Ellen Denny

Ellen Denny (she/her) is a Playwright and Actor based in Toronto, Canada. Her produced plays include PLEASUREVILLE (Neptune Theatre, The Guild Charlottetown), a comedy set in a small town sex shop; and TAKE CARE (Here For Now Theatre), about the challenges of caregiving. During the pandemic, Ellen co-created FEBRUARY: A LOVE STORY - about dating 6ft apart - which ran live at Globus Theatre, and digitally with the Stratford Festival. She also had two short plays produced digitally: SO YOU, SO I (Driftwood Theatre) and ABOVE GROUND FLOOR (Live Bait Theatre, Sudden Spark Collective).

As a 2019 participant of Musical Stage’s Launch Pad program, Ellen was book writer for musical WHAT GOES UP, alongside songwriting team Colleen Dauncey and Akiva Romer-Segal (GROW, THE LOUDER WE GET). Ellen has...

Ellen Denny (she/her) is a Playwright and Actor based in Toronto, Canada. Her produced plays include PLEASUREVILLE (Neptune Theatre, The Guild Charlottetown), a comedy set in a small town sex shop; and TAKE CARE (Here For Now Theatre), about the challenges of caregiving. During the pandemic, Ellen co-created FEBRUARY: A LOVE STORY - about dating 6ft apart - which ran live at Globus Theatre, and digitally with the Stratford Festival. She also had two short plays produced digitally: SO YOU, SO I (Driftwood Theatre) and ABOVE GROUND FLOOR (Live Bait Theatre, Sudden Spark Collective).

As a 2019 participant of Musical Stage’s Launch Pad program, Ellen was book writer for musical WHAT GOES UP, alongside songwriting team Colleen Dauncey and Akiva Romer-Segal (GROW, THE LOUDER WE GET). Ellen has received funding support from all levels of government and is currently developing several plays, including WONDER, about female nuclear physicist Harriet Brooks, and PROJECT QYZRA, which was a finalist for the Cayle Chernin Award.

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Scripts

Take Care

by Ellen Denny

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
drama

Having paused her career to raise her daughter, 42 year old writer Johanna Dunham is finally plotting her grand return. She’s even one-upped Virginia Woolf and found the perfect 'house of one's own’ where she can write. But when her husband suffers a stroke, Johanna is thrust into life as a caregiver spouse and single mom to Lucy. After a disastrous visit to a caregivers support group, Johanna is on the brink of...

Having paused her career to raise her daughter, 42 year old writer Johanna Dunham is finally plotting her grand return. She’s even one-upped Virginia Woolf and found the perfect 'house of one's own’ where she can write. But when her husband suffers a stroke, Johanna is thrust into life as a caregiver spouse and single mom to Lucy. After a disastrous visit to a caregivers support group, Johanna is on the brink of driving off into the night, when she nearly runs over Len, the handsome young firefighter-next-door longing for an escape of his own…

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Pleasureville

by Ellen Denny

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy

A heart-warming comedy about empowerment, friendship and discovering our blindspots... What’s a city gal to do when she gets dumped, reno-victed, and has zero job prospects? Move to a small town and open a sex shop! Leah Bowman may have more experience with emojis than running a business, but she's on a mission: to destigmatize female pleasure… The problem? Her only customer is a local granny named Rose, who...

A heart-warming comedy about empowerment, friendship and discovering our blindspots... What’s a city gal to do when she gets dumped, reno-victed, and has zero job prospects? Move to a small town and open a sex shop! Leah Bowman may have more experience with emojis than running a business, but she's on a mission: to destigmatize female pleasure… The problem? Her only customer is a local granny named Rose, who talks her way into a job. Bankruptcy looming, Leah tries organizing the town’s first Women’s March. Orders for hand knit pussy hats pour in! But Leah's bestie Ash has their own take on feminism’s hottest accessory, and its exclusion of the trans and non-binary experience. Has Leah lost sight of her ideals with her first taste of success?

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