Maryanne Melloan Woods

Maryanne Melloan Woods

Maryanne Melloan Woods is a playwright/author/tv writer. In her career as a tv writer/producer, Maryanne has worked on shows for networks including NBC, Showtime, ABC, Fox, the WB, Nickelodeon and ABC Family.
Maryanne's plays have been staged by theaters and programs such as HBO's New Writers Project and the Mark Taper Forum in L.A, and Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages in New York....
Maryanne Melloan Woods is a playwright/author/tv writer. In her career as a tv writer/producer, Maryanne has worked on shows for networks including NBC, Showtime, ABC, Fox, the WB, Nickelodeon and ABC Family.
Maryanne's plays have been staged by theaters and programs such as HBO's New Writers Project and the Mark Taper Forum in L.A, and Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages in New York.
Maryanne has won the New England Theatre Conference's John Gassner Playwriting Contest, the Venice (CA) Playwrights' Festival and the Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival. She also received a playwriting grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Maryanne is a Librettists Member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in New York City.

Plays

  • The Polar Bear by Maryanne Melloan Woods
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: environment, climate change comedy
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, political, tragedy
    Keyword: environment, climate change comedy
    A climate change-themed dark comedy about two southern Alaska residents, Kayla and Dewey, who find a polar bear trapped in their garage. Kayla is desperate to free the bear; Dewey doesn't think it's a big deal. He's more concerned with an audition he's preparing for a dystopian movie that's shooting locally. Their inefficacy/apathy in reaction to the bear's predicament mirrors...
    A climate change-themed dark comedy about two southern Alaska residents, Kayla and Dewey, who find a polar bear trapped in their garage. Kayla is desperate to free the bear; Dewey doesn't think it's a big deal. He's more concerned with an audition he's preparing for a dystopian movie that's shooting locally. Their inefficacy/apathy in reaction to the bear's predicament mirrors society's current response to climate change.
  • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book? by Maryanne Melloan Woods
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: adaptation, adventure + 5 more
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    Keyword: Fun, family + 7 more
    Genre: adaptation, adventure, comedy, fantasy, movement/physical, musical, young audiences
    Keyword: Fun, family, children, youth, funny, humor, reading, books, Lesson
    "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book?" is a fun family musical in one act by Maryanne Melloan Woods and Jack Mitchell. It's the story of 8 year old Herb, who loves his storybooks, but doesn't take very good care of them. One night when his friend Ezzie is sleeping over, Herb falls asleep while reading his book of fairy tales. When he wakes up, he's inside the book, face to face with...
    "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book?" is a fun family musical in one act by Maryanne Melloan Woods and Jack Mitchell. It's the story of 8 year old Herb, who loves his storybooks, but doesn't take very good care of them. One night when his friend Ezzie is sleeping over, Herb falls asleep while reading his book of fairy tales. When he wakes up, he's inside the book, face to face with different characters as he journeys through the book. The characters are not very happy about how Herb has "ruined" their stories by doodling, cutting things out and dropping food in the book. None of the stories work properly any more, thanks to him! On his journey to find a way out of the book, Herb learns that stories belong to everyone, so he needs to take better care of his things.
  • The Blonde At The Party by Maryanne Melloan Woods
    Cast: 
    7–10
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: comedy, one act + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, experimental, radio drama, romantic comedy
    Keyword: comedy, one act, abstract, absurd
    Nick Weston, 28, has met the woman of his dreams, and she’s invited him to meet up with her at a party on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. When he arrives, she’s not there, but everyone he meets seems to know of her and want to meet her too, each for their own, distinct reasons. As he pinballs from one eccentric party guest to the next, Nick gets the sinking feeling that his dream woman was an illusion, something...
    Nick Weston, 28, has met the woman of his dreams, and she’s invited him to meet up with her at a party on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. When he arrives, she’s not there, but everyone he meets seems to know of her and want to meet her too, each for their own, distinct reasons. As he pinballs from one eccentric party guest to the next, Nick gets the sinking feeling that his dream woman was an illusion, something he desperately wants but will never attain. Until he meets Trish, a lovely, kind woman who opens his heart again. As this bittersweet farce reaches it’s conclusion, Nick must decide whether to leave the party with Trish or continue to wait for the mysterious blonde he came looking for.
  • The Clipper by Maryanne Melloan Woods
    Cast: 
    9
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: comedy, family comedy + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: comedy, family comedy, family drama, mothers, daughters, co-parenting, contemporary parenting
    Gardening blogger Joyce, 50, likes to grow plants much better than she liked raising children. As the play begins, Joyce has grudgingly agreed to host her daughter Kim's baby shower. When Kim admits that she's invited her father (Joyce's ex)'s fiancée, Sandra, to the shower, Joyce is even less happy. Against Kim's wishes, she busts out the wine.
    The shower starts out fine, but...
    Gardening blogger Joyce, 50, likes to grow plants much better than she liked raising children. As the play begins, Joyce has grudgingly agreed to host her daughter Kim's baby shower. When Kim admits that she's invited her father (Joyce's ex)'s fiancée, Sandra, to the shower, Joyce is even less happy. Against Kim's wishes, she busts out the wine.
    The shower starts out fine, but falls apart as the mothers share parenting horror stories, unnerving pregnant Kim, who's a bit on edge at the best of times. Joyce and Sandra fall into a comically vicious rivalry, interrupted by the arrival of Kim's husband Brendan, a New York City newscaster. He appears nervous, shutting all the shades and closing the curtains against the prying eyes of reporters outside. Brendan has gotten himself into hot water. Some skeletons have come out of his closet that will up-end this already precarious family.
    As the play progresses, Kim will have to find the strength to do what's best for herself and her baby, and Joyce will have to face her past failures head-on in order to finally learn what it means to be a parent.