Deirdre Price

Deirdre K. Price is a writer (scholar, playwright) from Virginia. She is a current M.A. candidate in English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, where her research investigates how the social and political categories of race, sexuality and gender, and nationality are textually co-constructed in 20th-century American literature. Her scholarly work is multidisciplinary and also takes up cultural objects such as film, TV, theatre and performance, and photography. 

Deirdre’s most recent play, the private apocalypse of where, tennessee, has lately been read in New York City (The Bechdel Group, Menagerie Arts Coalition & Out of Order Collective) and in Blacksburg and Roanoke, VA (Kitchen Sink Artist Collective). The Jupiter Bird has been performed at Hollins University, Boston Conservatory at...

Deirdre K. Price is a writer (scholar, playwright) from Virginia. She is a current M.A. candidate in English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, where her research investigates how the social and political categories of race, sexuality and gender, and nationality are textually co-constructed in 20th-century American literature. Her scholarly work is multidisciplinary and also takes up cultural objects such as film, TV, theatre and performance, and photography. 

Deirdre’s most recent play, the private apocalypse of where, tennessee, has lately been read in New York City (The Bechdel Group, Menagerie Arts Coalition & Out of Order Collective) and in Blacksburg and Roanoke, VA (Kitchen Sink Artist Collective). The Jupiter Bird has been performed at Hollins University, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and in New York City at the historic Under St. Marks. She is co-author of a chapter in the forthcoming Routledge Companion to James A. Baldwin (2026). Deirdre received her B.A. in English and Theatre from Hollins University.

Scripts

SUSAN B. ANTHONY EAT YOUR FUCKING HEART OUT

by Deirdre Price

Synopsis

joey is in the fourth grade but also isn’t
joey is doing a presentation for class on susan b anthony
joey does not know who susan b anthony is and the presentation is tomorrow
eat your fucking heart out susan b anthony, what even is feminism anyways

a gay graduate school fantasia for the end of days
or at least for the end of your rope

joey is in the fourth grade but also isn’t
joey is doing a presentation for class on susan b anthony
joey does not know who susan b anthony is and the presentation is tomorrow
eat your fucking heart out susan b anthony, what even is feminism anyways

a gay graduate school fantasia for the end of days
or at least for the end of your rope

Push

by Deirdre Price

Synopsis

Today is the day, Naomi has decided, that she will finally do it. She will take a step, when the moment is ripe, in front of an oncoming train, and it will all finally be over. M is going to help and she isn’t trying to talk Naomi out of it. She’s just talking.

Today is the day, Naomi has decided, that she will finally do it. She will take a step, when the moment is ripe, in front of an oncoming train, and it will all finally be over. M is going to help and she isn’t trying to talk Naomi out of it. She’s just talking.

the private apocalypse of where, tennessee

by Deirdre Price

Synopsis

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...

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 the world and how little we know about it, about the things that unsettle us, and it’s sort of about love and a little bit about etymology 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’s actually happening. It’s happening right now. She’s here and she’s coming up behind you. Do you hear that? Wait—didn’t the world end just now, just a minute ago? So what are we all doing here?

The Jupiter Bird

by Deirdre Price

Synopsis

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.