Catherine Castellani

CATHERINE CASTELLANI is a playwright/novelist at work on a new novel and a new comedy for the stage. Her plays include The Red Flags (AACT NewPlayFest 2024 Winner, produced by Verona Area Community Theatre, published by Dramatic Publishing Company), Level Up (Valdez Theatre Conference PlayLab 2021), The Bigsley Project (2020 pandemic version on YouTube), In Search of Lost Time (Valdez Theatre Conference PlayLab 2018), 2Y20M (HB Studio Residency 2018, Nora Salon 2017), and Possession (Finalist, Marion International Fellowship 2017). Her 10-minute plays have been produced nationwide, including at The Public Theater (NY), Actors Theatre of Louisville, City Theatre (Miami), and The ArtsCenter (Carrboro), and published by Applause Books in 2016 The Best Ten Minute Plays (WORK). Her plays for...

CATHERINE CASTELLANI is a playwright/novelist at work on a new novel and a new comedy for the stage. Her plays include The Red Flags (AACT NewPlayFest 2024 Winner, produced by Verona Area Community Theatre, published by Dramatic Publishing Company), Level Up (Valdez Theatre Conference PlayLab 2021), The Bigsley Project (2020 pandemic version on YouTube), In Search of Lost Time (Valdez Theatre Conference PlayLab 2018), 2Y20M (HB Studio Residency 2018, Nora Salon 2017), and Possession (Finalist, Marion International Fellowship 2017). Her 10-minute plays have been produced nationwide, including at The Public Theater (NY), Actors Theatre of Louisville, City Theatre (Miami), and The ArtsCenter (Carrboro), and published by Applause Books in 2016 The Best Ten Minute Plays (WORK). Her plays for young audiences (There Is No E in Ski and The Silent Ones) are published and licensed by YouthPlays. Catherine is a two-time Fellow of MacDowell, and one-time Ucross Foundation resident as a playwright. She studied at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Experimental Theater Wing (New York and Paris programs) and is a member of The Dramatists Guild. As a novelist: Futurescapes 2023 and 2022; Viable Paradise 2023.

Scripts

The Misopeds

by Catherine Castellani

Synopsis

ADRIENNE hates children so much she denies she was ever a child herself. She's built herself a perfect life with a fellow misoped, but her peace is shattered when she discovers a kindred spirit in her 9- year-old niece.

ADRIENNE hates children so much she denies she was ever a child herself. She's built herself a perfect life with a fellow misoped, but her peace is shattered when she discovers a kindred spirit in her 9- year-old niece.

The Red Flags

by Catherine Castellani

Synopsis

(You know you shouldn’t.)
When Gabrielle—a commitment-phobic woman in her late 30s—rejects Ric—who happens to be a diagnosed psychopath—that should have been the end of it. But a mutual fascination has taken root and Gabrielle discovers she's oddly reassured by the red flags.

(You know you shouldn’t.)
When Gabrielle—a commitment-phobic woman in her late 30s—rejects Ric—who happens to be a diagnosed psychopath—that should have been the end of it. But a mutual fascination has taken root and Gabrielle discovers she's oddly reassured by the red flags.

Level Up

by Catherine Castellani

Synopsis

Two Help Desk techs of the near-future babysit two Artificial Intelligences on the dreaded four-to-midnight shift. But these two AIs are not standard programs, and the humans will have to pick a side.

Two Help Desk techs of the near-future babysit two Artificial Intelligences on the dreaded four-to-midnight shift. But these two AIs are not standard programs, and the humans will have to pick a side.

2Y20M

by Catherine Castellani

Synopsis

In 1991 a crew of eight was sealed into Biosphere 2 to conduct the largest closed-system experiment ever devised or attempted. Two years and twenty minutes later they emerged: skinny, triumphant, controversial, celebrated, and maligned. They had survived a near-catastrophic oxygen/carbon dioxide imbalance, perpetual hunger, caffeine withdrawal, and unrelenting interpersonal stress and strife to emerge with data...

In 1991 a crew of eight was sealed into Biosphere 2 to conduct the largest closed-system experiment ever devised or attempted. Two years and twenty minutes later they emerged: skinny, triumphant, controversial, celebrated, and maligned. They had survived a near-catastrophic oxygen/carbon dioxide imbalance, perpetual hunger, caffeine withdrawal, and unrelenting interpersonal stress and strife to emerge with data, bragging rights, and their most important relationships cemented forever or irretrievably in ruins. This is one story of their before, during, and after and what it meant for conducting science on a grand scale.

Possession

by Catherine Castellani

Synopsis

Ava Strand unexpectedly inherits a dilapidated townhouse on Albany, NY’s South End and gets sucked
into a past she's trying to erase—an aunt she barely knew, a lover she abandoned without a word, a
town she fled. A closet full of a 19th century dresses introduces her to a past she never had. What
begins creatively—a woman devising a social life that omits smart phones and television in favor of
conversation and...

Ava Strand unexpectedly inherits a dilapidated townhouse on Albany, NY’s South End and gets sucked
into a past she's trying to erase—an aunt she barely knew, a lover she abandoned without a word, a
town she fled. A closet full of a 19th century dresses introduces her to a past she never had. What
begins creatively—a woman devising a social life that omits smart phones and television in favor of
conversation and the piano--veers into the viciously destructive as it attracts a white supremacist
crowd who appreciate the throw-back for all the wrong reasons.

WORK

by Catherine Castellani

Synopsis

Woe to The Temp. Assistant Mary is going to take an HR-mandated vacation, and it isn’t going to be pretty for anyone left behind at The World’s Busiest and Most Important Office. Especially since Mary isn’t planning to come back.

Woe to The Temp. Assistant Mary is going to take an HR-mandated vacation, and it isn’t going to be pretty for anyone left behind at The World’s Busiest and Most Important Office. Especially since Mary isn’t planning to come back.