Jaden Tyler Urso

Jaden Tyler Urso is a playwright who hails from New Jersey. She writes about the weird, the queer, the chronically ill, and the classical. Her work has been shown at Playwrights Downtown, The Emerging Artists Festival, The Tank, and the American Theater of Actors. She has been supported by The Elif Collective/3P (Oven Writers Cohort 2024) and LOVECHILD Theater company. Winner of the Seth Barkas Prize for fiction. Best of the Net nominee for poetry. Finalist: Red Bull Short Play Competition 2024. Semi-finalist: Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2025; Playwrights Center Jerome Fellowship 2025; Seven Devils Play Conference 2025; SHE-NYC Summer Festival 2025. Jaden currently serves as the Literary Director for DTC, a grassroots collective cultivating queer theatre for early-career...

Jaden Tyler Urso is a playwright who hails from New Jersey. She writes about the weird, the queer, the chronically ill, and the classical. Her work has been shown at Playwrights Downtown, The Emerging Artists Festival, The Tank, and the American Theater of Actors. She has been supported by The Elif Collective/3P (Oven Writers Cohort 2024) and LOVECHILD Theater company. Winner of the Seth Barkas Prize for fiction. Best of the Net nominee for poetry. Finalist: Red Bull Short Play Competition 2024. Semi-finalist: Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2025; Playwrights Center Jerome Fellowship 2025; Seven Devils Play Conference 2025; SHE-NYC Summer Festival 2025. Jaden currently serves as the Literary Director for DTC, a grassroots collective cultivating queer theatre for early-career artists. BFA in Drama: NYU Tisch, Playwrights Horizons. BA in English and Creative Writing: NYU. jtuwrites.com

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Scripts

Lavinia Andronicus Is YOUR Spin Instructor!

by Jaden Tyler Urso

7
Cast Size
1—2
Genre
dark comedy

Lavinia Andronicus is happy! Lavinia Andronicus is healthy! Lavinia Andronicus is YOUR fitness instructor! Lavinia Andronicus does NOT want to think about that one very bad thing that happened to her last summer! Okay?!?! Now let’s get on our bikes and start pedaling, ladies!!!!!!!!!

Lavinia Andronicus is happy! Lavinia Andronicus is healthy! Lavinia Andronicus is YOUR fitness instructor! Lavinia Andronicus does NOT want to think about that one very bad thing that happened to her last summer! Okay?!?! Now let’s get on our bikes and start pedaling, ladies!!!!!!!!!

So Far Away

by Jaden Tyler Urso

3
Cast Size
2
Genre
drama,
romantic comedy

Jess is an incredibly talented sleight-of-hand magician. Marla is a horrible singer-songwriter. They do not like each other very much. They have been dating for 2 years.

Jess is an incredibly talented sleight-of-hand magician. Marla is a horrible singer-songwriter. They do not like each other very much. They have been dating for 2 years.

Stoner Comedy

by Jaden Tyler Urso

2
Cast Size
4
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama

Two 18-year-old stoners go to a New Year's Eve party vying for a kiss. A play about Chron's disease, crippling heterosexuality, and falling out of touch with your best friend.

Two 18-year-old stoners go to a New Year's Eve party vying for a kiss. A play about Chron's disease, crippling heterosexuality, and falling out of touch with your best friend.

Rabid Animals

by Jaden Tyler Urso

Cast Size
8—9
Genre
docudrama/historic,
political

When a new girl joins a rag-tag teenage nazi killing unit, alliances are formed, blood is spilled, and loyalties are tested as one mistake threatens to expose them all. Set in the Hunger Winter of German-Occupied Netherlands, Rabid Animals is a new play about the cost of growing up in the face of fascism.

When a new girl joins a rag-tag teenage nazi killing unit, alliances are formed, blood is spilled, and loyalties are tested as one mistake threatens to expose them all. Set in the Hunger Winter of German-Occupied Netherlands, Rabid Animals is a new play about the cost of growing up in the face of fascism.

This Shameful Yoke

by Jaden Tyler Urso

3
Cast Size
5
Genre
adaptation,
comedy,
experimental,
period

Henry is king. Humphrey, his protector. Eleanor, his wife. William is jealous. And Margaret? Margaret sits in her chambers cracking eggs, letting the yolk drip down her fingers, ruing the day she came to this shameful place called England.

Henry is king. Humphrey, his protector. Eleanor, his wife. William is jealous. And Margaret? Margaret sits in her chambers cracking eggs, letting the yolk drip down her fingers, ruing the day she came to this shameful place called England.

Warm Life / As it so Coldly Stands

by Jaden Tyler Urso

Cast Size
2
Genre
fantasy,
tragedy

As a young woman slowly turns into a statue, her dearest friend learns the true meaning of an old folktale. A new fairytale inspired by Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, "Warm Life / As It So Coldy Stands" explores autonomy, grief, betrayal, and questions why we repeat the stories we already know the endings to.

As a young woman slowly turns into a statue, her dearest friend learns the true meaning of an old folktale. A new fairytale inspired by Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and the myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, "Warm Life / As It So Coldy Stands" explores autonomy, grief, betrayal, and questions why we repeat the stories we already know the endings to.