Emily Powers

Emily Powers is a queer Canadian playwright living in Los Angeles. She has won the Robertson Davies Playwriting Award twice. Her writing has been published with Playwrights Canada Press, Demeter Press, Acta Victoriana, Rinky Dink Press, and The Scissortail Quarterly. Her plays have been produced at Hart House Theater, Cat’s Eye Theater, The Complex Theater, Pink House Productions, Scranton Scratch Night and Playdate Theater. She loves pesto sauce and springtime.

Emily Powers is a queer Canadian playwright living in Los Angeles. She has won the Robertson Davies Playwriting Award twice. Her writing has been published with Playwrights Canada Press, Demeter Press, Acta Victoriana, Rinky Dink Press, and The Scissortail Quarterly. Her plays have been produced at Hart House Theater, Cat’s Eye Theater, The Complex Theater, Pink House Productions, Scranton Scratch Night and Playdate Theater. She loves pesto sauce and springtime.

Scripts

Sunday Night at Jane's

by Emily Powers

Cast Size
5—6
Genre
comedy,
romantic comedy

What would happen if you invited all of your exes over for a dinner party and then never showed up? Sunday Night at Jane’s is a comedy that follows five guests and one bisexual ex and the chaos that ensues. Each guest has their own motives for coming to dinner. In flashbacks, we see each relationship play out. All of these memories collide to create an idea of Jane. It’s a self portrait of a woman who doesn’t...

What would happen if you invited all of your exes over for a dinner party and then never showed up? Sunday Night at Jane’s is a comedy that follows five guests and one bisexual ex and the chaos that ensues. Each guest has their own motives for coming to dinner. In flashbacks, we see each relationship play out. All of these memories collide to create an idea of Jane. It’s a self portrait of a woman who doesn’t matter and possibly doesn’t exist but more on that later.

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High Place Phenomenon

by Emily Powers

Cast Size
2
Genre
dark comedy

Would you show up as the emergency contact for someone you don’t speak to anymore? High Place Phenomenon follows two ex-roommates in an unlikely reunion after one gives in to a dark curiosity.

Would you show up as the emergency contact for someone you don’t speak to anymore? High Place Phenomenon follows two ex-roommates in an unlikely reunion after one gives in to a dark curiosity.

Outstretched

by Emily Powers

Cast Size
3—4
Genre
drama

Four years after the death of his sister, Diana, Hyatt finds a collection of video clips she intended to make into a short film, many centering around Kate, her first love. Hyatt gets in contact with Kate and has to come to terms with his sister’s queerness in an act of closure. Lines between the characters get blurry and merge as they learn how to (or forget how to) navigate youth, loss, and memory.

Four years after the death of his sister, Diana, Hyatt finds a collection of video clips she intended to make into a short film, many centering around Kate, her first love. Hyatt gets in contact with Kate and has to come to terms with his sister’s queerness in an act of closure. Lines between the characters get blurry and merge as they learn how to (or forget how to) navigate youth, loss, and memory.

Tinsel Town Bartleby

by Emily Powers

Cast Size
4—8
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy

An intern at a Hollywood agency reads undelivered fan mail, each letter is performed as a desperate monologue addressed to a celebrity.

An intern at a Hollywood agency reads undelivered fan mail, each letter is performed as a desperate monologue addressed to a celebrity.