Brigit van Gemeren

Brigit van Gemeren

Brigit was born and raised in New Hampshire, and attended St. Olaf College in Minnesota. She is a Theater & Religion major and graduated in May 2023. She is currently based out of the Twin Cities in Minnesota.

Her plays have been performed at Northwestern University, Drake University, the University of Kentucky, University of Arkansas, in York PA with TAFE, and in Minneapolis MN with...
Brigit was born and raised in New Hampshire, and attended St. Olaf College in Minnesota. She is a Theater & Religion major and graduated in May 2023. She is currently based out of the Twin Cities in Minnesota.

Her plays have been performed at Northwestern University, Drake University, the University of Kentucky, University of Arkansas, in York PA with TAFE, and in Minneapolis MN with Melancholics Anonymous.

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Plays

  • Vigilantes by Brigit van Gemeren
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: murder, friendship + 7 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: murder, friendship, loyalty, abuse of women, domestic abuse, intimate partner violence, revenge, college students, feminism
    Opening on a Sunday morning, friends Gail, Georgie, and Emma sit around in a dorm room. They are shaken and nervous, and discuss the previous night. We learn that they have just committed a premeditated murder on their dear friend Tina's abusive boyfriend. This play asks what it means to be complicit, what it means to be loyal, and the ethics of taking someone else's justice into your own hands.

    Written October 2020
  • Other Sacraments by Brigit van Gemeren
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Catholic, Massachusetts + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: Catholic, Massachusetts, Catholic priest, priest, Catholic Church, child sex abuse, sex abuse
    A Catholic community in small town Massachusetts works to overcome shame and secrecy as it is rocked by crises of child sex abuse. Members of St. Margaret's Parish pick up the pieces in the wake of a traumatic experience, and as a result they must stretch the boundaries of what good Catholics are. Casual mystics, everyday martyrs, and ordinary saints define the world of Other Sacraments.

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    A Catholic community in small town Massachusetts works to overcome shame and secrecy as it is rocked by crises of child sex abuse. Members of St. Margaret's Parish pick up the pieces in the wake of a traumatic experience, and as a result they must stretch the boundaries of what good Catholics are. Casual mystics, everyday martyrs, and ordinary saints define the world of Other Sacraments.

    This is the first few pages of my current draft as of October 2023. For more information on a complete script, email me or check back later!
  • PURGATORY IS NOT AN ESCAPE ROOM, BUT THE BELLY OF A WHALE - A 10 minute play by Brigit van Gemeren
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: purgatory, death + 7 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: purgatory, death, heaven, hell, guilt, sex abuse, Nun, Christian, Catholic
    Jonah finds himself in purgatory with an envelope that contains a disturbing truth about his brother. His old friend Gemma comes by - now a Passionist nun. This play explores what brotherhood and sisterhood truly mean.

    Written August 2021
  • NUPTIAL by Brigit van Gemeren
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: lesbian wedding, wedding + 6 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: lesbian wedding, wedding, lesbians, Catholic, family, church, priest, break and enter
    A Catholic family's daughter is engaged to marry a woman. Being a lesbian couple, the girls are barred from being married in a church. The pious mother's solution? Break in after hours. Their perfect plan might have been thwarted when the parish priest woke up, if the father didn't have a trick up his sleeve.

    Written September 2021
  • Hobby Stop - A 10 minute play by Brigit van Gemeren
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, satire
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    Keyword: warehouse work, crafts + 6 more
    Genre: dark comedy, satire
    Keyword: warehouse work, crafts, evangelical, hobbies, Ark of the Covenant, religion, consumerism, American workers
    Satirizing the 2017 Hobby Lobby controversy. Warehouse workers Wes and Jen work for an Evangelical-owned craft store, and fear that a recent package may contain more illegally acquired Biblical artifacts.

    Written August 2021
  • 25¢ - A 10 minute play by Brigit van Gemeren
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: political
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    Keyword: periods, menstrual health + 5 more
    Genre: political
    Keyword: periods, menstrual health, menstruation, older woman, angry feminists, feminism, feminist
    A 10-minute play. In the office of the college Dean, Isabel is interrogated about her involvement in the destruction of menstrual hygiene vending machines across campus. Head of maintenance, Dorothy, is roped into this.

