Jill Maynard

Jill Maynard’s plays have been produced from New York to LA, where her drama CAFFEINE SOCIETY won an LA Drama-Logue award for Best Play. Regional production credits include I GOT SHOES (commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville and produced by Summerworks/U Mass at Amherst, MA); INEZ & ALICE CONSORT (Itinerant Theatre, Lake Charles, LA); TRY THIS AT HOME (Aery Theatre Festival, Garrison, NY); FREE SHIPPING EVERY DAY (Axial Theatre, Pleasantville, NY); DESIGNATED DRIVER (New Deal Arts Center, Poughkeepsie, NY); THE RUNNING OF THE DEER (Occupy the Stage/NWTF, Raleigh, NC); GETTING BACK TO SWITZERLAND (Theatre Left, Spokane, WA); and SUNDAY.new/jersey (Depot Theatre, Garrison, NY). Jill’s work has also received staged readings and workshops in venues such as American Place Theatre, The...

Jill Maynard’s plays have been produced from New York to LA, where her drama CAFFEINE SOCIETY won an LA Drama-Logue award for Best Play. Regional production credits include I GOT SHOES (commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville and produced by Summerworks/U Mass at Amherst, MA); INEZ & ALICE CONSORT (Itinerant Theatre, Lake Charles, LA); TRY THIS AT HOME (Aery Theatre Festival, Garrison, NY); FREE SHIPPING EVERY DAY (Axial Theatre, Pleasantville, NY); DESIGNATED DRIVER (New Deal Arts Center, Poughkeepsie, NY); THE RUNNING OF THE DEER (Occupy the Stage/NWTF, Raleigh, NC); GETTING BACK TO SWITZERLAND (Theatre Left, Spokane, WA); and SUNDAY.new/jersey (Depot Theatre, Garrison, NY). Jill’s work has also received staged readings and workshops in venues such as American Place Theatre, The Lambs Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, and Circle Repertory Theatre. A former member of The Women’s Project in New York, Jill is a three-time finalist for the Heideman Award and a finalist for the FDG/CBS New Plays Award. Her plays have been published by Smith & Kraus, Next Stage Press, and Off the Wall Plays.

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Scripts

Sunday.new/jersey

by Jill Maynard

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

Inspired by an iconic episode of The Sopranos, the aged parents of Romeo and Juliet prepare to make their final exit from a New Jersey nursing home imperiled by climate change.

Inspired by an iconic episode of The Sopranos, the aged parents of Romeo and Juliet prepare to make their final exit from a New Jersey nursing home imperiled by climate change.

Getting Back to Switzerland

by Jill Maynard

Cast Size
1
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

A solitary server channels patrons past in a restaurant shuttered by Covid-19.
Published by Off the Wall Plays (2024). For rights inquiries:
https://offthewallplays.com/product/getting-back-to-switzerland-female-…

A solitary server channels patrons past in a restaurant shuttered by Covid-19.
Published by Off the Wall Plays (2024). For rights inquiries:
https://offthewallplays.com/product/getting-back-to-switzerland-female-…

The Running of the Deer

by Jill Maynard

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
drama,
political

Ambitious but conflicted, a gay Latinx PR associate spins a social media campaign for a fossil-fuel magnate guilty of a heinous environmental crime.

Ambitious but conflicted, a gay Latinx PR associate spins a social media campaign for a fossil-fuel magnate guilty of a heinous environmental crime.

All Things Bright

by Jill Maynard

1
Cast Size
5
Genre
drama,
political

Cash-strapped dad works way too many hours. Unemployed mom harbors a debilitating secret. Disaffected daughter is failing to launch. From the shock waves of the 2008 financial crisis to the storm surge of Election Day 2016, an American family struggles to find safe harbor. When did it get to be so hard just to get by?

Published by Next Stage Press (2024). For rights inquiries:
https://www.nextstagepress.com/all...

Cash-strapped dad works way too many hours. Unemployed mom harbors a debilitating secret. Disaffected daughter is failing to launch. From the shock waves of the 2008 financial crisis to the storm surge of Election Day 2016, an American family struggles to find safe harbor. When did it get to be so hard just to get by?

Published by Next Stage Press (2024). For rights inquiries:
https://www.nextstagepress.com/all-things-bright-2/

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Inez & Alice Consort

by Jill Maynard

1
Cast Size
3
Genre
biography,
docudrama/historic,
drama,
period,
political

March 3, 1913: Alice Paul wants her Woman Suffrage Procession to proceed as planned, but lead attraction Inez Milholland presents last-minute complications.

March 3, 1913: Alice Paul wants her Woman Suffrage Procession to proceed as planned, but lead attraction Inez Milholland presents last-minute complications.

Your Father's Country

by Jill Maynard

Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
political

Gun-toting passengers in pandemic denial terrorize an Asian-American Uber driver.

Gun-toting passengers in pandemic denial terrorize an Asian-American Uber driver.

Try This at Home

by Jill Maynard

1
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy

Polly wants weekly sex with Mel. Mel wants something more. Mel's wife wants something altogether different.

Polly wants weekly sex with Mel. Mel wants something more. Mel's wife wants something altogether different.

Free Shipping Every Day

by Jill Maynard

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
political

At the height of the Christmas season in an Amazon super-warehouse, a new hire gets a swift initiation into the brutal ways of workplace survival.

At the height of the Christmas season in an Amazon super-warehouse, a new hire gets a swift initiation into the brutal ways of workplace survival.

Designated Driver

by Jill Maynard

2
Cast Size
3
Genre
drama

Judith and her wife, Daphne, befriend their neighbor Tommy, a young man with fetal alcohol syndrome. Little do they suspect the critical role he will shortly come to play in their lives.

Judith and her wife, Daphne, befriend their neighbor Tommy, a young man with fetal alcohol syndrome. Little do they suspect the critical role he will shortly come to play in their lives.

Caffeine Society

by Jill Maynard

Cast Size
2
Genre
drama

An ex-drunk casts a lifeline to a newcomer hitting bottom before an AA meeting.

An ex-drunk casts a lifeline to a newcomer hitting bottom before an AA meeting.

The Greater Eddie

by Jill Maynard

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
fantasy

An alcohol-addled publisher abuses his cowering comptroller, whose avenging alter breaches the boundaries between victim and victimizer. Trapped in a psychic impasse, the three parties are challenged to devise a mutually agreeable exit strategy from this netherworld.

An alcohol-addled publisher abuses his cowering comptroller, whose avenging alter breaches the boundaries between victim and victimizer. Trapped in a psychic impasse, the three parties are challenged to devise a mutually agreeable exit strategy from this netherworld.

Body Forth

by Jill Maynard

Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

As the pandemic rages, a maskless man in a pharmacy line tests the limits of a woman desperate for her meds.

As the pandemic rages, a maskless man in a pharmacy line tests the limits of a woman desperate for her meds.

Evensong

by Jill Maynard

Cast Size
1
Genre
dark comedy,
drama

From the vantage point of down dog, a lonely nurse in yoga class contemplates the art of connection.

From the vantage point of down dog, a lonely nurse in yoga class contemplates the art of connection.

Helen Keller Walks Into a Bar

by Jill Maynard

Cast Size
3
Genre
dark comedy,
fantasy,
political

In the Dystopian States of America, a captive journalist and a security goon face off in an arena where comedy is a matter of life or death.

In the Dystopian States of America, a captive journalist and a security goon face off in an arena where comedy is a matter of life or death.