Clay Baker-Lerner

Clay Baker-Lerner (they/them) is a transgender, Manhattan-based, Boston-born, playwright, theatre-maker, theatre-doer, multihyphenate (actor, director, dramaturg, stage manager, props master, teaching artist, etc.). In May 2024, Clay received their BFA in Dramatic Arts with a Concentration in Playwrighting from The New School College of Performing Arts School of Drama.

PAST: Clay's one-act play, "TRANSCENDENCE AIRWAYS" had its world premiere on August 11th, 2024 at The Chain Theater in Manhattan, NY. Their BFA thesis capstone play, "AM I CAIT?" performed in The Glassbox Theater on April 7th and 8th, 2024 at The New School in Manhattan, NY. Their original play “PUSSY PROBLEMS" had its world premiere on December 7th, 2023 directed by Myah Durham, produced by PLAYGROUND, at The New School in...

Clay Baker-Lerner (they/them) is a transgender, Manhattan-based, Boston-born, playwright, theatre-maker, theatre-doer, multihyphenate (actor, director, dramaturg, stage manager, props master, teaching artist, etc.). In May 2024, Clay received their BFA in Dramatic Arts with a Concentration in Playwrighting from The New School College of Performing Arts School of Drama.

PAST: Clay's one-act play, "TRANSCENDENCE AIRWAYS" had its world premiere on August 11th, 2024 at The Chain Theater in Manhattan, NY. Their BFA thesis capstone play, "AM I CAIT?" performed in The Glassbox Theater on April 7th and 8th, 2024 at The New School in Manhattan, NY. Their original play “PUSSY PROBLEMS" had its world premiere on December 7th, 2023 directed by Myah Durham, produced by PLAYGROUND, at The New School in Manhattan, NY. And their original play “BOCCE!: The Alphabet Mafia’s Guide to Bocce Ball, Collegiate Cheer, Spilling Secrets, and Surviving the Great Molasses Flood" had its world premiere on July 28th, 2023 directed by Achille Vann Riccca, as a part of the Creative Arts at Park Summer Arts Festival in Brookline, MA.

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Scripts

EGGS

by Clay Baker-Lerner

Cast Size
3—4
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
experimental,
faith-based,
science fiction

There's a flood coming. Emory and Jude are lonely and parentified. When they spontaneously reunite along the Charles River Esplanade things get wild. Jude, having lost all their artistic ambition, wants to reconnect with their trans-mentor after nearly five years apart. Emory, grief stricken and guilt ridden, wants to smoke a magical joint that will turn them into an egg.

There's a flood coming. Emory and Jude are lonely and parentified. When they spontaneously reunite along the Charles River Esplanade things get wild. Jude, having lost all their artistic ambition, wants to reconnect with their trans-mentor after nearly five years apart. Emory, grief stricken and guilt ridden, wants to smoke a magical joint that will turn them into an egg.

TRANSCENDENCE AIRWAYS

by Clay Baker-Lerner

Cast Size
3
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
fantasy

On their flight home from college, Turner, suffering from a recent heartbreak, finds themselves unexpectedly sat next to Page, the only other trans person on the flight. The airplane goes into free fall as the pair discuss love. This play asks the question: What if all trans people go to heaven?

On their flight home from college, Turner, suffering from a recent heartbreak, finds themselves unexpectedly sat next to Page, the only other trans person on the flight. The airplane goes into free fall as the pair discuss love. This play asks the question: What if all trans people go to heaven?

AM I CAIT?

by Clay Baker-Lerner

1
Cast Size
4—6
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
political

In the wake of Tennessee's drag ban, 16 year old pre-everything trans woman Klare is one misgendering away from running away cross country to Malibu, somewhere she can live out her fantasy of being a cisgender woman. On the fateful night she finally decides to leave her home and family, Klare is greeted by an apparition of Caitlyn Jenner, who takes her on dream fueled trip through Malibu to test if she's truly...

In the wake of Tennessee's drag ban, 16 year old pre-everything trans woman Klare is one misgendering away from running away cross country to Malibu, somewhere she can live out her fantasy of being a cisgender woman. On the fateful night she finally decides to leave her home and family, Klare is greeted by an apparition of Caitlyn Jenner, who takes her on dream fueled trip through Malibu to test if she's truly "one of the good ones." Am I Cait? examines how transgender Americans choose the safety of white queer conservatism over true liberation.

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PUSSY PROBLEMS

by Clay Baker-Lerner

Cast Size
4—6
Genre
dark comedy,
drama,
faith-based,
fantasy,
tragedy

Following one transgender woman’s fight to have a child in the face of magical manifestations of internalized transphobia. Spanning twenty years, a transgender family explores the true meaning of motherhood, and the creation of crazy cat ladies. Set in Northampton, MA. Act 1: March 1st-21st, 2004. Act 2: March 18th-21st, 2024.

Following one transgender woman’s fight to have a child in the face of magical manifestations of internalized transphobia. Spanning twenty years, a transgender family explores the true meaning of motherhood, and the creation of crazy cat ladies. Set in Northampton, MA. Act 1: March 1st-21st, 2004. Act 2: March 18th-21st, 2024.

BOCCE!: The Alphabet Mafia's Guide to Bocce Ball, Collegiate Cheer, Spilling Secrets, and Surviving the Great Molasses Flood

by Clay Baker-Lerner

1
Cast Size
8—11
Genre
comedy,
drama,
young audiences

Set on a bocce ball court in Boston, MA's North End. In July 2023, a toxic queer college friend group (known as the Emerson College Alphabet Mafia) learns from two time traveling teenage survivors of the 1919 Boston Great Molasses Flood the art of playing bocce ball. Along the way, secrets are revealed that forever alter the foundation of the Alphabet Mafia.

Set on a bocce ball court in Boston, MA's North End. In July 2023, a toxic queer college friend group (known as the Emerson College Alphabet Mafia) learns from two time traveling teenage survivors of the 1919 Boston Great Molasses Flood the art of playing bocce ball. Along the way, secrets are revealed that forever alter the foundation of the Alphabet Mafia.