Brooke Shilling

Born and raised in New York City, Brooke is a theatre artist, theatre educator, and clown. She has worked with groups such as One Year Lease Theater Company, Theater Unspeakable, inFLUX Theatre Collective, Theatre Ariel, and more. She has facilitated workshops and taught as a visiting artist at the University of the Arts, Theatre Horizon, One Year Lease Theater Company's International Program in Greece, Japan and India, performing arts high schools, and more, working with both theatre makers and non-theatre makers, the elderly, autistic youth and young adults, incarcerated young people, medical and business students, and others.

As a playwright, Brooke is a member of the 2024-2025 PlayPenn Playwright's Cohort and was a 2024 Terrance McNally Award Semi-finalist. Brooke is a three-time...

Born and raised in New York City, Brooke is a theatre artist, theatre educator, and clown. She has worked with groups such as One Year Lease Theater Company, Theater Unspeakable, inFLUX Theatre Collective, Theatre Ariel, and more. She has facilitated workshops and taught as a visiting artist at the University of the Arts, Theatre Horizon, One Year Lease Theater Company's International Program in Greece, Japan and India, performing arts high schools, and more, working with both theatre makers and non-theatre makers, the elderly, autistic youth and young adults, incarcerated young people, medical and business students, and others.

As a playwright, Brooke is a member of the 2024-2025 PlayPenn Playwright's Cohort and was a 2024 Terrance McNally Award Semi-finalist. Brooke is a three-time Illuminate the Arts Individual Artist Grant recipient, awarded by the City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy. She holds a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College and an MFA in Devised Performance from The University of the Arts/Pig Iron School.

Scripts

Pirate Queens

by Brooke Shilling

Cast Size

3

Genre

adventure,

comedy,

docudrama/historic,

movement/physical,

period,

romantic comedy

In this relatively true story, we follow the 18th-century tale of Mary Read, a woman dressed as a boy since childhood. The day she is captured by pirates, she meets Anne Bonny. The two share a unique, piratey love story until their end. In Pirate Queens, three players perform the entire play on a four-foot-by-three foot old, wooden crate. Using only their bodies in this small space, they mime all of the props...

In this relatively true story, we follow the 18th-century tale of Mary Read, a woman dressed as a boy since childhood. The day she is captured by pirates, she meets Anne Bonny. The two share a unique, piratey love story until their end. In Pirate Queens, three players perform the entire play on a four-foot-by-three foot old, wooden crate. Using only their bodies in this small space, they mime all of the props, set pieces and effects and each play many characters.

WAKE

by Brooke Shilling

Cast Size

6

Genre

dark comedy,

experimental

How do we grieve? How do we grieve together? In a contemporary landscape of doubt, confusion and division, two siblings negotiate the timeless process of coming to terms with loss. The intensely private mixes with the excruciating and often comically public, while around them the world oscillates between comfort and nightmare.

Standardized

by Brooke Shilling

Cast Size

3

Genre

comedy,

experimental,

satire

A Standardized Patient, someone who is trained to act as a real patient for training medical students, learns they are actually ill IRL from one of their encounters with a student. Just a gig turns into a real headache for this SP.

Smart Casinos

by Brooke Shilling

Cast Size

1—2

Genre

dark comedy

Mel, an online blackjack dealer for a live dealer casino game, learns her brother is missing.