Danielle Frimer

Three conversation designers (the people who teach your robots to talk) grow up as AI does. A play about female friendship, the role of the artist in the age of AI, and the accidental eugenics of the tech industry.

Hot take: Peter Pan was a lesbian who invented color film.

A century ago, Maude Adams—J.M. Barrie’s muse and America’s original Peter Pan—vanished from the spotlight.
Today, after stumbling across a government patent blog, a playwright begins piecing together Maude’s forgotten second act: wrestling with glass, wires, engineers… and her own sexuality.

As timelines twist and past and present blur, P. Pan Et Al. explores erasure, ambition... and the strange power of the wizards and wizardesses who shape the technologies that shape us.

SHORT: an exploration of how everyday objects hold stories, written to be performed by one person over the telephone.

Virtual Production – Irvington Theater Short Play Fest, March 2024
Reading – 24/6: A Jewish Theater, November 2023
Commission – 24/6: A Jewish Theater, October 2023

SHORT: Moments before their long-awaited "I dos," a queer couple finds themselves hiding out in their wedding venue's supply closet. How did they end up here? And why does this wedding feel so incredibly straight? Their questions rocket them into a meta-theatrical romp through the heteronormativity of the wedding-industrial complex, as they whimsically imagine their way towards authentic ritual.

Publication – Stonecoast Review, Winter 2024
Winner – Fresh Fruit Festival Short Play Contest @ The Wild Project, May 2023
Winner – Village Playwrights Pride Plays, June 2023
Production – Rosendale Theatre, LGBTQ+ Short Play Fest, June 2023
Production – The Secret Theatre, July-August 2023
Production – The Other Side of Silence @ The Flea, August 2023

SHORT: What makes a father a father?

FULL LENGTH: How is this night different from all other nights? In, uh, a bunch of ways.

Welcome to the Motek Family Seder, where everything is brisket-as-usual until Peter Pan shows up in Elijah's chair, offering first-born, Perri, the chance of a lifetime. Will this Dickensian fever dream of a Neverland finally give Perri the guts to be herself with the people who love her most and know her least?

Monarchs is a coming-out, coming-of-age story that that proudly reclaims Peter Pan as the queer icon she's always been to those of us who knew to look.

The Stissing Center, Local Produce Reading, April 2024
New Play Festival, Morgan Wixson Theatre, September & October 2023.
Round the Bend Theatre Staged Reading, September 2023.
Sewanee Writers' Conference, July 2023.
Valdez Theatre Conference Play Lab, June 2023.
Round the Bend Theatre Reading, April 2022.
Sarah Ruhl's Advanced Playwriting Seminar, June 2021.

SHORT: A time-bending tale about staying an artist in late stage capitalism. Written for and performed in the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's Bakeoff, November 2022.

ONE ACT: Two college best friends are finally forced to confront their ideological differences at a mutual friend's wedding a month after the 2016 election. BETWEEN FRIENDS asks whether or not you can truly love someone with whom you deeply, fundamentally disagree. Music by Marialena DiFabbio.

Featured in The Brick’s This Is Not Normal Festival in 2017, and Irvington Town Hall Theaters' Playwrights Festival in 2018.

ONE ACT: A performance piece about love, Shakespeare and text messaging. Music by Marialena DiFabbio.

Developed at CoHo Theater Lab in Portland, OR in 2016.

FULL LENGTH: Tituba and Al, separated by 300 years, both live in some form of camouflage in the infamous city they’ve learned to call home: Salem, MA. But when external threats stir up old resentments and fears, and they both find themselves the scapegoats for powerful men's misdeeds, they must uncover powers — and channels of communication — they never knew existed.

"The Thin Veil" is a 21st-century response to Arthur Miller’s beloved “The Crucible,” and an attempt to give the story of the Salem Witch Trials back to the women—often marginalized, outspoken, or rebellious—at its center.