Danielle Frimer

FULL LENGTH: Upcoming reading on March 20th at the Flea with TOSOS:
https://www.playbill.com/article/tosos-hosting-free-lgbtqia-reading-ser…

Hot Take: Peter Pan was a lesbian who invented color films.*

A hundred years ago, the famous and famously private Maude Adams—whose name was synonymous with the iconic role written for her by J.M. Barrie—retired from the stage. Still reeling from the deaths of her mother and best friend, and recovering from the flu that was sweeping the globe—she and her partner moved to upstate New York, where a lightbulb went off that would change the art of storytelling forever.

"P. Pan Et Al." follows Adams as she corrals a team of General Electric engineers and inventors in their attempts to lasso the sun. Their collaboration yields incandescent lamps powerful enough to capture "living photographs" in color, yet Maude's name leaves barely a trace in the annals of cinematic history. The play explores the complicated place of a queer woman in STEM before Women in STEM and the peculiar power of the wizards and wizardesses who shape the technology that shapes us.

*a historical re-imagining based upon true events.

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

Upcoming 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 how is it that this wedding feel so incredibly straight? Their questions rocket them into a meta-theatrical meditation on the heteronormativity of the wedding-industrial complex, as they whimsically attempt to claw 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.

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 how to stay 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 grapples with questions about the true nature of friendship, what it might take to build bridges towards compromise, and 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 about love, Shakespeare and text messaging that focuses on the times in our lives when we are seduced by language, the feverish moments when we need poetry or songs to express our deepest truth, and the moments when words fail completely. 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 a powerful white man’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 and problematic “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. It's about the necessity, and cost, of women and outsiders speaking the truth to power, in whatever way they can.

It asks: what happens when stories are only told by society's victors? And: what is a witch, really?