Grace O'Rourke

Grace O’Rourke is a playwright often, and a director/screenwriter/actor occasionally. They recently graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a double major in English and Film, Media, & Theater. Additionally, they studied at the National Theater Institute as part of the Advanced Playwrights Spring '22 cohort. Their plays have been performed with Melancholics Anonymous, Cypress Productions, and Chain Theatre.

Their work tends to be containers for: tragicomedy, small oddities, large magics, bickering, religious themes, poetic violence, precious and specific objects, and the unexplained.

Grace O’Rourke is a playwright often, and a director/screenwriter/actor occasionally. They recently graduated from Mount Holyoke College with a double major in English and Film, Media, & Theater. Additionally, they studied at the National Theater Institute as part of the Advanced Playwrights Spring '22 cohort. Their plays have been performed with Melancholics Anonymous, Cypress Productions, and Chain Theatre.

Their work tends to be containers for: tragicomedy, small oddities, large magics, bickering, religious themes, poetic violence, precious and specific objects, and the unexplained.

Scripts

Actual Throat

by Grace O'Rourke

3
Cast Size
4
Genre
drama,
fantasy

Fiona found a metal arm. She starts having dreams about it. They're not sex dreams, exactly. On dirt and digging, on humanity and holding.

Fiona found a metal arm. She starts having dreams about it. They're not sex dreams, exactly. On dirt and digging, on humanity and holding.

Thy Neighbor

by Grace O'Rourke

2
Cast Size
2—8
Genre
dark comedy,
tragedy

Roommates Jude and Cole whisper to each other during the funeral service of their elderly upstairs neighbor about cabbage soup, tap dancing, and spontaneous combustion. A play about the directionless weight of knowing you will never see someone again, and also Hot Wheels cars.

Roommates Jude and Cole whisper to each other during the funeral service of their elderly upstairs neighbor about cabbage soup, tap dancing, and spontaneous combustion. A play about the directionless weight of knowing you will never see someone again, and also Hot Wheels cars.