Brie Knight

Brie Knight

Brie is an emerging Playwright based in Philadelphia and a member of the Philadelphia Playwright’s Lab, The Foundry. Brie earned her M.A in Theater from Villanova University, where she also served as a Graduate Assistant in the Theater Department. Her play PANCAKE QUEEN received the 2015 Sue Winge Playwriting Award from Villanova University and will be featured in PlayPenn’s 2017 Conference. PANCAKE QUEEN...
Brie is an emerging Playwright based in Philadelphia and a member of the Philadelphia Playwright’s Lab, The Foundry. Brie earned her M.A in Theater from Villanova University, where she also served as a Graduate Assistant in the Theater Department. Her play PANCAKE QUEEN received the 2015 Sue Winge Playwriting Award from Villanova University and will be featured in PlayPenn’s 2017 Conference. PANCAKE QUEEN received its first reading as part of the inaugural Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival. It was at Villanova where she also developed her solo show, THE “N” WORD. She served as a Dramaturgy Intern at People’s Light, where she worked on WOODY SEZ. Brie’s works weave the fantastical into socially conscious, historically rooted stories, to illuminate societal issues and barriers around identity, race, class, and gender.

Plays

  • PANCAKE QUEEN by Brie Knight
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    5–6
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    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic + 4 more
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    Keyword: 1890s, American history + 8 more
    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic, drama, fantasy, period, political
    Keyword: 1890s, American history, consumerism, cultural identity, racial identity, black lives matter, Black women, History, african american history, Black resilience
    In 1893 St. Joseph, Missouri, Nancy Green strives to make peace with her painful past so she may live her future as a free woman. When she finds herself employed by a local miller, Randolph T. Davis, to portray his new, revolutionary merchandising symbol, Aunt Jemima at the Chicago’s World Fair, her past experiences and future dreams collide. As Nancy fights to make a life of her own design, she risks being...
    In 1893 St. Joseph, Missouri, Nancy Green strives to make peace with her painful past so she may live her future as a free woman. When she finds herself employed by a local miller, Randolph T. Davis, to portray his new, revolutionary merchandising symbol, Aunt Jemima at the Chicago’s World Fair, her past experiences and future dreams collide. As Nancy fights to make a life of her own design, she risks being consumed by Aunt Jemima and the past she wants to leave behind.
  • THE BITCHES by Brie Knight
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, satire
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    Keyword: comedy, one act + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, satire
    Keyword: comedy, one act, satire, social commentary
    Anne Marie wants to make a positive change in her community. That’s why she joined the exclusive group, Citizens Unsettled by Negative Things in Society. As she endures the absurd indoctrination into the groups’ dogma, the narcissistic yapping of alpha, Susan, gives Anne Marie pause to sniff out members’ true motivations. The deeper Anne Marie digs for the truth, the more the lines between altruism and ego...
    Anne Marie wants to make a positive change in her community. That’s why she joined the exclusive group, Citizens Unsettled by Negative Things in Society. As she endures the absurd indoctrination into the groups’ dogma, the narcissistic yapping of alpha, Susan, gives Anne Marie pause to sniff out members’ true motivations. The deeper Anne Marie digs for the truth, the more the lines between altruism and ego blur. True identities are revealed, and things get a little rough in this wild, side-splitting, satirical take on first world humanitarianism.
  • INSIDE/OUTSIDE by Brie Knight
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: political, drama
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: political, drama
    INSIDE/OUTSIDE takes a poignant look at the beauty and brutality of humanity through the playful eyes of a ten year old whose world is stripped from her after a military grade high security surveillance border wall is built in her town.