Marguerite Louise Scott

Marguerite Louise Scott

Marguerite Louise Scott​ is a Playwright, Memoirist, Performer, Writing & Performance Educator who created and runs the YOUNG CREATORS PROJECT, working with underserved kids & teen. She has also led workshops with low-income women and homeless shelter groups, using writing and theatre to help discover, nurture, uplift and empower their voices. Her short plays, full-lengths and solo pieces have been...
Marguerite Louise Scott​ is a Playwright, Memoirist, Performer, Writing & Performance Educator who created and runs the YOUNG CREATORS PROJECT, working with underserved kids & teen. She has also led workshops with low-income women and homeless shelter groups, using writing and theatre to help discover, nurture, uplift and empower their voices. Her short plays, full-lengths and solo pieces have been performed in NYC; Boston, MA; Durango, CO; Portland, OR and in her current residence on the unceded lands of the Tewa people, colonially know as Santa Fe, New Mexico,



Member of the Dramatist Guild and HONOR ROLL! - an advocacy & action group of womxn playwrights over 40

Plays

  • TRAIN by Marguerite Louise Scott
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: monologue, blind character + 5 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: monologue, blind character, strong female character, surviving trauma, NYC Subway, PTSD, based on true events
    Sarah, an independent BLIND female, recalls her near-death experience in the New York City subway.
    (Based on actually witnessed events.)
  • A CIVIL WAR by Marguerite Louise Scott
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2–3
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: modern Civil War, political opposites + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, political, tragedy
    Keyword: modern Civil War, political opposites, political protest, first love, song, futility of gun violence, hopeful transformation from tragedy
    A CIVIL WAR is a two-character, darkly-comic tragedy (with song) that brings together diametrically opposed Adam and Evelyn for a (seemingly) random Tinder hook-up. The encounter is smack dab in the midst of a viral pandemic AND an increasing violent protest, where each are clearly aligned on opposite sides. But can awakened memories of more tender times and rekindled feelings of "first love"...
    A CIVIL WAR is a two-character, darkly-comic tragedy (with song) that brings together diametrically opposed Adam and Evelyn for a (seemingly) random Tinder hook-up. The encounter is smack dab in the midst of a viral pandemic AND an increasing violent protest, where each are clearly aligned on opposite sides. But can awakened memories of more tender times and rekindled feelings of "first love" bring the polarized couple together? What happens when love takes over, armor is dropped and then a tragedy, perhaps of one's own making, strikes?
  • Not Me by Marguerite Louise Scott
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, satire
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    Keyword: complex female lead, psychiatry + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, satire
    Keyword: complex female lead, psychiatry, Mental Health, mental health medications, displacement, identity
    Celia has sought help from Psychiatrist Dr. Fraued (PLEASE pronounce it "Frowd") to help her find her friend's lost head. She can't find it anywhere.
  • Mashed Potatoes by Marguerite Louise Scott
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    1
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: food and sex, Relationships + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, romantic comedy
    Keyword: food and sex, Relationships, authenticity, real versus imitation, cravings, not gender specific
    Home-made versus Instant Mashed Potatoes; craving a "real" guy.
  • Cuddle Time by Marguerite Louise Scott
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
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    Keyword: dystopian future, climate change + 8 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: dystopian future, climate change, isolation, companionship, bonds of friendship, dog, pet, aging, food shortage, collateral grief
    In an apocalyptic future, Martha valiantly cares for her loyal companion, Sweetie,
    as resources such as food, water and breathable air rapidly diminish. Martha struggles to meet
    Sweetie’s demands for basic needs and playtime while dealing with the news of a friend’s death threatens to push Martha beyond Sweetie's reach.
  • White Ice by Marguerite Louise Scott
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: immigration, I.C.E. + 6 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, political, satire
    Keyword: immigration, I.C.E., white privilege, political satire, day after 2016 presidential election, MAGA, racism, xenophobia
    The morning after the 2016 Presidential Election, a very-well-put-together blonde, white woman interviews for a position with I.C.E., but what is her true identity and reasons for being there, and why does her interviewer look so familiar?
  • Maudee Dear by Marguerite Louise Scott
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: Female Redemption, motherhood + 5 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, fable/folktale, tragedy
    Keyword: Female Redemption, motherhood, abandonment, child neglect/abuse, isolation, Medea, Garden Gnomes
    Outside a trailer in the woods of Oregon, Maudee, having been abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, rescues “babies” while neglecting and abusing her own until a mysterious man, Aaron G. Nome comes to investigate.

    Inspired by Euripides’ “Medea.”
  • FLIGHT PLAN by Marguerite Louise Scott
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy
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    Keyword: Institutional dysfunction, mental illness + 7 more
    Genre: dark comedy
    Keyword: Institutional dysfunction, mental illness, mental hospital, dark comedy, over-use of psychiatric drugs, Depression, C-PTSD, complex female characters, based on a true-sh story
    Celia’s only friend has lost her head. Literally. So what is Celia dragging around in her duffle bag? James can’t eat anything without a certain condiment which, of course, he is not allowed. His only real nourishment comes from his passion for music and Wikipedia. Bernard keeps losing his wife and his own mind. Arianna struggles to find a reason to live. On the “Sunnyland Sanctuary” mental ward for low/no...
    Celia’s only friend has lost her head. Literally. So what is Celia dragging around in her duffle bag? James can’t eat anything without a certain condiment which, of course, he is not allowed. His only real nourishment comes from his passion for music and Wikipedia. Bernard keeps losing his wife and his own mind. Arianna struggles to find a reason to live. On the “Sunnyland Sanctuary” mental ward for low/no income patients, Nurse Hammer and Dr. Fraued (please pronounce it “Frowd”) have all the skills and resources to make their patients’ healing and recovery as insane (and unlikely?) as possible.

    (NOTE: The most recent draft of FLIGHT PLAN is available by request. A new draft is in the works!)
  • SUBMERGED by Marguerite Louise Scott
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, satire
    Genre: dark comedy, satire
    A white, millennial woman is drowning (in a kiddie pool)

    A laid-off tech-bro (now a disgruntled dog-walker) is too distracted and overwhelmed to help her.

    A preacher man attempts to "save her soul" before he will lend her a helping hand.

    A satire of need, class and (selective) opportunity.