Corinna Schulenburg

Corinna Schulenburg

I’m Corinna Schulenburg (she/her) and I’m an artist and activist committed to ensemble practice and social justice.I’m a white queer transgender woman, a mother, a writer, a founding Creative Partner of Flux Theatre Ensemble, and the director of communications at Theatre Communications Group. As a playwright, actor, director, and community builder, I’ve worked on over forty plays. My produced plays include...
I’m Corinna Schulenburg (she/her) and I’m an artist and activist committed to ensemble practice and social justice.I’m a white queer transgender woman, a mother, a writer, a founding Creative Partner of Flux Theatre Ensemble, and the director of communications at Theatre Communications Group. As a playwright, actor, director, and community builder, I’ve worked on over forty plays. My produced plays include Carrin Beginning, Kidding Jane, Rue, Riding the Bull, Other Bodies, Honey Fist, Jacob’s House, DEINDE, Dream Walker, Encryption, Jane the Plain, The Lesser Seductions of History, Salvage, The Sea Concerto, and Operating Systems. My plays have been produced and developed at The Lark, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Prospect Theater Company, Flux Theatre Ensemble, and many more. I'm a 2013-14 Lark Playwrights Workshop Fellow and was a member of the Propulsion Lab for Mission to (dit)Mars. My work has also been published in the New York Theater Review, Stage and Screen, Indie Theater Now, Midway Journal, NoPassport Press and in two issues of Carrier Pigeon.

Plays

  • Pack by Corinna Schulenburg
    Cast: 
    13–20
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    Genre: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    Pack follows Harker, a young transgender man struggling with a transition he feels has not gone far enough. He idolizes the masculinity of Bali, a YouTube personality famous for helping men upgrade their manhood. When Harker discusses suicidal thoughts to a trans friend online, he is persuaded to try an underground form of wolf testosterone (T), distributed by a mysterious trans man called the Wolf. This new T...
    Pack follows Harker, a young transgender man struggling with a transition he feels has not gone far enough. He idolizes the masculinity of Bali, a YouTube personality famous for helping men upgrade their manhood. When Harker discusses suicidal thoughts to a trans friend online, he is persuaded to try an underground form of wolf testosterone (T), distributed by a mysterious trans man called the Wolf. This new T gives Harker heightened strength, speed, and sense of sight and smell, and sparks a newfound sexual attraction with his cis best friend, Harmony. But when Harker realizes the T may be turning him into a werewolf, he finds himself needing to choose between his old life and a pack of new trans wolf brothers.
  • Operating Systems by Corinna Schulenburg
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama, political
    Genre: drama, political
    At Code Breakers, black and brown high school girls learn software engineering. When Benita is promoted to CEO, she enlists the help of a journalist friend to confront a controversy over rejecting a white student. Then Bel, a new Code Breakers employee, accuses the outgoing CEO of sexual misconduct. The fallout threatens the most vulnerable in their community, including Dani, a trans employee and former student...
    At Code Breakers, black and brown high school girls learn software engineering. When Benita is promoted to CEO, she enlists the help of a journalist friend to confront a controversy over rejecting a white student. Then Bel, a new Code Breakers employee, accuses the outgoing CEO of sexual misconduct. The fallout threatens the most vulnerable in their community, including Dani, a trans employee and former student.

    Operating Systems wrestles with how internalized oppression often makes us reinforce oppressive systems even as we work toward justice. In a tokenizing system that often positions oppressed peoples against each other, can the relationships at the heart of the play survive? Is it better to leverage the resources of these systems in service of justice, or to burn the whole thing down?
  • The Sea Concerto by Corinna Schulenburg
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    The Sea Concerto follows Lynnie, a poet who has lost her creative voice. Now, a mysterious letter asks her to return to her childhood home to reclaim something of her father’s. Will it help explain why he gave up music? Will that answer help her write again? And can she ever forgive the betrayal that tore her family apart? In the spirit of classic memory plays like The Glass Menagerie and Side Man, The Sea...
    The Sea Concerto follows Lynnie, a poet who has lost her creative voice. Now, a mysterious letter asks her to return to her childhood home to reclaim something of her father’s. Will it help explain why he gave up music? Will that answer help her write again? And can she ever forgive the betrayal that tore her family apart? In the spirit of classic memory plays like The Glass Menagerie and Side Man, The Sea Concerto explores the legacies of pain and resilience that we inherit, pass on, and sometimes let go.

