decamps to rural Colorado where she thinks hard work and even harder weather are the answer to almost everything. While enduring her slippery sister and sliding mud, Jane, who is disabled, embarks on a journey with mythical time travelers and a magical eagle to discover her place in the changing American West.