Emily Brauer Rogers

Emily Brauer Rogers

Emily Brauer Rogers moved to Los Angeles to get a Masters in Professional Writing with emphasis on dramatic writing from the University of Southern California. Since then, she's had two full length plays, Searching for Americana and Hardcore: Women’s Reflections on Iraq produced as well as optioned Romeo, Juliet, and Rosaline to Amazon Studios with my writing partner, Koji Sakai.

She has...
Emily Brauer Rogers moved to Los Angeles to get a Masters in Professional Writing with emphasis on dramatic writing from the University of Southern California. Since then, she's had two full length plays, Searching for Americana and Hardcore: Women’s Reflections on Iraq produced as well as optioned Romeo, Juliet, and Rosaline to Amazon Studios with my writing partner, Koji Sakai.

She has been published in a Smith and Kraus anthology, 161 Monologues from Literature. She has had several ten minute and one act plays read and produced in San Diego, New York, Los Angeles, Orange County, Colorado, Missouri, and Indiana. For more specifics, see her website: www.emilybrauerrogers.com

She also served as the managing director for a small subversive theatre company called the Hunger Artists from 2006-2008. While there she started an international playwriting festival, Beyond Convention, and produced it for five years.

She has worked in theatre and film through internships at DreamWorks, John F. Kennedy Center of Performing Arts, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. She's currently a member of WGA, Dramatists Guild and Fell Swoop Playwrights.

Plays

  • Bloomer Girls
    Bloomer Girls is a fictional account of real life women in the late 1800s who travelled the United States playing sports and looking for adventure. A ragtag women's team headed by a female manager travels the West playing local teams. Half vaudevillian, but trying to prove their true athleticism and strength as women, they continue to try and overcome stereotypes. The Wild West holds hope for these women...
    Bloomer Girls is a fictional account of real life women in the late 1800s who travelled the United States playing sports and looking for adventure. A ragtag women's team headed by a female manager travels the West playing local teams. Half vaudevillian, but trying to prove their true athleticism and strength as women, they continue to try and overcome stereotypes. The Wild West holds hope for these women that they can redefine who they are without raising too many eyebrows.

