Zee Bendici

Zee Bendici (She/Her) is an emerging playwright living in Brooklyn. Her play, A Pile-up on Memory Lane, premiered in 2023 at the Overtime Theater in San Antonio. In 2024, her 10 minute play "Short Session" performed at The Tank in NYC as part of the Cut Edge Collective Ten Minute Play Festival. Most recently, her plays Not That Kind of Girl and Beauty and the Beholder premiered at The Tank as a double bill in October. Her work can be found online in the Soph Drink zine and on the horror-anthology NoSleep Podcast.

Zee Bendici (She/Her) is an emerging playwright living in Brooklyn. Her play, A Pile-up on Memory Lane, premiered in 2023 at the Overtime Theater in San Antonio. In 2024, her 10 minute play "Short Session" performed at The Tank in NYC as part of the Cut Edge Collective Ten Minute Play Festival. Most recently, her plays Not That Kind of Girl and Beauty and the Beholder premiered at The Tank as a double bill in October. Her work can be found online in the Soph Drink zine and on the horror-anthology NoSleep Podcast.

Scripts

Turpitude in the Rumpus Room

by Zee Bendici

Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

Turpitude in the Rumpus Room is a play about twelve year old Ronnie Rudetsky's Nerf-themed birthday party. In the birthday boy's domain, there is no adult supervision - he makes all the rules. The winning team gets to eat cake, while the losing team has to eat Ronnie's dirty socks. Harper, a newly out trans girl, is left to fight for her life in this brutal exploration of toxic masculinity and its effects on...

Turpitude in the Rumpus Room is a play about twelve year old Ronnie Rudetsky's Nerf-themed birthday party. In the birthday boy's domain, there is no adult supervision - he makes all the rules. The winning team gets to eat cake, while the losing team has to eat Ronnie's dirty socks. Harper, a newly out trans girl, is left to fight for her life in this brutal exploration of toxic masculinity and its effects on children.

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Beauty and the Beholder

by Zee Bendici

Cast Size
3
Genre
drama,
experimental,
tragedy

A transgender boy is murdered by his transphobic mother and possesses her body in a last effort to save his sister.

A transgender boy is murdered by his transphobic mother and possesses her body in a last effort to save his sister.

Short Session

by Zee Bendici

Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
experimental

A trans man hires a roleplaying service so he can speak to his childhood friend.

A trans man hires a roleplaying service so he can speak to his childhood friend.

Not That Kind of Girl

by Zee Bendici

2
Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
horror,
political

Rachel invites a stranger into her place after she accidentally gives her a bloody nose. The stranger is Crystal, a woman decked out in full "scene" fashion, who speaks as though she's been in a coma since 2011. It becomes evident through the play that Crystal has no intention of leaving the apartment, despite Rachel's efforts to kick her out. (CW: SA, abuse)

Rachel invites a stranger into her place after she accidentally gives her a bloody nose. The stranger is Crystal, a woman decked out in full "scene" fashion, who speaks as though she's been in a coma since 2011. It becomes evident through the play that Crystal has no intention of leaving the apartment, despite Rachel's efforts to kick her out. (CW: SA, abuse)

Mindless Drones

by Zee Bendici

Cast Size
1
Genre
horror,
mystery/thriller,
radio drama

A trucker-podcaster has to carry a mysterious cargo over the Canadian border. The closer she gets to the border, the worse her health gets.

A trucker-podcaster has to carry a mysterious cargo over the Canadian border. The closer she gets to the border, the worse her health gets.

A Pile-up on Memory Lane

by Zee Bendici

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

Three college friends reunite after years apart and meet a fourth friend who none of them remember.

Three college friends reunite after years apart and meet a fourth friend who none of them remember.