Mary Sue Price

Mary Sue Price writes about people in America who fall through the cracks. Most of her plays are set in northeastern Oklahoma and the Missouri Ozarks. Her style is realism with a twist.
Her play, 'Billy the Bomber,' was presented as a staged reading as part of the Summer Playwrights Festival 7 at The Road Theater in Los Angeles in August 2016. It was a semi-finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and Page 73. In November 2014, she was a resident playwright/teacher at the Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, KS where she worked on 'The Chat Rats Trilogy', three plays about two families which were sustained and deeply damaged by the lead and zinc mining industry in Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas.
Ms. Price has won two Emmy Awards (2009, 2003) and a 2012 WGA Award...

Mary Sue Price writes about people in America who fall through the cracks. Most of her plays are set in northeastern Oklahoma and the Missouri Ozarks. Her style is realism with a twist.
Her play, 'Billy the Bomber,' was presented as a staged reading as part of the Summer Playwrights Festival 7 at The Road Theater in Los Angeles in August 2016. It was a semi-finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and Page 73. In November 2014, she was a resident playwright/teacher at the Inge Center for the Arts in Independence, KS where she worked on 'The Chat Rats Trilogy', three plays about two families which were sustained and deeply damaged by the lead and zinc mining industry in Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas.
Ms. Price has won two Emmy Awards (2009, 2003) and a 2012 WGA Award as a member of the ‘General Hospital’ writing team. Her play, ‘That Midnight Rodeo’, is published in the ‘Take Ten’ anthology and is frequently produced throughout the United States. She was a member of the Circle Repertory Company Lab and Playwrights Unit.
A fifth-generation native of the Missouri Ozarks, Ms. Price holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a Lifetime Member of the Writers Guild of America. After living in New York City for years, she now lives in Vermont.

Scripts

That Midnight Rodeo

by Mary Sue Price

Synopsis

A barrel racer, about to compete for the big money at the National Finals Rodeo, deals with an unplanned pregnancy, a tough choice, and a husband who is having major second thoughts.

A barrel racer, about to compete for the big money at the National Finals Rodeo, deals with an unplanned pregnancy, a tough choice, and a husband who is having major second thoughts.

The Schifferdecker Electric Park

by Mary Sue Price

Synopsis

A romantic ghost story set on the side of a chat pile in Picher, Oklahoma.

A romantic ghost story set on the side of a chat pile in Picher, Oklahoma.

Running Quarter Horses

by Mary Sue Price

Synopsis

A down-on-his-luck bull rider tries to win back his ex-wife, a champion barrel racer, by giving her a race horse he won on a bet.

A down-on-his-luck bull rider tries to win back his ex-wife, a champion barrel racer, by giving her a race horse he won on a bet.

Sister Elviry

by Mary Sue Price

Synopsis

A vaudeville comedienne says good-bye to her ex-husband and long-time straight man on an empty stage years after their glory days in this short play which uses public domain mountain music. Based on a true story. Set in the Gillioz Theater, Springfield, MO, 1950.

A vaudeville comedienne says good-bye to her ex-husband and long-time straight man on an empty stage years after their glory days in this short play which uses public domain mountain music. Based on a true story. Set in the Gillioz Theater, Springfield, MO, 1950.

Billy the Bomber

by Mary Sue Price

Synopsis

Fantasy, longing, ambition and love, not to mention shake and bake meth, all collide in a messy rent house in small-town Oklahoma when three people plus one fantasy championship wrestler -- all vulnerable, all trapped in different ways -- go after their own versions of the American dream.

Fantasy, longing, ambition and love, not to mention shake and bake meth, all collide in a messy rent house in small-town Oklahoma when three people plus one fantasy championship wrestler -- all vulnerable, all trapped in different ways -- go after their own versions of the American dream.