Ashley Siflinger

Ashley Siflinger is a playwright, performer and comedian living in NYC. Her full length plays include: Date Play (Reading Playwrights on Park '25, Workshop Stroller Scene ’23, Semifinalist Eugene O’Neill: National Playwrights Conference '23, Semifinalist SheNYC Summer Theater Festival '22, Semifinalist Chain Theater Playwriting Lab ’22), There’s a Holocaust Denier in Mr. Kaufman’s Sixth Grade Class (Artistic Residency, Stroller Scene, '23), Bridge and Tunnel, Oh Magda my Magda, Hi This is Tina I'm stuck at the Office, Shiva, and The Guys. Her short plays include Picture Day (Chain Theater Winter One Acts ’22) and Mr. Hoffmans Fourth Grade Class (Semifinalist, Lower East Side Play Festival ’22). She received her BFA in Drama from Tisch School of the Arts, performs improv comedy every week...

Ashley Siflinger is a playwright, performer and comedian living in NYC. Her full length plays include: Date Play (Reading Playwrights on Park '25, Workshop Stroller Scene ’23, Semifinalist Eugene O’Neill: National Playwrights Conference '23, Semifinalist SheNYC Summer Theater Festival '22, Semifinalist Chain Theater Playwriting Lab ’22), There’s a Holocaust Denier in Mr. Kaufman’s Sixth Grade Class (Artistic Residency, Stroller Scene, '23), Bridge and Tunnel, Oh Magda my Magda, Hi This is Tina I'm stuck at the Office, Shiva, and The Guys. Her short plays include Picture Day (Chain Theater Winter One Acts ’22) and Mr. Hoffmans Fourth Grade Class (Semifinalist, Lower East Side Play Festival ’22). She received her BFA in Drama from Tisch School of the Arts, performs improv comedy every week at the Magnet Theater with The Friday Night Show, and is the Company Manager of Stroller Scene, a new play development company.

Scripts

Bridge and Tunnel

by Ashley Siflinger

1

Cast Size

2

Genre

comedy,

dark comedy,

experimental

Right now Miriam and Joy are in a car. Right now Miriam and Joy are doing a play. Right now Miriam and Joy are mother and daughter. Right now Miriam and Joy are alive. But what's on the other side? As Miriam and Joy make their ritual pilgrimage from Miriam's home on Long Island to Joy's home in Manhattan, mother and daughter test out their sense of self — on themselves, on each other, and on the audience. A fly...

Right now Miriam and Joy are in a car. Right now Miriam and Joy are doing a play. Right now Miriam and Joy are mother and daughter. Right now Miriam and Joy are alive. But what's on the other side? As Miriam and Joy make their ritual pilgrimage from Miriam's home on Long Island to Joy's home in Manhattan, mother and daughter test out their sense of self — on themselves, on each other, and on the audience. A fly on the wall piece where the fly looks back at you,
Bridge and Tunnel is a meditative road trip comedy that explores the boundaries of the known and the unknown and celebrates Jewish dialectics.

There's a Holocaust Denier in Mr. Kauffman's Sixth Grade Class

by Ashley Siflinger

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Cast Size

6

Genre

comedy,

dark comedy,

drama,

holiday,

movement/physical,

political

It’s the beginning of the school year at a middle school in Florida and Adam, an idealistic first year teacher, struggles to deal with Michael, a bright but unrelenting thirteen year old who questions the Holocaust. As the school year moves forward, we learn more about the personal challenges faced by the students and educators, all of whom are trying to navigate a world that wants to change just as as much as...

It’s the beginning of the school year at a middle school in Florida and Adam, an idealistic first year teacher, struggles to deal with Michael, a bright but unrelenting thirteen year old who questions the Holocaust. As the school year moves forward, we learn more about the personal challenges faced by the students and educators, all of whom are trying to navigate a world that wants to change just as as much as it wants to to stay the same.

Date Play

by Ashley Siflinger

3

Cast Size

3

Genre

adventure,

dark comedy,

experimental,

movement/physical,

political,

romantic comedy

Tessa just got out of a long relationship, Marcus is a serial dater, and The Waitress is an embodiment of toxic empowerment...or a projection of our own anxieties…or a shapeshifting demon. Part rom com, part fever dream, Date Play is an expressionistic adventure comedy that examines all the things we do instead of listening to each other.

Picture Day

by Ashley Siflinger

3

Cast Size

4

Genre

comedy,

dark comedy,

political

SHORT: Jess, Maria, Franklin and Carmen are four coworkers at a large modern day factory. Over their lunch break they gossip about coworkers, commiserate miserable working conditions, exchange sexual fantasies, and generally, talk shit. The threat of automation looms as it would force individuals to work twelve hour shifts alone with a robot instead of with each other. It sends the crew into a tailspin of panic...

SHORT: Jess, Maria, Franklin and Carmen are four coworkers at a large modern day factory. Over their lunch break they gossip about coworkers, commiserate miserable working conditions, exchange sexual fantasies, and generally, talk shit. The threat of automation looms as it would force individuals to work twelve hour shifts alone with a robot instead of with each other. It sends the crew into a tailspin of panic and misery as they try to conceive of this job without the one thing that makes it bearable, each other. Picture day is a mediation on the working conditions in modern day factories and a celebration of the kinds of relationships that those conditions threaten.

Mr. Hoffmans Fourth Grade Class

by Ashley Siflinger

1

Cast Size

2

Genre

comedy,

dark comedy

Eli and Max are best friends at teachers at a public elementary school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. After a recent incident of bureaucracy threatens to get Eli fired, the two reflect on the their jobs, friendship, and ultimately, the real reason Eli doesn't want to loose this particular job.