Deirdre Price

Deirdre Price

Deirdre Price writes plays and other things. She once threw a rock at a dragonfly trying to get it to fly away but her aim was so bad that it was good and she killed the dragonfly by accident. This experience has stuck with her and is a major influence on her work. Deirdre's whole life seems to them now to be a search for absolution for this moment. Maybe art will set us all free.

The work...
Deirdre Price writes plays and other things. She once threw a rock at a dragonfly trying to get it to fly away but her aim was so bad that it was good and she killed the dragonfly by accident. This experience has stuck with her and is a major influence on her work. Deirdre's whole life seems to them now to be a search for absolution for this moment. Maybe art will set us all free.

The work is difficult and strange and aspires towards queer utopia, optimism, anarchism, and a pedagogy of possibility. The plays and other things that Deirdre writes have been developed with The Bechdel Group, Kitchen Sink Artist's Collective, and Hollins University, amongst others, and she is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America. Deirdre uses she/they pronouns and her greatest dream is to meet Bigfoot. If you are Bigfoot and would like to meet up, please don't hesitate to reach out.

Plays

  • the private apocalypse of where, tennessee
    Christopher’s got no prospects and wishes that the future might open up like a cracked rib, that the past might just be water under the town, I mean, bridge, I mean, I don’t know what made me say that, wait, what I mean is that Christopher is asleep on their bench where they live, please speak quietly so we don’t wake them (they don’t get a good night’s sleep very often anymore) and for the love of god make...
    Christopher’s got no prospects and wishes that the future might open up like a cracked rib, that the past might just be water under the town, I mean, bridge, I mean, I don’t know what made me say that, wait, what I mean is that Christopher is asleep on their bench where they live, please speak quietly so we don’t wake them (they don’t get a good night’s sleep very often anymore) and for the love of god make sure you’ve turned off your cell phone. Okay good. This is a play about birds, about floods, about mountain-top removal, about the world and how little we know about it, about the things that unsettle us, I mean me, about going from here and just seeing where it takes us, and it’s sort of about love and a little bit about peanut butter but mostly it’s a play about how sometimes you may think it’s not very likely that there is a beautiful, ancient woman living inside the mountain, but it is very likely. It is very, very likely. Very, very, very, very, very, very likely. It’s actually happening. It’s happening right now. She’s here and she’s coming up behind you. Do you hear that? Wait – Wait, I don’t want it this way. Let’s go back.
  • The Jupiter Bird
    Fourteen year old girl is fourteen and also, probably, gay. Her aunt who pretty much raised her is always stressed and also, definitely, gay. Best friend is not actually a very good friend. New girl across the street kind of looks like a boy but doesn’t seem to mind, in fact she might be doing it on purpose? Mom is M.I.A. and appearing in dreams, birthdays come and go faster than we think, and did you know that...
    Fourteen year old girl is fourteen and also, probably, gay. Her aunt who pretty much raised her is always stressed and also, definitely, gay. Best friend is not actually a very good friend. New girl across the street kind of looks like a boy but doesn’t seem to mind, in fact she might be doing it on purpose? Mom is M.I.A. and appearing in dreams, birthdays come and go faster than we think, and did you know that no human can run faster than a bear? Childhood is over and Honey’s life is changing, and she can’t decide whether or not she’s okay with it.