Grace Everett

Grace Everett

Grace Everett (she/her) is a young award-winning playwright and actress born and raised in Dallas, TX. She is now living in the heart of Chicago and studying Playwriting at The Theatre School at DePaul University, home to one of the top undergraduate Playwriting programs in the nation.

In 2019, as a high school junior, Grace won the Texas Thespian Festival's PLAYWORKS Playwriting competition...
Grace Everett (she/her) is a young award-winning playwright and actress born and raised in Dallas, TX. She is now living in the heart of Chicago and studying Playwriting at The Theatre School at DePaul University, home to one of the top undergraduate Playwriting programs in the nation.

In 2019, as a high school junior, Grace won the Texas Thespian Festival's PLAYWORKS Playwriting competition with her original short play, 'The Last Sunrise of August 1973'. She enjoys telling slice-of-life stories about mental health, self-discovery, and what it means to be queer, neurodivergent, young, female, and/or all of the above. As a newly-20-year-old, Grace now spends her time playing Dungeons & Dragons, petting lots of dogs, and figuring out what the hell it means to be an 'Adult'.

Grace has a passion for historical fiction, psychological thriller films, and collecting journals, dolls, and early-1900s cabinet card photographs. She also has an extensive knowledge of odd trivia facts, which she is always enthusiastic to share with others.

www.GraceEverett.org

Plays

  • The Last Sunrise of August 1973 by Grace Everett
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: 1970s, california + 8 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama, period
    Keyword: 1970s, california, hippies, runaway, best friends, teenage girls, slice of life, period drama, period piece, 1970s America
    20-30 MINUTES.
    After two weeks missing, a free-spirited teen runaway returns home to pack her bags before leaving for good, only to be found by her best friend, who believes she has come home to stay.

