Regan Moro

Regan Moro is a playwright and actor from the North Country of upstate New York. She received her BFA from the University of Michigan, spent a year as an apprentice in the Professional Training Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and is a first year fellow in the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School. Her play "burn for You" recently received NYC industry readings directed by Tony Award winners Rachel Chavkin and Danya Taymor, was a Finalist for the 2024 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, received developmental workshops at the 2025 Ojai Playwrights Conference and the 2024 Great Plains Theatre Conference, was a finalist for the 2025 Theatre 503 International Playwriting Award, and was a second rounder for the 2024 Austin Film Festival...

Regan Moro is a playwright and actor from the North Country of upstate New York. She received her BFA from the University of Michigan, spent a year as an apprentice in the Professional Training Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and is a first year fellow in the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School. Her play "burn for You" recently received NYC industry readings directed by Tony Award winners Rachel Chavkin and Danya Taymor, was a Finalist for the 2024 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, received developmental workshops at the 2025 Ojai Playwrights Conference and the 2024 Great Plains Theatre Conference, was a finalist for the 2025 Theatre 503 International Playwriting Award, and was a second rounder for the 2024 Austin Film Festival. Her play "Tremolo" recently received a developmental workshop with Tony Award winner Rachel Chavkin, was a 2025 Irons in the Fire project for Fault Line Theatre, had a reading presented in Pride Plays 2025 at MCC in association with Rattlestick Theater and Woolly Mammoth Theater, was a Finalist for the 2025 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, a second rounder for the 2025 Austin Film Festival; and a semifinalist for the 2025 Princess Grace Award, the 2025 Parity Plays Development Award, and the 2025 Terrence McNally New Works Incubator. Her play "Nazi Mind" received a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, and was a Finalist for the 2026 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Regan is a recipient of the 2024-2025 Vitality Playwrights Commission from the Appalachian Center for the Arts and a residency from Millay Arts. She is currently under commission from Manhattan Theatre Club, Audible Theatre, and the Lucille Lortel’s Alcove New Play Development Program. Regan was nominated for the 2026 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the 2026 Weissberger New Play Award, and the 2025 Ollie New Play Award from the Bret Adams and Paul Reisch Foundation. She was a member of the 2022-2023 Emerging Writer’s Group at Primary Stages, a finalist for the New Roots Artist Residency, and a semi finalist for Ars Nova’s PlayGroup and a residency at Colt Coeur. Regan is the middle of three sisters, and the funny gay aunt to four little boys. She's represented by Jamie Kaye-Phillips at Paradigm Talent Agency. More at www.reganmoro.com.

Scripts

burn for You

by Regan Moro

Synopsis

A blistering August in upstate New York. No rain in 3 months. And the little daughter of Lila, a young worship leader at a charismatic church, doesn’t wake up one morning. Lila’s estranged sister Franny, a lesbian who fled the church seven years prior, returns home for the first time for what she thinks is a funeral; only to find that her sister and the church she left behind are determined to pray for the...

A blistering August in upstate New York. No rain in 3 months. And the little daughter of Lila, a young worship leader at a charismatic church, doesn’t wake up one morning. Lila’s estranged sister Franny, a lesbian who fled the church seven years prior, returns home for the first time for what she thinks is a funeral; only to find that her sister and the church she left behind are determined to pray for the toddler’s resurrection—no matter how long it takes. A play about incongruous faith, sisters, and what happens when we pray for something dead to come back.

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*NYC Industry Reading (dir: Danya Taymor), 2024

*Finalist, Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's National Playwrights Conference, 2024

*Workshop, Great Plains Theatre Commons New Play Conference, 2024

*Workshop, The Road Theatre Company's Summer Playwrights Festival, 2024

*Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival, 2024

*Finalist, The Workshop Theatre's Spring Intensive, 2024

*Semifinalist, Ars Nova Playgroup, 2023

*Semifinalist, New Roots Residency, 2023

*Reading, Primary Stages, 2023

Tremolo

by Regan Moro

Synopsis

Nicola, Con, Sorel, Paulie, Masha, Devyn, Alex, and Nina are old friends. Every summer they spend a week on Sorel and Paulie's dock talking about theater and dykes and sex and aging and the loons that circle below. This is the last summer they’ll ever do this, but they don’t know that yet. Anyway. Tonight Con’s making everyone listen to their new play. ( They seem better this year, right?)

A love song to...

Nicola, Con, Sorel, Paulie, Masha, Devyn, Alex, and Nina are old friends. Every summer they spend a week on Sorel and Paulie's dock talking about theater and dykes and sex and aging and the loons that circle below. This is the last summer they’ll ever do this, but they don’t know that yet. Anyway. Tonight Con’s making everyone listen to their new play. ( They seem better this year, right?)

A love song to ambition, art-making, and heartbreak,“Tremolo” is at once a radical queer reimagining of Chekhov’s “The Seagull” set on the dock of a dark lake--and a singular exploration of an intergenerational found family on the precipice of great loss.

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*Workshop, Fault Line Theatre's Irons in the Fire, 2025

*Reading, Pride Plays at MCC (in association with Rattlestick Theatre and Woolly Mammoth Theatre, 2025

*Finalist, Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, 2025

*Finalist, New Roots Artist Residency, 2025

*Semifinalist, Princess Grace Fellowship at New Dramatists, 2025

*Semifinalist, Terrence McNally New Works Incubator, 2025

Nazi Mind

by Regan Moro

Synopsis

December 2024--those last two weeks before winter break that always felt like forever. Four high school boys in a finished basement feverishly work on their final History project for the semester: a simulation of the infamous Nuremberg Trials. But when the presence of a new student begins to seed discontent, the boys’ power, ambition, and shame collide as they grapple to finish the project and hold on to their...

December 2024--those last two weeks before winter break that always felt like forever. Four high school boys in a finished basement feverishly work on their final History project for the semester: a simulation of the infamous Nuremberg Trials. But when the presence of a new student begins to seed discontent, the boys’ power, ambition, and shame collide as they grapple to finish the project and hold on to their tenuous friendships—before it’s too late. “Nazi Mind” is a darkly funny, disturbing dive into a school project gone wildly off the rails, the dawn of new beliefs, and the howl of tender, furious American boyhood.

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*Finalist, Eugene O'Neill National Playwright's Conference, 2026

*Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, 2026

*Reading, The Juilliard School, 2025