Liz Coley

Liz Coley

A new voice in playwriting, Liz Coley is a published novelist and short story writer living in Cincinnati. Her short fiction has been published in anthologies and Cosmos magazine. Her 2013 novel Pretty GIrl-13 sold internationally in 12 translations, was placed on 2 "best of" lists in 2014 by the American Library Association, and won the Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School award for best book of 2015-...
A new voice in playwriting, Liz Coley is a published novelist and short story writer living in Cincinnati. Her short fiction has been published in anthologies and Cosmos magazine. Her 2013 novel Pretty GIrl-13 sold internationally in 12 translations, was placed on 2 "best of" lists in 2014 by the American Library Association, and won the Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School award for best book of 2015-16. Her 3-minute play THE QUIET ROOM has been produced as a film by Pajama Island Productions. In development and on submission are one-act play CASTAWAYS (60 min 2F, 1M, 1 any) and full-length PLANTING GRANDMA (90 min 2F 1M). Query if interested in reading.

Plays

  • THORNS by Liz Coley
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, fable/folktale + 1 more
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    Keyword: Covid-19, zoom + 1 more
    Genre: drama, fable/folktale, romantic comedy
    Keyword: Covid-19, zoom, Sleeping Beauty
    Separated by COVID, a husband and wife interpret their isolation in fairy tale metaphor as they reach for each other in side-by-side monologues.
  • WE HAVE AN OPENING FOR A FURY by Liz Coley
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Furies, justice + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, fantasy, political
    Keyword: Furies, justice, sexism, Monica Lewinsky, Anita Hill, Christine Blasey Ford, zoom, Supreme Court
    Three aggrieved women receive an invitation of mythic proportions.
  • A LEASE ON LIFE by Liz Coley
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: adoption, adoption restrictions + 5 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: adoption, adoption restrictions, blindness, surrogate motherhood, head injury, pregnancy, fatherhood
    Although love drives the practice of international surrogacy, more than one family pays the price.
  • SPROUTS by Liz Coley
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy
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    Keyword: family, urban gardening + 7 more
    Genre: comedy
    Keyword: family, urban gardening, DIY, cuisine, raising children, generations, avocado toast, life stages, dyslexia
    While Drew and Candace experience the challenges of growing their own organic sprouts in a quart jar, their human sprout, Spencer, grows before our eyes from seedling to awkward adolescent to independent young adult.
  • ITS OWN PLACE by Liz Coley
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama, science fiction
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    Keyword: space travel, pilot + 5 more
    Genre: drama, science fiction
    Keyword: space travel, pilot, neuroethics, neuroscience, memory, loyalty, future
    Time dilation is a mixed blessing for a critically injured starship pilot facing new options.
  • IN LINE by Liz Coley
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: future, universal income + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, political, science fiction
    Keyword: future, universal income, dole, curmudgeon, the end of work, strangers, generations, zoom
    Give us this day our daily bread - In the future, does universal basic income bring freedom or control? Two generations see it differently.
  • THE TASTE TEST by Liz Coley
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
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    Keyword: wine, love + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, romantic comedy
    Keyword: wine, love, Sisters, matchmaking, first date, online dating
    Finding the right man is a matter of taste when a winery owner is looking for her perfect match.
  • CASTAWAYS by Liz Coley
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: dementia, Alzheimer's Disease + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, tragedy
    Keyword: dementia, Alzheimer's Disease, disability, aging, Hope, friendship, suicide, loneliness and isolation
    Castaways is an absurdist tragicomedy linking the miserable hopefulness of the shipwrecked with the patient despair of the institutionalized. Consider Gilligan's Island meets Waiting for Godot in a memory care unit. Two elderly women who self-identify as Mary Ann and Ginger of the long-running series Gilligan’s Island experience their life in a memory care unit as an extension of their period of shipwreck.
  • THE MONOLOGUE (a monologue) by Liz Coley
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: biography, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: Puck, peter pan + 4 more
    Genre: biography, comedy, parody/spoof, tragedy, young audiences
    Keyword: Puck, peter pan, children, audition monologue, audition, Stage mom
    A boy, that all-in child actor we know and love, excuses the audition-from-heck on the drive home. Comedy for us, tragedy for him.
  • SIX LITTLE LOVE STORIES by Liz Coley
    Cast: 
    4–12
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Relationships, undertaker + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, romantic comedy
    Keyword: Relationships, undertaker, class reunion, sweethearts, blind date, bar, Starbucks, online dating, reconciliation, zoom
    With a run time of 60 minutes, this collection of six 10-min plays may be performed as a whole, with a cast of 2 MF couples (with triple casting) to 6 MF couples, tracing the life cycle of relationships: where we meet, whether and why we stay together; how we say goodbye. Includes: After You, Looking for Mister Swipe Right, Compound Interest, The Wall, The Compliment, One Perfect Day.

    Follow love...
    With a run time of 60 minutes, this collection of six 10-min plays may be performed as a whole, with a cast of 2 MF couples (with triple casting) to 6 MF couples, tracing the life cycle of relationships: where we meet, whether and why we stay together; how we say goodbye. Includes: After You, Looking for Mister Swipe Right, Compound Interest, The Wall, The Compliment, One Perfect Day.

    Follow love’s course from hello to goodbye, with occasional detours.