Geoffrey Knox

Geoffrey Knox

Geoffrey is a playwright living in New York, New York and West Cork Ireland. His work examines characters who struggle with love sickness, survivor guilt, authentic sexuality, and being a traitor to the patriarchy.

Geoffrey's plays have been developed and produced with a variety of theaters in New York, Los Angeles, and exciting smaller cities across the country.

Plays

  • Provenance
    As a woman prepares a summer solstice feast at her family retreat on the west coast of Ireland, her oldest friend shares unwelcome news, her only child arrives with an unexpected lover, her husband takes an unwanted call from a student and, suddenly, her world is turned upside down. Confusion reigns over sexual identity and family roles, memory and desire, and love for those dead. The tighter she holds onto...
    As a woman prepares a summer solstice feast at her family retreat on the west coast of Ireland, her oldest friend shares unwelcome news, her only child arrives with an unexpected lover, her husband takes an unwanted call from a student and, suddenly, her world is turned upside down. Confusion reigns over sexual identity and family roles, memory and desire, and love for those dead. The tighter she holds onto the past the more she loses control of the present.
  • Reporting from Beiruit
    Olivia, the cunning foreign correspondent who has lost her heart to the unfathomably handsome yet deeply poetic student activist, Hassan, is guest of honor at a grand ball thrown by the fully jaded, slightly faded grand dame hostess, Aysha, for the literati and glitterati of tout Beirut. As Olivia inwardly plots her escape back to the safety of her American banker husband, Hassan tortures himself with...
    Olivia, the cunning foreign correspondent who has lost her heart to the unfathomably handsome yet deeply poetic student activist, Hassan, is guest of honor at a grand ball thrown by the fully jaded, slightly faded grand dame hostess, Aysha, for the literati and glitterati of tout Beirut. As Olivia inwardly plots her escape back to the safety of her American banker husband, Hassan tortures himself with alternating contempt and desire for his out-of-reach lover, while Aysha senses her glamorous world of amour and intrigue slipping from her grip. Who will prevail?