Lana Scott Stringer

Lana Scott Stringer is a Brooklyn-based screenwriter, playwright, and dramaturg. Recent works include Plant at Atlanta's 7 Stages, American Game, a new musical she's co-bookwriting that was recently developed at TUTS in Texas and in New York, as well as Acknowledging the Elephant of My Unborn Child, an original play directed by Ashley Brooke Monroe. Other works include This is a Legend, presented as part of the Concord Theatricals 50th Annual Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and short plays for Overnight Theatre, a theater company of which she is the cofounder. She was also the dramaturg and associate producer for Harrison Theater's production of The Laramie Project, and has also done dramaturgy for new musical Starting Up by HBO Max Creative Lead Garett Press.

Lana Scott Stringer is a Brooklyn-based screenwriter, playwright, and dramaturg. Recent works include Plant at Atlanta's 7 Stages, American Game, a new musical she's co-bookwriting that was recently developed at TUTS in Texas and in New York, as well as Acknowledging the Elephant of My Unborn Child, an original play directed by Ashley Brooke Monroe. Other works include This is a Legend, presented as part of the Concord Theatricals 50th Annual Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and short plays for Overnight Theatre, a theater company of which she is the cofounder. She was also the dramaturg and associate producer for Harrison Theater's production of The Laramie Project, and has also done dramaturgy for new musical Starting Up by HBO Max Creative Lead Garett Press.

Scripts

Acknowledging the Elephant of My Unborn Child

by Lana Scott Stringer

3
Cast Size
2
Genre
experimental,
horror,
movement/physical,
tragedy

A woman details the way her body is deteriorating as an unknown, yet somehow familiar, stranger slowly approaches her.

2024 Fall/Winter New York Theater Festival
Currently optioned, but email me if you want the draft!

A woman details the way her body is deteriorating as an unknown, yet somehow familiar, stranger slowly approaches her.

2024 Fall/Winter New York Theater Festival
Currently optioned, but email me if you want the draft!

This is a Legend.

by Lana Scott Stringer

5
Cast Size
4
Genre
drama,
experimental,
fable/folktale

When a fire ravages an individual's childhood home, they reflect on an equally damaging rainstorm that destroyed their family long ago. Forced into a cycle of memories about their parents' divorce, they consider what happens when personal history becomes folklore, what a family represents, and the ways that the patterns of nature show us patterns in ourselves. A fable of love, separation, and reconciliation told...

When a fire ravages an individual's childhood home, they reflect on an equally damaging rainstorm that destroyed their family long ago. Forced into a cycle of memories about their parents' divorce, they consider what happens when personal history becomes folklore, what a family represents, and the ways that the patterns of nature show us patterns in ourselves. A fable of love, separation, and reconciliation told through the community of a chorus.

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Plant

by Lana Scott Stringer

Cast Size
6
Genre
comedy,
drama,
musical

An industry plant tries to record a single, but as tensions rise, it's only a matter of time until someone screws it all up.

Top 10 Finalist in The Circle in the Square Emerging Writers Residency

An industry plant tries to record a single, but as tensions rise, it's only a matter of time until someone screws it all up.

Top 10 Finalist in The Circle in the Square Emerging Writers Residency

Toes

by Lana Scott Stringer

Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy,
horror

Toes, a darkly comic subversion of Grimms’ Cinderella, finds the stepsisters at a bridal appointment…after their mother’s plan to cut off their toes has already once proven unsuccessful. Through the lens of a hapless bridal consultant’s worst shift ever, a capitalist horrorscape unfolds, revealing the lengths people will go for glory and the injustices they'll tolerate along the way.

Toes, a darkly comic subversion of Grimms’ Cinderella, finds the stepsisters at a bridal appointment…after their mother’s plan to cut off their toes has already once proven unsuccessful. Through the lens of a hapless bridal consultant’s worst shift ever, a capitalist horrorscape unfolds, revealing the lengths people will go for glory and the injustices they'll tolerate along the way.

Sharp

by Lana Scott Stringer

1
Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
horror,
movement/physical,
mystery/thriller,
tragedy

A key goes missing from a piano. It's Not a Big Deal and Everything is Totally Fine. Except that other things slowly start to disappear... or maybe they don't. A story about the truth, sanity, and friendship.

A key goes missing from a piano. It's Not a Big Deal and Everything is Totally Fine. Except that other things slowly start to disappear... or maybe they don't. A story about the truth, sanity, and friendship.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Lana Scott Stringer

Cast Size
5—14
Genre
adaptation,
drama,
horror,
movement/physical,
mystery/thriller,
period,
science fiction

A devised adaptation of a literary classic. This production preserves the intricate horror of the original novella and extrapolates the dichotomous struggle between good and evil in the confines of the body. Created using moment work in a collaborative theatre ensemble.

A devised adaptation of a literary classic. This production preserves the intricate horror of the original novella and extrapolates the dichotomous struggle between good and evil in the confines of the body. Created using moment work in a collaborative theatre ensemble.

Cardio

by Lana Scott Stringer

3
Cast Size
8
Genre
comedy,
drama,
movement/physical

Three treadmills seem to be the only thing that eight women have in common at a small gym. But relationships form and dissolve with each step on the track, and exercise isn't the only thing that leaves them breathless.

Three treadmills seem to be the only thing that eight women have in common at a small gym. But relationships form and dissolve with each step on the track, and exercise isn't the only thing that leaves them breathless.

Overnight Theatre: The Complete Collection

by Lana Scott Stringer

Cast Size
1—4
Genre
comedy,
drama,
experimental

This short play collection includes all of the twenty pieces that Lana Scott Stringer wrote for Overnight Theatre, the independent theatre company that she co-founded with Jake Lane. Each of these pieces had to be written "overnight" in order to fit into the 20-30 hour turnaround production period that was the crux of this program. Some have been developed and produced further. It is a close look at improvement...

This short play collection includes all of the twenty pieces that Lana Scott Stringer wrote for Overnight Theatre, the independent theatre company that she co-founded with Jake Lane. Each of these pieces had to be written "overnight" in order to fit into the 20-30 hour turnaround production period that was the crux of this program. Some have been developed and produced further. It is a close look at improvement as a writer - the playwright is indebted to everyone who played a part in this program, especially Jake, for making her a better writer.

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Accoutrements (and other short plays)

by Lana Scott Stringer

Cast Size
1—4
Genre
drama

A short play collection that you should read if you like worms, folklore, mommy issues, changing the batteries in the smoke detector, arson, rapid decline into insanity, grocery shopping, and/or high school wrestling.

A short play collection that you should read if you like worms, folklore, mommy issues, changing the batteries in the smoke detector, arson, rapid decline into insanity, grocery shopping, and/or high school wrestling.