  • Salvage by Corinna Schulenburg
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, science fiction
    Genre: drama, science fiction
    Salvage tells the story of Noma and Akiko, two government officials searching for precious objects through what’s left of a post-catastrophe New York City. When their manager Dennis hires Mandy, a veteran from America’s many wars, the searchers discover things that make them question their mission, and whether it’s time to let their city go.
  • Jane the Plain by Corinna Schulenburg
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    Football, popularity and the clash of the gods: it’s all going down at Plainview High School’s homecoming game in the comic fairy tale Jane the Plain. Jane’s status take a sudden rise after she saves the mysterious Glowing Girl and is given the gift of beauty. Everyone starts falling for her: quarterback Scotty the Hotty, second-stringer Lesson the Decent, even the most popular girl in school, Lexi the Sexy. As...
    Football, popularity and the clash of the gods: it’s all going down at Plainview High School’s homecoming game in the comic fairy tale Jane the Plain. Jane’s status take a sudden rise after she saves the mysterious Glowing Girl and is given the gift of beauty. Everyone starts falling for her: quarterback Scotty the Hotty, second-stringer Lesson the Decent, even the most popular girl in school, Lexi the Sexy. As the jealous Betty the Pretty seeks to eliminate her new-found rival, Leonard the Awkward tries to win his best friend Jane back. But when another mysterious god, the Mirror Man, starts haunting Scotty, this battle of love and social status takes a dangerous turn of cosmic proportions. What if the wrong choice in high school really could end the world?
  • DEINDE by Corinna Schulenburg
    Cast: 
    7–9
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    Genre: drama, science fiction
    Genre: drama, science fiction
    In the not-too-distant future, the pressure to cure a global pandemic spurs the creation of DEINDE, a device that allows a team of brilliant quantum biologists to think directly into a powerful computer. At first, they use this prosthetic for the mind under strict rules of engagement, but soon noble ideals and personal passions lead a few to break the rules. They discover that DEINDE’s power is far greater than...
    In the not-too-distant future, the pressure to cure a global pandemic spurs the creation of DEINDE, a device that allows a team of brilliant quantum biologists to think directly into a powerful computer. At first, they use this prosthetic for the mind under strict rules of engagement, but soon noble ideals and personal passions lead a few to break the rules. They discover that DEINDE’s power is far greater than anyone first imagined, and their world spins out of control, raising questions of morality, consciousness, and what it means to be human in an age of rapid technological change.
  • Tidal Devices by Corinna Schulenburg
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    Tidal Devices follows three young women - AL, AMADA and GLORY - through a summer of waiting tables at the Grey Cat restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard. AL, a visual artist who makes intricate devices out of sea detritus, is forced to return to managing the Grey Cat when her mother gets sick. AMADA, a tattoo artist who dreams of her own parlor, struggles to not party away all her money. GLORY, the privileged...
    Tidal Devices follows three young women - AL, AMADA and GLORY - through a summer of waiting tables at the Grey Cat restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard. AL, a visual artist who makes intricate devices out of sea detritus, is forced to return to managing the Grey Cat when her mother gets sick. AMADA, a tattoo artist who dreams of her own parlor, struggles to not party away all her money. GLORY, the privileged daughter of a prosperity preacher, waits tables because she thinks it looks cool. These three very different women struggle through a summer of late nights and early mornings, new loves and old wounds, and an unending tide of hungry tourists.