    Written January 2021
  • Normal Burial (a New Hampshire play) by Brigit van Gemeren
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adventure, comedy
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    Keyword: family, death + 7 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy
    Keyword: family, death, funeral, lesbians, father-daughter relationship, father-son relationship, classism, New Hampshire, rural America
    How do you grieve a parent who died without really knowing you? How do you grieve a parent that you didn't really know? How can a family stay together when the only thing they agree on is their many differences?

    Siblings Angie Mosley and Ethan Mosley trek out into the forest in their home state of New Hampshire to bury their newly-deceased father in the old Hitchcock mining prospect. They...
    How do you grieve a parent who died without really knowing you? How do you grieve a parent that you didn't really know? How can a family stay together when the only thing they agree on is their many differences?

    Siblings Angie Mosley and Ethan Mosley trek out into the forest in their home state of New Hampshire to bury their newly-deceased father in the old Hitchcock mining prospect. They encounter the new property owner, Christina Bonchamp, whose pretentious mannerisms are initially off-putting and suspicious. Together the three unearth their understandings of family, love, and death.

    Written March-April 2021
  • Ghosted by Brigit van Gemeren
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: Quarantine, zoom + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, horror, zoom
    Keyword: Quarantine, zoom, college students, paranormal, ghost, ghost encounters, friendship
    Five friends have been sent home from college to enter quarantine, and they are spending their summers bored and indoors, on their computers. They stay in touch over video chats. Eden, who has a tendency for mischief and a love of the paranormal, decides to take a walk through a graveyard one night, and everything goes downhill from there.

    Written August 2020
  • MATTHEW 5:30 - A 10 minute play by Brigit van Gemeren
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, drama
    Genre: comedy, drama
    A guilt-ridden mechanic finds himself in a doctor's office amidst a spiritual journey to heal a mysterious disease. His stubbornness as to it's cause makes him a difficult patient to treat.

    Written September 2021
  • A RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN A WOMEN'S BATHROOM - A 10 minute play by Brigit van Gemeren
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, fantasy
    Genre: comedy, fantasy
    Three young women are in the bathroom of the Hole In The Wall nightclub. One is reeling from a breakup. Graffiti in a stall is not all that meets the eye, and a heartbroken girl experiences an apparition of the Virgin Mary when she needs it most.

    Written September 2021
  • ME AND MY 1 MONTH OLD BESTIE IN HELL - A 10 minute play by Brigit van Gemeren
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3–4
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: hell, baby + 7 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: hell, baby, 1920s, Repentance, denial, Catholic, gay interest, ethics, Religious Trauma
    Two men (and a baby) find themselves in Hell. They believe they know why they are being punished, but their assumptions are really just self-denial for their actual faults. Eventually, god cannot stand their loud blaspheming.

    Written in June 2021
  • 1 Peter 4:3 by Brigit van Gemeren
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Catholic, catholic and queer + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: Catholic, catholic and queer, LGBTQ, queer, priest, drunk, Alcohol, addiction, Massachusetts
    Father Michael is joined at his rectory this Friday night by his sister Jessica and best friend Jonathan. The three get drunk together in good fun without knowing they will be visited by Katherine, Michael's closest confidant and complicated love interest. A straight priest, a gay priest, a lesbian separatist, and a pious nurse discuss politics, faith, love, abuse, and accents. The four push the boundaries...
    Father Michael is joined at his rectory this Friday night by his sister Jessica and best friend Jonathan. The three get drunk together in good fun without knowing they will be visited by Katherine, Michael's closest confidant and complicated love interest. A straight priest, a gay priest, a lesbian separatist, and a pious nurse discuss politics, faith, love, abuse, and accents. The four push the boundaries of Catholic identity while pushing each other's limits.

    Written September 2022. This is a spinoff from a bigger project of mine, Other Sacraments, which explores Catholic identity and community in relation to a culture of abuse. I wrote this for the sake of practice and I like it well enough to put out there. Other Sacraments coming soon!
  • Party Girls Debate Death Of The Author (5 minute play) by Brigit van Gemeren
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: art, death of the author + 5 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: art, death of the author, separating the art from the artist, debate, friendship, bad friend, friends
    An investigation of how "separating the art from the artist" and "death of the author" actually plays out to impact those effected by the author we're attempting to ignore.

    Written September 2023