Alex Kingsley

Alex Kingsley

Alex Kingsley (they/them) is a SFF writer, comedian, and game designer. They are a co-founder of the new media company Strong Branch Productions, and the creator of the sci-fi comedy podcast The Stench of Adventure. Their fiction has appeared in Translunar Travelers Lounge, Radon Journal, Sci-Fi Lampoon, and more. They released their debut short fiction collection, The Strange Garden and Other Weird Tales, in...
Alex Kingsley (they/them) is a SFF writer, comedian, and game designer. They are a co-founder of the new media company Strong Branch Productions, and the creator of the sci-fi comedy podcast The Stench of Adventure. Their fiction has appeared in Translunar Travelers Lounge, Radon Journal, Sci-Fi Lampoon, and more. They released their debut short fiction collection, The Strange Garden and Other Weird Tales, in 2023. Their debut novel, Empress of Dust, will be released in Fall 2024. Their SFF-related non-fiction has appeared in Interstellar Flight Magazine, Ancillary Review of Books, and ASPEC Journal. Their games can be downloaded pay-what-you-will at alexyquest.itch.io

Plays

  • Unplanned Obsolescence by Alex Kingsley
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: sci-fi, comedy + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, science fiction
    Keyword: sci-fi, comedy, dark comedy, terminal illness, multiple endings
    [Full-length, sci-fi]
    A struggling children's entertainer discovers they may have a terminal illness, so they decide to train a robot to replace them if they die.
  • The Dreamless Patron by Alex Kingsley
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: dreams, experimental + 5 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, experimental, fantasy
    Keyword: dreams, experimental, devised, Fantasy, death, Inequality, artists
    [Full-length, magical realism]
    When a wealthy businessman announces he will pay any amount of money to whoever can help him have dreams when he sleeps, a team of artists decides to script and perform “dreams” for him in hopes he will mistake them for the real thing. A creative challenge becomes a high-stakes swindle as the dreamers get in over their heads.

    The Dreamless Patron is a semi-...
    [Full-length, magical realism]
    When a wealthy businessman announces he will pay any amount of money to whoever can help him have dreams when he sleeps, a team of artists decides to script and perform “dreams” for him in hopes he will mistake them for the real thing. A creative challenge becomes a high-stakes swindle as the dreamers get in over their heads.

    The Dreamless Patron is a semi-scripted, semi-devised magical realist comedy that explores dreams, art, money, and the relationship between the three.
  • The Bearer of Bad News by Alex Kingsley
    Cast: 
    3–9
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: sci-fi, pregnancy + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, horror, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: sci-fi, pregnancy, future dystopia, tragicomedy, environmentalism, horse, family drama, Hospital
    [one-act sci-fi tragicomedy]
    In a future where humans must carry animal fetuses to ensure the survival of endangered species, a woman who bears the horse fetus struggles with her day-to-day life.
  • Unwanted Gods by Alex Kingsley
    Cast: 
    10
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: comedy, Musical comedy + 3 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, fable/folktale, fantasy, musical, science fiction
    Keyword: comedy, Musical comedy, folklore, religion, forgotten gods
    [one-act full-length musical comedy]
    Small gods that no one believes in search for meaning.
  • An Enchilda at the End of Everything by Alex Kingsley
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    1–3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: comedy, Dystopia + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, satire, science fiction
    Keyword: comedy, Dystopia, apocalypse, sock puppets, Jesus, puppets
    [20-minute dark comedy puppet show]
    Two guys hang out outside an abandoned Taco Bell after the end of the world.
  • Sincerest Condolences by Alex Kingsley
    Recommendations: 4
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    Cast: 
    8–9
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: dark comedy, death + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: dark comedy, death, farce funeral, funeral, funeral home
    [10-minute comedy]
    A funeral director has started murdering people to drum up some business.
  • Summer Reading Champion by Alex Kingsley
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fantasy, horror, radio drama
    Keyword: comedy, dark comedy, Fantasy, horror, monologue, solo performance
    [20-minute solo performance/monologue]
    A high school girl recounts to the police her supernatural experience volunteering at the local library. Originally performed as an audio drama.
  • His Name Is Chad by Alex Kingsley
    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, dark comedy, fantasy, radio drama
    Keyword: comedy, dark comedy, monologue, solo performance, sexual assault, ghosts, ghost story
    [50-minute solo performance/monologue]
    A high school girl tells the story of the ghost of a fraternity brother that she encountered haunting her new house. Originally performed as a radio drama.