Mollie Gordon

Mollie Gordon

Mollie Gordon (she/her/hers) is a queer playwright and theatre-maker currently based in New Jersey. Her plays have been developed with The Bechdel Group, Athena Project, Personal Pizza Party, and Sarah Lawrence College. Mollie was a 2022 recipient of the David Lindsay-Abaire Award for Excellence in Playwriting, and a 2023 finalist for the New Perspectives Women's Work LAB. She was recently a member of the...
Mollie Gordon (she/her/hers) is a queer playwright and theatre-maker currently based in New Jersey. Her plays have been developed with The Bechdel Group, Athena Project, Personal Pizza Party, and Sarah Lawrence College. Mollie was a 2022 recipient of the David Lindsay-Abaire Award for Excellence in Playwriting, and a 2023 finalist for the New Perspectives Women's Work LAB. She was recently a member of the inaugural Personal Pizza Party Writers' Kitchen cohort. Mollie is currently The Bechdel Group's 2023-24 Resident Playwright. She has a BA in Theatre and Writing from Sarah Lawrence College.

Headshot by Shea Baumgarner

Plays

  • If It Weren't for the Women, We'd Still Be Stuck in the Desert by Mollie Gordon
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: queer, judaism + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, faith-based, romantic comedy
    Keyword: queer, judaism, sex positive, family, queer love story, comedy, magical realism
    Naomi Bensoussan is a fifth-year rabbinical student hard at work on her thesis about Rahab, the Tanakh's favorite sex worker. Naomi’s journey to complete the project is aided and interfered with by several patriarchs and matriarchs, a potential lover, and of course, Rahab herself.
  • juice by Mollie Gordon
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    8–10
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: chosen family, queer stories + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: chosen family, queer stories, food service, comedy, Utopia, class differences, queer
    Juicy Moosey is a juice bar in a wealthy NYC neighborhood, and both a home and a hellscape to its little band of workers. The workers come together, fall apart, and grow up, all in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • untitled fanfiction play :).pdf by Mollie Gordon
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: queer, queer love story + 4 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, fantasy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: queer, queer love story, fanfiction, Fantasy, comedy, magical realism
    Max is 17 and loves to write fanfiction about the YA fantasy series, Smells Like Teen Magic. Their favorite character, Isabel, is suddenly knocking on their door, but it's not just one Isabel. Both the character as Max envisioned her, and the character as the author originally imagined, have come barging into Max’s life. Magic and mayhem ensues.
  • Hartford, Or: A Hellish Haven for Exceptionally Strong Quirky Lesbian Sexual Trauma Survivors by Mollie Gordon
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: queer, magical queeralism + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, immersive
    Keyword: queer, magical queeralism, sexual violence, empowering survivors, direct address
    It's a way too-early morning on a train platform at Hartford Union Station. We meet Babyface, a young woman who defines herself as "pedophile-bait." This is her story. She is alone until she isn't.
  • E (and T) Go to the Pride Parade by Mollie Gordon
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: magical queeralism, Gay Pride + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, experimental, fantasy, movement/physical
    Keyword: magical queeralism, Gay Pride, getting older, disability, Surrealism, Art and Painting, longtime love, LGBTQ+, queer stories
    It's the day of the Pride March, and longtime partners E and T are preparing for the big event. As they bicker and reminisce, E and T find themselves swept up in a world of surrealist art, transformation, and most importantly - love.