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. Her play If It Weren't for the Women, We'd Still Be Stuck in the Desert was a 2024 O’Neill NPC Semifinalist. Mollie was a member of the inaugural Personal Pizza Party Writers' Kitchen cohort. She was recently The Bechdel Group's 2023-24 Resident Playwright. She has a BA in Theatre and Writing from Sarah Lawrence College.

Headshot by Shea Baumgarner

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. Her play If It Weren't for the Women, We'd Still Be Stuck in the Desert was a 2024 O’Neill NPC Semifinalist. Mollie was a member of the inaugural Personal Pizza Party Writers' Kitchen cohort. She was recently The Bechdel Group's 2023-24 Resident Playwright. She has a BA in Theatre and Writing from Sarah Lawrence College.

Headshot by Shea Baumgarner

Scripts

The Tin Man's Daughter

by Mollie Gordon

Synopsis

Tina, the Tin Man's teenage daughter, embarks on an epic adventure in search of a new body with her best friends, Beau and Rain. The trio's heartwarming journey features everything from magical beasts to Taylor Swift.

Tina, the Tin Man's teenage daughter, embarks on an epic adventure in search of a new body with her best friends, Beau and Rain. The trio's heartwarming journey features everything from magical beasts to Taylor Swift.

If It Weren't for the Women, We'd Still Be Stuck in the Desert

by Mollie Gordon

Synopsis

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.

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

Synopsis

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.

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

Synopsis

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.

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

Synopsis

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.

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

Synopsis

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.

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.