    Juxtaposed with the 1800s team, modern college softball players face similar struggles as they attempt to find room in a sport that divides them from men and still limits their options at the top of the game.
  • Dream Inc
    When the Dream Incubator team can't solve the reasons for Chelsea's dream abnormalities, they dive into her dreams and desires to make her the person they think she wants to be. Paddling through the uncharted ethical waters of what dreams could become, the team attempts to create better versions of themselves through dreams, but are the experiments in the hands of scientists, corporations, or even their own?
  • Monstrous Women
    Four monstrous women gather because the mysterious fifth person of their group, Creature, has disappeared. And like many women who go missing, she’s ignored, particularly this group feels because she’s a monster. Monstrous Women explores searching for identity when you’re outcast and society fears you.
    As the women search, they travel to their own memories and past to reexamine the lives they’ve created...
    Four monstrous women gather because the mysterious fifth person of their group, Creature, has disappeared. And like many women who go missing, she’s ignored, particularly this group feels because she’s a monster. Monstrous Women explores searching for identity when you’re outcast and society fears you.
    As the women search, they travel to their own memories and past to reexamine the lives they’ve created for themselves living on the boundaries and if they can change the societal fear of what it means to be female. When they discover the truth about Creature, they have to face their own questions: Are they the true monsters they’re accused of being or can they change their own stories? What happens when you don’t control the myths made about you?
  • The Paper Hangers
    Full-length: Based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” The Paper Hangers takes a modern look at Me’s struggle to deal with postpartum depression when society, particularly her mother and husband, expect a new mother to embrace motherhood and domesticity.
  • Gemini Complex
    Full-length: When Aster's kidnapped by Captain James Cook and a soul conservationist, she begins a journey to explore her past in order to reclaim her missing soul. They must explore the coral reef of the soul to find it or face being shipwrecked and stuck forever. While searching for her soul, she confronts the possibility that someone else could have lived her life better than her. She has to decide what...
    Full-length: When Aster's kidnapped by Captain James Cook and a soul conservationist, she begins a journey to explore her past in order to reclaim her missing soul. They must explore the coral reef of the soul to find it or face being shipwrecked and stuck forever. While searching for her soul, she confronts the possibility that someone else could have lived her life better than her. She has to decide what really makes an imperfect life worth living and if she can rebuild her soul before it becomes extinct.
  • God's Woman
    Full-length: Rachel Murphy has always wanted to be a priest; in order to do this she abandoned her family, disguised herself as a man, and joined the seminary. At the end of her schooling, her best friend, George discovers her secret, but she convinces him to keep it so that she can fulfill her dream. When they move on to their respective parishes, they soon develop a romantic relationship that further...
    Full-length: Rachel Murphy has always wanted to be a priest; in order to do this she abandoned her family, disguised herself as a man, and joined the seminary. At the end of her schooling, her best friend, George discovers her secret, but she convinces him to keep it so that she can fulfill her dream. When they move on to their respective parishes, they soon develop a romantic relationship that further complicates this secret. When Rachel decides not to give up her parish and marry George, he betrays her secret. Rachel now has a political cause and she takes up the banner to fight for women’s rights. She tries to be a strong face of the cause, but fights her personal battles with her family and George.
  • Romeo, Juliet, and Rosaline
    Full-length: Meet Romeo before he became Juliet’s lover. He’s a heartbreaking, earthshaking, sixteen-year-old boy that has the world – and women – on a string. In this unofficial prequel to the Shakespearean tragedy, Romeo hasn’t learned his lesson when it comes to women. But Juliet’s cousin Rosaline, thrown out of her hometown because of scandal, arrives in Verona and is convinced to turn the tables on Romeo...
    Full-length: Meet Romeo before he became Juliet’s lover. He’s a heartbreaking, earthshaking, sixteen-year-old boy that has the world – and women – on a string. In this unofficial prequel to the Shakespearean tragedy, Romeo hasn’t learned his lesson when it comes to women. But Juliet’s cousin Rosaline, thrown out of her hometown because of scandal, arrives in Verona and is convinced to turn the tables on Romeo by breaking his heart. In actuality, she wants what she can’t have: Paris – Juliet’s arranged husband and the only man that is unaffected by Rosaline’s charm. Through masterful manipulation, Rosaline attempts to orchestrate her love life and the love lives of everyone around her, inadvertently becoming the force that drives many of the events in Romeo & Juliet.
  • Caught in the Current
    Caught in the Current is a full-length play about Aline, Renoir’s wife, who steps out of a painting in the National Gallery to discover if her life is more than this one moment caught in time. When she leaves the painting, a young artist named Stan finds and befriends her in order to benefit his career. However, the curator of the museum, Miss Tannenberry, and an elderly guard, Joe, work diligently to find out...
    Caught in the Current is a full-length play about Aline, Renoir’s wife, who steps out of a painting in the National Gallery to discover if her life is more than this one moment caught in time. When she leaves the painting, a young artist named Stan finds and befriends her in order to benefit his career. However, the curator of the museum, Miss Tannenberry, and an elderly guard, Joe, work diligently to find out who destroyed Renoir’s masterpiece. They are not the only people in search of Aline, though. Renoir and his brother Edmond have heard that Aline has escaped and are traveling from painting to painting to find her.
  • Christmas Spirits
    The Ghosts of Christmas Past invites the Ghost of Christmas Future to her home as she's worried about Ghost of Christmas Present (her spouse) and his focus on the here and now.
  • Edge
    10-minute: Dori and Sarah tried to kill themselves by driving off a cliff. But they got stuck. So now they have to decide whether to go forward to death or back to living a life neither of them really wanted.
  • Glaistig
    10 minute: On the Scottish Moors, a man attempts to confront a woman he suspects of being a witch--but he's gets himself into more trouble than he bargained for.
  • Hot Coffee
    10-minute: A couple robs a coffee shop to add a little spice to their love life.
  • Losing Hope
    10-minute: A prostitute tries to provide the best life she can for her teenage daughter, but she's on the verge of losing the only thing she's ever loved.
  • Miss Muffet and Arachne
    Arachne wants Muffet to help her with her weaving business, but Muffet's reluctant to pay such a high price. A new take on the classic nursery rhyme--Little Miss Muffet and the story of Arachne and Athena.
  • Octobers
    10-minute: Maud has to confront a maple tree and tell him that the promise she once made him she can no longer uphold. A fictional take on L.M. Montgomery's life that explores her love of nature and Octobers.
  • Stuck At Home for Christmas
    Bonnie puts a doll house on her head, but realizes that it's not as funny as she thought once she gets stuck. Can she and her husband John get it off or will this Christmas present be ruined?
  • Undine
    Undine, a water sprite, hides from her father and the only friend that visits her is Moon. But when Oliver searches for water and discovers Undine they fall in love. When she decides to help him bring water back to the land, her father demands that she gets married to gain immortality. The only problem is that will cost her husband his life.