claire dettloff

claire dettloff (she/her) is playwright, composer, and lyricist currently based in phoenix, arizona and originally from michigan. claire holds a bfa in musical theatre performance from central michigan university, and is moving into her third and final year at arizona state university as an mfa playwright.

her work includes stuffed (2024 samuel french off off broadway short play festival, 2024 valdez theatre conference), chew the fat (2023 valdez theatre conference, 2023 prism theatre production), essentials: a short musical (2023 arizona state university theatre lab) and semantics (2021 central michigan university main stage production).

claire dettloff (she/her) is playwright, composer, and lyricist currently based in phoenix, arizona and originally from michigan. claire holds a bfa in musical theatre performance from central michigan university, and is moving into her third and final year at arizona state university as an mfa playwright.

her work includes stuffed (2024 samuel french off off broadway short play festival, 2024 valdez theatre conference), chew the fat (2023 valdez theatre conference, 2023 prism theatre production), essentials: a short musical (2023 arizona state university theatre lab) and semantics (2021 central michigan university main stage production).

Scripts

over my dead body there'll be a pillow fight (or the sleepover play)

by claire dettloff

1
Cast Size
7
Genre
comedy,
drama

janelle, dina, opal, frieda, and kim find themselves dangling between girlhood and womanhood one night at a girly, game-filled sleepover.

janelle, dina, opal, frieda, and kim find themselves dangling between girlhood and womanhood one night at a girly, game-filled sleepover.

opal's monologue from "over my dead body there'll be a pillow fight"

by claire dettloff

1
Cast Size
1
Genre
drama

at the beginning of act two in the play "over my dead body there'll be a pillow fight," opal recounts a period of time her cousin went through to try and connect with a new friend.

at the beginning of act two in the play "over my dead body there'll be a pillow fight," opal recounts a period of time her cousin went through to try and connect with a new friend.

stuffed

by claire dettloff

19
Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy

at the twenty-four hour ihop, maggie and june spend the wee hours of the morning unpacking what it means to be "well-endowed."

at the twenty-four hour ihop, maggie and june spend the wee hours of the morning unpacking what it means to be "well-endowed."

welcome to the neighborhood (monologue)

by claire dettloff

6
Cast Size
1
Genre
comedy

a monologue - from one neighbor to another

a monologue - from one neighbor to another

good people

by claire dettloff

Cast Size
2
Genre
drama

carrie and lowell come in from the cold.

carrie and lowell come in from the cold.