Susan Goodell

Susan Goodell

My plays have been presented over 140 times in over 25 states and internationally. Stagings include The Barrow Group's reading series, Virginia Stage Company's Voices from the Margins, Mildred's Umbrella, the Source Festival, Fresh Produce'd, Rover Dramawerks, Abingdon Theatre and Tri State Actors Theater. I have been commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre Company, chosen for the Djerassi...
My plays have been presented over 140 times in over 25 states and internationally. Stagings include The Barrow Group's reading series, Virginia Stage Company's Voices from the Margins, Mildred's Umbrella, the Source Festival, Fresh Produce'd, Rover Dramawerks, Abingdon Theatre and Tri State Actors Theater. I have been commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre Company, chosen for the Djerassi Residence Artists Program and nominated for a Denver Drama Critic’s Circle Award. Plays: Hope Throws Her Heart Away, Heels Over Head and three collections shorts plays: Walking the Floor in Limbo, One Exit Past Nowhere, Delaware and Fable from an Unstable Table.

Plays

  • Fable from an Unstable Table by Susan Goodell
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5–23
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce
    Eight off-beat 6-20 minute plays with a table in common. All plays have been performed individually, but not fully as an evening. Cast can be a few as 2 men, 3 women or as large as 9 men 14 women. Dark, quirky and some supernatural comedy.

    How Violet Met Watson is a published "best play" (I hold rights) which has been produced 15 times. No History has received 12 stagings in the US and...
    Eight off-beat 6-20 minute plays with a table in common. All plays have been performed individually, but not fully as an evening. Cast can be a few as 2 men, 3 women or as large as 9 men 14 women. Dark, quirky and some supernatural comedy.

    How Violet Met Watson is a published "best play" (I hold rights) which has been produced 15 times. No History has received 12 stagings in the US and Australia ; Pie in the Sky has seen eight staging in the US and UK.
  • Walking The Floor in Limbo by Susan Goodell
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5–31
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
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    Keyword: absurdism
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy
    Keyword: absurdism
    10 one-act plays about disconnection: The Harvest Ball, The Girls Catch Up, Getting Past Hilda, Aruba, Our Part to Change Things, Lady of the Lake, Your Problem our Problem Your Problem, Tortola, Always/Never, Well Really
  • One Exit Past Nowhere Delaware by Susan Goodell
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    4–20
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: absurdism
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama
    Keyword: absurdism
    Ten short plays from unmapped dimensions: The Hour; For a Moment Rehatched; Pie in the Sky; No History; How Violet Met Watson; The Multiverse Session; But Wait, A Very Public Privacy, There's More; Nonsynchronous Reflection; After Unlocking the Universe.

    All individual plays also have been produced. The Hour and How Violet Met Watson are published "Best Plays."
  • Heels Over Head by Susan Goodell
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, farce + 1 more
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    Keyword: quirky, Farce + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, farce, romantic comedy
    Keyword: quirky, Farce, absurdism, sweet, edgy, happy ending
    Total strangers elope following their emotional first-meeting on a bungee jump. Neither suspects how soon their bliss will be challenged by ponging between two extreme households, insufferable roommates, an insistent ex-lover, and discovery of unimagined secrets. HEELS OVER HEAD takes an farce-like journey from romantic infatuation to banal reality, exploring how hope and fantasy irrationally bind us. It asks...
    Total strangers elope following their emotional first-meeting on a bungee jump. Neither suspects how soon their bliss will be challenged by ponging between two extreme households, insufferable roommates, an insistent ex-lover, and discovery of unimagined secrets. HEELS OVER HEAD takes an farce-like journey from romantic infatuation to banal reality, exploring how hope and fantasy irrationally bind us. It asks how well we ever know another person, or ourselves.
  • Hope Throws Her Heart Away by Susan Goodell
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: nontraditional
    Genre: comedy, drama, experimental
    Keyword: nontraditional
    HOPE THROWS HER HEART AWAY is an abstract play—a one-character play performed by three actresses, ages 35s-60s, tracing, from a personal viewpoint, a woman creating herself amid the shifts in our culture. The story unfolds in a series of staged journal entries –snapshots of a life growing from a feisty child to a compliant young adult and finally a self-contented woman. It’s a comedy-drama about how we can...
    HOPE THROWS HER HEART AWAY is an abstract play—a one-character play performed by three actresses, ages 35s-60s, tracing, from a personal viewpoint, a woman creating herself amid the shifts in our culture. The story unfolds in a series of staged journal entries –snapshots of a life growing from a feisty child to a compliant young adult and finally a self-contented woman. It’s a comedy-drama about how we can give ourselves away to surrounding social pressure.

    Though segments initially seem random, they accumulate to hint that life has direction and purpose, and that apparent disappointments might be actual stepping stones.