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 as a writer (and sometimes director!) has been shown at NYU Tisch, Playwrights Downtown, The Emerging Artists Festival, The Tank, and Soho Playhouse, among others. Her poems and prose have been featured in HAD, Maudlin House, The Greene Street Review (NYU), Laurel Moon (Brandeis University), Travesties?!, and the Daily Drunk.

She is a winner of the Seth Barkas Prize for fiction and a Best of the Net nominee for poetry. Her play "Lavinia Andronicus is YOUR Spin Instructor" was a finalist in Red Bull's 2024 Short Plays competition. She was recently a member of the Elif Collective and 3P's "Oven Writers Cohort."

She currently serves as the...

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 as a writer (and sometimes director!) has been shown at NYU Tisch, Playwrights Downtown, The Emerging Artists Festival, The Tank, and Soho Playhouse, among others. Her poems and prose have been featured in HAD, Maudlin House, The Greene Street Review (NYU), Laurel Moon (Brandeis University), Travesties?!, and the Daily Drunk.

She is a winner of the Seth Barkas Prize for fiction and a Best of the Net nominee for poetry. Her play "Lavinia Andronicus is YOUR Spin Instructor" was a finalist in Red Bull's 2024 Short Plays competition. She was recently a member of the Elif Collective and 3P's "Oven Writers Cohort."

She currently serves as the literary director for DTC, a grassroots collective cultivating queer theatre for early-career artists.

BFA: NYU Tisch. BA in English and Creative Writing: NYU.

Scripts

So Far Away

by Jaden Tyler Urso

Synopsis

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

Synopsis

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.

This Shameful Yoke

by Jaden Tyler Urso

Synopsis

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.

Lavinia Andronicus Is YOUR Spin Instructor!

by Jaden Tyler Urso

Synopsis

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!!!!!!!!!

Warm Life / As it so Coldly Stands

by Jaden Tyler Urso

Synopsis

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.