Mary Powelson

Mary Powelson is a lifelong theatre artist and an emerging playwright. As a director, actor, and dramaturg, she has worked with SF Bay Area playwrights in new play development. Her first ten-minute play, Iphigenia at Nasdaq, was a 2000 Finalist for the Heideman Award. Mary just completed her first full-length play, The Jumping Off Place. Her personal essay, Air, was published in (Her)oics, an anthology of women's lived experiences during the pandemic (Pact Press, 3/21). Mary founded Salesian Club Theatre, a San Francisco youth arts company, writes curriculum, and taught teenage female playwrights for 3 Girls Theatre (SF). She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Dramatists Guild, and holds both a B.A. and M.A. in Theatre from San Francisco State University.

Mary Powelson is a lifelong theatre artist and an emerging playwright. As a director, actor, and dramaturg, she has worked with SF Bay Area playwrights in new play development. Her first ten-minute play, Iphigenia at Nasdaq, was a 2000 Finalist for the Heideman Award. Mary just completed her first full-length play, The Jumping Off Place. Her personal essay, Air, was published in (Her)oics, an anthology of women's lived experiences during the pandemic (Pact Press, 3/21). Mary founded Salesian Club Theatre, a San Francisco youth arts company, writes curriculum, and taught teenage female playwrights for 3 Girls Theatre (SF). She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Dramatists Guild, and holds both a B.A. and M.A. in Theatre from San Francisco State University.

Scripts

The Jumping Off Place

by Mary Powelson

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
drama

A mother with a child who is not her own. A child with a mother who is not his own - and, at 17, is not much of a child. On the heels of an explosive weekend, during a time of economic upheaval, an imploding family meets for an emergency therapy session, at the end of which offers a step in a better direction. The Jumping Off Place is a four-character drama that figuratively inhabits Edward Hopper’s 1951...

A mother with a child who is not her own. A child with a mother who is not his own - and, at 17, is not much of a child. On the heels of an explosive weekend, during a time of economic upheaval, an imploding family meets for an emergency therapy session, at the end of which offers a step in a better direction. The Jumping Off Place is a four-character drama that figuratively inhabits Edward Hopper’s 1951 painting, Rooms By The Sea.

The Jumping Off Place was a semi-finalist at the Garry Marshall Theatre.
https://www.garrymarshalltheatre.org/new-works-festival-2021

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Ever Upward

by Mary Powelson

Cast Size
4
Genre
adaptation,
drama,
zoom

Miranda, Caliban, and Ariel: will there be a brave new world? Ever Upward is a ten-minute play that engages The Tempest with a quick nod to The Skin of Our Teeth.

Miranda, Caliban, and Ariel: will there be a brave new world? Ever Upward is a ten-minute play that engages The Tempest with a quick nod to The Skin of Our Teeth.