    **Winner of the Texas Thespian Festival PLAYWORKS New Plays competition (2019). Honorable Mention recipient from the YouthPLAYS New Voices One Act competition (2021).**
  • Letters for Adelaide by Grace Everett
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: period drama, 1920s + 8 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama, experimental, period
    Keyword: period drama, 1920s, Paris, America, bittersweet love story, love, LGBTQ, letter-writing, Art and Artists, creative partners
    20-30 MINUTES.
    The story of the intimate and vulnerable love between two artists, including the secrets they had to keep from the world, unfolds via a series of letters exchanged between the two in the years leading up to the Great Depression.
  • The Burning Room Test by Grace Everett
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama, horror + 1 more
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    Keyword: android, moral dilemma + 7 more
    Genre: drama, horror, science fiction
    Keyword: android, moral dilemma, morality, philosophical, humanity, murder, accidental killing, fire, special effects
    60-75 MINUTES.
    "A building is on fire... who do you save?"
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    An artificially-intelligent android struggles to pass a consciousness test due to an apparent lack of morality. What she lacks in empathy, she makes up for in determination, and to pass her test, she will stop at nothing.
  • Sammie Doesn’t Play Cards With Us Anymore by Grace Everett
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: mental hospital, 5 Stages of Grief + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: mental hospital, 5 Stages of Grief, Chronic Illness, LGBT Mental Health, psych ward, dark comedy, Black comedy
    45-60 MINUTES.
    Five teenagers in an inpatient mental hospital grieve and process the loss of their friend, who took her life only days after her release.
  • 28:28 by Grace Everett
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: historical lunatic asylum, mental asylum + 8 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama, period
    Keyword: historical lunatic asylum, mental asylum, lunatic asylum, disabled and able-bodied characters, Cognitive disability, blind central character, lobotomy, 1840's, 19th century America, illegal medical procedures
    TEN MINUTES.
    Two women in a 19th-century lunatic asylum discover that their fellow patient’s affliction may be more dangerous than it seems.
  • Ice Cream Friday by Grace Everett
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: virtual, zoom + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, zoom
    Keyword: virtual, zoom, teenage girls, high school, coming of age, Covid-19, pandemic, Video Chat, video call, 2020
    15-20 MINUTES.
    After their lives are turned upside down by the COVID-19 pandemic, best friends Katie and Carmen struggle with ending high school virtually and accepting someone new into their friend group.
  • Asscrack, Nowhere, USA: a monologue by Grace Everett
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: audition monologue, One woman play + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, melodrama, zoom
    Keyword: audition monologue, One woman play, One woman show, good roles for teen actors, good roles for teens
    <10 MINUTES.
    18-year-old Cleo defies the odds of her small town, and her father's wishes, by moving away for college.
  • Does A Bird Dream of Flight? by Grace Everett
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: mortality/immortality, Victorian era + 7 more
    Genre: docudrama/historic, drama, period
    Keyword: mortality/immortality, Victorian era, Mourning, sexism, Suicidal ideation, adult depression, child death, character foils, nature symbolism
    15-25 MINUTES.
    1841, Massachusetts. A female poet burdened, yet infatuated, with sick fantasies of death meets a traditionalist publisher quietly mourning the loss of his young daughter. They struggle to find common ground as a woman who has considered ending her life, and a man who would do anything to bring his late child back.
  • Cass: a short play for one woman by Grace Everett
    Cast: 
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    Genre: adaptation, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: Cassandra, Ancient Greek Myth + 5 more
    Genre: adaptation, drama, experimental, tragedy
    Keyword: Cassandra, Ancient Greek Myth, Greek mythology, modernized Greek tragedy, queering the canon, queer women, greek adaptation
    <10 MINUTES.
    When the prophecies aren't enough to subdue Cass, Apollo finds a new method of psychological torture to control her.
    A modern play inspired by the characters and events of Greek mythology.
  • The Day The Music Died by Grace Everett
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: adaptation, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: live music, Little Women + 6 more
    Genre: adaptation, drama, musical
    Keyword: live music, Little Women, Sisters, ten minute drama, terminal illness, cancer, duet acting, adaptation
    TEN MINUTES.
    Fina doesn’t want to let her sister go, but Lizzie knows her time is coming.
    A loose adaptation of Little Women, with music from ‘American Pie’ by Don McLean.
  • Oh, Honey! by Grace Everett
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Sisters, sibling conflict + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, young audiences
    Keyword: Sisters, sibling conflict, sibling rivalry, college, moving away, sister relationship, sibling bond, siblings
    TEN MINUTES.
    A bottle of honey, a few left shoes, and a long-awaited confession change the way two feuding sisters say goodbye.
  • overexposed, in a dark room by Grace Everett
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: Chronic Illness, bullying + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: Chronic Illness, bullying, Surviving Bullying, teenage girls, fifteen minute, stairs, snapchat, Cyberbullying
    TEN MINUTES.
    A newly-ostracized popular girl is reunited with a former rival in a high school stairwell, when both of them seek refuge from their classmates for very different reasons.
  • Imaginary Grilled Cheese (With Apples), or, The World is Ending and All We Can Do is Taste It by Grace Everett
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: ten minute, Existential Crisis
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, satire, science fiction
    Keyword: ten minute, Existential Crisis
    TEN MINUTES.
    in the ten remaining minutes before the world ends, McKoy and Byrne enjoy each other's company and reminisce about what was, what could have been, and what will never be. (but it's not that poignant.)
  • Nothing New by Grace Everett
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, melodrama + 1 more
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    Keyword: American college student, college admissions + 6 more
    Genre: drama, melodrama, zoom
    Keyword: American college student, college admissions, college, colleges and high schools, high school, virtual, a short Zoom play, microplay
    TEN MINUTES.
    Lani, an aspiring lawyer of average intelligence, and Alyssa, a gifted student with little passion for her studies, open their college decision emails.
  • Painless Regression by Grace Everett
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, horror + 1 more
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    Keyword: Chronic Pain, Chronic Illness + 8 more
    Genre: drama, horror, science fiction
    Keyword: Chronic Pain, Chronic Illness, Chronic Illness and Sexuality, childhood memories, hypnosis, psychedelics, physical disability, Invisible Disability, invisible illness, experimental treatments
    60-75 MINUTES.
    An experimental chronic pain treatment program promises to cure its patients by allowing them to revisit childhood memories. Past and present bleed together when the treatment goes sideways, forcing patients to decide which they'd rather save: their bodies, or their minds.