Melissa Maney

I'm an NYC-based playwright with a passion for horror, absurdism, satire, feminism, and queer representation. After achieving my Bachelor of Fine Arts from the New School, I've written and produced my work across New York City at Theater Row, Theater for the New City, The Chain Theater, The Player’s Theater, Gene Frankel Theater, and more.

I'm an NYC-based playwright with a passion for horror, absurdism, satire, feminism, and queer representation. After achieving my Bachelor of Fine Arts from the New School, I've written and produced my work across New York City at Theater Row, Theater for the New City, The Chain Theater, The Player’s Theater, Gene Frankel Theater, and more.

Scripts

HUNGRY WOMEN

by Melissa Maney

Cast Size
4
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
period,
political,
satire,
science fiction

Hungry Women is an absurdist dark comedy in three parts that follows the lives of women across generations as they grapple with the extinction of men. From eating their dead husbands to conjuring ghosts like Jack the Ripper, the women try everything to confront the past and navigate the present. But just when they’ve think they’ve mastered this new world, an earth-shattering pregnancy threatens to unravel...

Hungry Women is an absurdist dark comedy in three parts that follows the lives of women across generations as they grapple with the extinction of men. From eating their dead husbands to conjuring ghosts like Jack the Ripper, the women try everything to confront the past and navigate the present. But just when they’ve think they’ve mastered this new world, an earth-shattering pregnancy threatens to unravel everything they've fought so hard for.

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Emily Dickinson: Star-Crossed Employee

by Melissa Maney

Cast Size
4—7
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
movement/physical,
period,
satire,
verse

Taxidermied ravens. Blood-soaked dance parties. Gothic stanzas.

Emily Dickinson might not be a star employee at Build-A-Bear Workshop, but her penchant for literary craftsmanship may just turn a corporate prison into a den of liberation.

Taxidermied ravens. Blood-soaked dance parties. Gothic stanzas.

Emily Dickinson might not be a star employee at Build-A-Bear Workshop, but her penchant for literary craftsmanship may just turn a corporate prison into a den of liberation.

Oddsville

by Melissa Maney

2
Cast Size
12—14
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
dark comedy,
experimental,
political,
satire

A small town is suddenly bombarded by a series of strange incidents when the sun comes out for the first time in years. What the townsfolk don’t know is that their fate has always been in someone else’s hands.

A small town is suddenly bombarded by a series of strange incidents when the sun comes out for the first time in years. What the townsfolk don’t know is that their fate has always been in someone else’s hands.